PDEng position in Maintenance. Design of a tribo-mechanical tongue equivalent for astringency assessment of food

The Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng) programme Maintenance offers you a 2-year position combining post MSc education and a design project to be carried out at the University of Twente.

The educational programme will have an in-depth and broadening character with ample attention for professional development and will be partly tailored to the design project. In collaboration with the a consortium you will work on high level, creative new designs for complex issues.

The project – design of a tribo-mechanical tongue equivalent for astringency assessment of food
• Your main goal is to design structures that deform similar to the human tongue while experiencing astringency during eating
• You will develop methods to assess local deformation of the tongue including viscoelasticity and possibly friction.
• You will use techniques like atomic force microscopy en micro-indentation.
• You will cooperate within a consortium of food companies and research groups.