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36 Magazine of e.t.s.v. Thor and the department of Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology December 2016 GLOW 2016 science tour tour on the campus with various Electrical Engineering projects Internship Chicago | Summer schools | Thomas Edison | Transformation of Potentiaal to La Luna | Column IEditorial ContentI 02 Editorial Connecthor 24 04 Managing academics: a balancing act Volume 9, issue 4 - December 2016 05 From the President Connecthor is published by e.t.s.v. Thor and 06 In Memoriam the department of Electrical Engineering at Em. prof. dr. ir. Ralph Otten Eindhoven University of Technology. Connecthor is published quarterly with a 07 News circulation of 1400 copies and is free for all 08 Introducing... members of e.t.s.v. Thor and employees of the department of Electrical Engineering. 09 Whose desk is this? 10 A Stabilized Mode-Locked Laser Editor in chief: 12 The transformation of Potentiaal to Pauline Hoen La Luna Layout editors: 14 Thor Freshmen Weekend Birgit van Huijgevoort 14 Opening of the academic year 2016 Jeroen van Oorschot 15 Internship abroad 16 Photo page Editors: Elwin Hameleers Esmee Huismans 18 Sino-Dutch Summer School Suzanne Kuijlaars Mark Legters 20 Chicago Style Internship Chigo Okonkwo Fer Radstake 22 Excursion AME Rianne Sanders Mohsin Siraj Bart Smolders Lisa Teunissen 22 Excursion ASML Rabia Zainab Syeda Team STORM back in Eindhoven 23 Icons of EE: Thomas Alva Edison In 80 days around the world. Read the story of team STORM on page 24! 24 STORM, around the world Cover: ost of you are probably getting ready for a festive holiday season and are making 25 Lunch lecture Sioux GLOW 2016 yourselves ready for at least a week leave from the office. Hopefully this gives you Photo by: Mark Kleijnen Msome well-deserved time with family and friends, and some me-time. Time to sit down 26 The ideal side job for an awesome and relax. To look back at a year full of accomplishments and successes in your business and/or company in your personal life. And as life is not always kind to us, we also look back at things that didn’t 14 27 Towards Dynamic Contrast Specific Printer: Schrijen-Lippertz go well or think of people that have left us much too soon. Ultrasound Tomography Editorial correspondence: In this December issue, you will find a touching story in memory of Ralph Otten, written by 28 A summer in Sichuan! Connecthor Twan Basten, Wim van Bokhoven and Jochen Jess. We would like to express our deepest 29 IEEE Congres Eindhoven University of Technology sympathy and compassion to the family, friends, and ex-colleagues of Ralph, and we wish 30 Puzzle them strength in coping with the loss of their loved one. Groene Loper 19, Flux 31 Looking down on us P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven Apart from this tragedy, this December edition brings you a wide range of student activities, such as internships abroad (Leuven and Chicago), summer schools in China, excursions to AME (040) 247 3223, and ASML, a STORM behind the scenes story, a lunch lecture, and more. Thor freshmen weekend [email protected] The organization of the freshmen weekend We are also proud of the achievements of the people in our department and their work. We tells about their experiences on page 14. Web: http://www.thor.edu have a PDEng research article by Monica Llorens Revull, about a stabilized mode-locked laser. http://www.tue.nl/ee Libertario Demi wrote about his research on dynamic contrast-specific ultrasound tomography. 15 Advertisers: Two of many new staff members introduce themselves, Teun van de Biggelaar and Amritam Page 25: Sioux (Lunch lecture) Das. Page 26: ASML Back cover: Vanderlande Finally, the Connecthor editorial board has positions open for creative and enthusiastic (scien- Deadline copy next issue: 12 January tific) employees of the Department of Electrical Engineering who are interested in joining us 2017 to make the Connecthor magazine. Up for a new challenge? Please contact us! If you have ideas for upcoming editions, please contact us via [email protected]. Copyright © Connecthor 2016 We hope you enjoy reading this new edition. We wish you a prosperous and – most of all – a All rights reserved. No part of this publication happy and healthy New Year! may be reproduced in any way without prior written permission of the editorial board. The Connecthor editorial board Disclaimer The editor reserves the right to shorten and otherwise edit the articles. The views and 12 opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the From Potentiaal to La Luna Internship abroad opinion of e.t.s.v. Thor or the department of Remember these stairs? Read about the trans- Bas de Wit tells about his internship in Leuven, Belgium. Read all about it on page 15. Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of formation of Potentiaal on page 12. Technology. 02 | connecthor December 2016| 03 IDepartment AssociationI Managing academics: a balancing act From the President By: drs. Jolie van Wevelingen By: Lester Manders ou all probably know me by now. I am the Mjölnir hammer and my one-liter tankard. time we were invited to have a drink with the anaging academics is like herding roads less traveled, that is, the roads that are initiatives, just check out the ‘Excellent people Lester, the new President of Thor. But After a lot of fuss everyone was seated barkeeper. At this time we were finally alone cats.’ This truism comes up some- known to make all the difference once in a attract excellent people’ policy file, that you Yit was not easy to come this far. There (whether it was in a seat of a Board member with the Board and the barkeeper. We talked ‘Mtimes when the faculty board is while, in science as well as in life. Read Frost’s will find on the TU/e website. This is stuff that was a lot of preparation to this. Me and my or a seat in the GMM I will leave up to you). and talked about the evening and everything asked about its management and leadership poem, The Road not Taken, and you’ll know. you, as a Connecthor reader, will surely find fellow board members had to go through Some members helped me get a bit of control around it, but the thing that was said the most philosophies, and it always annoys me. First of Hence, a balancing act. relevant! months of challenges to test if we were up to and my fellow Board members were helping was: “Guys, we are the new BOARD!”. all, this truism is not true at all, and secondly, the task of becoming the new Board. There me as much as they could. After a negotiation ‘herding’ strikes me as unnecessarily and Let me give you an example. We would like to Switching from painting the big picture were definitely difficult moments, but there I got the five other medals back that I needed At the time of the GMM, we were already needlessly derogatory. diversify our staff, in particular by increasing to noting something seemingly minor but were also a lot of great and fun moments to install my fellow Board members. At this running Thor for four weeks. These weeks the number of female staff members. This is a important nevertheless, I would like to point with the wonderful group I can now call my point I was not on my own anymore, my were busy and tough, but do not get me Leading a university department has nothing somewhat sticky topic. Doing too little would out that there are not enough academic staff Board. The group consist of five young men, fellow Board members could help me. After wrong, it is great. It consist of a lot of serious to do with herding; it is primarily a balancing have our department stay a male-dominated members participating in the Connecthor me included, and one young woman. I got everything back from our members I things to handle during the day, preparing act, balancing all kinds of needs, each of which organization, as it has been for years, whereas editorial board. If you are interested in joining had to lead the GMM for the first time. It was meetings, talking to the Department. I feel must be met simultaneously. It is all about doing too much would create all sorts of the Connecthor ranks, please contact its After these months we were finally ready for a great feeling to sit there with the six of us. very proud to be the new President and Board striking a balance. Too little management unwanted side effects, both for women and editor in chief, Mrs. Pauline Hoen (P.E.R.Hoen@ the task: becoming the Board of Thor. The When everybody was sitting there in a row, of Thor. My Board is very motivated and there- and we would find ourselves in an Olbers’ for the university. Recently TU/e has launched tue.nl). Your help would be very much appre- annual General Members Meeting took place I felt strong, like I could conquer the world. fore I am even more motivated. It will be a paradox organization: we would find obsta- an initiative to strike a new balance on this ciated! from October 10 to October 12. This was the Leading the GMM was quite difficult at the great year where we will learn a lot of new cles in every direction we would want to be issue. In order to increase the number of last time that we had to present our policy beginning.