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Delft University of Technology
Technische Universiteit Delft
Established January 8, 1842[1]
Type: Public, technical
Endowment: € 470M[2]
President: ir. G.J. van Luijk[3]
Rector: Prof.dr.ir. J.T. Fokkema[3]
Staff: 2,633[5]
Students: 13,383[4]
Location Delft, The Netherlands
Website: http://www.tudelft.nl/

Delft University of Technology, (Technische Universiteit Delft in Dutch) in Delft, the Netherlands, is the largest and most comprehensive[citation needed] technical university in the Netherlands, with over 13,000 students and 2,100 scientists (including 200 professors). It is a member of the IDEA League.

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The university was founded on the 8th of January, 1842 by King William II of the Netherlands

Initially, all of the university buildings were located in the historic city centre of Delft. This changed in the second half of the 20th century with relocations to a separate university neighbourhood. The last university building in the historic centre was the University Library, which was relocated to a new building in 1997. On the 12th of September 2006 the design of the Mekelpark was officially approved[6], giving a green light to the transformation of the area around the Mekelweg (the main road on the university terrain) into a new campus hart: the Mekelpark[7]. The new park will replace the main access road and redirect car traffic around the campus, making the newly created park a more safe for bicycles and pedestrians. The completion of the project is due at the end of 2008.

Auditorium of Delft University of Technology.
Auditorium of Delft University of Technology.
The snow-covered grass roof of the library.
The snow-covered grass roof of the library.
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science.
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science.

The Delft University of Technology comprises eight faculties:[8]

All undergraduate programs lead to a B.Sc. degree.

The university offers the following graduate programs (sorted by faculty). All programs lead to a M.Sc. degree.

  • Aerospace Engineering
    • Aerospace Engineering
    • Geomatics
  • Applied Sciences
    • Applied Physics
    • Biochemical Engineering
    • Chemical Engineering
    • Life Science & Technology
    • NanoScience
    • Science Education & Communication
    • Teacher programme (TULO)
  • Architecture
    • Architecture
    • Building Technology
    • Real Estate & Housing
    • Urbanism
  • Civil Engineering and Geosciences
    • Applied Earth Sciences
    • Civil Engineering
    • Geomatics
    • Offshore Engineering
    • Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics
  • Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
    • Applied Mathematics
    • Computer Engineering
    • Computer Science
    • Electrical Engineering
    • Electrical Power Engineering (track)
    • Microelectronics (track)
    • Telecommunications (track)
    • Embedded Systems
    • Media & Knowledge Engineering
    • Bioinformatics (track)
  • Industrial Design Engineering
    • Design for Interaction
    • Integrated Product Design
    • Strategic Product Design
  • Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Marine Technology
    • Materials Science & Engineering
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Offshore Engineering
    • Systems & Control
    • Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics
  • Technology, Policy and Management
    • Engineering & Policy Analysis
    • Geomatics
    • Management of Technology
    • Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis & Management
    • Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics

The Delft University of Technology has the following legally recognised research institutes:

  • 1993 - 1997: Prof.ir. K.F. Wakker
  • 1997 - 1998: Prof.dr.ir. J. Blauwendraad
  • 1998 - 2002: Prof.ir. K.F. Wakker
  • 2002 - present: Prof.dr.ir. J.T. Fokkema

Part of student life in Delft is organised in student societies. About half of the Delft students are members.[9] The list includes:

For PhD students (or better, PhD candidates), there is a special organisation representing the interests of PhD candidates at TU Delft:

  • Promood, PROMOvendi Overleg Delft

There's also a students' union in Delft:

  • VSSD, Vereniging voor Studie- en Studentenbelangen te Delft

Han van Meegeren, the notorious art forger, studied architecture in Delft from 1907 to 1912. He was intelligent, took most of his exams but decided to be a artist-painter before his final exams. During his student-days he designed the club-house of the Delft rowing club "DDS", nowadays a protected monument. His influence in the art-world was large; a surge of self-criticism surged through the art-museums after Van Meegeren's confession in 1945 that he had forged so many well-known Vermeers and Pieter de Hoochs.

  1. ^ TU Delft: History of the university
  2. ^ (Dutch) TU Delft - Jaarverslagen
  3. ^ a b TU Delft: Structure of organization
  4. ^ (Dutch) Over TU Delft - Feiten en Cijfers - Beknopt overzicht
  5. ^ (Dutch) Personeel TU Delft
  6. ^ Mekelweg wordt Mekelpark
  7. ^ [http://virtual.tudelft.nl/ Mekelpark in 3D
  8. ^ Delft University of Technology: Faculties
  9. ^ http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=41b57d17-a161-46f2-83f3-8f56fa843261&lang=nl

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