Festival of Disruption filled with energy and enthusiasm
The Festival of Disruption’s second edition thrived with energy and enthusiasm. Kicking off the day, architect and urban designer Floris Alkemade offered a compelling perspective on how to embrace transformative changes.
Engaging workshops
Following this inspiring start, attendees were presented with seven engaging workshops, each delving into methods to expedite innovation, including ‘Design doing’, ‘Accelerating transitions via disruption’ and ‘1+1=3.’ Moreover, they had the chance to stay up to date on the latest developments in Eindhoven Engine’s OpenCall projects and the Emergence Lab initiative focusing on low literacy. As the day drew to a close, the atmosphere was charged with excitement during the wrap-up quiz, concluding a day, filled with learning, inspiration, and networking.
Did you miss out on the festival or do you want to relive the day? Get an impression of it here!
Possible continuation for SmartMan project at Fontys
The SmartMan project at Eindhoven Engine is approaching its end date. SmartMan is an OpenCall project that started in 2020 and has a duration of three years. This summer, the project ends at Eindhoven Engine, but is working on a follow-up at Fontys Engineering.
Hans Krikhaar, who is leading this project and is a lecturer in Smart Manufacturing at Fontys Engineering, understood that SMEs have a great need for innovation, but lack the capacity and knowledge to do these innovations themselves. To be ahead of the competition, it is extremely important for SMEs to keep innovating their production processes. The industries need to adopt Smart Manufacturing. The fresh perspective and knowledge of Fontys students are the outcome here. In the ecosystem knowledge exchange at Eindhoven Engine makes cross-pollinations possible between Fontys students, SMEs, other companies and institutes. With the help of Eindhoven Engine, it results in a validated approach to strengthen the innovation power of SMEs in the Brainport region.
Projects in three focus areas
The goal of SmartMan project was to annually realize 40 subprojects carried out by 2nd, 3rd and 4th year Fontys students at SMEs. During the 3-year period at Eindhoven Engine, indeed a total of 120 projects at various companies were successfully completed. A very nice result considering this project withstood the corona epidemic. In the SmartMan project with Eindhoven Engine, Fontys, TNO and Brainport Industries as partners, students do their internship and graduation assignments in various facets of Smart Manufacturing.
These can be divided into three focus areas:
1. Topological design, which includes additive manufacturing and lightweight structures.
2. Intelligent systems (AI, low-code modeling and digital twinning).
3. Factory automation and robotics.
Knowledge exchange at Eindhoven Engine makes cross-pollinations possible between Fontys students, SMEs, other companies and institutes.
At VDL, successive students have worked on modular injection molds (topological design). In the area of intelligent systems, several students have used artificial intelligence for VBTI to further develop vision analysis, and at Siemens, students have collaborated on developing digital twins. Students have also contributed to factory automation solutions at various companies. At Eindhoven Engine project Carbyon DAC, a student even collaborated on the process plant for making CO2-absorbent material used to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere.
Stronger link
Fontys Engineering is working out plans to follow up on SmartMan. The goal is to link research even more closely to student projects in companies, especially in SMEs. Students will receive assignments within research domains at companies and teacher-researchers will provide the necessary knowledge transfer. This allows future students to complete their assignments more efficiently with the guidance and knowledge of the lecturer-researcher.
During the Fontys Career event, organizations meet young professionals and discuss opportunities during or after their studies. We are again present during this event! Together with our projects we are offering internships and graduation assignments for students of Fontys Economics and Communication, Fontys HRM and Applied Psychology, Fontys Business Management, Education and Technology and Fontys Marketing and Communication.
Aftermovie Fontys Career Event
Possible continuation for SmartMan project at Fontys
The SmartMan project at Eindhoven Engine is approaching its end date. SmartMan is an OpenCall project that started in 2020 and has a duration of three years. This summer, the project ends at Eindhoven Engine, but is working on a follow-up at Fontys Engineering.
The world is constantly changing and we have to adapt to these changes quicker than ever. Having longterm experience is no longer as essential as being flexible and having a young spirit. A student tend to see things from a different point of view and can offer refreshing ideas. This is important to the types of projects that we offer and can create a valuable impact on them. Their talent can make big differences in solving social issues and helping the industry.
Eindhoven Engine will be presenst with its projects and assignments in the field of High Tech, Health Tech, Energy Transistion, Smart Cities, Circularity and Smart Mobility.
The Automotive Week 2023 is thé hotspot if you want to keep up with the latest European developments in mobility and if you want to expand your network in our mobility sector. Innovative technologies and the right skills become more and more important to make the world of mobility smart, sustainable and safe.
In the heart of the Brainport region, at the Automotive Campus in Helmond, we open our doors to the international public to experience the mobility of the future.The Automotive Week offers an exclusive look behind the scenes for future talent, professionals, governments and knowledge institutions.
Eindhoven Engine reporters Ferry Wortelboer and Jasmijn Schol will be at the Talent Fair (16 April) to find out how visitors envision future mobility. Does this match with the innovations we will be seeing this week? How do innovations in mobility accelerate?
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Project updates
A year of SmartMan
Thinking outside the box: students, SMEs and the SmartMan project
Shareholders, SMEs and SmartMan: the viewpoint of Ella Hueting
Brainport Regio Deal Innovation Projects – Eindhoven Engine
Eindhoven Engine is one of the Regio Deal innovation projects with social impact.
Check out this video showcasing our way of working, the Carbyon project and SmartMan project.
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Marieke van Beurden – Project leader
The POWerFITTing project focuses on the optimization of a person’s vitality both at work and the (home) office to remain healthy and productive.
Steven Vos – Professor Fontys & TU/e
We are optimizing the relationship between vitality and the (home) office environment. By taking into account individual, societal and contextual factors, this enables employees to remain both healthy and productive.
Hans Brombacher – PhD candidate
Hans, PhD candidate in the POWErFITTing project, researches the improvement of a healthier and active environment for people in (home) offices. By the combination of data acquisition, integration and application for the validation and acceleration of user-oriented solutions, Hans is optimizing the relationship between vitality and the (home) office environment.
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Human-data interaction to enhance office well-being
Moving faster!
Talkshow ‘a Vital Working Environment’
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Key outcomes
iHeat@home gained valuable connections with Brainport stakeholders, including VDL. Periodical sessions broadened the team’s perspective and provided useful feedback from engineers and researchers, speeding up concept development. The project also benefited from access to consortium meeting spaces, student workrooms, and shared lab facilities—offering equipment and test setups not available elsewhere.
Additionally, the project initiated new collaboration between TNO, TU/e, and Fontys on the topic of TCM, strengthening regional knowledge exchange.
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Olaf Adan – Project leader
The Eindhoven Engine project iHeat@Home works on a breakthrough innovation in thermal energy storage: a heat battery which is better, cheaper, smaller and greener than any competitor.
Evelien created an experimental set up and used flow simulations to research the improvement of heat batteries.
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NEON EE project: addressing societal challenges
