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TU Delft Aerospace Engineering

Faculty of Aerospace Engineering One of the largest faculties devoted entirely to Aerospace The field of study is extremely broad and exciting.

It is the only unique institute carrying out research and education directly related to aerospace engineering in the Netherlands. Through the years, the Faculty has responded to the increasing demands of the aerospace industry by further expanding its facilities and laboratories. It has also expanded existing aerospace engineering topics to cover important fields such as earth observation and wind

energy. Today the Faculty has a student body of over 2000 undergraduates and graduates, about 250 members of academic staff and 100 PhD students. Around 25% of the student population has a foreign nationality. It is not confined just to the aerospace industry. Besides acquiring the specialist know-how you will also learn to work in teams, to make compromises, to search for solutions to complex problems and to communicate effectively. The degree programme in Aerospace Engineering is the only one at TU Delft to offer a complete English-language Bachelor’s degree programme.

03/09/2026

Our students have voted for their favourite educator! 🚀 Roberto Merino-Martinez was awarded the Educator of the Year for the programme and Guido de Croon for the programme. Congratulations to both! 🎉

During the faculty’s Opening of the Academic Year on Tuesday, VSV ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ revealed that our students have voted for the faculty's overall Educator of the Year: Guido de Croon! Guido will participate in the election of Educator of the Year for the entire .

Guido was recognized for making the challenging field of Artificial Intelligence approachable while maintaining the academic depth expected at the Master's level. Students highlighted his enthusiasm about the topic, his clear explanations, practical teaching methods, and the supportive learning environment he creates, where students feel comfortable asking for help.

Students praised Roberto for his engaging and interactive teaching style, his ability to make complex topics accessible, and the enthusiasm he brings to the classroom. He also went beyond the classroom, organizing a trip to the anechoic and reverberation chambers. His creative initiatives and real-world demonstrations have inspired many students and enriched their learning experience.

Have you ever followed a lecture from Roberto or Guido? We would love to hear about it! 👇🏻

31/08/2026

Inspired by the human hand, researchers developed a flying robot with a human-like hand and embodied tactile sensing 🖐️🤖🛸.

Like a bird, this drone feels its way to a safe landing. The drone uses the tactile hand to probe and feel for an object, continuously refining its position and orientation until it can grasp it securely.

The compliant hand adapts to different shapes and surfaces, allowing the drone to perch reliably even when its initial estimate of the target is inaccurate. Rather than relying on precise visual information, the drone uses touch as a source of information for action, introducing a new approach to autonomous perching across a wide range of structures.

The work by Anton Bredenbeck, Anish Jadoenathmisier and Salua Hamaza has now been published in Nature npj Robotics.

🔗 Read more on our website: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2026/lr/like-a-bird-this-drone-feels-its-way-to-a-safe-landing

16/07/2026

We are very pleased to announce that the Executive Board of TU Delft has appointed Prof. Mirjam Snellen as the new Dean of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, effective 1 January 2027.

Prof. Snellen will take over the role from Prof. Henri Werij, who will be stepping down as Dean after many years of dedicated leadership and commitment to the faculty.

After graduating in Aerospace Engineering from TU Delft, Snellen joined the faculty in 2003. Over the years, she has built a deep understanding of Aerospace Engineering and its community, while establishing herself as an inclusive leader committed to people, collaboration, and the continued development of the faculty. She has built an internationally leading research programme in the field of aircraft noise and was appointed Professor ‘Acoustic Data Analysis and Imaging for Aircraft Noise’ in 2020. She currently serves as Chair of the Control & Operations, is a member of the Faculty Management Team, and holds the role of Vice Dean.

Mirjam Snellen: “I look forward to working together with our staff, students and partners to further strengthen an open, inclusive and future-proof faculty, where education, research and societal impact go hand in hand.”

We warmly congratulate Prof. Mirjam Snellen on her appointment and look forward to this next chapter for the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.

09/07/2026

Congratulations to our BSc students for completing their DSE last week and for graduating! 🎓👏🏻🎉

The team that won the first prize is team #7 with their REAVER project guided by Steve Gehly 🏆

The REAVER mission aims to design a scalable spacecraft system capable of autonomously capturing and enabling the reuse of derelict satellites in geostationary orbit, thereby reducing orbital congestion and supporting the transition towards a sustainable, circular space economy.

🏆Congratulations to the team on their first prize! 👏

📹Read more about all the DSE projects and watch the presentations via our link in bio.

02/07/2026

🏆A historic achievement for student team Lambach Aircraft

After finishing 3rd place at last year's Payload Challenge, organized by the British Model Flying Association, the team returned for redemption this year.

This year, the team:
✈️ Achieved the highest Design Report & Technical Drawings score in the competition, outperforming every team from recent years by more than 10%.
✈️ Designed and built an RC aircraft weighing just 730 g
✈️ Successfully completed the qualification round and a round with 2 kg of payload.

For the final, the team made a risky decision. Despite challenging windy conditions and an aircraft designed right at the limits of what was possible, they went for the maximum 4 kg payload. The aircraft lifted off successfully and completed roughly one-third of the required circuit before an unexpected power failure caused it to crash.

But engineering is about more than a perfect flight. Thanks to an ultralight design and competitive reports, the team secured enough points to bring home the trophy🏆

This marks a historic success for Lambach Aircraft. TU Delft's name will now be engraved on the Payload Challenge trophy alongside renowned institutions including Beijing Institute of Technology, University of Stuttgart, PFH Göttingen, and many more.

