Lab Support Wearable Senses Lab

(TU/e, www.tue.nl) is one of Europe's leading research universities. The Eindhoven area, in the southern part of the Netherlands, is one of Europe's top 'innovation ecosystems', with many high-tech companies and institutes. TU/e is intertwined with many of these companies and institutes, and research at TU/e is characterized by a combination of academic excellence, industrial relevance and societal interweaving.

Department industrial Design

Industrial Design offers students and staff an international and academic, in other words intellectually stimulating, study and working environment that will inspire them to broadly-based personal development, social and cultural engagement and an entrepreneurial attitude. We are shaping a new discipline: Design of Systems with Emerging Technologies in a Societal Context. We combine cutting edge research in several domains to educate a new type of engineer.

Our industrial designers create connected solutions, combining products and services to suit individual needs. Both students and researchers can work with all stakeholders, customers and producers alike, who are not only involved, but are also essential contributors to the future sustainability of our world. Their role will be to mediate the developments in technology, the needs of people (culture & society) and the responsibility for properly using the power of ideas and values.

Job description

The Wearable Senses Lab is focused exploring and innovating experimental textiles and soft things. The work conducted in the lab is material-driven and explorative, with a focus on transforming raw and reclaimed material (in new ways), re-inventing skills and knowledge (in the context of new materials and processes), rethinking fabrication (through new and combined processes), designing new things (with an attention to complexity) and interweaving emerging technologies (into both processes and materials). In addition to industrial sewing, over-lock and heat press machines, the Wearable Senses Lab is equipped for a broad range of soft fabrication and digital craftsmanship such as knitting, weaving, vinyl cutting, ultrasonic welding, embroidery, and sublimation printing.

The department of Industrial Design is looking for a Lab Support Wearable Senses Lab to support the development, and further reinforce and expand our expertise within experimental textiles and soft things.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for the multidisciplinary research of the Industrial Design staff and PhD students, through support for experimenting, prototyping, and making.
• Provide support for Industrial Design students with their educational activities.
• Daily coordination and management of the Wearable Senses Lab facilities, and maintenance of the equipment.
• In consultation with the room manager, you are responsible for developing of, giving instructions about, and maintenance of safe working procedures.
• Develop and manage a Sample Library/Archive to further knowledge transfer within the Wearable Senses Lab environment.
• Recruit and supervise student assistants and interns.
• Maintain connections and cooperate with the related community and industry.
• Contribute with independent research projects as creator-in-residence.