News & Agenda Open menu 09 March 2018 Jan Dirk Jansen appointed as dean CEG TU Delft’s Executive Board has appointed Professor Jan Dirk Jansen as Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CEG) with effect from 1 May 2018. Jan Dirk Jansen succeeds professor Bert Geerken, who will retire in May 2018. Read more 04 March 2018 Dutch hydraulic engineering through the eyes of a Swiss journalist Mid-January, in the middle of high water in the rivers and a one in twenty year storm event from the North Sea, the Swiss journalist Mathias Plüss visited The Netherlands for a one-week tour along Dutch highlights of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management. As part of that, he also visited Delft University. His trip resulted in an article, well worth reading, with lots of personal observations on how The Netherlands deal with water. Read more 05 February 2018 Dutch research in the Caribbean From Feb 5th to Feb 11th, a unique research cruise initiated by Environmental Fluidmechanics will take place in the Caribbean. During this week, the Dutch research vessel Pelagia will sail from Aruba to St Maarten to perform the first hydrographic survey of an ocean eddy in the region. Read more 04 February 2018 Hurricane Harvey's rainfall partly caused by climate change Global warming made the extreme rainfall of Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas in August 2017, three times more likely and fifteen percent more intense than it could have been, scientists, one of whom from TU Delft, found. Read more 01 February 2018 Timelapse of the 1953 great Dutch flood Read more 25 January 2018 Outstanding academic titles 2017: Unsteady Flow in Open Channels Het boek "Unsteady Flow in Open Channels' door Prof. Em. Jurjen Battjes en Robert Jan Labeur is geselecteerd voor de prestigieuze Choice magazine lijst "outstanding academic titles 2017". Read more 21 January 2018 New staff member: PhD student Anne Ton A new PhD student has started at the department of Hydraulic Engineering. Anne Ton will study the behaviour of the sandy foreshore in front of the Houtribdijk at the section of Coastal Engineering. In this news article she introduces herself. Read more 02 January 2018 Physical modelling of damage progression on breakwaters In October/November 2017 Jeroen van den Bos and Bas Hofland joined a team of European researchers in an investigation of physical modelling techniques in a laboratory wave basin in Hannover. The tests were aimed at the application of novel measurement techniques to obtain a better representation of the damage progression of breakwaters. Read more 02 January 2018 New staff member: Arne van der Hout A new lecturer has started at the department of Hydraulic Engineering. Arne van der Hout will work part time at the section of Ports and Waterways. In this news article he introduces himself. Read more ... Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 You are on page 14 Publications Media Attention Waterbouwdispuut News Agenda November 21 Promotion of Paul van Wiechen Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page