[staff-physics-and-astronomy-HL-UHD-UD] Working with Mech.Eng. students for their BSc project?

[Martin, N.S. (Nicolas)]

Dear colleagues of Physics and Astronomy,

This e-mail is complementary to yesterday’s presentation at the staff meeting. If you were not present, here is a quick summary:

  *   To complete their BSc, students in Mechanical Engineering need to carry out a project in the spring semester (2 last blocks).
  *   These projects can be external, but a lot of them are usually in research groups, sometimes at UT but also at VU. The type of projects range from theoretical models (CFD, FEA,…) to designing and building experimental setup, or software programming to automate data acquisition and/or interpretation.
  *   A new element that will be introduced this week is an assignment/project market here at VU. Our students can pick assignments here at VU or at UT and there was previously a combined market at UT, which many VU colleagues could not attend, resulting in low demand for VU projects. This year, there will be 2 markets, students as well as VU potential supervisors will be invited to both, but in practice, we think most will focus on the VU one. With this, we hope to create good connections from the start between VU supervisors and ME students and ultimately have more students chose  project that you propose.
  *   General timeline: potential supervisors submit projects between now and January, market on Feb 3rd, projects allocated on 12th , literature review and definition of research from this point until mid-April, “full-time” work from students (4.5 day/week) from mid-April to end of June (12 weeks).
Submitting a project:
If you already have UT credentials you can fill in the application form directly https://forms.office.com/e/bGtUvTTbRe
If not you can fill in the attached Word file and we will fill in the UT form on your behalf.
Since some projects here at Physics may constitute or be tied to sensitive IP, we sometimes get questions about confidentiality and NDA’s. I hope the attached document on IP answers your questions/concerns.

If you still have questions, feel free to ask by e-mail or find me for a quick discussion (usually in 3B-131), I will do my best to find an answer quickly even if I am new in this coordinating role. I do have experience supervising such assignments and a good notion of what skills and knowledge our ME students (should) have.

Kind regards,

M.Eng. Nicolas Martin (he/him)
Lecturer, department of Physics and Astronomy
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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