Bits&Chip: TUE’s remote labs enhance experimental setups from home

Zoom, Teams and Hangouts: for many people around the world, these online platforms have become the new method of communicating during the pandemic. Physical work, however, was either stopped or continued with restrictions and health risks. New online methods, like the remote lab setups from Eindhoven University of Technology, can help solve that problem and make physical presence a thing of the past.

Delftse Post: TU docent blijft ook online populair

Verwondering, een korte stilte en daarna een daverend applaus van zijn studenten. Zo’n reactie is normaal voor Ron Haaksman, docent natuurkunde experimenten op de TU Delft. Maar nu niet meer… nu heerst er stilte in de collegezaal en staat hij voor een camera. De enige interactie met zijn studenten is wanneer de onderwijsassistent hun vragen vanaf de chatfunctie voorleest. Gelukkig zijn de experimenten van Haaksman, ook online, enorm geliefd bij de studenten. Maar zowel zij als Haaksman missen de normale interactie.

Physics World: In the pursuit of inspiration

My passion for astronomy began as a child. Large parts of my years in elementary school were spent stargazing, reading up on the solar system and the universe, as well as renting the video of the first Moon landing and watching it over and over again. I remember telling my parents I was going to be the first human to walk on the surface of Mars (and while this is now a real option, my spirit sank a bit at the prospect of a one-way ticket). Over the years, my passion extended into other fields of physics, such as particle physics, and to this day, reading up on everything from astronomy and particle physics to quantum mechanics and nuclear fusion is a hobby of mine.