Description

'Hart voor Techniek: Techniek met hart en ziel'

The KIVI NIRIA/UT prize is awarded annually during the congress 'TValley', organised by Mechatronica Valley Twente. The congress focuses on technological innovations in the field of mechatronics. This year's theme is 'Mechatronica moves you!'

The KIVI NIRIA/UT prize is an annual award of €1,000 for an exceptional internship or bachelor's assignment by students of a technical programme at the University of Twente. The prize is awarded to a student nominated by his/her lecturer on the basis of a thesis of an exceptional internship or bachelor's thesis in the field of the year's theme. ONLY internship or bachelor theses and not MSc theses are eligible.

The theme for 2008 is 'Heart for Technology: Technology with Heart and Soul':
Technology is often associated with 'hard'. Hard engineering, the real thing. But what if we associate engineering with 'heart'? Engineering students and engineers deal with engineering every day - with their hearts. By changing just one letter, passion is just around the corner. And passion is what we are looking for if we want to keep or make engineering attractive. Moreover, technology with a heart finds applications that are close to people, which means that technology can remain 'hard'!

Students who have shown in their internship or bachelor assignment that they have worked with heart and soul on technical solutions are eligible for the KIVI NIRIA/UT Thesis Award. This may be demonstrated by a contagious enthusiasm, a top performance, a technical solution with heart for people or by recruiting power for technology in general: nominations from all technical disciplines in the broadest possible sense are possible around this theme.

Criteria:
1. Quality of work
2. Newsworthiness
3. (Provided) practical applicability

Jury:
Prof.dr.ir. Harold Zandvliet, chairman (TN)
Dr. Herman Hemmes (AT)
Dr. Janneke Alers (BMT)
Prof.dr.ir. Bart van Arem (CiT)
Dr.ir. Wim Brilman (CT)
Dr.ir. Marten van Sinderen (INF)
Dr. Angèle Reinders (IO)
Prof.dr.ir. Marc Wouters (TBK)
Dr. Jan Willem Polderman (TW)
Dr.ir. Jim Kok (WB)
Dr. Floor Wolbers (EL)

Location

University of Twente, Location 'De Horst'

Organiser

Eastern Region

Name and contact details for information

More information about the conference via the website listed below.

www.tvalley.nl