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Dear reader, The schoolyear has just begun and we are looking forward to sharing the stories and events of the start of this academic year with you! To all the new kids around, welcome to Innovum!

This edition of the InSide will share the ins- and outs of your introduction week with you, as well as give you a preview for this years studytrip . It will show you how to build your own electric skateboard and hopefully make you laugh while reading.

Nothing more to be said, just see for yourself!

And ofcourse, I wish all members and staff the best for the new year, since that will arrive sooner then later.

See you around!

Table of Content Content 2 Agenda 3 Behind the intro 4 Christmas diner 6 Continu 7 How do we stick with Innovum?

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We want you for INNOVUM

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Electric skateboard 11 Centerfold 14

Yours truly,

Take the blue pill, or the red one?

Lezzy SV Innovum

Fontys 18

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Studytrip 20 Company day 22 Spotlight 23 Lifehack 24 Tridec 25 Did you know 26 Comics 27

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Agenda November 8th

Drink

15th

Company day

20th

International Pubquiz

21th

GMM, Election

22th

Sound engineering event

December 6th

Sinterklaas party

13th

PubCrawl

20th

Link to INNOVUM google agenda

Christmas Dinner

January 10th

Newyears drink

29th

Active members day

February 7th

CoBo

14th

Valentines Drink

21st

Super Secret Pubtivity +

March 12th

Unlimited beers party

14th

Company day

21st

Drink

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BEHIND THE INTRO

I think we all remember the first day we got familiar with our beautiful association as if it were yesterday. Yes, of course I am talking about the amazing and wonderful Introductionweek during which you made friends for life. Most of us have only witnessed the Introductionweek from the ‘kids’ perspective or maybe the mama/ papa to fulfill your own legacy, but what’s on the oposit side of all the fun and games. Let’s give you an insight in the organization of the Introductionweek, shall we.

It all starts in October, right after all the evaluations of the previous Introductionweek. The committee starts their search for new committee members and host a meeting every 2 weeks, where the creative juices already start flowing, whilst enjoying a cold drink to keep the creative spirits up. During the beginning weeks

the evaluations are taken into account while revising the playbooks and they already start with the planning of that year’s intro.

As chairman of the introduction committee of 2018, Tom van den Hoven tells us that the largest sum of money that goes around within Innovum is put into arranging the

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introduction week, including the facilities, the parties, the bikes and the food and drinks.

Then we are already going into the month of March, where the subscriptions for the papa’s and mama’s open and the screening begins, followed by the enrollment for the intro-kids starting in May. “In the meantime, we’re constantly innovating to make both our lives, as the lives of the kids and parents easier”, says Kevin Kolsters, also an active member within the introduction committee. “This year for example we linked the digital sign-ups to an E-ticket system to make the Monday morning during intro run as smoothly as possible, but I am getting ahead of myself”.

“The summer holiday is mostly chill, and we arrange the last minor things such as a DJ for the party and we prepare for Hellweek, which sounds exactly as it is”, Justin Smeets proclaims while laughing. Justin is the board member within the committee but, has been in the committee for 2 years now. Him and Tom

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were your contact points previous year, if you remember from the intro-booklet.

And then, the week before the party starts, all hell breaks loose.

The whole committee is running around Fontys all week from 9 to 5, arranging for the final prices on the food and bikes, checking in with the camping, printing all the documents, filling up the goody bags and arranging shirts, you name it. Then it’s already Sunday and the whole crew gathers at the camping site to set up your accommodation for the first two nights, and then the party begins with an ice-cold beer after a week full of arrangements on Sunday night.

Tom: “Then of course during the week, there are always things we could not have planned beforehand and we need to figure out on the spot. We get up at 7.00 on Monday and head towards Fontys to brief the parents and finish the kids’ subscriptions. Everything is happening at the same time now since half of the crew remains in Fontys and the rest goes to set up the cycling route. Not to forget the adventures we go through during the dropping at night.” As some of you might remember, the very capable bus driver had a different opinion about the ditch and where the road ended. It took the committee and the bus driver all night

to get the bus out, while most of the kids had already dozed off after such a long day.

