PME researcher Nima Tolou contender for 2018 Prince Friso Engineering Award
Nima Tolou, researcher at the Department of Precision & Microsystems Engineering and co-founder of Flexous BV and Kinergizer BV has been nominated for the 2018 Prince Friso Engineering Award 2018. The winner of the award, who will also have the honour of being Engineer of the Year, will be announced on 21 March during the Day of the Engineer at the University of Groningen. Also in the running, in addition to Tolou, are Sander den Blanken. director of Arup BV and Jan Klok, principal technologist at Paqell BV and scientific project manager at Wetsus.
Vote now!
Cast your vote now on the KIVI voting page! Nima’s profile and nomination video can be read and found here. You can vote until Sunday 18 March. The results will be announced on Wednesday 21 March during the Day of the Engineer at the University of Groningen.
Nima Tolou
Nima Tolou is an expert in the area of autonomous systems: self-sufficient electronics. Devices that observe autonomously and subsequently respond to their environment. And they can do that thanks to an energy harvester. Tolou (1982) studied applied mechanical design in Iran. He has been working at TU Delft since 2008, first as a PhD student, and now as a university lecturer. Together with the R&D Science Institute of the LVMH Watch Division and the TU Delft spin-off Flexous, Tolou recently developed a new time mechanism. This technique has been marketed under the name ZENITH Defy Lab watch. Read more about this technology <link en oud completely-new-watch-regulator-by-joint-effort-of-lvmh-watch-division-tu-delft-and-tu-delft-spin-off-flexous>here. Tolou actively seeks partners in the business sector to convert findings into products with his own team. ‘I’m a designer, but definitely also a maker’, Tolou says.
Day of the engineer
The ceremony for the Prince Friso Engineering Award will take place on the Day of the Engineer. The Day of the Engineer is organised by KIVI, the Royal Netherlands Society of Engineers. KIVI uses this day to highlight the importance and impact of the work done by engineers for society.