According to dr. Aly Aamer Syed, Senior Scientist at NXP on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, time is scarce within the high tech environment. ‘So freeing up time for testing potential innovations and further developing them is a challenge we as a high tech organisation have to face daily. Eventually you have to keep innovating to maintain your competitive advance’, Syed says. NXP Research came up with a solution for this, resulting in a cooperation with multiple technological designer's programmes of the Stan Ackermans Institute.
Within the department Advanced Applications Labs at NXP Research, longstanding cooperation partner of the Stan Ackermans Institute, the focus is on making buildings and systems smarter. ‘This research area demands for trainees from different disciplines. We therefore work together with trainees from several designer programs of the Eindhoven University of Technology, such as Information and Communication Technology (Department of Electrical Engineering), Smart Energy Buildings and Cities (Department of Built Environment) and Software Technology (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science). The trainees of the Stan Ackermans Institute are always enthusiastic, motivated and hands-on. When they start here, we simply know that within a year we will have concrete results and a prototype at our disposal, tested against the latest scientific insights within the field. The ideas that prove successful and turn out to be feasible according to the final project of the trainee, NXP R&D further develops into new products’, Syed explains.