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Completing your studies and starting in the professional field is a milestone that brings both excitement and uncertainty. Mike Jordens (25), a hardware engineer at Nedap Livestock, shares his experiences and insights to make this transition smoother for future graduates. Get those hands dirty Mike graduated in Electrical Engineering, with a master’s specialization in Integrated Circuit Design (ICD), and found his place in the New Market Solutions team at Nedap Livestock. ...

A couple of years ago an article was published on how the design team at Benchmark operates, describing our 7-step development model used for our products and the various application fields we are working on. You can find it here: https://vonk.scintilla.utwente.nl/post/2021/benchmark/. In this article we will describe two applications on which this process has been applied, both in the field of Lab-on-a-Chip. Microfluidic cartridge testing platform Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) is a large and growing market. ...

This year, the University Foundation celebrates its 75th anniversary. Older than the University of Twente and with a lot of history! With support from local and national industry the former ‘Stichting Technisch Hoger Onderwijs voor Noord- en Oost-Nederland’ was founded on 17 December 1948. The goal of this foundation was to promote technical higher education in the north and east of the Netherlands and to continue providing support once schools were founded. ...

The Netherlands is full of (steel) structures in wet environments, for which dealing with the negative effects of water, such as corrosion, is a constant struggle. In water with high salinity levels the speed at which corrosion occurs is especially high shortening the lifespan of structures. To increase the lifespan of structures in wet environments the corrosion process should be minimized. This can be done by means of cathodic protection. ...

In the period from 1850 - 1900, trains were already travelling the world. Steam trains, to be exact. Diesel engines did not yet exist. What was emerging, however, was electricity. The Icons of EE series describe the pioneers and their differences of opinion throughout the Current War. Railway operators in Europe also did not agree on what the best overhead voltage was for their electrically powered trains. To save on coal and manpower, transport companies tried to run their trains electrically. ...

Wind power seems easy. Put a turbine at sea, lay a cable to land and connect it to the grid. But without power electronics the energy transition would lose steam quickly. Finding smart brains that know how to put it all together to the most optimum setting are hard to find. Like for Shell, which is building offshore wind farms to make green hydrogen to help industries and heavy-duty transport to become sustainable. ...