Then the schedule continues. Kevin: “Tuesday is full of adventures such as canoeing and building catapults, not to forget the carnival-party, but what most people don’t see is how many first aid persons are on stand by for such an event.” After the short night, Wednesday begins by getting rid of all the kids and cleaning up the complete camping site within 7 hours to be ready for the buffet again. Justin: “When everybody is enjoying Purple’s pre-party at Stadhuisplein, we’re busy arranging the final things at the TU/e sports site so the kids can crash after yet another long day.”

By now, Thursday has come, and we deserve the ‘day off’. Tom: “This is the only day during the week for which only breakfast and sleeping need to be arrange, so we can enjoy the music and a few beers amongst the kids too at the Purple festival.” All that’s left on Friday is the hangover-breakfast, some games and a BBQ, after which most kids have crashed and go home around 1500. During this time, the crew and committee make sure all the camping bags of the kids get to Stratum so they are all packed to head home, and

then deliver the busses back to the rental company. Around 19.00, the committee is done with their tasks and we celebrate with a few beers after which most of us soon realize that the few hours of sleep during the week are getting to us, whilst the real diehards party till midnight.

and bad way.

So, if you stuck out to the end and actually read the whole article, you’re probably exhausted yourself. I hope it was worth it, since we’ll finish off with the nominee of best crewmember of the year, and of course the best story heard on intro.

After this beautiful week, the committee arrives early on Monday to clean up the mess they made at the Innovum room, will stall the lost and found and fill out the final forms for declarations.

With all this done, the feedback is scheduled and that is always the end of a beautiful but exhausting week of fun, games, stress and insomnia. But, when asking if it was worth it, all three smile and couldn’t agree more that it was one hell of a week, in the good

This year, the crewmember of the year is Rob de Bruyn, since he wrecked one of the trucks on the way back to the rental company after it had survived all week, so just barely didn’t make it. And as far as the story goes: There was a woman that, at the Tongelrape (the dive into the Tongelreep), claimed she could see all the naked boys from her kitchen window.

To which our beloved committee member Pim Kaethoven reacted (picture he said it in Dutch, and particularly in Brabants): “Madam, if you can see his dingdong from 800 meters far, then that boy can be damn proud of it!” [Mevrouw. Als u zenne sjoak ken zien van 800 meter afstand, dan mag die jongen toch godverdomme trots zijn!]

Credits to Tom van den Hoven, Justin Smeets and Kevin Kolsters for this wonderful interview!

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Chrismas diner Every year around Christmas we go out to eat with around 80 people. Last year we went to de Oude Rechtbank. Here we got rounds of snacks with unlimited beer and wine. For some of us this was very fun, but most members were used to an All-you-can-eat arrangement.

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We had more like a Christmas drink there then a real diner. The year before we went to the Wiro Wok. Here we had three hours of unlimited food and drinks. This was very fun for most of us, but we got some complaints about the food.

Three years ago we went to Dzjengis Khan. Here we also had three hours of unlimited drinks and food. We also got our own room in the restaurant with our own beer tap.

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This year we decided to go to the Dzjengis Khan again. The diner wil take place on the 20th of December. It will cost around ₏15 per person. You can sign up from the 6th of November. We are going to make another great evening so make sure you’re there!

Full=Full

Bouwkunde

Energie

Elektrotechniek

Civiele techniek

Installatietechniek

Werktuigbouwkunde

Continu verbindt opdrachtgevers aan technische professionals.

Dus wanneer jij na je studie klaar bent voor het werkende leven, verbinden wij jou graag aan de juiste opdrachtgever. Maar ook tijdens je studie kunnen wij ook al veel voor je betekenen.

Kijk eens goed om je heen, al je medestudenten zijn na je studie jouw ‘concurrenten’ op de arbeidsmarkt. Oriënteren en specialiseren tijdens de studie is dus nog niet zo’n slecht plan: • Waar ben je goed in?

• Waar liggen je ambities?

• In wat voor werkomgeving wil je werken?

• Ben je een teamplayer of werk je liever alleen?

