Colophon Contents Editor’s Address: Pedel A word from the editor ...............2 W-hoog 4.105 Postbus 513 A word from the chairman.........3 5600 MB Eindhoven Tel: (040) 2472761 Hora Est 1991-1996 ..................4 Fax: (040) 2447355 Email:
[email protected] From the old box 1 ....................7 AES Lab ....................................8 Editor: Hora Est 1996-2001 ................12 Rudi Steenbakkers Puzzle......................................14 Cell and Tissue Lab................16 The Pedel is the magazine of Hora Est, the society of Ph.D. Hora Est 2001-2006 ................18 students of the departments of Mechanical Engineering and From the old box 2 ..................22 Biomedical Engineering, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. DCT Lab ..................................26 Lustrum Gala...........................28 The Pedel appears as often as possible! Hall of Fame............................30 1 A word from the editor Rudi Steenbakkers Welcome, members and suporters, and especially former members of Hora Est, According to a Dutch proverb, we should not pull old cows out of the ditch. It means that we should not bring unpleasant memories back to mind. A quick google taught me that this saying Another thing that co-editor Martijn Cox originated from farmers occasionally and I noticed, when going through the having to pull a dead cow out of a ditch. old Pedels, is that our magazine changed Who could have thought that overlooking considerably over the years. The cover obvious solutions, like buidling a fence was first printed in black on a colored between the meadow and the ditch, would piece of paper. Later someone came up help to enrich our language? with a very arty (and weird, if you ask me) brownish cover.