PDEng Trainee Design and Technology of Instrumentation at the Eindhoven University of Technology

During the first phase of nine months of the DTI program you will have a personal set of courses. The courses are geared around technological design (e.g. design processes, project management, entrepreneurship, modeling and statistics), personal development, and deepening your knowledge of physics and engineering. You will also be executing the first assignment in industry by doing a 'mini-project'. This project confronts you with the ongoing R&D real-life developments in industry.

The next phase, the design project, is spent entirely in industry working on a challenging and innovative technological design task: a real engineering problem that needs to be solved. This project takes 12 months. You are supervised by a designer from industry as well as by a staff member from the department of Applied Physics, and by the DTI management team. So you are supported by scientific knowledge (university), practical design experience (industry) and project management expertise.

A wide variety of projects have been executed by the trainees of the DTI program. The projects range from the fabrication of an optical scanner in an endoscope for the detection of cancerous tissue, to industrial fabrication of hermetic coatings for X-ray scintillators, to efficiency measurements for the dredging industry, to measurement equipment on EUV sources. The companies involved are both large (e.g., Philips, Shell, ASML, NXP) as well as mid- and small cap industries (e.g., Moog Bradford, Argus Imaging, Innoluce). Companies pay a considerable amount for the execution of the project. The choice of available projects depends on the demand at the moment and is made in the first nine months.

The last part of the program is an international project of three months. The project is a high paced project, with a limited time. Projects are done in many countries, all over the world.

Other activities

Throughout the program there are assignments as well as meetings and workshops with other trainees. Once a month our trainees meet each other at our Design Course Forum afternoons, at which trainees and external speakers give presentations relevant to technological design.

Deadline Application: 05-06-2017

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PDEng trainee Design and Technology of Instrumentation at the Eindhoven University of Technology