University of Twente Engineering Technology
Enschede, 7500 AE (Overijssel), 38 hours per week
Job description
Project
This project focuses on one of the most urgent waste problems related to mobility: the problem of worn-out passenger car tires. Currently, more than 6 million of waste passenger car tires are collected within the Netherlands. Stacking these tires would result in pile as high as 1200 km. Next of being an environmental problem, this is an immense resource of raw material. However, rubber is such a durable material that it is not easily re-processed as e.g. plastics are.
Collection of used tires is done by an association called BeM, the abbreviation for ‘Band en Milieu’, translated: ‘Tires and Environment’. One of the goals of the association is to find or develop new valuable applications for recycled tire material. Therefore, BeM invested in this project: they are fully financing the work......
This project is executed in co-operation with the University of Groningen (RUG), Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. The devulcanization process parameters as elaborated in a small-scale batch process at UT will be transposed into a continuously operating process and scaled up at RUG. The PhD researcher sought right now will start with the investigation of the influence of material composition on the devulcanization process and will develop the small scale process at the UT.
Requirements
Required education/skills:University Graduate
Profile
You have completed a Masters in mechanical engineering, materials science, chemical technology or equivalent. You are proficient in spoken and written English and you have well developed social skills to co-operatively work in a research group.
Job type: Research / Advising
Workfield(s):
- Research trainees, non-tenured lecturers, researchers(Scientific discipline: Engineering)
Organization
University of Twente
Engineering Technology
Sharing knowledge, working together, research, innovation. It is all part of the only campus university in the Netherlands: the University of Twente (UT). A university with an international character. We have for example many foreign doctoral students, and master programmes are provided in English. Divided over 5 faculties, we provide more than 50 Bachelor and Master programmes, varying from Applied Physics and Public Administration to Applied Communication Science and Biomedical Technology. In beautiful green surroundings, more than 8000 students and 2700 staff live, work and recreate at the UT. It is also a place where talented people get every opportunity to perform cutting edge research. But as an entrepreneurial university this is not all we do. In ‘Kennispark’, for example, we work together with the business community, we support our students in setting up their own businesses and participate in many projects in the area of knowledge development. In brief, a dynamic climate in which to work and study.
The faculty of Engineering Technology has about 270 employees and 1500 students and consists of four departments: Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Sustainable Energy Technology. The Center for Transport Studies is part of the Civil Engineering department. The Center for Transport Studies is conducting cutting-edge research and providing educational training in the area of strategic planning, traffic management and advanced driver assistance.
Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2500 - 3000
Salary: scale 10.
Maximum salary amount in Euro's a month 2558
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: 4 years
Maximum hours per week: 38
Additional conditions of employment:
Appointment and salary
We offer a challenging position in an exciting new field of materials Elastomer Technology & Engineering group. You are offered a project for a period of four years. The salary is between € 2000,-- and € 2558,-- gross per month. In addition, we offer our employees a broad package of secondary benefits.
Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:
prof.dr.ir. Jacques Noordermeer
Telephone number: 31 53 489 25 29
E-mail address: j.w.m.noordermeer@utwente.nl
Or dr.dipl.chem. Wilma Dierkes
Telephone number: 31 53 489 4721
E-mail address: w.k.dierkes@utwente.nl
Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following links:
You can apply for this job before 15-07-2008 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to:
University of Twente
CTW
N. Netty Kollen
postbus 217
7500 AE Enschede
E-mail: personeelszaken@ctw.utwente.nl
When applying for this job always mention the vacancynumber AT/08/170.
Job description
Project
This project focuses on one of the most urgent waste problems related to mobility: the problem of worn-out passenger car tires. Currently, more than 6 million of waste passenger car tires are collected within the Netherlands. Stacking these tires would result in pile as high as 1200 km. Next of being an environmental problem, this is an immense resource of raw material. However, rubber is such a durable material that it is not easily re-processed as e.g. plastics are.
Collection of used tires is done by an association called BeM, the abbreviation for ‘Band en Milieu’, translated: ‘Tires and Environment’. One of the goals of the association is to find or develop new valuable applications for recycled tire material. Therefore, BeM invested in this project: they are fully financing the work......
This project is executed in co-operation with the University of Groningen (RUG), Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. The devulcanization process parameters as elaborated in a small-scale batch process at UT will be transposed into a continuously operating process and scaled up at RUG. The PhD researcher sought right now will start with the investigation of the influence of material composition on the devulcanization process and will develop the small scale process at the UT.
Requirements
Required education/skills:University Graduate
Profile
You have completed a Masters in mechanical engineering, materials science, chemical technology or equivalent. You are proficient in spoken and written English and you have well developed social skills to co-operatively work in a research group.
Job type: Research / Advising
Workfield(s):
- Research trainees, non-tenured lecturers, researchers(Scientific discipline: Engineering)
Organization
University of Twente
Engineering Technology
Sharing knowledge, working together, research, innovation. It is all part of the only campus university in the Netherlands: the University of Twente (UT). A university with an international character. We have for example many foreign doctoral students, and master programmes are provided in English. Divided over 5 faculties, we provide more than 50 Bachelor and Master programmes, varying from Applied Physics and Public Administration to Applied Communication Science and Biomedical Technology. In beautiful green surroundings, more than 8000 students and 2700 staff live, work and recreate at the UT. It is also a place where talented people get every opportunity to perform cutting edge research. But as an entrepreneurial university this is not all we do. In ‘Kennispark’, for example, we work together with the business community, we support our students in setting up their own businesses and participate in many projects in the area of knowledge development. In brief, a dynamic climate in which to work and study.
The faculty of Engineering Technology has about 270 employees and 1500 students and consists of four departments: Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Sustainable Energy Technology. The Center for Transport Studies is part of the Civil Engineering department. The Center for Transport Studies is conducting cutting-edge research and providing educational training in the area of strategic planning, traffic management and advanced driver assistance.
Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2500 - 3000
Salary: scale 10.
Maximum salary amount in Euro's a month 2558
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: 4 years
Maximum hours per week: 38
Additional conditions of employment:
Appointment and salary
We offer a challenging position in an exciting new field of materials Elastomer Technology & Engineering group. You are offered a project for a period of four years. The salary is between € 2000,-- and € 2558,-- gross per month. In addition, we offer our employees a broad package of secondary benefits.
Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:
prof.dr.ir. Jacques Noordermeer
Telephone number: 31 53 489 25 29
E-mail address: j.w.m.noordermeer@utwente.nl
Or dr.dipl.chem. Wilma Dierkes
Telephone number: 31 53 489 4721
E-mail address: w.k.dierkes@utwente.nl
Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following links:
- About the organization (http://www.utwente.nl/en/)
- About the department (http://www.ctw.utwente.nl/en/index.html)
- About the function (http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/vacatures_externe_werving/Externe vacatures WP/08-17)
- faculty of Engineering Technology (http://www.ctw.utwente.nl/en/)
- website ETE (http://www.ete.ctw.utwente.nl)
You can apply for this job before 15-07-2008 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to:
University of Twente
CTW
N. Netty Kollen
postbus 217
7500 AE Enschede
E-mail: personeelszaken@ctw.utwente.nl
When applying for this job always mention the vacancynumber AT/08/170.
