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Join us at High-Tech Systems 2018

High-Tech Systems is the annual conference with a focus on high-end system engineering and disruptive mechatronics. This year’s keynotes will be delivered by Jim Stolze (Aigency)and Yves Perriard (EPFL). During the day you can attend interesting sessions on Industrial Internet of Things, Cobotics and Design for 3D.

Mark your calendar and join us at High-Tech Systems 2018 hightechsystems.nl

We as High Tech Institute will be present, so visit our booth to check out our latest courses!

Annual New Year’s reception

Each year, during the reception for all our trainers, we announce the ‘Trainer of the Year’.

To find out who got the best scores, we compare all evaluation forms in which course participants give a score for the trainer’s performance.

This time the highest score, an average of 9.0 out of 10, was given to a trainer duo. Next to that their training scored an 8.7 out of 10 as overall score.

We are happy to congratulate both Wendy Luiten MSc and Clemens Lasance MSc! Many thanks for their enthusiastic contribution to the course.

Cooling of electronics workshop

In 2017 they lectured the following training course for several times: Thermal design and cooling of electronics – workshop with participants from the Neterlands, Turkey, Great Britain and the U.S.A.

Some of the quotes course participants wrote about them as a duo:
– “Enough enthusiasm & anecdotes to keep everything interesting.”
– “Great lecturers.”
– “Good lecturers, great at engaging everyone and very knowledgeable.”
– “Two very experienced and passionate teachers who know a lot about the topics.”
– “The lecturers work well together: Rules of thumb + quick analysis from Wendy + State of the art plus CFD from Clemens.”

Also read the interview with Wendy Luiten MSc, in which the origin of the thermal workshop is being explained.

Designing cooling-architecture for electronics is very similar to high-level puzzle solving

 

Heat lessens the performance of many electronics, so adequately cooled electronics immediately yield commercial advantages. Smart thermal designs are also cost-effective. ‘Your commercial advantage will increase immediately as soon as you can deliver at lower costs or offer more for the same price’, says Wendy Luiten, who lectures the workshop  Electronics cooling hermal design.

Read the entire interview here.

A new conference is born: Dutch Ultra Low Power Conference.

Based on the Novio Tech Campus Nijmegen the Dutch Ultra Low Power Conference brings together Belgian and Dutch professionals and companies involved in the development and application of devices with ultra low power technologies.

Intended for
It targets engineers, designers and technical managers in the advanced field of energy harvesting and ultra low power and energy-efficient designs.

Programme
The conference programme will be published soon but will contain:

• Sessions on medical applications with ultra low power demands;
• in-depth sessions highlighting trends in energy efficiency and energy harvesting.

Our booth
We would like to welcome you to our booth and are happy to provide some more information about our courses, especially our 2-day workshop ‘Ultra low power for Internet of Things‘.

Location
Novio Tech Campus
Transistorweg 5
6534 AT Nijmegen
The Netherlands

Frank de Groot, senior engineer at Tegema, has been awarded the Bronze ECP2 certificate. He achieved this by following a number of courses that have been certified in the ECP2 programme: the European certified precision engineering course program. ECP2 is a collaboration between the European and the Dutch Association for precision engineering, euspen and DSPE, respectively.

Starting in spring 2014, Frank de Groot followed the Tribology and Design principles for precision technology courses at Mikrocentrum, and the Mechatronics system design – part 1 and part 2, Thermal effects in mechatronic systems, and Basics & design principles for ultra-clean vacuum courses at The High Tech Institute. He also took part in the LiS Academy Summer School on Manufacturability, organised by the Leiden Instrument Makers School. With a total of 29 points (each point represents one course day) he amply fulfilled the condition of obtaining 25 points for courses achieved within five years. On 1 December, he was put in the spotlight.

The courses mentioned, which cover a broad palette, are in line with Frank de Groot’s ambition to become a technical specialist in the area of ​​precision technology. That is according to Albert Coolen, manager of secondment at Tegema, multidisciplinary high-tech engineering firm based in Son and Arnhem, the Netherlands. “Tegema encourages the self-development of its employees. Frank has, for example, worked at several departments within ASML, and found that he was fully developed as a senior engineer. Together with him I have set out a long-term path to realise his ambition of becoming a technical specialist and he is following this path at a rapid pace. The drive really comes from within him. We coach our employees and offer them opportunities, but the initiative must come from them. In this respect Frank, who is also celebrating the milestone of a 12.5-year contract with Tegema this month, is certainly an example for others.”

Frank de Groot is the fourth engineer to receive the Bronze ECP2 certificate since certifying engineering courses started in 2009. In 2015, the DSPE initiative was scaled up to the European level.

Together with our contentpartner Mechatronics Academy we now provide Fontys’ workshop Design for additive manufacturing. This hands-on course for 3D-printing already took place at ASML, Fokker Landing Gear, Océ, Philips Lighting, Thermo Fisher (former FEI Company) and Vanderlande.