• En waar vind je die te gekke stage die jou echt een streepje voor geeft?

Dit zijn vragen waar Continu je bij helpt. Wij werken samen met jouw studie- of studentenvereniging en zullen zowel bij activiteiten aanwezig zijn als zelf een aantal activiteiten organiseren met jullie bestuur. Denk hierbij aan een bedrijfsbezoek, training, borrel of een inspirerende sessie.

Via de Continu Campus nieuwsbrief houden we je o.a. op de hoogte van beschikbare stages, startersbanen, nuttige studie-/carrièretips en aankomende evenementen, studiedagen en netwerkborrels.

Wil je met ons in contact komen, kom dan naar één van de geplande events of vraag onze gegevens op via het bestuur. Tot snel!

MELD JE AAN! EN MAAK KANS OP EEN INDOOR SKYDIVE EXPERIENCE VOOR 2 PERSONEN!*

Door je aan te melden voor onze Continu Campus nieuwsbrief, maak je kans om een indoor skydive experience te winnen voor 2 personen!

Ga snel naar www.continu.nl/ campus en vul het formulier in! Je ontvangt z.s.m. van ons bericht! *Deze actie loopt t/m 30 november 2018.

In de eerste week van december worden de winnaars via de e-mail nieuwsbrief bekend gemaakt. Houd je e-mail dan dus goed in de gaten!

How do we stick?

How do we stick with Innovum?

Stickers, the untold truth, a guide from the start to the end.

Stickers, how do they stick?

Stickers are made from a variation of materials, but the most common ones are paper and vinyl.

The kitchen magnets on the fridge are always made of vinyl.

Let me first start at the beginning, the Wikipedia definition of a sticker: “A piece of paper or plastic that has 1 sticky side, and has often a text or picture on the other side”. Stickers exist in all kinds of sizes and shapes. They differ from windows stickers in the Innovum room to tattoes that you get if you spend 15 euros on groceries at the supermarket.

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Just to give you an example of some of the sticker variations: - Permanent stickers, like

the Innovum ones - Extra permanent stickers,

for the industrial environ ment - Rubberglue’ed stickers,

with a rubber adhesive in

the glue - Disposible stickers, like

the post-its ones - Water decomposable

stickers, well, does the

name give it away?

- Compostable stickers,

these are often ones that

you can eat, and you can

find them on apples for example.

- Heat- and cold resistant

stickers, so they can be

used in greenhouses or

cold rooms.

- And so many others.

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Do’s and don’ts If you’re out there at a party, an Innovum event, or just on your own on vacation, and you’re in the mood to stick some stickers, just keep in mind some simple guidelines. These guidelines help you to put the stickers at the best spots, with minimum effort, with the most visibility.

One of the important guidelines is to figure out who is or owns the object, for example traffic signs, a shop sign, a rain pipe or something similar. It could be forbidden to put stickers on some of these objects because it could interfere with safety of the road, or stuff like that for example.

The TU/e terrain is also one of the places where it is forbidden These stickers all have to place stickers. The main issue different kind of compo sition, this means that they is that the price for each placed are made from a variety of sticker on the TU/e terrain gets so high. materials. The most common ones are of course paper and vinyl with permanent glue.

Innovum stickers are also widely used to accentuate the nicer things in life, like to admire the beauty of the female body. This happens by sticking the sticker on a nice boob or butt. This has of course some small rules as well. They are mostly common sense, like the first rule: the boob or butt has to be REALLY nice. Depending on the setting it can be appropriate to ask the following: “Nice shoes, sticker?”

Evaluation after placing the sticker

Interview with Loek the Lamppost from Tilburg:

- Hey Loek, how are you doing?

- Hey Innovum, not too bad, actually pretty good.

- Ow, why that?

- Well, I’m just shining, and during the day it’s pretty quiet.

- That does sounds pretty relaxed. You do have a pretty jacket that you’re wearing.

- Yes, thank you! This sticker collection is pretty sweet, it keeps me warm at night.

- Haha nice, and we are wondering, we are doing some research about a sticker on you, what do

you think about the Innovum sticker?

