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Interview Wessel Wits Hardware Architect WRITTEN BY LEX VERBERNE On the Wednesday after carnival, which you may know better as the weekend we could all go ice-skating, I met online with Wessel Wits, a Hardware Architect at Thales. I had the opportunity to ask him some questions about what working at Thales is like and how he experiences it. You may know Thales from their location in Eindhoven where they produce cryogenic coolers, but there are many more projects this multinational company works on. However, before we dive in deep, let’s start with some general background. Who is Wessel? As mentioned before, Wessel is an engineer at Thales. But before you end up with such a specialized job, he was a student like all of us. He began his study Mechanical Engineering in 1997 at the University of Twente, after which he did his Master in
the specialization of mechatronics. During his study, he had the opportunity to do his internship in Queensland (Australia) and his graduation project was about combining different engineering design disciplines into one design tool. This part of engineering has always fascinated him and so he continued in this field of expertise later on.
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