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MSc Thesis prize for Daan Poppema MSc Thesis prize for Daan Poppema Daan Poppema (Water Engineering and Management) has won the MSc Thesis prize of Civil Engineering 2018. The prize was awarded on Friday November 2 after the yearly graduation ceremony for civil engineering bachelors.
Satelliet vertelt onderzoekers of Twentse grond te nat of te droog is Satelliet vertelt onderzoekers of Twentse grond te nat of te droog is "Wij meten bodemvocht hier met sensoren”, vertelt onderzoeker Rogier van der Velde wijzend naar de grond, “en vanuit de ruimte met een satelliet.” Het klinkt bijna als science fiction. Vanuit de ruimte kijken of akkerlanden niet uitdrogen of te nat worden. En toch gebeurt het.
Francesco Walker received the BMW Best Poster Award at the 6th BMW Summer School Francesco Walker received the BMW Best Poster Award at the 6th BMW Summer School Raitenhaslach/Munich. During the interdisciplinary programme of the BMW Summer School 2018, 34 international PhD students, research peers and industry experts shared their visions and discussed current advances and challenges in the field of Emotion-Aware Vehicle Assistants (EVA).
Planetary Accounting Network Planetary Accounting Network University of Twente is a founding member of the new ‘Planetary Accounting Network’ – a research centre focusing on the limits of a liveable planet. ‘Living well’ implies living on a healthy planet. How can we keep the planet healthy, stay well within its limits and, if possible restore its health? `
Nectar special issue “Mobile Phones, Travel, and Transportation” Nectar special issue “Mobile Phones, Travel, and Transportation” The NECTAR special issue “Mobile Phones, Travel, and Transportation” in the Journal of Urban Technology has been published. NECTAR cluster 8 (ICT) organized special sessions during the Mobile Tartu Conference edition of 2016 and a selection of papers presented are included in this special issue, edited by Luc Wismans, Karst Geurs and the late Rein Ahas.
New paper by Aguilar-Lopez et al: Failure of grass covered flood defences due to wave overtopping: a probabilistic assessment method. New paper by Aguilar-Lopez et al: Failure of grass covered flood defences due to wave overtopping: a probabilistic assessment method. Transitions on dikes have a large impact on the dike stability during wave overtopping events. It is quite common to find dikes with integrated hard structures such as roads, which also represent bottom irregularities and surface roughness changes which directly influence the erosion rates of dike covers from the overtopped waves.
Francesco Walker won Award at Humanist Conference Francesco Walker won Award at Humanist Conference
New paper by Anouk Bomers et al: Modelling effects of an asphalt road at a dike crest on dike cover erosion onset during wave overtopping New paper by Anouk Bomers et al: Modelling effects of an asphalt road at a dike crest on dike cover erosion onset during wave overtopping Structures integrated in a grass-covered dike may increase erosion development. Currently, safety assessment methods for flood defences are only applicable for a conventional grass-covered dike and the effects of structures on dike cover erosion are poorly understood.
Hoe krijgen we de robotauto veilig Hoe krijgen we de robotauto veilig Zelfrijdende auto´s moeten ´domme´ ongelukken voorkomen, maar het tegendeel lijkt het geval. Wat is daaraan te doen? Het was een slechte tijd voor de zelfstandig rijdende auto; eerst werd een voetganger aangereden door een robot-Uber, later overleed de bestuurder van een Tesla Model...
TEDxTwenteU: ‘Your water footprint revealed’ TEDxTwenteU: ‘Your water footprint revealed’ This year’s edition of TEDxTwenteU, with the theme ‘Building Bridges’, took place Wednesday May 2nd , at Concordia. A small audience of 100 people will listen to ten speakers from all over the UT. We spoke to one of them, Rick Hogeboom, whose talk is about the size of our water footprints.
De zelfrijdende auto lost niet alle problemen op De zelfrijdende auto lost niet alle problemen op Als je sommige optimisten mag geloven, is het bijna zover dat we achter in onze zelfrijdende auto kunnen stappen om een krantje te lezen en ons veilig te laten vervoeren van hartje Arnhem naar hartje Amsterdam. We spraken Marieke Martens, hoogleraar verkeersgedrag aan de Universiteit Twente en senior onderzoeker bij TNO. Volgens haar duurt het nog decennia voordat alle hobbels zijn genomen.