- I like it, that Innovum sticker keeps me cozy at night, protects me from scratches, and because it says

Innovum people often look up to me - Good to hear, so if we place more stickers on lampposts we are actually helping them?

- Jup, and a tip, try to place the sticker as high as possible, we lampposts get sometimes a cold neck.

- Sweet, we will spread the word.

- Thanks for enlightening our view!

- Thx, will do!

Interview with Anoniempje: - Hey girl, how are you?

- Hey Innovum, actually pretty good, I just got back from one of your parties in the city.

- Nice, how was it? Lots of good partying people at the Villa Fiesta?

- Yeah, that is right, the Villa was nice, I even went to the Amazing for a little of “I want it that way”.

- Haha, good to hear, and I can see that you went to an Innovum party, you’re covered in

stickers on your tits and ass - Yeah, they were nice guys, they insisted that I got more than 1 sticker. Something with pretty things,

so I felt flattered. But the sticker on my butt wasn’t properly placed, its already coming loose .

- Well, that can be fixed, once they read this interview, they will know and remember.

- Good to hear, Im happy about it, and I do like how the stickers look on my new shirt. You still wear

it a little bit for the attention right? But Im gonna go home for a bottle of wine, ill see you guys around!

- See you around, have fun!

Sticker facts: 20.000 innovum stickers each year, and half of them are for intro.

Stickers on apples can be eaten, they even can be baked in a pie and still be eaten afterwards.

Stickers who are made from multiple parts that still can be sticked at once work with a transparent layer that carries the different

parts, and these stickers are called “Transfer stickers”.

Did you know that the average sticker holds its colors for about 2 years. This can be longer or shorter depending on the amount of daylights the stickers get.

“Stickers are made to accentuate the prettier things in life.”

- M. Ton

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Electric Longboard Longboard Materials: A longboard deck scrap plywood from the fontys workshop

Electric Longboard Tips and Tricks

I have built an Electric Longboard and I’m going to share my experiences with you along with 4x scrap hoverboard wheels some tips and tricks I found neat. markplaats There are a lot of guides out there with people sharing their builds so 2x 8000mah 4p10s ebike accu’s what makes this one different? I from Joris Lammers will mostly focus on the mechanical build. What motor to use, what spool of pla 3d printing filament voltage, and what transmission in for custom housing a general manner.

From Hobbyking:

Lithium battery charger HK-GT2B Transmitter and Receiver

From Aliexpress:

4x 350watt ebike speed controllers Arduino nano DAC converter Griptape for the top of the board.

Perfboard General nuts bolts connectors etc.

I had laying around

Okay. When I decided on building an electric longboard I found this area to be overwhelming. There are a lot of people on forums etc. just screaming out what to use and what to avoid but I wanted to dig deeper into the mathematics to fully understand how it all comes together.

Power First off we need to discuss power. Everybody wants a lot of power for their board. Power is measured in Watts (P) and is calculated as the product of Voltage (U) times Current (I), P = U * I. High current results in high losses. Think of it like a river. Voltage is the width of the river and Current is the speed of the water. With a wide river, lots of water can flow even though the speed of the water is low. To have the same amount of water flowing (Power) on a narrow river, the speed of the water have to be high, splashing all over (losses).

To summarize, we want to have a high voltage so that the amperage can be minimized. Losses are bad for both longitivity of the components (through heat) and range of the longboard (through low efficiency).

You want to have a capacitor with a large value (typically 2000uF+) close to your ESC. This is for reducing the risk of voltage spikes on the esc when connecting it to the power supply, and also to help deliver current spikes demanded by the esc.

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Switches

Capacity

Having high voltages in combination with a large capacitor close to the ESC requires another type of switches than what would normally be used in cars for example. I started out with a 12 V car switch on my e-board and it worked...

For one time. The spark that hit the connector inside the switch welded it together. The instant the switch is closed, a very large current will flow to fill the capacitor. Very large currents are good for welding but nothing else. So how do we solve this problem?

One solution is to use a so called “sparkles-switch�. These use a normal small switch to enable the gate of one or several misfits. It works like a charm but they are rather expensive.

