NHL Stenden


First year

Evaluation

In year one I had difficulties with working together. I still think communication is one of the most difficult parts of a project but I'm improving.

In year one I learned how everything works on the HBO which is of course very different from the way things work in high school.

Second year

During the second year we had the interdisciplinary project (IDP). This was a lot of fun and I learned a lot from my teammates from electrical engineering. Besides learning something about electronics I've also learned the basics about anodizing aluminium.

The pictures below are from a spot weld we analyzed during a material science practicum. (No scale bar was added but as an indication of the scale the initial sheets of metal were both 1 mm thick)

During the interdisciplinary project we had to make a vehicle that could complete several tasks. We chose to make a tank because one of the tasks was climbing stairs and caterpillar tracks are a straight forward solution when climbing stairs.

For this project we've used the following for the mechanical parts:

Third year

- Minor

I followed the minor water technology. this was quite challenging because most of my class mates had a background in chemistry or biology that I lacked. Fortunately, I had already learned more math which allowed me to spend the needed extra time on the other subjects.

I've learned a lot about working on a laboratory and using different types of measuring equipment. During my project about ultrafiltration of water from the pulp and paper industries I've learned a lot about membrane filtration.

Due to the large amount of time that my studies take I was not able to spent much time on hobby's. I did however learn about microbiology since this is a part of water technology. On the left our Winogradsky column, a small microbial ecosystem. 

- Internship

I followed an internship at Hytrans fire system. 

During my internship I spent some of my time on Computational fluid dynamics (CFD). I mostly used an openFOAM gui called SIMflow.  The rest of my time mostly went into CAD drawing with autodesk inventor.

Fourth year

During my fourth year I learned the basics of latex and had my graduation internship. 

I spent my graduation internship at Lankhorst engineered products. Here I wrote my bachelor thesis about the design of a low cost setup to measure the time dependent behaviour of polymer materials (creep and relaxation).  I spent most of my time on improving ( in design) the existing lever arm creep test setup with space for over 30 samples. 

I've also made a proof of principle for a relaxation testing setup. (shown on the right)

At home calibration of a displacement sensor using a  minilathe below. (Corona sigh)