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Thursday 10 December the Chinese Ya Zhang from the technological designer programme Information and Communication Technology received her diploma from prof.dr.ir. J.C. Fransoo, Dean of the TU/e Graduate School. She’s the 2500th technological designer that graduates from TU/e and may use the degree Professional Doctorate in Engineering or PDEng. 27-year old Ya obtained her Bachelor’s degree at the Zhejiang University in China. She did her Master in Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology. The technological design project of Ya was involved with the development of a model-predictive-controller system leading to a longer life of power electronic products. Recently Ya started with a PhD programme at TU/e.

In the coming 5 years, Apollo Vredestein will invest in having PDEng programmes the University of Twente train its technical personnel. The tyre manufacturer from Twente is expanding its R&D activities and is therefore appealing to the specific knowledge available at UT. The collaborative agreement was signed on 18 June by UT educational board chairman Victor van der Chijs and Peter Snel, Chief R&D PV of Apollo Tyres Ltd.

The festive closing of the Academic Year 2014 – 2015 of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) took place on Friday 3 July 2015. During the event the Academic Annual Awards were announced for the best master thesis, design project and doctoral project of the TU/e.

The first PDEng trainee of the Robotics PDEng programme Robotics has graduated at May 29. During the two-year PDEng programme Jan de Jong MSc PDEng developed a robot which is capable to keep a TMS coil ( transcranial magnetic stimulation) pressed exactly in the correct position against the head of a moving rehabilitation patient.

The Executive Board, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Automotive Systems Design group (ASD) at Eindhoven University of Technology were greatly dismayed to learn of the death of our colleague Özhan (H.O.) Coskun. During the night of 27 to 28 February, he died as a result of an fatal accident in an apartment block in the Cederlaan of Eindhoven. Police investigations confirmed this.

Chinese Fangyi Shi from the Technological Designer's programme Software Technology was officially honoured on Wednesday 1 October by Rector Magnificus Hans van Duijn of TU/e (Eindhoven University of Technology). She is the 3,500th recipient of the Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng) degree at one of the three universities of technology in the Netherlands since its introduction in 1986. Van Duijn pointed out that the program has accounted for a € 350 million investment in innovation over a 30-year period.

Friday 4 July 2014, the TU/e Academic Award winners of 2014 were announced.

André Louis MSc. is the first candidate who has received the PDEng diploma of the new programme in Energy & Process Technology (EPT) at the University of Twente. On behalf of the VMI Group company, Louis conducted his technical design project, and on March 4, he received his degree from UT-rector prof.dr. Ed Brinksma.

On 20th of February the First Generation of Smart Energy Buildings & Cities technological designers graduated with a festive ceremony. In a symposium prior to the ceremony these Smart Energy Professionals all pitched their projects in five minutes to the audience. 

In the first week of October the first nine trainees of the two-year post-master’s technological designer’s programme SEB&C of the 3TU School for Technological Design, Stan Ackermans Institute, presented the progress they made with their company assignment. These trainees are the first generation of this programme, which started in January 2012. High-tech subjects like chip technology used to optimize active/reactive power flows in distribution networks in photovoltaic panels as well as a total lighting solution for hospitality were presented by the international students. In January 2014 the trainees will finish their company assignments.

The technological designer’s program Automotive Systems Design (ASD), provided under the common flag of 3TU.School for Technological Design, Stan Ackermans Institute and located at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), provides a systems approach to problems around mobility and fuel efficient automotive systems, including communication systems and electrical driving, with emphasis on the multidisciplinary design aspects of project-based research and engineering and the challenges that are faced by the automotive high tech industry.

Exciting developments are happening within the educational and industrial field of Health. The two youngest medical technological designer programmes of 3TU.School for Technological Design, Stan Ackermans Institute, Clinical Informatics and Healthcare Systems Design, will soon reward a new generation of technological designers with their diploma, a Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng).The Health domain awaits yet another talented type of technological designer.