One thing that seems to confuse people is the amount of energy stored in batteries. When talking car batteries, amp-hours are often used and a battery with 110 Ah has higher capacity than one with 60 Ah, right? Not always.

It depends on the voltage of the battery. Car batteries are always 12 V and can therefore be compared using Ah:s. But now that we are talking Lithium-Cells (cause this is probably the kind of cells that you will be using), we have a number of different voltages that people are using, ranging from 6S to 12S. BTW, this means 6 cells in series and 12 cells in series. Since the nominal voltage of a regular lithium cell is 3.7 volt, we could instead of 6S and 12S say 22,2 volt and 44,4 volt. Its just easier to say voltages in terms of how many cells are connected in series.

Another way to go is to use these small connectors. When plugging them in, a resistor of 5 ohms or so is connected for a brief moment before the switch is fully closed.

For a 12S battery, it would mean that about 10 amps is flowing through the resistor for a blink of an eye before the capacitor is charged and the switch is closed.

Using any online calculator you can see that it takes about 10 milliseconds to fill the capacitor to 67% with 50 volt supply and 5 ohm series resistance. They also work like a charm and I have been using mine for some time now.

The best way to measure the capacity of the battery is to use the unit watt-hours Wh. This is simply the product of the Ah value and the nominal voltage of the battery. The battery for my longboard is a 16 Ah 10S battery.

Electronics in a Longboard

I use my spark free xt90 connector both as an on/off switch and as a safety feature. The positive wire to the ESC goes through the xt90 connector in a loop, enabling the rider to easily disconnect the Power to the esc when riding if something goes wrong.

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Building a battery system for a longboard is a mess. There is not a lot of room for components and there are extensive vibrations when riding. Therefore, it is crucial to pay extra attention to isolating all cables and connections. A short can cause explosions in your lithium cells and/or ruin your components. Use heat shrink everywhere you can and be generous when applying hot glue on all open connections. When doing electrical maintenance in a building, the law requires two layers of isolation on all wires. This is a good way to go here as well!

Summary!

Example build

Final Build

Use as high voltage as you can to reduce the current, but beware of shocks.

Let’s say you have decided on using a 9S battery The voltage is about 35 volt and let’s say I want a top speed of 35 km/h. My longboard have wheels with 69 mm diameter. You could make all calculations by hand or you can use this app for example. Mix and match motor kV, transmission ratio and find the combo that will work for you. Most transmissions out there are between 1:2 to 1:3 so there is not much wiggle room there. Motors comes in a lot of different kV ratings however, so it may be easier to first settle for a transmission and then chose the motor. In the example above, a 1:3 transmission is used and a 245 kV motor. The top speed is about 37 km/h in theory. Remember that if you want a high top speed, you will have to input a lot of current in the motor to get good torque at slow speeds. It is a trade-off.

In the end I went a totally different road. I used for hub motors from scarp hover boards, the exploding ones. This eliminated all the gearing. The board was made form scrap plywood I got form the Fontys Workshop, glued it together, sawn it in a shape I liked, painted it black. And tada, you have a longboard.

Have a large capacitor (2000uF+) in parallel and close to your ESC. Use a spark-free switch or connector.

Charge and discharge your cells properly to increase lifetime and safety.

Use double layers of isolation on all cables and use hot glue on all open connections.

Depending on the goal of your build you will want different characteristics. Do you want it for the daily commute or do you want to outrun road bikers? The easiest way, I think, to explain the relation between voltage, motor kV, transmission ratio, speed and torque is to make an example.

The base for the battery’s and electronics was printed using a 3d printer, this way I could make the components fit snug inside the base. In the end my Chinese speed controllers used a Different input signal than ESCs normally used. With a Arduino, some code written by the amazing Kees and a cheap DAC. The received signal is processed into something the ESCs can understand.

In the end the base Is held to the board by two straps, because I still need to get into it from time to time. If I would build it again I would defenately get lighter wheels and a smaller battery, because it is getting quite heavy. But as long as you have power left in the battery’s and don’t need to lift it it doesn’t matter…

Things I still plan on doing. Rewind the hover board wheels for a higher top speed. Because there is no gearing this is the only way to get an higher top speed. Right know you almost get kicked of the board if you go full throttle but the top speed is around 18km/h and mount the base permanently to the board.

