UTAlumni NetworkCalendarTwente/4TU Alumni Event San Jose, 25th April 2023

Twente/4TU Alumni Event San Jose, 25th April 2023

With a combined network of over 8.000 ‘4TU’ graduates in the United States, alumni are not only valuable contacts for each other but also unique access points to exciting organizations!

Join us in April for ‘behind the scenes’ alumni events at the HQ of autonomous vehicle company Motional (Boston, 19 April), Adyen’s North America Tech Hub (Chicago, 20 April) and ASML’s Silicon Valley R&D facility (San Jose 25 April), as well as a casual meetup over drinks in San Francisco (venue TBD, 24 April).

These special gatherings are part of a new USA Tour organized by the UT, TU Delft, TU/e and Wageningen University alumni offices with evening programmes that include talks by local alumni from the host companies about their career paths and current jobs as well as updates from your alma mater. The closing ‘borrel’ offers the chance to mix with both fellow TU alumni and representatives from the universities.

The events are free for alumni from the Dutch Technical Universities but for logistical reasons prior registration is required via this form (Sign-ups are handled by TU Delft Alumni Relations)

nearly 1000 local 'TU' alumni are based in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY area and our event at ASML SILICON VALLEY on TUESDAY April 25th PROMISEs a great cross selection of participants from different companies, sectors and roles – see below for details.

Date: Tuesday 25 April 2023

Time: 5:30PM to 9:00PM (PDT)

Location: ASML | 80 West Tasman | San Jose, California 95131

Information about the company host & our speakers: 

As the ‘world’s supplier to the semiconductor industry’, ASML gives chipmakers the power to mass produce patterns on silicon, helping to make computer chips smaller, faster and greener. The NL based company has a workforce of over 32,000 employees spread across 60 locations in 16 countries, and is also the (largest) employer of 4TU alumni! The ASML Silicon Valley Campus (opened in 2021) includes cleanroom, lab space and collaboration areas designed to advance hardware, software and services used to generate circuit patterns on silicon in high-volume production of microchips.


Marc Kea studied Applied Physics at Delft University of Technology from 2000 to 2007, and spent 6 months at CERN on a graduation project, developing the accelerator & detector beam alignment system of the Large Hadron Collider. Marc joined ASML in 2008 and in his first role, after 6 weeks training, was already shipped together with the first XT immersion litho tools and later NXT systems to customers in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan. Since then Marc has worked for ASML in the Netherlands, Texas (Austin), and from 2016 in California (San Jose). His current role is as the Head of Technology at HMI which is the unit responsible for e-beam inspection & metrology solutions

Ronald Goossens graduated with a PhD in low-temperature solid-state physics from Utrecht University. Joined Philips Research with focus on semiconductor device physics. This resulted in an assignment at Stanford University, which morphed into a research faculty position. Joined National Semiconductor to set up a department for device modeling in support of circuit simulation. After a detour into the medical field, helped lead NXP Semiconductors introduce the first single-chip dual-channel HDTV solution. Joined ASML in 2005 with focus on applying Computational Lithography to HVM scanner control application. Retired from full-time work in 2022, now part-time with ASML. Now teaching at Santa Clara University and will be teaching at Purdue University in the fall of 2023.

Pieter Scheijgrond graduated in 2007 with a MSc in mechanical engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology investigating visual control of robotic systems. After a half year of traveling in the Middle East and south-east Asia, he started working in 2008 at Philips Applied Technologies in mechanical design. In 2010 he joined ASML to coordinate complex machine upgrades onsite and later he helped setting up the latest system for the customer process. In 2015 he joined the DUV product management team and moved in 2018 as product manager to Brion in Silicon Valley.

Robin Tijssen received his MSc in electrical engineering in 2003 at the University of Twente, investigating photonic crystals. After a gap year in Australia, he started in ASML in 2005 and has traveled the world ever since. Initially supporting customers in setting up and optimizing new applications, later as a project manager, helping customers transferring from one technology node to the next. Currently he leads a team of project leaders in ASML’s Silicon Valley office.

Programme:

5:30PM – 6:00PM, Arrival with light refreshments

6:00PM – 6:15PM, Opening words and updates from your TU's

6:15PM – 7:30PM, Talks by TU alumni from ASML

7:30PM – 9:00PM, Networking Borrel with fingerfood

>> Please click here to sign up <<

Alumni in San Francisco who are unable to join this gathering but wish to be notified of future activities in the area can submit/update their contact details using the event's registration form. A special DEAN USA Linkedin group also exists to faciliate sharing information and networking between nearly 8.000 graduates living in the country - to request to become a member click here  

Interested in attending one of our other 2023 USA Tour events in April?

Boston 19 april (@motional) | Chicago 20 April (@Adyen) | San Francisco 24 April (drinks)

* ABOUT DEANThe Dutch Engineers Alumni Network (DEAN) is the cooperation of the four universities of technology of the Netherlands in the field of alumni relations, and launched its activities in 2014. Together, they represent nearly 250,000 alumni all over the world. Today DEAN encompasses over 30 alumni communities in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Nordics, Spain, Switzerland and the USA with activities aimed at connecting local alumni both with each other as well as with students and the universities. Read more: https://www.4tu.nl/en/about_4tu/alumni/

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