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Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering.

Added value of Clinical Technology proven in practice

From the 3D printing of pills to a device that enables people without vocal cords to speak: the final bachelor projects by students in Clinical Technology demonstrate that technology is changing medical care as drastically as it is transforming our daily lives.

Playing scientifically sound baseball and tennis

Baseball is one of the most played sports in the world. It’s less popular in the Netherlands than in some other countries, yet we have the most successful baseball team in Europe. We were even world champions once, in 2011. Who knows, we may even be the talk of the town during the 2020 Olympic Games, when baseball will be reintroduced to the summer games. ‘But then we have to do everything in our power to keep our athletes free from injury,’ says Bart van Trigt, PhD candidate in the field of BioMechanical Engineering at TU Delft.

Control theory in a selfish world

From self-driving cars, smart traffic lights to energy systems balancing supply and demand: the future is filled with autonomous systems, programmed to sense their environment and make decisions to reach their goals. Sergio Grammatico, professor at the Delft Center for Systems and Control, is already thinking about the next step: bringing multiple autonomous systems together in a ‘system of systems’ - for example, a highway full of self-coordinating, self-driving cars.

Surgical tool inspired by parasitoid wasp

Surgeons will find it easier to operate with a flexible, ultra-thin and steerable needle. Indeed, many medical applications have a need for this new type of needle, for example during deep medical interventions in the spinal cord. Paul Breedveld, professor of Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology developed an ultra-thin, flexible and steerable needle with PhD student Marta Scali and fellow researcher Dimitra Dodou.

Gas turbines: essential for the transition to renewable energy sources

Gas turbines are best known as the jet engines that power aircraft. But they also are the work horses of large power plants generating electricity for our industry and homes. At TU Delft, at both the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (AE) and the Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE), researchers work on this topic.

Hydrogen as the key to a sustainable shipping sector

Sustainability targets for the transport sector are not limited to only road transport. The shipping industry has decided to explore that issue now too. And though CO2 emissions per transported container could be worse, ships are undeniably a considerable source of unwanted emissions, from NOx to particulate matter. TU Delft researcher and former marine officer Klaas Visser believes there are excellent opportunities to change this.

Fluid mechanics for the future

Fluid mechanics are integral to many areas of our everyday life including sport, medicine, climate change and environmental issues as well as the more traditional fields of transport, energy and building infrastructure. For instance, Dr Jerry Westerweel, professor of Fluid Mechanics, has been involved in a fluid mechanics project as part of an investigation into swimming techniques.