Symposium Fontys Project presentations students
KIVI prize
In the past year, several projects were carried out by the students of Applied Physics.
These have been ranked by the Fontys lecturers and, from these, three projects have been nominated for a chance to win the Fontys KIVI prize 2022.
The three projects will be presented by the entire project team and there will be ample opportunity to talk to the students.
A KIVI jury will then choose the best project from these to award the prize.
Nominated projects will be judged by the professional jury consisting of the lecturers and KIVI engineers.
A free student membership of the Royal Institute of Engineers (KIVI) will also be offered to the students who made the presentations.
Nominated Projects:
Three projects have been nominated for the Fontys KIVI Prize.
Herewith a brief summary.
1 - Plasma characterisation
Project purpose: In order to gain more knowledge about plasma at Fontys, a plasma setup was built at TN. The aim of this assignment is to characterise the plasma. To achieve this, it is asked to build an optical setup to measure the emission of light.
2 - EAST meter: calibration of sensors
Project purpose: The EAST (Elevated Arm Stress Test) set-up is used by the
Catharina Hospital. This uses force sensors that measure patients' pinch force as a function of time. These sensors sometimes need to be replaced because they wear out or fail. This sometimes involves choosing a slightly different type of sensor because the original sensors are no longer available. The hospital would like to see a possibility to easily calibrate new sensors to minimise the error in the measured force.
3 - Doppler ultrasound phantom
Project goal: Students in Fontys learn to use utrasound to detect diseases in patients. For this purpose, learning models have been designed that mimic the patient (a phantom).
The aim of this project is to realise an improved prototype (version 2) of the Doppler ultrasound phantom that enables more types of diagnosis.
Summary and award ceremony
prepared by: Leo Wouter Math & Physics Teacher Summa Engineering:
From February - July, 2 students from Summa Engineering, together with students from Fontys, worked on an improved prototype of a Doppler ultrasound phantom (learning model to enable more types of diagnoses) in a multidisciplinary project.
This was a pilot based on the idea that it would be a great opportunity for the students to discover the complementary competences of the other and learn to cooperate with people from different educational backgrounds. Nice touch was that the Doppler ultrasound phantom project (together with two other projects) had been selected by Fontys lecturers for a chance to win the Fontys KIVI prize 2022 (kivi.nl).
Even better, a KIVI professional jury chose the Doppler project as the best! Congratulations once again to all students in the project team and, of course, as a Summa teacher, I am particularly proud of our Summa students.
For me, this pilot is an example of achieving a result if you start from each other's qualities. Our MBO students have qualities they often "don't know about" themselves.
In that respect, such collaborations are a voyage of discovery and will hopefully contribute to not only a more positive self-image for the students, but also a more positive image of MBO.
