Editing Delft University of Technology (section)

===Delft University of Technology (1986–present)===
After the end of World War II, TU Delft increased its rapid academic expansion. [[Studium generale#Contemporary usage|Studium Generale]] was established at all universities in the Netherlands, including TU Delft, to promote a free and accessible knowledge related to culture, technology, society and science. Because of the increasing number of students, in 1974 the first ''Reception Week for First Year Students'' ({{lang|nl|Ontvangst Week voor Eerstejaars Studenten}}, OWEE) was established, which has become a TU Delft tradition since then.

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On 1 September 1986, the Delft Institute of Technology officially changed its name to Delft University of Technology, underlining the quality of the education and research provided by the institution. In the course of further expansion, in 1987 Delft Top Tech<ref name="Top Tech">{{Cite web|url=http://www.delft-toptech.nl/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020528151434/http://www.delft-toptech.nl/|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 May 2002|title=TU Delft Top Tech|publisher=TU Delft|access-date=6 August 2010}}</ref> institute was established, which provided a professional master education in management for people working in technology-related companies. On 1 September 1997, the 13 faculties of the TU Delft were merged into 9, to improve the management efficiency of the growing university. In the early 1990s, because the vast majority of the students of the university were male, an initiative to increase the number of female students resulted in founding a separate [[emancipation]] commission. As a result, ''Girls Study Technology'' ({{lang|nl|Meiden studeren techniek}}) days were established. In later years the responsibilities of the commission were distributed over multiple institutes.
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Since 2006 all buildings of the university are located outside of the historical city center of Delft. The relatively new building of [[Materials science|Material Sciences]] department was sold, later demolished in 2007 to give place for a newly built building of the [[Haagse Hogeschool]]. Closer cooperation between TU Delft and Dutch universities of applied sciences resulted in physical transition of some of the institutes from outside to Delft. In September 2009 many [[Vocational universities in The Netherlands#Universities of Applied Science|institutes of applied sciences]] from [[the Hague]] region as well as Institute of Applied Sciences in Rijswijk, transferred to Delft, close to the location of the university, at the square between Rotterdamseweg and Leeghwaterstraat.

In 2007 the three Dutch technical universities, TU Delft, [[TU Eindhoven]] and [[University of Twente]], established a [[federation]], called [[3TU]].

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On 13 May 2008, the building of the [[TU Delft Faculty of Architecture|Faculty of Architecture]] was destroyed by fire, presumed caused by a short circuit in a [[coffee machine]] due to a ruptured water pipe. Luckily, the architecture library, containing several thousands of books and maps, as well as many architecture models, including chairs by [[Gerrit Rietveld]] and [[Le Corbusier]], were saved. The Faculty of Architecture is currently housed in the university's former main building.