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High Tech Systems Center (HTSC) Newsletter
Since our High Tech Systems Center HTSC became part of EAISI, we have been trying to make use of the possible synergies with EAISI in our explorations for new consortia. Topics of overlapping interests exist in the field of
- Cyber Physical Systems, notably Edge AI
- Digital Twinning
- AI in supply chains.
And for those who missed our regular Research Meets: after the summer Marc Hamilton will come with a Research Meet on Engineering Information Interoperability.
In this newsletter you find an update on the National Growth Fund (GF) by Gregor, news about the changing diploma for PDEng, and a highlight on the WASPD disinfection project for medical equipment. In addition, you can read more on the research of Rachel Jones, and find links to articles which HTSC has put forward in the press.
Not every initiative for joint proposals has led to successes so far, but it is worthwhile noting that signed documents have arrived half a year after the approval for the research project on superconductive motor drives with Prof Elena Lomonova of TU/e and Prof Herman ten Kate from UT. This project is supported by ASML and VDL-ETG, facilitated by M2i and co-financed by Holland High Tech through a public-private partnership within the Dutch top sector HTSM. We wish our partners good luck with the start of this new project!
And for you: enjoy reading!
Jan-Jaap Koning
Research support HTSC
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HTSC focus
As part of the National Growth Fund launched in 2020, the NXTGEN HIGHTECH program, with a conditional subsidy of around 450 million euros, focuses on developing a new generation of technology. Gregor van Baars, senior systems engineer in mechatronic systems at TNO (one of the partners in this joint initiative) and employed one day a week at the HTSC, wrote the Mechatronic Systems Architectures section in the proposal submitted by the Next Generation High Tech Equipment program (NXTGEN HTEq).
The goal is to build and integrate the appropriate multidisciplinary knowledge required to take full advantage of new design methods, materials, etc. so that new system architectures can be developed for High Tech Equipment (HTEq)/Semicon. Here, Gregor brings us up to date on the challenges posed...
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HTSC focus
The Disinfection WASPD (Disinfection. Water, Air, Spray. Purification and Dispensing) project has been a while in the make. Initial conversations with Wassenburg Medical, for example, about endoscope disinfection actually began some two years ago but it was only in January this year that PhDs got underway with their research.
Productive coincidence
How it all got started was a bit by coincidence, really. Mehmet Üzümcü, R&D Director of Wassenburg Medical, explains. “Companies don’t have the time, resources and people to elaborate – we have to work in a very focused way, with short timelines, to get a customer innovation. Universities have the breadth and depth of knowledge as well as the freedom to go in different directions. So when one of our colleagues realized that the High Tech Systems Center was keen to get some projects going and that there was some capacity and expertise in house to develop new technologies, and this landed on my desk, I made contact to talk about the possibilities.” This led to Mehmet getting in touch with Dr Ana Sobota.
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HTSC in the press
The December issue of Mikroniek focuses on the theme of Contamination. The main feature is the ACCESS project: Active Contamination Control for Equipment and Substrates, with four articles.
In this project, VDL ETG and Eindhoven University of Technology work together as a multidisciplinary team, to deepen the fundamental understanding of the generation, transport and removal of particle contamination. The project involves three PhD students and six PDEng projects.
A preview can be found here
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HTSC in the press
Techwatch spoke to TU/e researcher Willem van Jaarsveld. He is working on software to optimally control the supply of spare parts in high-tech. He got inspired to use reinforcement learning by the computer program that defeated the human world champion in the board game go.
“Every hour a wafer scanner is idle costs a chipmaker millions. That’s why it’s crucial for a company like ASML to have a replacement part on-site as soon as possible when something breaks in one of its systems,” explains Willem van Jaarsveld.
Dutch: Read more...
English: Read more...
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Researcher in the spotlight
My name is Rachel Jones and I’m part of the Photonic Integration research group of the Department of Electrical Engineering.
Integrated photonics is a young but rapidly developing research field with great potential for high-tech systems. Within this, I’m investigating the extent to which the footprint of high-resolution displacement sensors can be miniaturized in terms of physical size, weight, power and cost when scaled up without sacrificing performance.
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Switch from PDEng to EngD as of September 1, 2022
As of September 1, 2022, PDEng will become EngD.
The joint Executive Boards of the 4TU’s decided to change from the degree Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng) to the degree Engineering Doctorate (EngD), aligned with the same diploma in UK.
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Participation in Einstein Telescope
At HTSC we frequently receive requests from companies about participation in the Einstein Telescope project.
The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a new project proposed by the triangle of Netherlands, Belgium and Germany (NRW) to detect gravitational waves using a more sensitive system, a very large (10km) underground interferometer with cryogenic mirrors.
On top of the current funding, it became known last month that the National Growth Fund (GF) committed EUR 42 m for the initial phase. By early 2025 it will become known whether the ET will indeed be located in this triangle. If so, the GF will award a budget of EUR 870 m.
Companies that are interested in joining the current prototyping projects ET-Pathfinder in Maastricht or E-Test in Liège, are advised to check the list of technical workshops and tenders on website https://www.etest-emr.eu
Information: René Kessen: rene.kessen@liof.nl.
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Call for PDEng Mechatronic System Design projects
One of the most effective ways to cooperate with TU/e is by means of trainees of one of the Post-Graduate Technological Designer programs.
These programs are organized under the umbrella of the 4TU.School for Technological Design, Stan Ackermans Institute. A successful trainee is awarded the PDEng degree.
For the track Mechatronic Systems Design (MSD) eight trainees started the program on November 1 in 2021. Those trainees are eagerly looking forward to performing a project that will conclude their traineeship (final year project).
For your company it means that you have a pre-selected, well-trained engineer in house who creates a design or demo for you with support from the TU/e supervisor.
For more information look here, or contact Jan-Jaap Koning, j.j.koning@tue.nl
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Calender
31 May
Einstein Telescope workshop Optics, Mirror coatings, Lasers, Aachen
1 June
Benelux RF Conference Nijmegen
8 - 9 June
Vision, Robotics & Motion, Brabanthallen,‘s-Hertogenbosch
9 June
Bits&Chips Event, Evoluon Eindhoven
22 June
Systems Architecting Conference, Verkadefabriek ‘s-Hertogenbosch
22 - 23 June
RapidPro, Klokgebouw Eindhoven
28 - 30 June
European Robotics Forum ERF2022, Rotterdam
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