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Take the blue pill, or the red one?

You know you have thought about it. Either briefly during your introduction, during your first week in Fontys or even more often throughout your first year(s). “Could I do that?” is the question that comes to mind “Could I push myself to succeed?” At least that was what I thought on my first days at Fontys. “No.” was the answer that I told myself, “that’s not for me, I’m not that person.” Well, I wasn’t until two years ago. I had a choice. See what anyone else would accomplish instead of me or start to pull the strings myself.

Do you take the blue pill, or the red one? That’s the question with all major decisions. You could just keep going in the same direction, not really knowing what opportunities are out there waiting for you. Nothing wrong with going to the finish line walking. But if you start to challenge yourself, take that red pill and take the leap. You might cross that finish line holding gold. Although it’s not the gold that makes you sleep well that night, it’s knowing what you are capable off.

What does it take and what does it give. The answer differs the person. I can’t tell you, nor anyone else what such a year could mean to you and the association.

But I can share my story of being treasurer in the board of SV. Innovum.

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“and now I would like to congratulate Thijs Boudrie, as our next treasurer!” That moment on the 7th of December in the year 2016, is what changed everything.

Of course, a lot leads up to the board-elections, but nothing is sure until you that moment. So, what’s next? Sure, a lot to learn, that’s what’s next. But you’re not doing this all by yourself.

You’re not a one-man board, hell no! You must work together as a team, 4 guys and one “oostblok” cool dude with long unidentified-color hair. So, on to step one: Board-dropping. Holy shit that board-dropping. I can honestly say it’s sad to only get to do that once. (#no_spoilers).

After the dropping its time to divide roles and committees.

Pick the ones you like, and the old board will help you tame the bastards within. You can give your

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own twist to the committee, make plans for the year and for the rest, leave them to it! They should be able to handle themselves without too much of your input. Sure, all the committees are like beautiful women. It’s much nicer with a little bit of you in them. One thing left in this lovely January: The constitution drink. Don’t worry too much about this one, just try to remember as much of it as possible, you’ll be fine!

February 1st: Time to unhook the 2016 board’s wagon. We’ve got the keys, we’ve got the brains, we’ve got the intel and most important. We’ve got the moneys!

Every new week is like a newspaper. Sure, the content changes but the layout stays roughly the same. New things happen, people need you, you need people, events happen, every now and then someone dies (on the inside), the usual things. Monday I’d open the room, make coffee and put everything back in place.

Tuesday evening is time for the board-meeting, Thursday usually an event or grab a beer somewhere and Friday is for regretting your decisions on Thursday. All the rest of the time you could decide for yourself.

Crap, I only have this alinea left to talk about February to December… pfft. Okay, here goes: “Beer, bowling, beercycling, more beer, pubquiz, pubcrawls, lectures, meetings, beer, study-trip, spin-the-wheel, cobo’s, GMM’s, Fontys 2020, Mario-party-drinking-game, Introduction week, cobo-season 2.0, whisky-night, company-day, parties, activities, other thingies and “poof”, there is

the next board already. The whole circle starts again with me on the teaching side. It’s incredible how fast it goes but even more how much has been going on. I can’t even describe what looking back at those 365 days, does to me. It truly is like leaving the Matrix, like Harry watching his kids get on the train, like Bilbo writing his novel. I did my chapter to the story. My ink has dried, and I have turned the page. Leaving the book with many more pages waiting to be abused.

These next few lines are my closure for the whole board-experience. I hope that my words might inspire you to go the distance.

Take that red pill and in a year, you will wake up, holding that gold.

The year 2017 I will always remember as the year I had a lot of wonderful discussions and a few too many receipts. The year I got to spend my time with lots of great people. The year I could even enjoy the hours of work. The year of “ah just one more beer” and “sure, spinning the wheel on a Tuesday is a great idea!” The year I discovered photoshop. And last but far from least. The year I got to hang my picture up on that wall!

