Breakwaters and Closure Dams is the first master course from the track: Hydraulic Engineering in OpenCourseWare: 

http://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/hydraulic-engineering/breakwaters-and-closure-dams/course-home/

Design and construction of breakwaters and closure dams in estuaries and rivers. Functional requirements, determination of boundary conditions, spatial and constructional de

sign and construction aspects of breakwaters and dams consisting of rock, sand and caissons. Overview and history of breakwater and closure dam construction. The general design principles of a breakwater and a closure dam. Determination of boundary conditions for dams and breakwaters, with special attention to the design frequency. Methods to determine the design wave height from wave statistics. Overview of other boundary conditions (geotechnical and hydraulic). Materials, quarries and rock properties. Various properties of the different types of dams and breakwaters, like stability of riprap in current and wave conditions, design of armour layer, natural rock and concrete elements. The use of caissons for breakwaters and closure dams. Computation of element size using classical formulae, partial safety coefficients and probabilistic methods. Plan and cross section of breakwaters. Practical examples of breakwaters and closure dams. Execution (marine or land based equipment) of the works. Failure mechanisms and (cost) optimisation. One-week exercise in which a group of two or three students has to design a breakwater and a closure dam.

Link: http://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/watermanagement/irrigation-and-drainage/course-home/

Irrigation and Drainage is a master course of watermanagement, specialisation: Water resources management.

Course Description:

The course will discuss the objectives and functions of water management systems for irrigation and drainage purposes. Analysing system requirements in terms of technical engineering constraints, management possibilities and water users (wishes and options) is central. This includes the design and operation of regulation structures, dams, reservoirs, weirs and conveyance systems; balancing water supply and water requirements in time and space is a main focus of analysis too. 

The study goals of this course are:

1. Analyse a (preliminary) design for an irrigation/drainage system, taking into account the proper procedures and data;

2. Discuss management implications in relation to hydraulic design and behaviour of the system;

3. Explain the importance of a number of issues in relation to irrigation, including salinisation, multiple use and sanitation. 

 

Link: http://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/technische-bestuurskunde/economie-en-bedrijf/course-home/

Vandaag de cursus: Economie en Bedrijf uit het bachelorprogramma Technische Bestuurskunde gepubliceerd.

Deze cursus biedt inzicht in besluitvorming en bedrijfsvoering op inleidend niveau; en biedt inzicht in de basisbegrippen van de micro- en markteconomie; Na het volgen van deze module kunt u:
1) basisbegrippen en theorieën van de micro- en markteconomie toelichten;
2) belangrijke concepten en theorieën toepassen op eenvoudige situaties;
3) elementen uit de discipline herkennen in concrete voorbeelden van besluitvorming en management.

Link: http://ocwconsortium.org/en/community/blog/2012/04/16/ocw-consortium-announces-2012-winners-of-course-awards-for-opencourseware-excellence/

From April 16 - April 18 the OpenCourseWare Consortium organises an annual conference on Open Educational Resources. Last year the OpenCourseWare movement celibrated its 10 year anniversary. In this honour the Awards for OpenCourseWare excellence were handed out for the first time. 

This year, the award for OpenCourseWare Excellence in the multimedia category goes out to the Sanitary Engineering course of Delft University of Technology. Out of 17.000 courses now shared openly by universities worldwide, Sanitary Engineering got this award.  

 “We’re very pleased to honor these courses,” said OCW Consortium Executive Director Mary Lou Forward. “They are truly outstanding examples of the amazing educational resources being shared openly by the members of the OpenCourseWare Consortium.” 

TU Delft OpenCourseWare is very proud of this honour, and of course of the instructors who are actually behind this award, Prof. ir. J.C. van Dijk and  Prof.ir. F.H.L.R. Clemens. 

Link: http://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/technische-informatica/theory-of-computation/course-home/

TU Delft OpenCourseWare has published a new bachelor course of Computer Science: Theory of Computation

The description and the book are in English, the recorded lectures and slides however, are in Dutch

Course Description: Computability Theory deals with one of the most fundamental questions in computer science:

What is computing and what are the limits of what a computer can compute?

Or, formulated differently: “What kind of problems can be algorithmically solved?” During the course this question will be studied. Firstly, the notion of algorithm or computing will be made precise by using the mathematical model of a Turing machine. Secondly, it will be shown that basic issues in computer science, like "Given a program P does it halt for any input x?" or "Given two program P and Q, are they equivalent?" cannot be solved by any Turing machine. This shows that there exist problems that are impossible to solve with a computer, the so-called "undecidable problems".