Because of this cooperation now also individuals can participate. After attending this training participants are able to apply the obtained knowledge into practice. The 3-day mixture of theory and practice has already led to pioneering innovations in various companies. Additive manufacturing, of just 3D-printing, is a technologie which can potentially lead to breakthroughs. Three years ago, Ricardo Abdoel took the initiative to develop courses for this new production technolgy. In Sjef van Gastel he found someone who could lead those courses. Until recently Van Gastel was involved as a senior strategic marketing manager at Kulicke & Soffa, the American company that took over Assembléon in 2016.

To discover the killer application, Sjef van Gastel, research and course leader at Fontys, has thought of a methodology to find out potential breakthrough-designs: an approach which has to improve the characteristics of the part or the system. The starting point is to realise a huge improvement with 3D-printing relative to the ‘old’ technology. ‘It is important that the participants find out themselves what it is and how to apply the design guidelines; says Van Gastel.

High Tech Institutes’ first edition of Design for additive manufacturing will start at the 13th of December.

About Fontys

Fontys takes care of education and research and is the biggest, broad, public knowledge institution of the South of the Netherlands. By connecting education and research of innovation processes, Fontys wants to be a innovation engine of the region.

About High Tech Institute

High Tech Institute is the leading training partner fo the high tech industry which has the origin in the former training courses of Philips Centre for Technical Training (CTT). Together with its knowledge partners (such as Mechatronics Academy) in electronics, optics, mechatronics, precsion engineering, system architecting, software and leadership High Tech Institute ensures a constant innovation of its courses.

Settels Savenije transfers all of its shares in High Tech Institute to Techwatch. The publisher of magazines Bits&Chips and High-Tech Systems now becomes the full owner of the training institute.

Settels and Techwatch interacted with each other as equal shareholders of High Tech Institute for five years. Settels has now decided to focus on its technical activities.

‘Our organisation is currently growing strongly’ says John Settels, director of Settels Savenije, about transferring his shares in High Tech Institute. ‘Together with my management team I have decided to focus on our engineering firm and the expansion of production in new cleanrooms at Strijp-T.’ Settels remains involved with High Tech Institute as a supplier of courses and lecturers in the field of design principles, vacuum technology, leadership, communication and social skills.

‘All content partners are enthusiastic about the new structure’, says René Raaijmakers, director of High Tech Institute. ‘The training institute fits with the mission of Techwatch as supplier of independent information and knowledge.’

Based on the Novio Tech Campus Nijmegen the Dutch RF Conference brings together Belgian and Dutch high tech professionals and companies involved in the development and application of high-end RF techniques. It targets engineers, designers and technical managers in the advanced RF field.

Target audience

• RF engineers
• team leaders
• technical managers
• product developers
• innovation managers

Welcoming 15 sponsors and 151 attendees the conference had a very successful first edition last year.

This year the conference will take place on Wednesday 29 November. For more information, please visit https://dutchrf.com/

Our partner ‘Settels Savenije & Friedrich’ specialises in courses and master classes in soft skills and leadership designed for technology professionals. Their understanding of the world of technology, innovation and knowledge of how technology professionals learn, makes their trainings highly practical and effective. This is how they help the biggest high tech companies in the Brainport area to develop their architect communities.

19th October last Settels Savenije & Friedrich organised a free knowledge session at TAQ.

The subject “The role of the architect” was enthusiastically received by the participants. In depth discussions were held on the content, what to do and how to do it as a well-functioning architect in the High Tech industry.

Due to the positive feedback we received, we are planning a new knowledge session in the beginning of next year. If you are interested please do not hesitate to contact: debora.dijkers@sttls.nl

This was also an introduction to our new training Leadership skills for architects and other technical leaders which with start in the spring of 2018.

Would you like to know more about our course ‘Design for Additive Manufacturing’ and are you or is your company a member of the DSPE? Attend DSPE’s knowledge session on the 28th of September at Fontys’ ObjexLab. Check out our lecturers ‘in action’.

Objexlab is the fully equipped 3D printlab. It focuses on the latest developments in Additive Manufacturing (3D printing). This technique offers many new possibilities in comparison with conventional (machining and not machining) production technology.

Most designers and constructors are trained from the traditional production technology, leaving these new possibilities often unexploited.

Knowledge session 28 September 2017
On this DSPE Knowledge day we will look at the typical characteristics and possibilities of 3D printing for machine construction and its influence on the design of machine parts. These include the design and realization of monolithic structures (including setting mechanisms), mass reduction (application of ‘lattices’) and hybrid production technology (combination of conventional production technology with 3D printing).

PROGRAM 28 SEPTEMBER 2017
13.30 Registration and coffee
14.00 Opening by Adrian Rankers, Board Member DSPE. Introduction by Sjef van Gastel, director Innovative Production Technologies, Fontys School of Engineering.
14.30 Design Paradigm Rein van der Mast, revelator AM Design Paradigm, Fontys School of Engineering
15.00 Getting started
15.45 Break
16.00 3D Printing: stop prototyping, start producing! Jan Eite Bullema, Senior Scientist, TNO
16.30 Materialise, the additive manufacturing one-stop-shop Bart Vanderbeke, Senior Project Manager Materialise
17.00 Drinks

LOCATION
Objexlab Fontys, Rachelsmolen 1 (Building R1, 0.196), 5612 MA Eindhoven

Maximum guests: 20

REGISTRATION
is required. Register here.