#Kennisdebat maandag 3 sept, de stellingen

Doe mee met het kennisdebat over kennis en innovatie, via twitter met #kennisdebat en volg @kennisdebat, zie ook de website. Hier overzichtelijk de stellingen. Hoe verdient Nederland in de toekomst zijn geld?  8.00 – 10.00 uur NL staat in de rankings van wereldwijde kenniseconomieën op de 7e plaats, dat is goed genoeg! #kennisdebat Investeren in onderzoek en innovatie is … Continue reading

a Tesla Model S review from Elon Musk fan site

This is a reblog from the Elon Musk fan site, with (mostly) SI units Tesla Model S at SpaceX THIS TESLA MODEL S thing you’ve heard so much about? You know, all-electric sedan, Silicon Valley, that guy from SpaceX? This is one amazing car. I mean, hard-core amazing. But first and foremost, gentle reader, it goes like … Continue reading

Visit to the Centre for Rehabilitation Research in Toronto

Yesterday, i visited the Centre for Rehabilitation Research in Toronto, called iDAPT. Since a few years i have a continuous flow of master students from our group in Eindhoven, to do their master traineeship in this centre. More specifically, they have been working with the company IDT engineering to help realizing the Challenging Environment Assessment Lab (CEAL). CEAL consists … Continue reading

Challenges in modern engineering education

This blogpost i found recently, and is from Tom Lee, from Quanser. It perfectly describes the challenges we are faced with in education of the engineer of now and the future. It emphasis system thinking and cross-sectoral issues. It motivates the TU/e transition towards the Bachelor College, the design of the Automotive Bachelor, Master and … Continue reading

TechUnited WereldKampioen RobotVoetbal

Zinderend was het, de finale. Nr 5 waar we in stonden. Bij rust 2-1 voor ons, dat voelt erg onzeker, vooral omdat Robot nr 2 was uitgevallen met wat later bleek een losse kabel. Vorig jaar in Istanboel hadden we ook al een doorgebrande versterker tijdens de finale, dat komt dan gelijk weer boven. Halverwege … Continue reading

A pacemaker for nuclear fusion plasmas.

Originally posted on Active Science:
By Menno Lauret (in collaboration with Gert Witvoet, Federico Felici, Tim Goodman, Oliver Sauter, Gerd Vandersteen, Marco de Baar and the TCV team) Increasing energy demands and depleting resources is one of the major challenges that humanity has to face. Moreover, the waste products of energy plants like CO2 or long…