It very well may have taken a woman to make a breakthrough in the world of motorcycling (but perhaps this is also a rather stereotypical idea). The woman we are talking about is Livia Cevolini. As the daughter of the…
The construction industry is currently facing the challenge of having to use fewer raw materials in the future and switching to sustainable development in the process. This calls for new ways of thinking in architecture when it comes to the…
The Dutch student team University Racing Eindhoven (URE) has just won the final classification rankings in its first race in the autonomous category of the Formula Student competition. On the Formula 1 circuit of Barcelona, the self-driving car from the…
Extracting CO2 from the ocean could be a significant step toward doing something about the effect of greenhouse emissions. One example is an initiative presented by energy scientist Paul Straatman. His proposal is relatively cheap because it makes use of…
The Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (IAA) in Germany has long been one of the absolute highlights of the automotive sector. The first exhibition of modern vehicles was held in Berlin way back in 1897. The festival remained there until 1939. After the…
Cultivating crops in our modern Dutch greenhouses has entailed the use of a lot of technology for many years already. The first climate computers were introduced more than 50 years ago. These automatically sent information about the climate and the…
In an interview with Prof. Stefan Bratzel from the CAM (Center of Automotive Managament) in mid-July, we discussed the topic of electromobility. We observed that current electricity prices in Germany (and presumably in the future) could be rather counterproductive to…
Teodoro Lio is the European director of the automotive sector at the consulting group Accenture. We asked the Italian about the future of this sector in Europe. We also want to know whether Italy’s Motor Valley, the center of high-performance…
The Chip Integration Technology Center (CITC) and the HAN University of Applied Sciences (HAN) have jointly developed a new degree program that focuses entirely on the semiconductor industry. In recent years, Nijmegen and its surroundings have become a semiconductor hotspot,…
Siemens is taking over the Dutch OV (public transport) software company Sqills for €550 million. Sqills was founded in 2002 by a number of former students from the Dutch University of Twente. The company develops software for inventory management and…