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Modules 11 and 12 of the programme focus on the final assignment. In the last two modules of your Bachelor Civil Engineering, you will have to do your Bachelor Thesis. Module 11 is a preparation for your bachelor final assignment and in module 12 students do their final assignment.

During your 10- or 11-week assignment, you will proof to have enough content knowledge, but also your capability to work systematically and report your work. You execute your assignment within in a Civil Engineering company/institution either in the Netherlands or abroad; this hands-on experience is the only way to link your obtained knowledge and skills with practice. You will have 2 supervisors; an external and an internal. The supervisor at the company you execute your assignment at, will supervise your daily work, whereas the supervisor at the UT will monitor the progression with regards to writing the thesis. The product you hand in at the end of the assignment, contains (among other things) a report in which the execution and results are described.

Before you can start with these modules, you are obliged to have finished ALL other parts of the Bachelor, meaning you need to have 150EC assigned in your Osiris-account.

Important contacts:

• Ellen van Oosterzee , Overall Bachelor thesis coordinator
• Peter Jansen  and Cor van den Berg , module coordinators Module 11
• Mark van Buiten , Construction Bachelor thesis coordinator
• Baran Ulak , Traffic Bachelor thesis coordinator
• Martijn Booij , Water Bachelor thesis coordinator

Information sources

Currently, several parts of the whole procedure, such as the timeline and the set up of Module 11, are being revised. The information presented on this webpage is more general information. For the most up-to-date information, please check the Programme's website on the Bachelor thesis .

On this website, you find:

• More information on what a Bachelor Thesis entails,
• Information on what is expected of you and the supervisors ,
• The Bachelor Thesis Manual ,
• A checklist for Mobility Online,
• An overview of all completed theses ,
• An overview of some available theses ,
• Information on going abroad with the Bachelor Thesis ,
• The current timeline of Module 11 and Module 12 .

Furthermore, you can check essay.utwente.nl for more inspiration with full reports of passed theses in civil engineering.

Below, certain phases in the timeline are discussed.

Starting with your Bachelor thesis

You have to undertake several steps during the preparation of your Bachelor thesis. These are listed below.

• Register in Mobility Online *
• Choose a field of specialisation (Construction, Traffic or Water)
• Wait for an email by the Bachelor thesis coordinator
• Work through the first steps of Mobility Online
• Intake meeting with the specialisation's Bachelor thesis coordinator
• Start looking for a Bachelor thesis position 
• Once you have found a position, write an introductory research proposal. The specialisation's Bachelor thesis coordinator uses this to assign an internal supervisor.
• Plan a meeting with your internal supervisor to discuss further steps
• During Module 11 (or before), you can start developing your research proposal. This is an iterative process between you and your supervisors.
• Once your research proposal is far enough and has been approved by the internal supervisor, you can start at the external location. Normally this is in week 9 of Module 11. Important note: if you start at the external location BEFORE your proposal has been approved, you are at risk of having your proposal and position at the external location declined.  

​* Mobility Online:  All internships at other educational institutes both in the Netherlands and abroad, graduation assignments and courses abroad must be registered in Mobility Online. You can see this as some sort of tracking application the UT uses to know where each UT-student is (if not at the UT) and what he is doing. You can find a manual on Mobility Online  here .

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N2 - The central research question of our study addresses the effects of governing models on the research practices of basic research units in public universities in the fields of medieval history and biotechnology. We have used two organisational theories: resource dependence and neo-institutional theory. They provided a range of possible responses of research units to changes in institutional environments. Based on the work of Oliver (1991) we have distinguished three organisational strategies: passive compliance, symbolic compliance and proactive manipulation. In order to interpret the perceptions, responses of the basic research units and the consequences for their research practices meaningfully, we have taken into account the particular characteristics of the world of research and science. For this purpose, we have used the credibility cycle model of the research organisation that was introduced by Latour and Woolgar (1979). Our analysis has shown that respondents in all cases of our study perceive their institutional environments as changing. All eight basic research units in the two countries respond to their changing institutional environments by attempting to reduce uncertainty as predicated by resource dependence theory and to maintain stability in their core activities as predicted by neo-institutional theory. They also try to maximise their credibility building prospects by either adhering to the rules and norms of their (changing) institutional environments or by actively engaging in a dialogue with their audiences, especially with their major resource providers. In their responses the basic research units are using different strategies from passive and symbolic compliance to pro-active manipulation. All research units prefer to maintain stability in their activities, but not all of them have been equally successful in this respect. This study has shown that shifts in governance influence research practices to a certain extent.

