Remember that time when mobile phone still had the size of a brick? In roughly 30 years’ time, mobile phones have developed to the incredibly fast and powerful smartphones of today. To make sure we can keep innovating the technology of today, we need flexible education that cannot only keep up with these advancements, but education that is one step ahead. In our common effort to tackle the challenge to deliver such a degree of flexibility, we are constantly advancing our university programmes. ...

While I was still a candidate-board member, we (myself and the rest of the then candidate-board) thought of the idea to increase the presence of study support from our association to our members. We came up with the idea to organize study evenings, where students could study in a supportive environment. With this idea we started and after gathering information about such evenings from other study associations we setup our first study evening in the eighth week of the first quartile. ...

In the rubric ‘Afterlife’, alumni in Electrical Engineering 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 Vonk’s edition: Harmen Droogendijk. Study period (2003-2009) About 15 years ago, I started my study electrical engineering at the University of Twente together with approximately 80 other students. ...

In the previous edition I have discussed the complete process from goofing around during a meeting, to the publishing of an article. While doing this, I skipped over a rather important aspect of an article: the layout. The layout is in fact by far the most time consuming aspect of creating our magazine. Roughly 90 percent of the articles that are published by the Vonk are actually written by members of our association. ...

“By the middle of the 21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official rules of FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup”, that is the ultimate goal of the RoboCup soccer competition. However, to achieve this a lot still needs to happen. To get there, the RoboCup is divided into three main leagues: humanoid, middle-size and small-size, with each their own challenge. ...

You probably have heard of the committee and every now and then the activity pops up on the site again: the SHOCK hobby evening. It sounds epic, but what is it exactly? The SHOCK (“Scintilla’s hobby commissie voor knutselaars”) supports the Electronic hobbyist at Scintilla. We organize the occasional hobby evening in the Westzaal, where all the fancy equipment of the Westzaal is available for you. SHOCK activities last the entire evening, so you can prototype and solder to your heart’s desire! ...