Congratulations to the entire team 💙✈️ and follow their journey Lambach Aircraft

25/06/2026

DSE SYMPOSIUM - Join us tomorrow, Friday 26th June at 09:00, on-site or online for the closing of the Design/Synthesis Exercise!⁠
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Finally, after 10 weeks, our BSc students can present their design in front of a jury of national and international experts. ⁠
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Read more about the designs via our and find the program of the day and the presentation live streams for each group.⁠
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Good luck to all! Let us know in the comments which group you belong to or which group you are supporting 📣👇🏻⁠
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📍Faculty of Aerospace Engineering⁠

➡️www.tudelft.nl/ae/dse
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08/06/2026

Flying squirrels perform some of the most agile aerial manoeuvres found in nature. Inspired by these remarkable gliding mammals, researchers developed the SquirrelDrone🐿️🤖, a flying robot that morphs its entire body during flight.

While most bio-inspired aerial robotics research focuses on birds, the SquirrelDrone combines coordinated limb movement, spine and tail morphing, and a flexible membrane that adapts to airflow. The result? Enhanced:
✅agility
✅manoeuvrability
✅stability in flight.

Through wind-tunnel testing and real-world flight experiments this study helps understanding how whole-body morphing contributes to glide flight in complex, cluttered environments such as forests and helps shaping fundamentally new aircraft designs.

The work by Salua Hamaza, Liming Zheng and Alexander van Zuijlen has been published in
Communications.

🔗Read more on our website!

26/05/2026

🎉Congrats to the incredible students for their successful ground tests with their hydrogen aircraft last week at Rotterdam The Hague Airport!✈️

They carried out the first taxi tests of a hydrogen-powered aircraft at an operational airport in the Netherlands. During the test campaign the team were able to refuel gaseous hydrogen, test the aircraft’s propulsion system and complete their first (and second!) taxi run.

We are very proud of them and happy to be able to support them in their journey. Just think:

✈️ These students do not just design a hydrogen plane behind their laptops. They have the guts to actually build one and test it at a real airport, learning to deal with all the safety and operations restrictions. These tests are very valuable to develop the right hydrogen technology for aviation, but also help shape how to set up a safe and functional hydrogen infrastructure at airports.

✈️ The team members do this in their own time, because they’re on a mission to prove and promote liquid hydrogen as a sustainable alternative to conventional fuels in aviation. In the process, they learn to organize themselves, work and communicate together, and involve partners and sponsors. These are the kind of students who don’t think twice about working through the night to fix something in time to do the test. Their dedication goes far beyond their curriculum.

🔜 Stay tuned because we can expect much more from the team. Next steps: flying the aircraft on gaseous hydrogen and developing a safe storage tank for liquid hydrogen.

19/05/2026

🐝 researchers Guido De Croon, Dequan Ou and Christophe De Wagter have developed “Bee-Nav”, a honeybee-inspired navigation strategy that enables even very small robots to travel long distances and reliably return home using a neural memory of just 42 kilobytes. In a new environment, the robot first performs a short learning flight near home, just as honeybees do. After that, it can travel away for hundreds of meters and still find its way back. The results of their research have just been published in .

“We were fascinated by the fact that honeybees can fly far away from home along winding paths, yet return almost straight back,” says Professor of Bio-inspired AI for drones Guido De Croon. “Biologists have shown that bees rely on odometry for the return journey, and use visual memory more as they get closer to home. But exactly what and how they learn for their visual memory is still not fully understood. That was the gap we needed to bridge to create a practical navigation strategy for robots.”

In Bee-Nav, the robot also first makes a short learning flight near home. During that flight, it collects panoramic images of the environment. A small neural network then learns to process those images for estimating the direction and distance back home.

“Like an insect, the robot may not always know exactly where home is,” says PhD candidate Dequan Ou. “Home may be too small to see, or hidden behind some trees. So we trained the neural network using odometry estimates of the direction and distance home, even though these become less accurate over time. The key question was whether that would still be enough for the robot to learn to return home.”

Turns out, it was. Odometry drift did not prevent successful visual homing. Using a neural network of just 3.4 kilobytes, the robot interpreted panoramic images of its surroundings and estimated which way to move and how far it still was from home. The estimated distance allowed the robot to move faster when farther away and slower as it approached home. In all flights, the robot successfully returned home.

Read more about their research on our website!

17/04/2026

TU Delft researchers have taken their research beyond the simulator and into the air, conducting the first in-flight tests of touchscreen operation in the TU Delft’s research aircraft .

The team is investigating ‘biodynamic feedthrough’: unintentional movement of the pilot’s hand caused by flight manoeuvres and turbulence, which makes it difficult to operate touchscreens and can lead to dangerous situations.

🔬 By combining real-flight data with earlier simulator research in SIMONA, the project aims to develop smart models that can predict and correct these movements, improving the safety and reliability of touchscreens in aircraft, cars and ships.

This work is part of the -funded project and was carried out by researchers Daan Pool and Max McKenzie in collaboration with test pilots and technical staff, bridging simulation and real-world validation.

🚀 Next steps include testing prototype touchscreens in the PH-LAB research aircraft, as well as in real cars and ships. The team at is working on restoring haptic feedback to touchscreens so that the screens once again provide a genuine sense of ‘touch’, just like physical buttons do.

Read more about the research on our website!

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