Crossing borders in Landscape Architecture: Discussing internationalisation

Internationalisation is felt everywhere: more and more professional practices seek clients abroad, and the number of international researchers, teachers and students in higher education is increasing. While observing, responding and anticipating to these trends, the most important question is overlooked: how can internationalisation add value to...

Women's Studies at the Architecture Department of Delft Technical University

This paper discusses the section for Women’s Studies at the Department of Architecture in Delft (ca. 1978-2000). It describes the circumstances that made it possible that such a section came to exist. And it investigates what the activities of the section were, and what the impact of this section has been.

An integrated pan-European research infrastructure for validating smart grid systems

A driving force for the realization of a sustainable energy supply in Europe is the integration of distributed, renewable energy resources. Due to their dynamic and stochastic generation behaviour, utilities and network operators are confronted with a more complex operation of the underlying distribution grids. Additionally, due to the higher...

Experiences with process interaction based simulation in education and research

Teaching for Urbanism: A Didactical Experience in a Newly Academicized Area

This paper describes a didactical experience in the Masters course of the Department of Urbanism of the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and issues related to the academicization of its curriculum. Although urbanism is a firmly established discipline in many curricula, in The Netherlands it has entered higher education as a...

Issue-based research methods versus a single method for all subjects at hand

Along with the evolution, human kind has developed several methods to reach their goals. Many books and text are written to represent and express diverse ideas about this issue thanks to instinctive curiosity of mankind. These methods can vary from subjects to subjects. I will treat these above mentioned issue within this paper to exhibit an...

De ingenieur in een instituut voor toegepast wetenschappelijk onderzoek

In this paper aspects are discussed that determine the functioning of engineers in a research and development environment. Emphasis is put on multi-disciplinary activities in a matrix organization that are based in a good knowledge of mono-disciplines. It is indicated how the Technical University can improve some aspects of the education....