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van der Heide, Tanja (author)The National Immunisation Programme (NIP) provides Dutch children with vaccinations for twelve infectious diseases free of charge and on voluntary basis. During several years, the vaccination coverage in the Netherlands has declined (about 0.5 percent per year). It is important to have a high vaccination coverage in order to stop spreading...master thesis 2018
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Nysingh, Johannes Gerardus (Geert) (author)Mapiq, the company, is the creator of the Mapiq smart building platform. Although the company is fast growing, the parties in the industry are also making considerable advances. The threat is that eventually, the growth of market share will decline and the party with the largest market share will obtain a monopoly. <br/>To bolster the growth of...master thesis 2018
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te Velde, Tomas (author)The Bouwagenda is a collaboration between the Dutch government, the construction industry and knowledge institutes to tackle the challenges that currently face society. The most important challenge is the challenge of climate change and the transition of the construction sector to a circular system. This transition needs to happen in a...master thesis 2018
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Bakker, Daniël (author)Research on laser communication technology for satellites has led to a sufficient understanding of this technology to start working on commercial applications. In this work a design is proposed for a lasercom system for CubeSats, a type of nanosatellites that is used increasingly often for commercial missions. The goal of this design is to offer...master thesis 2018
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Gilboa, Ori (author)Parametric architectural design of cinema-space as an urban generator in Scheveningen harbor (The Hague). The project focuses on media facade as a responsive design element and as an interactive environment. Visual connection to the city and the surroundings as well as urban screen is implemented as a flexible, urbanic growing-on site,...master thesis 2018
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van Duijn, Thomas (author)Healthcare innovation company FocusCura is one of the largest providers of eHealth in The Netherlands. Even though they are already active in other countries, they do not yet have a structured decision-making process for an international go-to-market decision. A decision aid for the business development department of the company solves this...master thesis 2018
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Berendsen, Lizzy (author)Many cities are embracing ICT and other technological innovations as a development strategy. Governments gather and distribute open data as they see sharing data as a responsibility of a transparent government. However, the representation of this data is typically hard to understand and difficult to use. The main problem that open data systems...master thesis 2018
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van Dijk, Nick (author)The human machine-interface is more important than ever in the field of exoskeletons. Current design approaches lack a way of systematically designing the ergonomics of exoskeletons. Methods with a more pro active approach to ergonomics have to be developed. This thesis extends existing methods by which self aligning mechanisms are created with...master thesis 2018
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Wong, Felix (author)The Hyperloop is a newly proposed transportation method which caters to the rising demand of high-speed transportation, while adhering to stringent emission requirements. This system comprises pods that are propelled through a partially evacuated tube at velocities of 300 m/s. The low-pressure environment paired with high-subsonic Mach numbers...master thesis 2018
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Pater, Maarten (author)This thesis represents the result of a graduation project for the master programme Strategic Project Design of Delft University of Technology, carried out in collaboration with INNOPAY. The approach that is used to successfully complete the graduation project, is based on the Double Diamond model. According to the conducted iterative design...master thesis 2018
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Bastiaanssen, Reinier (author)How does a micro SME communicate their way of working and experience to new team members?<br/>Every person at the company has about 20 years of experience in various companies. This does not only reflect in each person’s way of working, but also in the language and tools they use. These small differences accumulate into a range of different ways...master thesis 2018
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Salomé, Lotte (author)The intensive care is a complex environment where nurses have to deal with more than 500 tasks a day, an administrative burden and an information overspill coming from a multitude of IT systems and colleagues. On top of that, a high rate of alarms is false and messages are not always relevant. These stressors have a large impact on patient...master thesis 2018
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Mishra, Sandeep (author)Photovoltaic (PV) systems have provided the world with a renewable and environment friendly energy solution. However, PV systems face various loss mechanisms at the module level as well as power electronics level which need to be addressed for further growth of the technology. Power generation from PV modules suffer from heat losses that are a...master thesis 2018
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van der Heijden, Stefan (author)During my master thesis, I developed a method for designers to establish self-sustaining product systems in third world countries. This journey started off with the quest to fight plastic waste pollution of the rural areas in Kenya. After thorough field- and technological research, I developed a toolset that allows locals to transform plastic...master thesis 2018
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Blaauw, julius (author)This master thesis is part of the Horizon 2020 funded research project Personalized Airport Systems for Seamless Mobility and Experience (PASSME). The goal of this research project is to reduce door-to-door travel time for passengers (PAX) traveling within Europe by 1 hour and at least improve the overall travel experience for 70% of all PAX.<br...master thesis 2018
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Bogers, Koen (author)Nurses working in the ICU of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam are exposed to a vast amount of sounds from medical equipment. The amount of alarms nurses cope with causes alarms fatigue, which causes nurses to become desensitised to alarms. Not only is this a threat to patient safety, it also causes stress.<br/>Care Tunes is a product...master thesis 2018
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Hoppe, emmylou (author)This report contains the entire process of the graduation project of the Industrial Design Engineering master, Integrated Product Design at the TU Delft. This project is a cooperation between me, Emmylou Hoppe, and the company CrossGuard and the TU Delft. The goal of this project was to gain knowledge about current shin protection in use during...master thesis 2018
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Jimmink, Joanne (author)April, 2009. A medium-powered earthquake occurs in L’Aquila, Italy, causing disproportionally heavy damage: 308 people are killed, more than 1 500 people are injured and over 65 000 people are rendered homeless. The historic town centre of L’Aquila is among the most heavily affected areas. <br/>Nine years later, the once beautiful and lively...master thesis 2018
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van Dijk, Lisa (author)Discrete choice experiment about the interior office design preferences during collaboration and individual concentration. This study was an evaluation study for an activity-based working office located in Amsterdam.master thesis 2018
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Binda, Jasper (author)Current wrist prostheses offer limited functionality regarding degrees of freedom and range of motion. A new two degrees of freedom wrist mechanism was designed and based on this concept a prototype was build and tested. Testing included generated torque measurements, externally applied torques, weight and size measurements. The prototype has a...master thesis 2018