Thesis Opportunities

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Holst Centre offers students opportunities for Master Thesis internships for 6 months. The topics for these internships are published as they become available.

• Sensors for Wireless Emotion Monitoring

  System Integration (IMEC)

  The scope of the project is to investigate and implement sensors for measuring skin temperature and respiration, in the context of wireless emotion monitoring. The project will be realized at the Hol... Full job description

• Wireless heart beat measurement at the wrist

  System Integration (IMEC)

  Design, Development and Evaluation of a new packaging Type for Temperature Sensors in Wrist Based Heart Rate Monitoring.Full job description

• Modified Folded Dipole Antenna Analysis

  Micropower systems (IMEC)

  Wireless autonomous sensor nodes will enable revolutionary applications from ‘go-anywhere’ healthcare monitoring to ‘install-and-forget’ home and industrial automationFull job description

• Wearable sensor packaging for Wireless Emotion Monitoring

  System Integration (IMEC)

  The project will mainly consist of designing and implementing new packaging of wireless sensors to be used in wireless emotion monitoring, and in testing the resulting prototype in clinical environmen... Full job description

• Matlab Interface to Wireless Sensor Networks

  System Integration (IMEC)

  The scope of the project is the development of a software interface to access wireless sensor nodes in the Matlab programming environment. The rapid development of these sensor nodes calls for module ... Full job description

• Interference Cancellation in Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks

  Ultra-low power radio (IMEC)

  The objective of this project is the design of low-power (low-complexity) interference cancellation algorithms.Full job description

• Traineeship Electrostatic Energy Harvester

  Micropower systems (IMEC)

  At Holst Centre research on autonomous wireless sensor nodes is performed. An important element to guarantee autonomy is the energy harvester.Full job description

• Traineeship Photovoltaic Energy Harvester for Indoor Use

  Micropower systems (IMEC)

  At Holst Centre research on autonomous wireless sensor nodes is performed. An important element to garantue autonomy is the energy harvester. Full job description

• Traineeship Longer lifetime of a body area network

  System Integration (IMEC)

  The assignment is to create a Matlab simulator where the trade-off between local processing versus processing on the gateway can be investigated. The simulator should be component-based in such a way ... Full job description

• Traineeship Energy efficient wireless communication network

  System Integration (IMEC)

  The assignment is to create a Matlab simulator where different network topologies and energy-efficient network protocols can be investigated. The simulator should be component-based in such a way that... Full job description

• Integration technologies for Flexible Systems

  Integrated interconnection and lamination (TNO)

  Holst Centre is a world-leading open-innovation R&D centre, creating generic technologies in the field of plastic electronics, with applications which span a wide range, from plastic displays and phot... Full job description

• Lithography on flexible substrates (12 assignments)

  Lithography on Flexible Substrates (TNO)

  Holst Centre is a world-leading open-innovation R&D centre, creating generic technologies in the field of plastic electronics, with applications which span a wide range, from plastic displays and phot... Full job description

• Modeling of bio-fuel cells, batteries and power management technologies

  Micropower systems (IMEC)

  Modeling a micropower system that combines the biological fuel cell (BFC), the power management circuit and the battery technologies. Full job description

• Organic Circuitry - 4 assignments

  Organic circuitry (TNO)

  The technology program “Organic Circuitry” aims towards technology development for integration of high performance electronics on flexible substrates for various applications, e.g. Active Matrix backp... Full job description

• Software implementation for the conversion, analysis and graphical display of data acquired through battery measurement

  Micropower systems (IMEC)

  Temporary assignment (Bachelor level information science) Software implementation for the conversion, analysis and graphical display of data acquired through battery measurement (MatLab based)Full job description

• Student Assignment on Optics in flexible polymeric foil for sensor applications

  Integrated interconnection and lamination (TNO)

  HOLST CENTRE is a research centre, founded by IMEC and TNO and located on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. One of the two program lines, operated by TNO, focuses on systems in foil. Within this prog... Full job description

• Student projects within Holst Program Lithography on flexible substrates

  Lithography on Flexible Substrates (TNO)

  Holst Centre is a world-leading open-innovation R&D centre, creating generic technologies in the field of plastic electronics, with applications which span a wide range, from plastic displays and phot... Full job description