We are looking for people who would like to help us with the matching of new international students! Apply through www.ictsv.nl/matching

We are currently looking for people who would like to help us with the matching of new international students. Applicants of the Bachelor’s programmes Technical Computer Science and Business Information Technology will be invited to a matching day in order to get a better understanding of the future study content. Since it is difficult for most international applicants to join the matching days, they will be invited to Skype meetings instead. For these Skype meetings we are searching for TCS and BIT students who are interested in chatting with our international applicants. Both Dutch and international students can apply for this job!

Interested? We would like to invite you to our information session where you will receive further details. The session will take place on Friday the 28th of February, starting at 12:45 in HalB 2A. You can also already apply for the job through www.ictsv.nl/matching

Op 30 januari hebben de studieadviseurs voor de bachelorprogrammas TCS en BIT een onderwijsbloemetje ontvangen!

Ellen, Bibian, Rianne en (tot het begin van het huidige academisch jaar) Jan zijn de studieadviseurs voor onze beide bacheloropleidingen. Iedere week helpen zij studenten met kleine en grote problemen. Met name tijdens BSA-stress en voor de hulp bij problemen met net beginnen aan een nieuwe opleiding zijn zij cruciaal en erg behulpzaam. Om de studieadviseurs te bedanken voor hun continue inzet hebben ze allemaal een onderwijsbloemetje ontvangen!

Ken jij iemand die zich buitengewoon heeft ingezet voor het onderwijs en altijd klaarstaat om studenten te helpen? Nomineer hem/haar dan voor een onderwijsbloemetje! Denk bijvoorbeeld aan een docent die extra colleges geeft, of een student-assistent die overuren draait om iedereen te helpen. Nomineren kan via deze pagina.

Overzicht van uitgedeelde bloemetjes

De Kick-IT voor de Kick-In van 2020 is gevormd, samen zullen ze het opleidingsdeel van de Kick-In organiseren.

De functieverdeling is als volgt:

Jelle Maas - Voorzitter
Merel Bijkerk - Secretaris & Integratie
Alen Badrajan - Penningmeester & Doe-groepenmarkt
Jochem Bleeker - Logistiek
Robin Kreuger - Kamp
Arda Koç - Bachelor Day & Activisten

Voor Module 7 is het moduleteam op zoek naar studenten met kennis van Python om te assisteren bij de labsessies voor Python!

Geinteresseerd? Mail naar r.langerak@utwente.nl

We’re already halfway through the second quartile, so it’s time for the first Educational Update of this academic year! We would like to keep you updated on everything!

TCS Module 1: Pearls of Computer Science

Pearls of Computer Science was the module about which we got the most complaints. Due to the large number of participants for the module and the new ‘Houses-system’, some issues arose. Below you will find a list of the issues with their solution:

• Grades for Pearl 1 were late. This was because a large number of plagiarism cases were detected, which needed to be handled by the examination board before the grades could be published. Soon after contact with the module coordinator about this, the grades were published.

• Multiple issues occurred during the Intelligent Interaction pearl. Lectures were rushed and chaotic and the material was not explained during the lecture. Due to this, the teachers for the pearl had been asked to give a recap lecture/Q&A session for the wednesday lecture. Next to that, they were also asked to join the practical sessions so they could see the issues for themselves and so that the pearl could be improved. After this, multiple students thought the test given was not representable for the week, as there was a lack of example tests as well as multiple issues with the testing system. This has also been brought to the attention of the module coordinators and will be evaluated for next year.

• An announcement made by the pearl teacher of week 8 regarding the test results was found insulting by numerous students, as it implied that they could not read and needed professional help. The teacher later clarified this with an announcement on Canvas that it was not her intent to insult anyone, but that students could have gotten a lot more points if they had read the questions properly.