Link: http://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/bachelor-civiele-techniek/use-of-underground-space/course-home/

TU Delft OpenEr published a Bachelor Civil Engineering course: Use of Underground Space. This is the first bachelor course of Civil Engineering.

Students obtain basic knowledge of the multidisciplinary aspects of the use of undergrounds space. Based on knowledge about the characteristics of several construction technologies they are able to asses their applicability in different situations. This may be different geological or physical conditions. They are able to analyze and structure the complex decision making process that is related to the use of underground space and define an integral approach

Link: http://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/architecture/sun-wind-water-earth-life-living/course-home/

The course aims is to understand the relation between urban design and planning and the aspects of:- sun, energy and plants - wind, sound and noise - water, traffic and other networks - earth, soil and site preparation - life, ecology and nature preservation - living, human density, economy and environment.

These themes in sustainable urban engineering are related to legends for design, described in a wide variety of lecture papers (720 pages, 1000 figures, 200 references, 5000 key words, 400 questions), accompanied by interactive Excel computer programmes to get quantitative insight. The assignment is an evaluation of an own earlier and future design work integrating sun, plantation, wind, noise, water, traffic, earth, land preparation, cables and pipes, life, natural differentiation, living, density, environment and proposing new legends for design. Study Goals The student: - is able to link urban interventions to urban development technology and within that interrelate urban designers to relevant technical specialists - is able to integrating sun, plantation, wind, noise, water, traffic, earth, land preparation, cables and pipes, life, natural differentiation, living, density, environment - is able to develop new legends for design from the perspective of sustainable urban engineering.

Link: http://opencourseware.eu/OpenEducationEvent2012

From 5-10 March the Open Education Week took place worldwide. The European Open Education Event took place on March 7th in Delft and proved to be a big succes! Dutch State Secretary Education Halbe Zijlstra offered a speech, the President of the OpenCourseWare Consortium Anka Mulder provided a presentation, WikiWijs and European Commissioner Neelie Kroes provided video messages and the Panel discussion made the event complete.

You can still view the entire event, check out all presentations and photo's via http://opencourseware.eu/openeducationevent2012.

The event brought about quite some media coverage, including articles by the New York Times Europe and the International Herald Tribune, writing about how open resources might transform the way knowledge is spread.

"For thousands of years, she said, anyone who wanted access to knowledge had to first find a teacher or an expert. After the printing press was invented, libraries and universities became repositories of knowledge. But now with the Internet, “universities do not hold the monopoly on information anymore,” Ms. Mulder said."

Link: http://opencourseware.eu/oew2012live

The European Open Education Week event starts today, at 13:30 (Amsterdam time), in Delft. You can watch the live broadcast via http://opencourseware.eu/oew2012live and participate in the discussion via twitter (#oew12nl).

The program is available here. Dutch State secretaty of Education Halbe Zijlstra will offer a speech and director of the OpenCourseWare Consortium/Director Education TU Delft/Secretary General TU Delft Anka Mulder will offer a presentation.

We'll have two video messages of Wikiwijs and Neelie Kroes and there will be a panel discussion between Fred Mulder (UNESCO Chair in OER at Open Universiteit and Chair Steering Committee Wikiwijs), Arnold Jonk (director Knowledge of Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture & Science) Lieve Van den Brande (European Commission, DG Education and Culture) and Greetje van den Bergh (Chair Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO). 

The Open Education Week starts today! Don't forget to check http://www.openeducationweek.org/ for all the interesting events and webinars that are being organised and broadcast this week, worldwide!

"Welcome to the first ever Open Education Week!  Open Education Week is taking place from 5-10 March 2012 online and in locally hosted events around the world.  The purpose of Open Education Week is to raise awareness of the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Participation in all events and use of all resources is free an open to anyone."
http://www.openeducationweek.org/welcome-2/

And also, don't forget the European Open Education Event next Wednesday, March 7! http://opencourseware.eu/OpenEducationEvent2012 

"The OpenCourseWare Consortium is organising the first annual Open Education Week from March 5 – 10, 2012. Open Education Week is a global event, raising awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Resources (OER).  OER are high-quality, free and open educational materials that offer opportunities for people anywhere in the world to share, use and reuse." http://opencourseware.eu/OpenEducationEvent2012