Though these lectures give valuable knowledge about the Nuna project, attending these lectures is not mandatory when applying for the Nuna6 team later this year.

The course will follow the whole development of the solar car and will show the true multidisciplinary nature of such a project. The Nuna race car development will cover the start of the assessment of the lessons learnt from the team of 2007, followed by building up the design drivers, developing the actual design of the body (aerodynamics coupled with structural requirements), the mechanical parts, such as steering, suspension, etc.., the tests in the wind tunnel, the electrical design including the solar panel layout, the actual building and manufacturing an assembling and finally the testing.

At the end of the course the actual racing is addressed: the logistics involved and particularly the strategy, the way the operation is set-up like a space mission with mission control vehicle, satellite communication, telemetry of the car, etc. ending in the intelligent energy management leading to maximizing the performance.

This course is eligible as a sustainable education course and represents a value of 3 ECTS upon completion. The final mark will be based on an oral examination.

The course is open for all TU Delft students having completed their first and second year.

The course starts February 1st 2010, 10.45, Fellowship building, room OZ-IZ 1 (0.15)

Enrollment via Blackboard.

Ondertussen zijn de keukenprinsessen van de dag bezig met een heerlijk avondmaal. De afwasploeg zoekt de verkoeling in het privé-zwembad. Want vanaf het moment dat het oranje zonne-legioen thuis is totdat iedereen aan tafel kan weet elke gast ondertussen dat het zwembad “out of bounds” is….

De kookploeg is klaar en met twee interne telefoontjes is iedereen gemobiliseerd aan de rand van het zwembad. Hier eten we met zijn allen onder de warme Australische sterrenhemel. Na vier complimentjes voor de chefs van de avond verspreidt de afwasploeg zich over de appartementen en keert de rust weer op de hoek van McMinn en Finniss Streets.

De één kruipt weer achter zijn laptop, de ander neemt contact op met het thuisfront en een groepje schaart zich voor de thuisbioscoop op nr. 102. In het weekend verkennen we natuurlijk het nachtleven van Darwin. Op zaterdagochtend ontwaken we ruw door een aantal bonzen op de deur en een hoog Aziatisch stemmetje dat roept…… housekeeping!

It’s been  nearly four weeks of living in the “Alatai Holiday Appartments”  with rooms 102, 118 and 212  fully  Nuon Solar team domain. After a hard days’ work at the shed and office we all crawl back to our urban paradise complete with palm trees and swimming pool. Just a few team members come a tad later due to some extra work or swimming like Ian Thorpe at the Olympic swimming pool of Darwin.

In the meantime the chefs of the day are busy bees preparing dinner while the washing up crew is still cooling off in the  private swimming pool.  And private because every Alatai guest knows by now the pool is “out of bounds” from the moment the orange legion returns till everybody is at the dinner table…

Dinner alongside the pool is just two phone calls and five minutes away as soon as the food is ready.
This is where we eat together under the warm Australian starry sky. After four compliments to the chefs, the wash up crew spreads out over the apartments and peace is restored to the corner of McMinn and Finniss Streets.

Some go back behind their laptops, some call back home and others take their comfy places in front of the home cinema in room 102.  Needless to say the weekends are reserved for discovering Darwins’ nightlife and Saturday morning the wake up call is always given by a few hard knocks on the door and a high pitch Asian voice calling out.. housekeeping!