This coming Wednesday the 6th of February, the Inter-Actief room will be closed, due to Symposium Omniscient taking place at the Van der Valk hotel in Enschede.

On the 7th of February the room will once again open at 9, for all your questions, or if you just want to get some snacks between your lectures.

For module 7 of TCS, Discrete Structures & Algorithms, the programme is still looking for people experienced in Python to support a number of lab session.

Ideally the TA's should have passed the module themselves, but the programme can also use MSc students who are good at Python; the lab exercises are of a level where you should be able to help out even if you didn't do them yourselves in your own programme.

Interested and do you want to know more about the time slots? Get in touch with Arend Rensink: arend.rensink@utwente.nl

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.