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08/01/2013

More than half major Valorization Grants for TU/e

Technology Foundation STW has awarded four out of seven Phase-2 Valorization Grants from the fall round of 2012 to TU/e researchers. The researchers will be receiving a maximum of 200,000 euro towards making a technological invention appeal to commercial investors in two years’ time. Despite this success, none of the eleven smaller Phase-1 grants (of 25,000 euro) for feasibility studies were awarded to TU/e applicants.

by Tom Jeltes

One of the happy applicants is dr. Alexandra Suma (Built Environment), who received a Valorization Grant for IRWES, a system installed on the rooftops of high buildings that generates wind energy. Last year IRWES also received the Herman Wijffels Innovation Prize.

OneChipRadar by dr.ir. Reza Mahmoudi (Electrical Engineering) was also awarded a grant by STW. This project involves a radar system for 60 GigaHertz on a chip, including antennae, and the conversion of analog signals into digital ones.

The third Valorization Grant will be going to prof.dr.ir. Maarten Steinbuch (Mechanical Engineering) for PRECEYES, an eye-surgery robot developed in his research group Control Systems Technology.

The fourth and final grant has been awarded to Chemical Engineering & Chemistry. With SPINID, main applicant dr.ir. John van der Schaaf wants to market chemical reactors based on the spinning-disk technology. Quickly-rotating disks the size of a DVD enable an optimum mix of fluids and gases as well as efficient heat removal.

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16/09/2014

Award for Eindhoven eye robot

TU/e spinoff PRECEYES Medical Robotics has won the Science & Medicine Innovation Award at the London EURETINA Congress, a major conference for eye care professionals. PRECEYES has been developing a eye surgery robot that allows for surgery that is ten to twenty times more accurate than current surgical operations. The award came with 20,000 euros, and will help the startup in finding investors to market the robot.

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08/01/2014

Good news for prosthetics and 3D printing materials

Two TU/e entrepreneurs have received a 25,000-euro Phase 1 Valorisation Grant each from Technology Foundation STW. The happy recipients are prof.dr. Keita Ito (Biomedical Engineering), and dr.ir. Han Goossens (Chemical Engineering & Chemistry). With the grants, they’ll be researching whether or not their technological inventions can be marketed successfully: Ito developed a prosthetic for invertebral discs, and Goossens created new materials for 3D printers.

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Research
17/12/2013

Third of HTSM projects for TU/e

Thirty percent of the latest funding round within the High Tech Systems and Materials (HTSM) program has been awarded to TU/e. Out of 26 accepted proposals, eight were submitted by TU/e. TU Delft is the only university doing better with eleven funded projects. The third university of technology, Twente, only received a single grant.

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04/12/2013

TU/e to supervise STW photonics project

Prof.dr.ir. Meint Smit of the Department of Electrical Engineering at TU/e will be in charge of a new leading-sector program of technology foundation STW. The aim of the MEMPHIS project is to develop building blocks for instruments containing photonics and microelectronics. The project will cost over six million euros, four million of which will be sponsored by STW. TU/e will have five doctoral candidates working on it.

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23/05/2013

Telecom prize for Eindhoven dissertation on antennae

Dr.ir. Johan van den Heuvel, who received his doctoral degree from the TU/e Department of Electrical Engineering, has been awarded the Veder Prize for his Dissertation on the improvement of wireless communication through multiple-antennae systems. Van den Heuvel was presented with the prize at a meeting of the Netherlands Electronics and Radio Fellowship (NERG). He researched the possibilities of reaching high data speeds with low power by using wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems.

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Research
14/02/2013

Electromagnetics group successful in HTMS call

The Electromagnetics group (EM) of the Department of Electrical Engineering at TU/e has done well in the new grant program High Tech Systems and Materials (HTSM). The group, under supervision of professor Anton Tijhuis and Bart Smolders, received grants for no less than three projects, representing a value exceeding two million euros. In total, 9 of 32 grants have been awarded to TU/e.

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