Since the 1st of January, Sanne Gritter-Spuls is the new internship coordinator at the EEMCS faculty.

Sanne will combine the functions of Eline Meijerink (student internship mediator) and Maarten Korsten (internship coordinator) and can be found at the Zilverling room 1032.

For more information check out https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/traineeship/.

The committee that will organise the 2019 IBC has been formed!

The committee has been formed as follows:

Heleen Visserman - Chairman

Cathy Schmit - Secretary

Danique Lummen - Treasurer

Reinier Stribos - Logistics

Sven Konings - Excursions

Kitty Boersma - Excursions

It will be a wonderful trip.

Andreas Peter received the education bouquet on the 4th of December.

Andreas Peter is, amongst other courses, responsible for the Cryptography Pearl in the Pearls of Computer Science module. Students find his lectures entertaining and are regarded as most engaging by the first-year students. He gave more freedom without compromising quality and thought about more than just conveying the material. In addition, he thought about how to introduce students to the different university approach to responsibilities. Students seem to appreciate the extra time he put into explaining things outside of the lectures. All this effort is acknowledged by the students via the education bouquet!

Do you know someone who is extremely committed to improve the quality of education or is always willing to help students without hesitation? Then, what are you waiting for? Nominate him or her for the education bouquet! Think for example of a teacher who gives extra lectures or a student assistent who is making hours in overtime to help each and everyone of you! You can nominate someone by going to this page.

Overview of awarded bouquets

The bachelor Technical Computer Science has been given the predicate Top rated programme for the second year in a row by the Keuzegids!

This seal is granted to studies scoring 75 points or higher in the Keuzegids (decision guide). We wholeheartedly congratulate the many teachers, staff and students who made this possible, and hope that we as a study association have contributed our part in this, now and in the future.

To celebrate this achievement with the faculty a lunch (with kroketten) will be organised coming Monday 19th of November during the lunch break in SmartXP. All TCS students are cordially invited to attend!

After a year of renovations the new Inter-Actief cross-platform app is released!

The Inter-Actief app gives you the opportunity to quickly see everything that our association has to offer, you can check activities, quickly sign up for them and the app offers a great mobile alternative for our website.

In addition to the improvements made to existing functionality the new app also includes significant changes compared to the old app, including a completely new UI with a light and dark theme, better multi-language functionalities and cookie corner support.

The new app can be downloaded here.

On the 4th of September 2018, the 40th board of I.C.T.S.V. Inter-Actief was appointed.

The board is structured as follows:

• Jelle van den Wijngaard (Chairman)
• Niels de Groot (Secretary)
• Yoeri Otten (Treasurer)
• Jeffrey Bakker (Officer of Internal Affairs)
• Egbert Dijkstra (Officer of External Affairs)
• Wessel Ammerlaan (Officer of Educational Affairs)

We congratulate Maria Iacob (BIT) and Arend Rensink (CS) with their appointment! But what does it mean you?

The programme director is responsible for the education quality within a specific programme. They can have an enormeous influence, but in all likelihood there won't be any large enough changes that will noticeable to you as a student. In case there will be, please note that the programme director takes advice from the programme committee, which has student members and is easily contactable!

Official announcement (Source)

Prof dr M.E. (Maria) Iacob (research group IEBIS at BMS) will succeed dr L. (Luís) Ferreira Pires as director of the BIT programme. In this way, we execute the agreement that the directorship of this programme is alternately filled by both faculties EEMCS and BMS.

Prof ir A. (Arend) Rensink will be the new programme director of Computer Science, starting 1 September. He succeeds prof.dr.ir. G.J. (Geert) Heijenk, who was programme director for a period of more than 3 years.

I am convinced that both programmes are in good hands with the new programme directors and I wish Maria and Arend all the best in their new roles.

On behalf of the faculty board,

Joost Kok Dean

The Bachelor BIT & TCS programme management will send its intended Binding Recommendations to its first-year students per e-mail around August 14th.

See the webpage of Student Services for more information about the Binding Study Advice and the consequences it may have for you.

If you feel you have wrongfully received a negative Binding Recommendation, you can request a hearing by the programme management within 5 working days after the date you have received the Binding Recommendation. You can send your application to: secr_ow@utwente.nl.

The hearings will take place on Friday August 24th (BIT) or Thursday August 23rd (TCS). The hearing committee will inform you about your final Binding Recommendation no later than Monday August 27th (BIT) or Friday August 24th (TCS). The decision could be to maintain the negative Binding Recommendation or a revised positive Binding Recommendation.

After a long wait, it is finally confirmed that Inter-Actief will organise the SNiC congress of 2019!

De committee that will organise this event has been formed as follows:

Thijs van Essen - Chairman
Floris Weers - Secretary and officer of promotion
Martijn Verkleij - Treasurer
Vincent Dunning - Officer of speakers
Sander Meinderts - Officer of speakers
Jeroen Bos - Officer of external affairs
Kevin Witlox - Officer of external affairs
Rik Smale - Officer of logistics

The committee is looking forward to organising an awesome symposium!

We are looking for students assistants for the Module Computer Systems (Module 5).

The tasks will be to assist during

• the tutorial sessions of the Computer Architecture and Organisation (CAO) part (3 afternoon sessions)
• the project (7 times an afternoon, the whole week in week 9 and on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in week 10)

As in previous years, we strive for a pool of assistants. Each assistant can sign-in on a timetable to indicate availability. So, it is not required to be an assistant for all parts of the module.

For more information you can contact a.b.j.kokkeler@utwente.nl.

Do you want help a great cause and have some spare time on 27th of August from 9:00 – 14:00? Guide our Bachelor kiddos!

Are you ready to help the parents and take their responsibility off their shoulders for (almost) a day? You have a chance to do so by becoming an activist during the Bachelor Day organized by the Kick-IT!

As in the previous years, Bachelor Day will be an educational day of the Kick-In when kiddos will have a few meetings with important people they will meet later in their study programme, sign for Osiris and Canvas, get to know Inter-Actief and possibly join our association!

Your job would be to show them around a bit, guiding them to the specific rooms where the activities will be prepared. Therefore, we require an activist to know most common rooms/places on the campus and to be communicative and enthusiastic so the kiddos don’t get scared of by the amount of information they receive.

If you’re interested in becoming an activist, please contact us via email: kick-it18@inter-actief.net

Too old for the Kick-In? On the contrary!

Become a mentor for the EEMCS master Kick-In! Together with another mentor, you'll guide around ~15 new master students who want to get to know the Netherlands, explore the campus and party. Naturally, you will get to enjoy the general Kick-In activities. Your role is to keep an eye on the (already quite independent) new students and show them what student life is like here. Start your year with a blast ...while making a difference!

Date: 26 - 30 August
Programme: rebrand.ly/kickem2018
Sign up: send a mail stating you’re interested to kickem2018@gmail.com
Questions? Mail us as well!

Not a master student yourself?
Even if you’re still doing your bachelor or will be starting your master you can still become a mentor. Information about the study programme will be provided by the faculty, you only need to know the city and the campus.