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USA alumni tour 2023: Boston, Chicago, San Jose & San Francisco

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!

This April local alumni can join special ‘behind the scenes’ gatherings in Boston (April 19th), Chicago (April 20th) & San Jose (April 25th) at three pioneering companies: autonomous vehicle company Motional, global financial technology platform Adyen and ASML’s Silicon Valley R&D facility.

The special gatherings are being hosted by the UT, TU Delft, TU/e and Wageningen University alumni offices as part of a 2023 USA DEAN Alumni Tour after organizing previous tours in 2014 & 2018. Each of the events includes talks by local alumni from the host companies about their career paths and current jobs, updates from the universities and concludes with a networking 'borrel'.

Participation for alumni of the Dutch Technical Universities is free but registration is required via this online form (processing by TU Delft Alumni Relations) 

  • Boston Wednesday April 19th @ Motional

    Date: Wednesday 19 April 2023

    Time: 6:00PM to 9:00PM (EDT)

    Location: Motional | 100 Northern Ave | Suite 200 |Boston, MA 02210

    Please note that participants will receive a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in advance that must be signed in order to access the building, and photos may not be taken within the Motional office.

    Information about the company host and our alumni speakers: 

    Motional is making driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. An American autonomous vehicle company founded in March 2020 as a joint venture between automaker Hyundai Motor Group and auto supplier Aptiv. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Motional also maintains operations in Pittsburgh, Singapore, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. The company is currently ‘training’ their IONIQ 5 robotaxis on the streets of Las Vegas with a plan to offer fully driverless service later this year.

    Bruno Brito is a Senior Research Scientist at Motional AD LLC, leading the Motion Planning Research team. He has received his Ph.D. Degree from the TU Delft and the M.Sc. (2013) from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Between 2014 and 2016, he was a trainee at the European Space Agency (ESA) in the Guidance, Navigation, and Control section. After, he was a Research Associate, between 2016 and 2018, at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation. Currently, his research focuses on developing motion planning algorithms bridging learning-based and optimization-based methods for self-driving vehicles.


    Boaz Floor is a Principal Engineer Team Lead at Motional. After graduating from TU Delft with the Department of Cognitive Robotics in 2018, Boaz joined Motional in Singapore to work on optimal control strategies for trajectory generation. Now, Boaz is leading a team of researchers and engineers from the Boston office, developing motion planning and control algorithms for autonomous driving.


    Programme:

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

    6:30PM – 6:45PM, Opening words and updates from your TU's

    6:45PM – 7:15PM, Talk by Bruno Brito, Senior Research Scientist - Motional

    7:15PM – 7:40PM, Talk by Boaz Floor, Principal Engineer Team Lead - Motional

    7:40PM – 9:00PM, Networking Borrel with fingerfood

    >> Please click here to sign up <<

    Alumni in Boston 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.    

  • Chicago Thursday April 20th @ Adyen

    Date: Thursday 20 April 2023

    Time: 5:30PM to 9:00PM (CDT)

    Location: Adyen | 167 N Green St | Chicago, IL 60607

    Information about the company host and our alumni speaker: 

    The global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses including Facebook, Uber, Spotify, Casper, Bonobos and L'Oréal. Adyen operates a worldwide payments platform, and offers a back-end infrastructure for authorizing. The company was founded in 2006 and from its HQ in Amsterdam and 27 offices around the world employes over 3000 employees. With the motto “launch fast and interate” Adyen also highlights a distinct corporate culture of minimal links, where engineers having ‘all in one’ roles of coders, designers, architects, testers and operations engineers.

    Bert Wolters studied at the TU Delft and earned his MSc in Computer Science in 2012. Bert joined Adyen in 2010 and is currently head of the company’s tech hub in Chicago as well as SVP of Technology. He is a proud TUD alumnus and has shared his knowledge and experience at Adyen with students as a recurring guest lecturer in the university’s software architecture courses. 


    Programme:

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

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

    6:15PM – 7:00PM, Talk by TUD alumnus Bert Wolters, SVP Technology - Adyen

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

    >> Please click here to sign up <<

    Alumni in Chicago 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.    

  • San Francisco Monday April 24th @ 'Borrel' reception

    Date: Monday 24 April 2023

    Time: 5:30PM to 8:00PM (PDT)

    Location: Downtown San Francisco (tbd)

    >> 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.    

  • San Jose Tuesday April 25th @ ASML Silicon Valley

    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.    

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/

Questions or comments? Please reach out to your alumni office contact person

Anouk Dijkstal toegetreden tot het bestuur – één land één samenleving

TU Delft

Anouk Dijkstal 

A.S.Dijkstal@tudelft.nl

TU Eindhoven

Yongwei van Bussel - Liu

Y.W.Liu@tue.nl


J. Laufer (Joe) | University of Twente

University of Twente

Joe Laufer

j.laufer@utwente.nl


Wageningen University

Denise Spiekerman

denise.spiekerman@wur.nl