AB - The central research question of our study addresses the effects of governing models on the research practices of basic research units in public universities in the fields of medieval history and biotechnology. We have used two organisational theories: resource dependence and neo-institutional theory. They provided a range of possible responses of research units to changes in institutional environments. Based on the work of Oliver (1991) we have distinguished three organisational strategies: passive compliance, symbolic compliance and proactive manipulation. In order to interpret the perceptions, responses of the basic research units and the consequences for their research practices meaningfully, we have taken into account the particular characteristics of the world of research and science. For this purpose, we have used the credibility cycle model of the research organisation that was introduced by Latour and Woolgar (1979). Our analysis has shown that respondents in all cases of our study perceive their institutional environments as changing. All eight basic research units in the two countries respond to their changing institutional environments by attempting to reduce uncertainty as predicated by resource dependence theory and to maintain stability in their core activities as predicted by neo-institutional theory. They also try to maximise their credibility building prospects by either adhering to the rules and norms of their (changing) institutional environments or by actively engaging in a dialogue with their audiences, especially with their major resource providers. In their responses the basic research units are using different strategies from passive and symbolic compliance to pro-active manipulation. All research units prefer to maintain stability in their activities, but not all of them have been equally successful in this respect. This study has shown that shifts in governance influence research practices to a certain extent.

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Radio Systems newsletter - April 2024

The Radio Systems group of the University of Twente provides expertise in physical layer design of Wireless Communications and Sensing systems. In our research and education, we focus on Radio Propagation and Channel Modelling, Antenna Systems, and Signal Processing with applications in health, sustainability and connectivity. Our aim is to interconnect anything, anywhere, anytime under all conditions and to exploit unobtrusive wireless monitoring.

This is the sixth edition of our biannual newsletter. The aim is to give an update  about our research and educational activities. We also share here more general information concerning interesting conferences and developments.

The Radio Systems group is gradually starting up its activities within the Future Network Services project. The project is split into two phases where the first phase has been granted and the second phase is conditionally granted. Radio Systems participates in the first phase with 2 PhD students and in the second phase with 3 PhD students. PhD students for the first phase are currently being recruited. The research topics are ‘Joint Communication and Sensing’ and ‘Digitally Enhanced Analog’.

In the context of Joint Communication and Sensing (JCAS), a.k.a., Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), Yang Miao and Andre Kokkeler secured the UT-UW (Waterloo) Strategic Fund aiming at applying ISAC in health monitoring. This is a collaboration with Prof. George Shake and Prof. Alex Wong from UWaterloo, Canada. The project will kick off in May 2024.

Also linked to ISAC activities, Yang Miao co-organized and presented together with other KULeuven researchers a tutorial in IEEE JC&S Symposium on “Integrated Human sensing and Communications: from detection, to localization and tracking, to pose and vital sign monitoring”. She also gave a talk to KIVI (Het Koninklijk Institute Van Ingenieurs) on her activities in URSI GASS 2023 that are associated with her role in COST action INTERACT. She also chaired 3 sessions in EuCAP 2024, one of which was the convened session organized by the ISAC subgroup of COST action INTERACT where Yang is the co-chair. 

Furthermore, Yang Miao participated as a co-supervisor in the "Age of Technology", the study tour of E.T.S.V. Scintilla, in South Korea, with 19 UT students. They visited Doosan Energibility, Pusan National University, Ulsan National IST (UNIST), etc. 

Within the 4TU project “Green Sensors” we welcome Vijaykumaran Alagarsamy as a PhD student. He will start his work on the development of biodegradable sensors and their integration into a wireless communication network. The aim is to implement the networking elements using biodegradable materials as well.