TCS Module 5: Computer Systems

The Computer Systems module also had some hiccups, mostly concerning Operating Systems and IT&Law:

• The Operating Systems lectures were changed into Q&A sessions as the lectures had all been videotaped before and were available on the Canvas page of the course. The reasoning behind not having the conventional lectures again was that students are actively participating in a Q&A and not passively listening during lectures. As this change was not well received by all students, the module coordinator has discussed how to improve the lectures with these students.

• A pass/fail criterion for a VHDL crash course was added to the curriculum without being in the module description. This was later changed so that the crash course was no longer a requirement for passing the module.

• The grades for the IT&Law test were published half a day late. The teachers tried to get the resit to be moved back, however this was not possible and it was decided that the resit would still take place on the same date and time.

Remindo (Digital Testing Environment)

Starting from this year both TCS and BIT are making use of digital testing more than the previous years. This is done in the form of having tests on Chromebooks in the digital testing environment Remindo. Because we have just started using Remindo, there are still some startup problems. One of these is for example the calculator, which does not allow the use of logarithms, which were needed for pearl tests. When you take a test with Remindo and have issues with the system the team working on Remindo would like to know these issues as to solve these as soon as possible. You can send these issues to the e-assessment team by emailing to e-assessment-ces@utwente.nl!

Basic Machine Learning

Multiple issues regarding this Master course were brought to our attention. Officially this course is not run by our programme, but as a large amount of students following the course are Computer Science students the programme director still decided to pick up on this complaint. Evaluations and meetings have been held with the responsible teachers of the course and a plan is being made to make the organization of the course better for the upcoming year. A special OEC evaluation has also been held for this course.

What was noticeable with all the complaints filed during the last weeks was that most of the times, the module coordinator did not know about the issue at all before they were contacted by us. Usually module coordinators are very helpful in solving these issues and often it does not need involvement of Inter-Actief to solve the issue. If contacting the teachers and module coordinator does not work then we can of course help you! If you are unsure on what to do or if you have questions you can always come by the Inter-Actief room!

Next to all the negative points regarding different modules that are usually discussed, we would also like to showcase some positive points! The results of the NSE (Nationale Studenten Enquête) are in and both Technical Computer Science as well as Business Information Technology are scoring above the national average for their fields!

Another awesome thing you can do is to nominate someone for an educational bouquet! You can nominate a teacher, module coordinator, study advisor or any other staff member from our programmes for an educational bouquet if you feel like that person has gone above and beyond for the students! Nominating a person can be done through ictsv.nl/bouquet! Each quartile we will be handing out a bouquet, and the bouquet for last quartile will be handed out soon!

Good luck with studying and if you have any questions feel free to come by the Inter-Actief room or send an email to education@inter-actief.net!

Aankomende dinsdag 26 november vindt SNiC ResilIT plaats in de Flint in Amersfoort . Hierdoor is de verenigingskamer helaas de hele dag gesloten.

Op 27 november vanaf 9 uur is de kamer weer open voor je vragen, of als je even wat te eten wilt halen.

Kom naar de Inter-Actief en versier je eigen schoentje!

De goedheiligman is weer in het land en dat betekent feest! Bij deze mooie traditie horen natuurlijk niet alleen zwarte pieten, maar ook het jaarlijkse schoentje zetten. In de Inter-Actief kamer is een knutselpakket te vinden om je eigen schoentje te versieren en in de kamer te zetten. Wie weet dat ook jij op sinterklaas ochtend iets in je schoentje vindt!

Vergeet niet je naam op je schoentje te zetten.

In verband met de Open Dagen is de Inter-Actief-kamer op vrijdag 15 november gesloten.

Op maandag 18 november is de kamer weer volgens openingstijden geopend van 9:00 tot 16:00 uur.

Beste lezer,

Met pijn in ons hart delen wij hierbij mee dat Niels Overdijk onverwacht is overleden op donderdag 17 oktober 2019. Niels is 20 jaar geworden.

