Japan symposium

Last Friday the study tour Sakura Zensen organised a symposium about Japan. These presentations prepared the participants on what to expect when we travel to Japan.The first speaker was professor Wilfred van der Wiel. He gave an introduction of Japan, where he talked about Japanese people, Japan&rsq…


Case study weekend 7: Literature study, Matlab and liquid nitrogen

The GO moment for the Study Tour has passed, but there is still a lot of work to be done. So, there was yet another case study weekend on November 16 and 17. This weekend the transimpedance amplifier for the Nano Electronics group is finalised. Also, a lot of work had been done in the form of a lite…


Case study weekend 6: design, modelling, programming

Several months have passed, but we are still going strong. During the weekend of October 12 and 13, a large group of students from Sakura Zensen met at the University of Twente to work on the cases. During this weekend it was amazing to see how much knowledge and skills are present in our group. Thi…


NRGBattle: Team building

On the 24th of May in the early morning, we travelled all the way to Delft to participate in the NRG Battle. The NRG Battle is an event where students from all over the world take part in a battle to solve energy related cases for companies. Sixteen members of our study tour were selected for this h…


Case study weekend 1: Translating and team building

Our first case study weekend was on 11 and 12 May. We worked on an assignment of the chair CAES. The assignment was to translate a lab manual for the course about programming in C. Besides translating and spell checking, we also paid attention to the contents itself and suggested some improvements.T…


Studium Generale: A peek into the soul of Japan

On the 26th of March 2013, the participants visited a lecture of professor R.T. Segers. He explained how the tsunami and the explosion of the nuclear reactor in Fukushima exposed the soul of Japan to the world. It became clear to us that the people in Japan are very resilient and are at their strong…


Website is online!

Our new website is finally up and running! This website will be our most dynamic way for communication towards companies and participants. You can find, for example, our sponsor products, details about the journey and a list of participants. We will add photos to our photo album when the first …