On July 6 the Fontys IPD (Integrated Product Design) projects were presented by students. Many topics were addressed e.g. electronics for noise cancellation, 3D printing for medical devices as well as an electric buggy (car).
The participants belonged to different departments: electrical engineering, physics as well as automotive.
Each project was carried out by 6 students with different backgrounds.

Keynote

Keynote speaker Drs. Micaela dos Ramos (Executive Director of the Royal Netherlands Society of Engineers) emphasised the importance of the IPD approach.
In this complex world we need a multidisciplinary approach to tackle the challenges.
It is important to be aware of the effect of different technical as well as nontechnical driving forces in a society and the related emotions to execute projects properly. Moreover, the world changes so fast that engineers have to work hard to keep their knowledge up-to-date

This session of the Fontys projects was the second event of this year. The first one was held on January 28 2016.
These sessions included 30 projects and were represented by 180 students.
Two of them were nominated for the KIVI AWARD.

AWARD: Taking into account the projects nominated in January, the jury decided to give the KIVI Award to the project Medical Printing Phantom.

Nominated projects:

TN16_A5 Medical Printing Phantom

The Project
Up to now it has been difficult to create complex phantoms with close similarities to a human organ, and those who do have resemblance are overpriced. With the improving technology, 3D printing, all kinds of new possibilities have been created. Holding these two together in mind, creates the following situation. The clinical physicists of the Catharina hospital (CZE), a hospital in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, requested whether it was possible to print a heart phantom in 3D to use for calibration purposes. The goal of this project is to print a phantom heart with the current technology of 3D printing technique. This basis of the heart will be acquired from an existing Computer Tomography scan (CT). This heart phantom is going to be used in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and if possible for CT and nuclear scans.

IPD12 UBI display

The Project
With technological advances improving our lives in many ways, it's time for these advances to revamp the office and make them a more productive place. Philips has tasked Fontys with the chance to research the usability of a new platform that is years ahead of the current market. This platform is called Ubi Interactive.

By using a combination of a Microsoft Kinect, the software from Ubi interactive and a projector you can transform any solid surface into a touchscreen display.

The group working on this project has been tasked to create an application which will demonstrate the feasibility of the Ubi display. This application will be created for a division within Philips who are using creative thinking about products and modeling business flows to bring ideas to life.

Description

Every year, very interesting projects are carried out by Fontys University of Applied Sciences students.
You are a guest of the Engineering and Applied Physics departments. In these departments, students carry out projects for the business community. In these Integrated Product Development (IPD) and ASIA projects, students from both departments work together in groups of 4 to 6 students on one project. On July 6, these projects will conclude with a final presentation. You can attend these presentations as well as view working results of their project. You are invited to this meeting and can talk to students, teachers and clients afterwards about the content of the projects and also how these company projects are perceived. We know from past meetings that the students greatly appreciate our presence. The programme will start with a guest speaker on a topical subject and continue with a number of parallel sessions from which YOU can choose. The programme will be announced about 2 weeks in advance. Nominated projects will be assessed by a jury on behalf of the lecturers and KIVI. The students of the best project will be awarded the KIVI annual prize in a festive closing ceremony.

Speaker(s)

key note by Drs Micaela dos Ramos CEng, director KIVI.
presentations of projects by Fontys students.

Location

Fontys University of Applied Sciences, building R5

Rachelsmolen 1, Eindhoven

Organiser

Electrical Engineering

Name and contact details for information

dr ir Jan Vleeshouwers, t: 0402572392 or 040 2473217

j.m.vleeshouwers@tue.nl

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