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  • Bas Verkaik in the production hall of ELEO in Helmond. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
    November 20, 2023
    Series: The Faces of Challenge-Based Learning

    'With a healthy dose of open-mindedness, you can go a very long way'

    ‘The Faces of Challenge-Based Learning’ series: alumnus Bas Verkaik, founder of TU/e spin-off ELEO Technologies. In his student days, he…

  • IE&IS dean Geert-Jan van Houtum in Atlas. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
    November 15, 2023
    New dean at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences Geert-Jan van Houtum:

    'I’d like everyone in our department to feel I’m their dean'

    Interview with the new dean of IE&IS Geert-Jan van Houtum: “Cutting the Gordian knot isn't something I do alone; I do it with the…

  • Miguel Bruns. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
    October 26, 2023
    Series: the Faces of Challenge-Based Learning

    ‘Challenge-Based Learning dares teachers to let go'

  • Rector Silvia Lenaerts during MomenTUm 2023. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
    October 19, 2023
    Rector Silvia Lenaerts and Julma Braat on Recognition and Rewards

    ‘Giving room to the individuality of our people’

    Thanks to Recognition and Rewards, frameworks for various career paths are now being formed. Rector Silvia Lenaerts calls on everyone to…

  • Karel van Donselaar (left) was named as TU/e’s best master’s teacher and Florent Gauvin as best bachelor’s teacher. Photos: Levi Baruch and Bart van Overbeeke
    October 5, 2023
    These are our best teachers: Florent Gauvin and Karel van Donselaar

    ‘Conveying that spark to students, that’s what it’s all about’

    Florent Gauvin of the Department of the Built Environment and Karel van Donselaar of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences were named…

  • Dean Mark Bentum in Flux. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
    October 2, 2023
    New dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering Mark Bentum:

    ‘As dean, I can make a greater impact for the young generation of scientists'

    Interview with new dean of Electrical Engineering Mark Bentum: a good listener who is not afraid to make decisions.

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    September 29, 2023
    Relive our academic celebration of the year here

    Looking back on MomenTUm 2023

    On September 28 and 29, we celebrated the academic ceremony of the year with all of our bachelor’s graduates and the best teachers of 2023.

  • September 25, 2023
    Series: the Faces of Challenge-Based Learning

    'Dealing with uncertainty, that’s what we want to teach our students'

  • Robert-Jan Smits and Silvia Lenaerts currently make up the Executive Board. They expect the board to be complete again in early 2024. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
    September 6, 2023

    Collaboration and excellence at the heart of new Executive Board

    The Executive Board does not foresee any major strategic changes to the Institutional Plan, only other emphases.

  • Gerrit Kroesen (left) and Rudie Kunnen. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
    August 29, 2023
    Series: the Faces of Challenge-Based Learning

    ‘It's only when students work with the material that it sticks’

  • Catalyst Carla Maria Verwer: "For me, social safety is about good cooperation, and identifying together what that should look like." Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
    July 17, 2023
    Carla Maria Verwer is TU/e's social safety catalyst

    'We should learn to speak out'

    Carla Maria Verwer has been social safety catalyst at our university since January 2023. She is a driving force behind the culture change.

  • July 10, 2023

    The future of AI: “There is always room for unfairness”

    AI engineer Hilde Weerts on fairness of algorithms

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