De maatschappij verandert razendsnel en vraagt een meer ondernemende en nieuwsgierige houding van studenten en professionals. Kennis en vaardigheden die hiervoor essentieel zijn noemen we binnen Fontys TEC: Technology, Entrepreneurship en Creativity. Wie over TEC-skills beschikt, begrijpt hoe technologie …

Occupational stress can cause all kinds of health problems. Resilience interventions that help employees deal with and adapt to adverse events can prevent these negative consequences. Due to advances in sensor technology and smartphone applications, relatively unobtrusive self-monitoring of resilience-related …

Can recycled plastics be more than a trendy marketing tool? Can it be re-designed & re-used as an integral part of a new architecture? This project proposes a challenging high-tech campus in The Hague near the Shell headquarter. The project forms part of the public space and is designed to evolve with …

Urban planners and several stakeholders in public and private sector are in need of (quickscan) tools that can assess the vulnerability to floods and thermal stress. Urban flooding and thermal stress have become key issues for many cities around the world. With the continuing effects of climate change, …

The protein transition from animal towards plant proteins, is driven by the growth of the world’s population combined with a rising standard of living. Over the last five years, this has already resulted in a 7-fold increase in product launches with a plant-based claim or notification. This manuscript …

Today’s military missions are often broad in scope and face a multitude of political, socio-economic, and security challenges. Enemy-centric intelligence is therefore no longer sufficient. Based on their experiences in Afghanistan, retired General Michael T. Flynn and his colleagues noted that U.S. …

For decades now, Silicon Valley has been the home of the future. It's the birthplace of the world's most successful high-tech companies-including Apple, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and many more. So what's the secret? What is it about Silicon Valley that fosters entrepreneurship and innovation? …

The ever increasing technological developments and greater demands from our society for qualitative better, safer, sustainable products, processes and systems are pushing the boundaries of what is possible from an engineer’s perspective. Besides the (local) grand challenges in energy, sustainability, …

In an increasingly technology-driven world it is natural to ask what exactly are the expectations and limitations of novel technologies in a particular domain. Military technology has a high-tech imago that is not always justified by the facts. However there is no doubt that the military is a powerful …