Category: Open Book

TU Delft OPEN Publishing | 2024 Annual Report

2024 marked the 5-year anniversary of TU Delft OPEN Publishing (TUDOP) Publications Highlights | Books In April 2024, we reached the milestone of 100 books published. The landmark textbook publication was “From the Theory to application learning to optimise with Operations Research in an interactive way”, authored by Alessandro Bombelli from the Faculty of Aerospace..

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Editor Spotlight: Reviving the History of Gravity Research in the Netherlands

The field of geodesy, the study of the Earth’s shape and its precise measurements, has existed since antiquity. A unique project at TU Delft aims to bridge history, science, and education by reviving a bit of its past. Translating an 1830 thesis originally written in Latin by mathematician Petrus van Galen, the project brings to..

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Editor spotlight: Digitalisation – Transitioning Toward a Safer and More Sustainable Built Environment

As cities worldwide face mounting challenges like population growth, housing shortages, and climate change, large-scale sustainable transitions of the built environment are urgently needed. From adopting renewable energy to using circular materials and constructing climate-resilient infrastructure, digitalisation has the potential to transform cities. The annual 4TU-14UAS Research Day on Digitalization of the Built Environment is..

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TU Delft OPEN Publishing | 2023 Annual Report

Textbooks and Books published in 2023

As TU Delft OPEN Publishing, we are on a mission: create a community-driven and open access (OA) scholarly communication platform that provides resilient publishing services to the dynamic community of teachers and researchers at TU Delft. Now that we are four years in existence, we are proud to look back on what we achieved and..

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Editor spotlight: Rethinking education on urban challenges in the Global South

Equipping people to solve the urban challenges of the Global South requires innovative approaches and new perspectives. Building on a successful MOOC they created in 2017, a team at TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment wanted to make the educational materials even more inclusive and accessible. Using a unique bottom-up approach, they..

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