Department of Electrical Engineering

Tesla coil in the National Science Quiz

Published on: 17 December, 2011

The Tesla coil will play a major role in the VPRO (Junior and Senior) Science Quiz. The senior science quiz is on Monday 26 December, 22.10 hrs - Nederland 2 (and on 27 december, 9:15, Nederland 2); the junior quiz is on 28 December 17.00 hours - Nederland 3 (and on 1 januari, 10:00, Nederland...Read more

Celebration – more than 100 first year students

Published on: 17 December, 2011

On Wednesday 15 December the Rector visited the EE Department to congratulate us on the fact that the number of first year students has grown to more than 100. We were all treated to a piece of delicious Dutch ‘vlaai’. Hans van Duin promised that if the Department of Electrical Engineering,...Read more

TU/e Internal Website

Published on: 05 July, 2011

On July 1, 2011 the TU/e ‘Internal Website’ went live. It is a website that provides students and staff with information and enables interaction which is important for the internal work processes. The website will remain accessible even to external visitors, since for the time being the information...Read more

60 percent higher ride quality through electromagnetic suspension

Published on: 06 April, 2011

Researchers at TU/e have developed an active electromagnetic suspension system that can increase the ride quality of cars by 60 percent. Cars fitted with this suspension system are also safer because they no longer roll (sway) in corners. The system is developed in partnership with the Swedish...Read more

Published on: 17 February, 2011

In fiber optic cables, shifts between cables cause a certain loss of light. In an effort to model that loss, Electrical Engineering student Sander Floris discovered that connectors influence the loss, which was unexpected.Read more

Published on: 17 February, 2011

For the months to come, TU/e departments have come up with a wide array of steps to push back the number of slow students. During the University Council meeting on February 14, Rector Hans van Duijn aptly dubbed the plans ‘the broom wagon’. The Education and Student Service Center (STU) cannot yet...

TU/e professor at VPRO’s ‘Labyrint’

Published on: 09 February, 2011

On Tuesday, February 15, TU/e professor prof.dr.ir. Han Slootweg will be a guest in VPRO’s ‘Labyrint’. He will be talking about smart networks. In an episode on the future of electricity networks, Slootweg, who is a Professor of Smart Grids at the Department of Electrical Engineering at TU/e, will...Read more

Professor Djan Khoe decorated

Published on: 08 February, 2011

On Thursday, February 3, Mr. Rob van Gijzel, mayor of Eindhoven, decorated outgoing professor Djan Khoe (64). The professor was appointed ''Officier in de Order of Oranje-Nassau'' at his farewell symposium. As a professor of telecommunications, Khoe has been devoted to raise optical communication...Read more

TU/e starts first university Bachelor’s program in Automotive

Published on: 19 January, 2011

TU/e will start a new Bachelor’s program named Automotive in September this year. This will be the first university Bachelor’s program in automotive technology in the Netherlands. The new program, a separate track within the Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s, complements the existing TU/e Master’s...Read more

Bastiaans ‘director’ IEEE

Published on: 21 October, 2010

Early October, dr.ir. Martin Bastiaans, asso-ciate professor at Electrical Engineering for the Signal Processing Systems capacity group, was elected the region 8 Director-Elect of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). IEEE is a big international association for electrical...Read more