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jaargang 42, 8juni 2000 English page

Wanted: Wild Ideas for Virtual Campus TUE’s virtual campus – or VirTue – can use all the input it can get before it goes on the air in September. Cebra’s (Center for Electronic Business Research & Application) general manager prof. dr. ir.Ton Veth says VirTue mostly needs good ideas. There is room to try out some wild, creative thinking before the virtual campus reaches a more definite form. Prof.dr.ir. Ton Veth in the new Cebra offices on LaplaceÕs ground floor. ÒIÕm totally enthusiastic about TUEÕs Virtual CampusÓ. Photo: Bram Saeys. VirTue is meant as an e-commerce testing ground for both the university, commercial companies and other organisations such as the city of Eindhoven. It has two parts, a shopping mall – TUE Plaza, and a student community – the virtual bunker. The experiment will cover two years. 2000 is a development year. 2001 will be experimental. Fun Veth says he would welcome any foreign students or staff with good ideas to the project. “There might be foreign students with creative ideas for some kind of service especially targeting English speakers at TUE. Or even, say, Russian speakers. Or they might just have a good idea for general application. Our only conditions are that these new applications be fun and promote creativity in VirTue users,” he explains. Sixteen Dutch Technology Management, Mathematics and Computer Science students are already working on the project, some of them with design contracts from outside companies for the shopping mall or related issues. Four of them are setting up a virtual student centre or bunker which may be used to ‘mobilise’ students in future. One as yet unexplored possibility Veth names, is a student radio station on the net. Others in the group are working on a smart card to be issued to everyone at TUE this year as a form of ID (technology by Datelnet). It is possible that the card will be implemented in combination with mobile phones. The actual ID will be issued by the city of Eindhoven. All student and staff PCs will be outfitted with a smart card reader in September. The card may be used for various things such as entry to TUE, the pool, the network and the Plaza. Other uses: accessing course data, payment in the canteen or for copying, voting etc. The project managers are talking to two banks about further facilities. Learning Process According to Veth, commercial companies are keen to take part in order to test technology, develop e-commerce, test scalability, test security systems, work with 3D, all in a controlled infrastructure such as that of TUE campus. “The whole learning process is important to businesses, and is their reason for participating, more than immediate profit.” TUE is talking to UPC about expanding the network to make it possible to access the virtual campus from home, using broad band infrastructure. “VirTue offers fantastic research possibilities,” Veth continues. “I imagine many researchers will want to make use of the kind of infrastructure we have, for the same reasons commercial companies do. We have a ‘captive’ community of young people with above average education, intelligence and ICT skills, who are critical and articulate. Not to mention our great technical infrastructure.” Entertainment “I’m totally enthusiastic about the whole thing. Nobody else is doing it. There are quite a few campuses with a net, but no one is actually using it for much. This is not about offering information, but offering people services and entertainment. For example, Edah supermarket will be online at TUE this year, and will cater especially to students – offering special meals and perhaps even a deal for parties. The city of Eindhoven will also offer services for which you usually have to stand in line at city hall.” So VirTue will not be another collection of texts. It will not replace the existing web, but augment it. Companies want to know how to keep people interested in their products and their sites. “VirTue is a typical project for this university. It’s about design. Practical application of ideas. And experiment.” The English Page in Cursor is written by Paula van de Riet. Extension 4441, e-mail engcur@stud.tue.nl

