Finally, it is here! After more than 10 years, Scintilla is getting a completely new website. As the old website has quite a 00’s feel, DIGI (Scintilla’s committees Webteam and SOT) and the board felt it was time for a modern looking website to better present herself digitally. After the introduction of TOM, the amount of time DIGI-members could spend on the website and digital systems of Scintilla has decreased. While attempts have been made to create a new website from scratch, they have not succeeded so far, until now. ...

In the rubric ‘Afterlife’, Electrical Engineering alumni from the University of Twente look back at their time as a student. They take us along their study time and subsequent career path and share what defined their period at Scintilla and the University of Twente. In this edition: Olaf van der Meer. Study years (2014-2020) Studying Electrical engineering wasn’t a clear choice for me, but Twente certainly was. When asking freshmen why they come to the east, most refer to some kind of ‘atmosphere’, although no one can really put it in words. ...

Nowadays the demand for both an increase in energy supply and an increase in newly built housing requires significant adaptation of the electricity grid. With less construction space available electrical substations, powerlines and residential areas are placed much closer to each other. This article covers a case where the inductive influence is determined by Witteveen+Bos on piping nearby the new substation. 1. Introduction A substation near a residential area might cause adverse effects for residents. ...

In the spring of 2019 it was possible to sign up for a study tour to Japan. After some interviews I was one of the lucky 26 persons who could join the group. The plan was to go to Japan in the fall of 2020, but because of a well-known reason this trip was postponed. Eventually we had to make the decision to change our destination to a bit safer and closer: Europe. ...

Dear Vonk reader, 2021 has really flown by hasn’t it? Together we have gone through quite a lot though. We started this year with a curfew at night and a lockdown that did not seem to end. Luckily, it did end when the weather got better. Drinks were even allowed again and the pandemic almost seemed like it was ending. Sadly, as the weather got worse and new mutations of COVID rose up, things slowly had to close again. ...

On 06-11-2021 the Scintilla website was unreachable for several hours. Three days later, the same thing happened again, and again a few days later. What happened? Due to several well-targeted DDoS-attacks, spread over several days, the Scintilla website was down for many hours in a row. During these attacks, Scintilla’s members were not able to sign-up for activities, use their web-mail, access the VPN or access files. In this edition of the Vonk, you read all about what a DDoS-attack is, how it could cripple Scintilla’s systems and what is being done to prevent these problems in the future. ...