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‘A linking pin between the UT and the industry’

The Fraunhofer Project Center (FPC) has been at – and with – the UT for five years. Program director Maurice Herben and scientific director Ian Gibson look back on the first lustrum and share their thoughts on the years to come, at a new location right across the main entrance of the UT.
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‘How to become a professor without even trying’

‘The academic mercenary: How to become a professor without even trying.’ That is the title of inaugural lecture by Ian Gibson, Professor of Design Engineering at the UT. He explains the message he hopes to pass along in his speech today.
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Photonics incubator opens on campus

The Fraunhofer Project Center at the UT has opened an incubator center for photonics assembly. Currently located in the High Tech Factory, the incubator is focused on helping companies to develop and manufacture photonics devices.
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Ian Gibson

‘Fraunhofer has to be successful’

‘It’s unusual for me to make plans, but my plan is to ensure that the Fraunhofer Project Center is successful. That is imperative,’ says Ian Gibson, the new scientific director of the said center and Professor of Design Engineering at the University of Twente.
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New scientific director of the Fraunhofer Project Center

Professor Ian Gibson has been named the scientific director of the Fraunhofer Project Center at the University of Twente, where he’s also been appointed as Professor of Design Engineering.

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