#Scintilla #Articles of Association #By-laws #What the Vonk? #General Meeting

Articles of Association & By-laws – What the Vonk?!

Despite the rewards that those attending the General Meetings (GM) receive: exclusive insider-information about how the association is being run and how the money is being spent, the chance to decide on important policies through participating in votes - we understand that you might not have the time or enthusiasm to attend these often overextending (and in all honesty mostly boring) meetings. The last GM on the 8th of March presented the proposed changes to the By-laws and the official Articles of the Association; this article will expand on what these are and why they needed changing, so keep reading! ...

#junction #vonk

Junction: A chat with Dirk-Jan van den Broek

This Junction was conducted on the 13th of December, when we interviewed Dirk-Jan van den Broek. He contributed to about 20 Vonks that appeared between December 2005 to February of 2011. Dirk-Jan takes us back to studying in the 2000’s, what being active at Scintilla was like and describes a typical Vonk article. The Electrical Engineering department was still in the Hogekamp with Applied Physics, the Langezijds was in use as a lecture hall, and some things that never change. ...

#icons of ee #thales #signaal #hazemeyer

Icons of EE: From Protected High-voltage Switchgear to Automatic Guidance Systems

This edition of Icons of EE turns everything upside down. Unlike any other important electrical engineers featured by ‘de Vonk’ until now, the person is not named until the very end of the article. You might recognize them by their accomplishments and find out at the very end on what humble beginnings these great achievements are based. The story starts at an unavoidably big hirer of Electrical Engineering Alumni from the University of Twente: Thales. ...

#borrel #guide #gezelligheid

Dutch Student Culture 101: 'Borrel' for DUMMIES

Pretty much the only word of Dutch on which everyone agrees on that it cannot be translated into English, is the beautiful ‘borrel’. It is a mysterious term with which almost every (Dutch) student has a positive association. For fresh first-year students or our international students that want to learn the Dutch culture, there is a lot of unclarities and questions: How the %&$! do I pronounce it? ‘Borrel’ can be described as in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bˈɒɹə͡l], although I doubt that will be of much help to you. ...