Now it’s your turn. ~ Thijs Boudrie Treasurer of 2017

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Fontys Visible improvement of Engineering Education at Fontys

Participatory Board (IMR): Jan van der Linde, Tekin Yilmaz, Babs Crombach, Vincent Spijker Committee of Education (GOC): Marcel Peeters, Albert Aslan, At Fontys Engineering the quality Bram van Kuijk, Sander Essens, of education is our focus contin(Central Office that support the uously. Every year our manageParticipatory Board) CBA: Marment team comes together during greeth Haagsman, Dimphy Hooia two days meeting to discuss how jmaijers we can improve; the educational Innovum: Jasper Roes program as well as organizational Managementteam (MT): Nico v.d. aspects. Our motto is: how can we Aa, Agnes Berendsen, Frank de make our students happier? Not Brouwer, Barbara Buster, Wilonly on a short term, but also on a lem van de Groep, Ella Hueting, longer term. Some decisions may Paul Janssen, Sharda Kawarmala, not be popular with students that Hans Krikhaar, Bart-Jan van Lierstudy right now, but are necesop, Xenia de Beer (minutes). sary regarding their future and are appreciated by our alumni looking As you can see, only three stuback at the quality of the program. dents joined the discussion. Our Interviews with students are held regularly, and these interviews help the organization to improve the educational program as well as the organizational progress.

But students do not recognize what happens regarding their complaints and get frustrated with it. As we improve all the time, we think we don’t tell you about these improvements in an appropriate way.

priority is to involve more students regarding quality of our educational program and the organization.

On forehand, students of the Participatory Board, interviewed several students, internationals as well as Dutch students, regarding their view on what should be improved at our School of Engineering.

At Thursday, October 5th, the management team discussed with students and colleagues from the Participatory Board and the Committee of Education how we can improve our educational program and the organization visible for students and teachers.

People that joined the discussion:

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This is what the international students answered: 1.

No feedback on com

plaints or comments

(including on teaching

qualities): finishing the PDCA-cycle; 2.

International student: we

would rather have Dutch

language lessons than

cultural lessons; 3.

Supportive subjects have

(= too many) more EC

than technical subjects.

This is what the Dutch students answered : 1.

Better use of class rooms

and workshop rooms, and

better furniture; 2.

Expo: smaller projects,

more related to real life projects; 3.

Uniform formats and procedures; 4.

More awareness about

how important it is that

students have influence in

the Participatory Board

and the Educational

Committee and study association 5.

Communication about

results of the interviews

with students and about

improvements of the pro

gram: finishing the PD CA-cycle.

We also used the outcomes of the Student Poll (Nederlandse Studenten Enquete or NSE) and the research done in the Mechatronics course about improving study success.

Positive aspects of the School of Engineering from the point of view of the international students: 1.

Teacher with company ex

perience: know about in

ternships and connect the

ory and practice; 2.

Procedures are ok / semes

ter guide is good; 3.

Internships and the oppor

tunity to work in an inter

national environment

(Brainport region).

Positive aspects of the School of Engineering from the point of view of the Dutch students 1.

The atmosphere during the

courses is good; 2.

The accessibility of the

teachers is good, both on-

and offline; 3.

The content of the

curriculum is good; 4.

The connection between

the companies and the

school is good; 5.

The technical level of the

projects is good.

Below are the priorities for improvement that came out of the meeting on 5 October and the agreements we have made on this.

The other subjects are picked up by the new employee.

Do you have complaints? Please ask your team leader. Are you not satisfied about the reaction on your complaint, please let me know.

My mailing address: e.hueting@fontys.nl Ella Hueting Dean

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Study trip 2010: Czech Republic 2011: England 2012: France, Switzerland & Italy 2013: Germany & Poland 2014: Denmark & Sweden 2015: Czech Republic 2016: England & Scotland 2017: Hungary & Austria 2018: Croatia & Italy 2019:?

What is studytrip?

If you would have asked me to do this before I became active at S.V. Innovum, in the Studytrip Committee, I would probably have said that it is a relatively formal trip. A kind of formal holiday where you broaden your knowledge and see what happens out in the engineering world.