200,000 for High School teachers at TUE All TUE courses are to have a teacher from pre-university high school (vwo) for one or two days a week in future. These teachers have been asked to work on improving communications between high schools and TUE, so that the transition between high school and university may be easier in future. The money for this originates with the ‘Hoger Onderwijsprijs’, won by TUE recently. The award was given for the ‘Propedeusevakken aanpassen’ (adjust first year subjects) project by the Onderwijs Service Centrum (OSC). This project is meant to help adjust first year courses at TUE to the new second phase in Dutch high schools. A total of twelve universities competed for the prize. TUE Staff Publish in Nature Leading scientific magazine Nature is publishing an article today by four researchers connected to TUE and KUN. The authors are prof.dr.ir. Rik Huiskes, ir. Ronald Ruimerman, dr. Harry van Lenthe and prof.dr.ir. Jan Janssen. These four have linked architecture, cell biology and external mechanical taxation of trabecular bone in a computer simulation, in order to make accurate predictions on the influence of external stresses on bone. This study may be of great importance in optimising prostheses and fighting osteoporosis. The article is the result of close co-operation between the Orthopaedic Research Lab at Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen and our BMT department. Storm Damage The storm last Saturday caused extensive damage to the campus. The Auditorium especially had some flooding. There was 15 cm of water at level –2 and 5 cm at level –1. Part of the TUE graphic art collection was damaged by the flooding. Some fifteen works stored on level –2 were affected. Grounds services and other staff worked all weekend to clear up the mess and make lecture halls usable. The Executive Board thanked the staff involved the next day after the storm for their combined efforts. Board Defends Reorganisation The Executive Board will elaborate on its reorganisation plans for the eleven functional areas at internal services during the next University Council meeting. The council asked for more of the reasoning behind the plans and further details during the last meeting, commenting that the reorganisation plans as presented were too brief. Apart from this additional explanation, the University Council also asked for quality control and aftercare. The University Council did not agree to the reorganisation plans as presented in the last meeting. However, it did agree to the dividing of internal services into eleven functional areas. The next meeting is to be held on June 26. Footbridges Closed Longer The footbridges to the main building and the Auditorium will be closed for two weeks longer than planned, until June 26. More time is needed to connect the footbridges than was expected. Until June 26, entry will be through the other entrances, and via the main building again after that. onderschrift: Prof.dr.ir. Ton Veth in the new Cebra offices on Laplace’s ground floor. “I’m totally enthusiastic about TUE’s Virtual Campus”. Photo: Bram Saeys. Light Show Still in the Air The light art work ‘Lux Agitat Molem’ at the stripped T-hoog building, will be in the air longer than planned, every evening of the coming two weeks between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. That means visitors who are in Eindhoven for the European football championships will not only be able to see the ‘Flying Pins’ at the Kennedylaan, but will also be amazed by the special project light architect Harry Hollands originated at the request of TUE’s Studium Generale. The project was extended with the support of the city of Eindhoven. Study Points via Createch Taking part in design competition Createch can get you study points. Mechanical Engineering, BMT, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science and Business students can all earn three study points by taking part in the preliminaries for the multi-discipline design competition in Eindhoven.

200,000 for High School teachers at TUE All TUE courses are to have a teacher from pre-university high school (vwo) for one or two days a week in future. These teachers have been asked to work on improving communications between high schools and TUE, so that the transition between high school and university may be easier in future. The money for this originates with the ‘Hoger Onderwijsprijs’, won by TUE recently. The award was given for the ‘Propedeusevakken aanpassen’ (adjust first year subjects) project by the Onderwijs Service Centrum (OSC). This project is meant to help adjust first year courses at TUE to the new second phase in Dutch high schools. A total of twelve universities competed for the prize. TUE Staff Publish in Nature Leading scientific magazine Nature is publishing an article today by four researchers connected to TUE and KUN. The authors are prof.dr.ir. Rik Huiskes, ir. Ronald Ruimerman, dr. Harry van Lenthe and prof.dr.ir. Jan Janssen. These four have linked architecture, cell biology and external mechanical taxation of trabecular bone in a computer simulation, in order to make accurate predictions on the influence of external stresses on bone. This study may be of great importance in optimising prostheses and fighting osteoporosis. The article is the result of close co-operation between the Orthopaedic Research Lab at Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen and our BMT department. Storm Damage The storm last Saturday caused extensive damage to the campus. The Auditorium especially had some flooding. There was 15 cm of water at level –2 and 5 cm at level –1. Part of the TUE graphic art collection was damaged by the flooding. Some fifteen works stored on level –2 were affected. Grounds services and other staff worked all weekend to clear up the mess and make lecture halls usable. The Executive Board thanked the staff involved the next day after the storm for their combined efforts. Board Defends Reorganisation The Executive Board will elaborate on its reorganisation plans for the eleven functional areas at internal services during the next University Council meeting. The council asked for more of the reasoning behind the plans and further details during the last meeting, commenting that the reorganisation plans as presented were too brief. Apart from this additional explanation, the University Council also asked for quality control and aftercare. The University Council did not agree to the reorganisation plans as presented in the last meeting. However, it did agree to the dividing of internal services into eleven functional areas. The next meeting is to be held on June 26. Footbridges Closed Longer The footbridges to the main building and the Auditorium will be closed for two weeks longer than planned, until June 26. More time is needed to connect the footbridges than was expected. Until June 26, entry will be through the other entrances, and via the main building again after that. onderschrift: Prof.dr.ir. Ton Veth in the new Cebra offices on Laplace’s ground floor. “I’m totally enthusiastic about TUE’s Virtual Campus”. Photo: Bram Saeys. Light Show Still in the Air The light art work ‘Lux Agitat Molem’ at the stripped T-hoog building, will be in the air longer than planned, every evening of the coming two weeks between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. That means visitors who are in Eindhoven for the European football championships will not only be able to see the ‘Flying Pins’ at the Kennedylaan, but will also be amazed by the special project light architect Harry Hollands originated at the request of TUE’s Studium Generale. The project was extended with the support of the city of Eindhoven. Study Points via Createch Taking part in design competition Createch can get you study points. Mechanical Engineering, BMT, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science and Business students can all earn three study points by taking part in the preliminaries for the multi-discipline design competition in Eindhoven.