Post by Dutch Society for Precision Engineering

ASPE Lifetime Achievement Award 2021 for prof.dr. Jan van Eijk Prof.dr. Jan Van Eijk is awarded the American Society for Precision Engineering (ASPE) Lifetime Achievement Award 2021 for broad-reaching advances in precision #mechatronics and for promoting the active sharing of these advances throughout the technical community. Jan is a highly respected pillar of the Dutch and international communities in #precisionengineering. He has contributed by initiating and heading innovative applied research activities and through active sharing of industrial expertise. Prof.dr. Van Eijk worked for twenty-two years at the Philips company in their “Centre For Industrial Technology” (#CFT). This centre formed the knowledge base for mass production technology in Philips. Research done in the “#Natlab” (Philips Physics Laboratory) was famous and the development of high-throughput manufacturing machines proved to be an important factor in the decades-long growth of the organization. Throughout his career, Jan van Eijk has had the opportunity to build on this foundation and to work with many excellent #engineers in the field of precision mechatronics. His unique skills and expertise have arisen from the knowledge and experience gained from working at Philips where he became "Chief Technical Officer of Mechatronics". While building a mechatronic technology center of about 200 engineers, he made conceptual contributions to a wide range of #hightech applications. With the start of ASML in 1985, Jan van Eijk contributed to key concepts and to the architecture of mechatronic elements of ASML’s highly successful #lithography tools. After leaving Philips in 2007 he founded his own company to continue to provide consultancy to world-class equipment manufacturers world-wide. His skill in explaining sophisticated concepts in a very accessible way was further heightened by teaching for twelve years as a part-time #professor at the TU Delft from 2000 through 2012. There he supervised doctoral students on projects related to using active #magneticbearings for #precisionapplications. Jan van Eijk served on the council of Official euspen and the board of directors of ASPE for several years. In 2012 he was awarded the euspen Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2016 the Dutch Society for Precision Engineering (DSPE) awarded him the "Martin van den Brink" award for his leading role in the architecting of high-technology systems. Website ASPE: https://lnkd.in/dR-zmhAm Cc. Adrian Rankers, Hans Krikhaar, Ton Peijnenburg, Dishi Phillips, David B., Richard Leach, Tim Claffey, Senajith(Seno) Rekawa, John Schaefer, Dirk Bekke, Just Herder, Mark Stocker, Theo Ruijl, Tony Schmitz, Alex Slocum, Stephen Furst, Jonathan Ellis, Michael Cullinan, Adam Jaycox, Kevin Elliott, PhD, Kent Queensland, Maarten Steinbuch, Tom Oomen, Dannis Brouwer, Wouter Jonker, Jelm Franse, Harmke de Groot, Pieter Kappelhof