However, when I joined the committee last year and then went on a trip, that definition has changed.

ing for the people of engineering.

And do not forget to have a great party whilst doing all this!

Study trip was a very nice experience for me last year and as the new chairman I’m trying to plan a memorable trip together with the committee this year.

Floris van Noorden – To all people who are not sure Chairman Studytrip

It is an unforgettable experience!

With a fairly large group of travelers you go on a journey, divided over the different vans. The vans are filled with people who all want a nice trip of course and because you’re sitting together in the vans for the whole trip, you get to know each other better. After the study trip you come back with new friends while you enjoy a beautiful location, and visit companies that are certainly interest-

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whether they want to join or have never come along I want to say the following: Study trip is a trip that you certainly do not want to miss! The announcement and registration will take some time but we will keep you informed!

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Three years ago I first went on Study trip with three friends, the rest I did not know very well. In advance I had to quickly buy a suit and dress shoes otherwise I was not allowed to join.

We left around half past four at night, in one of the four vans with eight other very enthusiastic students. Packed with one weekend bag and plenty of lukewarm Schultenbraü on the way to a city somewhere in Europe that we

exchange for another one in the middle of the week. Which city is changes each year, however it will be always fun!

During the week, three company visits are planned. This is where the suit and dress shoes are needed; The usual class of Innovum.

In addition to company visits,

I liked it so much that I went to study trip twice more. And to ensure that this tradition is kept alive, I went and joined the studytrip committee.

As a committee member I already know where we are going next year: ‘’ Naar de kloten! ‘’ Jan van Loon

there mostly is also one day off to sniff the local culture, and one surprise activity to end the week.

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donderdag 15 november

BEDRIJVEnDAG

Innovumplein R1 1.212

van

Kom naar de stagemarkt en maak kennis met hightech bedrijven uit de regio.

14:00 tot 16:00 ( ) MET AANSLUITENDE BORREL!

&

In the spotlight. Elsie!

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Mickey mouse life-hacks

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Only for real engineers

Did-you know... #1. Around 220 million tons of old computers and other electronic devices are disposed in the

United States each year. #2. A diamond does not dissolve in acid, only intense heat can destroy a diamond. #3. Moore’s law states that, microchips double in power every 18 to 24 months. #4.

That broccoli actually tastes bette if you throw it away and make some pizza? #5. Ever since the program began in 1981 as of 2009, there have been 113 space shuttle flights #6. Chuck Yeager blasted through the sound barrier at Edwards Air Force Base in 1947. #7. No one has received more U.S. patents than Thomas Edison. He got 1093 patents to be exact. #8. Did you know that one third of the world population has never made a telephone call? #9.

That if you lay the small intestines of 3 people behind eachother, you probably get put behind

bars for life? #10. You can’t screenshot netflix.

#11. #12. #13. #14.

#15. #16.

#17. #18. #19. #20.

That “White Power” isn’t a kind of alternative energy?

Asteroids and Lunar Lander in 1980 were the first two video games copyrighted in the U.S. That Albert Einstein actually has an IQ of 0 because he’s dead?

The Internet is the fastest-growing ommunications tool ever. It took radio broadcasters 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million, television 13 years, and the Internet just 4 years.

That mars is called the red planet because it was property of the USSR during the cold war?

Valdemar Poulsen, a Danish engineer, invented an arc converter as a generator of continuo us-wave radio signals in 1902.

The snowboard was invented by an engineer.

That you can put pizzas in the oven to make them taste way better?

James Watson auctioned his Nobel prize.

Leo Fender manufactured the best guitars but couldn’t play it.

#21.

#22. #23. #24. #25.

That there is a kind of mountain lion that can jump higher than a house can? This is because of the strong leg muscles in the back legs of the mountain Loin and the fact that a house can’t jump.

Niels bohr got a house with unlimited beer supply.

Marie Curie’s old notebooks are still radioactive.

That people with more birthdays, overall have a longer life?

The word engineer comes from a Latin word meaning ‘cleverness’.

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