In the past period, we celebrated the defense of 3 PhD theses. On September 22 nd , Alireza Bagherimoghim defended his thesis on “28 GHz Gapwaveguide-base Phased Array Antennas for 5G Applications”. On September 29 th , Zaher Mahfouz defended his thesis “Ultra-Narrowband Communications; A Feasibility Study For The 2.4 GHz Band”, and Wai Yan Yong defended his thesis with title “Array Antennas and Radomes for Millimetre-Wave 5G Applications” on October 6 th .

We are also looking back at a successful 18 th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) in Glasgow where the Radio Systems group has presented 4 research papers.

To our regret, Aakash Arora has left the University of Twente as of 1 st of March. Aakash was active in Electrical Engineering bachelor modules 8 (Signal Processing & Communication) and 11 (Electronic System Design). His research focus was on optimization algorithms, statistical signal processing, wireless communications and machine learning.

If you have something to share in the next newsletter, if you want to put a team, a person or a project in the spotlight, or if you have any other suggestions,  please let us know .

• Vijaykumaran Alagarsamy: PhD student within the Green Sensors project

New projects

• Remote health monitoring enabled by integrating radar sensing and radio communication networks,  UTwente-UWaterloo Strategic Fund on Health

Successfull MSc defenses

• November 22, 2023 | Jan Fikse: “ Bluetooth Direction Finding using a Uniform Rectangular Array ”
• September 27, 2023 | Roy Veld: “ Height-adaptive human gait model through radar-driven pipeline with two co-located mmWave MIMO radars ”

events, Conferences and Publications

• May 2024 | André Kokkeler has given his inaugural lecture "Radio Systems; Evolution and Revolution"
• November 2023 | Anastasia Lavrenko's paper “Dual-Mode FMCW Harmonic Radar Supporting Auxiliary Transmitter Operation” has been presented at the 2023 Interntaitonal radar Conference in Sydney, Australia
• October 2023 | Matthijs Aanen presented his paper “Evaluation of GNSS-based Time Synchronisation for ToF Localisation with Software-Defined Radio”  at the 2023 IEEE 98th Vehicular Technology Conference in Tung Chung, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
• March 2024 | Six paper have been presented at the 18th edition of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Glasgow, UK
• “ Empirical Characterization and Modeling of the Propagation Channel Inside the VIRC ”,M. Z. Mahfouz, R. Vogt-Ardatjew, A. B. J. Kokkeler and A. Alayón Glazunov. (2024), IEEE Access . 
•   “ Height-Adaptive Human Gait Model Through Radar-Driven Pipeline With Two Co-Located mmWave MIMO Radars ”, R. Veld, A. B. J. Kokkeler, A. Chiumento and Y. Miao (2024), IEEE Access.
• “ Modeling the effects of power efficient approximate multipliers in radio astronomy correlators ”,  A. B. J. Kokkeler, G. A. Gillani  and A. J. Boonstra  (2024), Experimental Astronomy
• A Novel Iterative Algorithm for Outlier Robust Phase Retrieval via Majorization Minimization Technique, ” A. Saini, A. Arora and P. Babu, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
• " A UAV-Aided Real-Time Channel Sounder for Highly Dynamic Nonstationary A2G Scenarios ," K. Mao  et al . (2023),  I EEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 
• " Measurement and Estimation Methodology for EMC and OTA Testing in the VIR C," M. Z. Mahfouz, R. Vogt-Ardatjew, A. B. J. Kokkeler and A. A. Glazunov (2023), IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility
• " Miniaturization of a Fully Metallic Bandpass Frequency Selective Surface for Millimeter-Wave Band Application s," W. Y. Yong and A. A. Glazunov (2023), IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility
• " Sparse Tiled Planar Array: The Shared Multibeam Aperture for Millimeter-Wave Joint Communication and Sensing ," H. Alidoustaghdam, A. B. J. Kokkeler and Y. Miao (2023), Electronics

RADIO SYSTEMS COURSES

• Third quarter 2023-2024 | 5G/6G Communication and Sensing Channels: 202300066.
• Fourth quarter 2023-2024 | Advanced Communication and Radar Systems: 202300065

Miscellaneous    

• On 5 th of October we had our annual day out. It started off with a game of “Boer” golf followed by some teambuilding activities at Zero55. The day finished with a nice dinner and drinks at the Foodclub. Good times had by all!

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