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. ...

During the summer break the Scintilla Operator Team executed one of its biggest operations in years, which involved upgrading Scintilla’s two most important servers. Johan Verzijden, Chairman of the SOT, will tell you all about it and what let up to it.

On June 1st 2023, one of the largest student traditions of the University of Twente has come upon us once more, this time with its largest edition yet: the Elfbierentocht (Eleven Beer Tour). Every year hundreds of students accept the challenge of crawling through the well-known pubs of the campus, working their way through the crowds, acquiring an established number of consumptions, all this to obtain a medal worthy of celebrating their feat. ...

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. ...