On July 6 the Fontys IPD (Integrated Product Design) projects were presented by students. Many topics were addressed e.g. electronics for noise cancellation, 3D printing for medical devices as well as an electric buggy (car).
The participants belonged to different departments: electrical engineering, physics as well as automotive. 
Each project was carried out by 6 students with different backgrounds.

 

Keynote

Keynote speaker drs. Micaela dos Ramos (Executive Director of the Royal Netherlands Society of Engineers) emphasized the importance of the IPD approach.
In this complex world we need a multidisciplinary approach to tackle the challenges.
It is important to be aware of the effect of different technical as well as nontechnical driving forces in a society and the related emotions to execute projects properly. Moreover, the world changes so fast that engineers have to work hard to keep their knowledge up-to-date.

This session of the Fontys projects was the second event of this year. The first one was held on January 28 2016.  
This sessions included 30 projects and were represented by 180 students.
Two of them were nominated for the KIVI AWARD.

AWARD: Taking into account the projects nominated in January, the jury decided to give the KIVI Award to the project Medical Printing Phantom.

 

Nominated projects:

TN16_A5 Medical Printing Phantom

The Project
Up to now it has been difficult to create complex phantoms with close similarities to a human organ, and those who do have resemblance are overpriced. With the improving technology, 3D printing, all kinds of new possibilities have been created. Holding these two together in mind, creates the following situation. The clinical physicists of the Catharina ziekenhuis (CZE), a hospital in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, requested whether it was possible to print a heart phantom in 3D to use for calibration purposes. The goal of this project is to print a phantom heart with the current technology of 3D printing technique. This basis of the heart will be acquired from an existing Computer Tomography scan (CT). This heart phantom is going to be used in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and if possible for CT and nuclear scans.

IPD12 UBI display

The Project
With technological advances improving our lives in many ways, it's time for these advances to revamp the office and make them a more productive place. Philips has tasked Fontys with the chance to research the usability of a new platform that is years ahead of the current market. This platform is called Ubi Interactive.

By using a combination of a Microsoft Kinect, the software from Ubi interactive and a projector you can transform any solid surface into a touchscreen display.

The group working on this project has been tasked to create an application which will demonstrate the feasibility of the Ubi display. This application will be created for a division within Philips who are using creative thinking about products and modeling business flows to bring ideas to life.

 

Programma

 -  uur ontvangst en registratie
 -  uur Welkomstwoord door de dagvoorzitter
 -  uur Keynote speech door drs. Micaela dos Ramos CEng, directeur KIVI
 -  uur 1e blok van presentaties
 -  uur pauze
 -  uur 2e blok van presentaties
 -  uur Uitreiking van de KIVI Regio-prijs en afsluiting met borrel