In 2017 is Niels begonnen aan de studie Technical Computer Science. Zoals vele anderen heeft Niels meegedaan aan de Kick-In, waar hij al snel vrienden maakte in zijn doegroep Lorem Ipsum. Ook bij Inter-Actief was Niels bekend, zo heeft hij zich bij ons een jaar lang ingezet voor de LAN-commissie, waarbij hij geholpen heeft met het organiseren van twee LANs. Ook konden we Niels vinden bij menig andere activiteit.

Het raakt ons diep om afscheid te moeten nemen van Niels. Wij wensen zijn ouders, familie, vrienden en geliefden veel sterkte toe in deze moeilijke tijd.

Om afscheid te kunnen nemen zal er een condoleancekamer worden ingericht in Zi 1016. Hier is de mogelijkheid om in stilte of samen afscheid te nemen van Niels en herinneringen te delen. Iedereen is uitgenodigd om langs te komen om een berichtje te schrijven in het condoleanceregister. De ruimte zal op dinsdag en woensdag van 12:00 tot 16:00 open zijn.

Als dit nieuws je raakt en je hier graag over wil praten met iemand zijn er extra afspraken beschikbaar bij de psychologen van de UT. Je kan een afspraak maken door te bellen naar +31 (0)53 489 2035 of langs te gaan bij de ‘rode balie’ in de Vrijhof, verdieping 3, kamer 311. Als je wil praten over het overlijden van een medestudent, is het mogelijk om hogere prioriteit te krijgen bij je afspraak. Ook kan je praten met een van de studieadviseurs. Om een afspraak te maken, bezoek ewi.planner.utwente.nl. Ook later in het jaar is het mogelijk om met de studieadviseur en de studentenpsycholoog te praten over Niels.

Om allen stil te staan bij het gemis van Niels zullen deze week alle activiteiten van Inter-Actief worden afgelast. Dit betreft de lunchlezing van Xsens, SNiC On Tour, de Studiereis Fuente interesselunch en de Low Latency Workshop van Optiver.

Namens het bestuur, Kevin, Reinier, Gerrit-Willem, Denise, Patrick en Danique.

De IBC-commissie 2020 is gevormd!

De commissie bestaat uit de volgende leden:

• Niels de Groot - Voorzitter
• Jelle Maas - Secretaris \ Promotie
• Magdali Go - Penningmeester
• Sven Mol - Logistiek
• Jelle van den Wijngaard - Excursies
• Bilge Tekes - Excursies

Do you want to help high school students in choosing the right study? Then we are looking for you! https://www.ictsv.nl/sfad

We are currently looking for new first year students who want to join the Open Days team, the Student for a Day team, or both!

What do you do as a member of the Open Days team?:

• Help during both the Open Days twice a year
• Talk to students, telling them about your own experience at the UT
• Help with the workshops
• Show your own projects during the project market
• Have a lot of fun with the entire team!

What do you do as a member of the Student for a Day team?

• Help high school students choosing the right study
• Let high school students become familiar with the UT
• Make an appointment with the student and keep in touch with them through the system
• During the day show as much as possible: lecture, practical, campus tour, study adviser, lunch, study association etc.
• For international students: you will have "Skype Buddy Chats"

What does the University offer you? Open Days (possibility to work for the whole duration of your study)

• Earn 8-15 hours per Open Days

Student for a Day (first year students)

• Earn +/- €30,- per high school student
• Earn +/- €10,- follow-up conversation per student

Interested in one or both? Please fill in the Google Form including a motivation and your CV before the 27th of September!

Google Form: https://www.ictsv.nl/sfad

Het 41e bestuur der I.C.T.S.V. Inter-Actief is gechargeerd!

Op de ALV van 3 september 2019 heeft het 40e bestuur plaatsgemaakt voor haar opvolgers. Het 41e bestuur is als volgt gechargeerd:

• Voorzitter - Kevin Witlox
• Secretaris - Reinier Stribos
• Penningmeester - Gerrit-Willem Smit
• Functionaris interne betrekkingen - Denise den Hartog
• Functionaris externe betrekkingen - Patrick van Oerle
• Functionaris onderwijs - Danique Lummen