T.F.V. ‘Professor Francken’ is the study association for Engineering Physics, connected to the University of Groningen. It is named after Groningen’s first professor of Applied Physics and is for students and staff of the applied physics departments.
It has over 1100 members and organizes, among other, field trips in the Netherlands, an annual symposium and a foreign excursion. Various activities, including the introductory activities for first-year students, Expedition Strategy (a yearly event organised to introduce students to strategy consultancy in the Randstad), and the Beta Business Days (a career event for science students), are organised in partnership with brother associations. Membership is a must for physics students with a technical orientation.
A membership at our association costs only €5,- per year and comes with many benefits such as free coffee and tea from our members room. Each year we organise many study and career related activities such as practice sessions for your exams as well lectures and excursions to companies to help you be informed about future job opportunities.
Francken Vrij is the popular science magazine of the Technisch Fysische Vereniging ‘Professor Francken’ and is distributed to its members, sponsors and other interested parties. The magazine has a different theme every edition that in some way has a connection to engineering physics, and generally might contain the following:
Below you can download the latest edition of the Francken Vrij, or go to the archive including all published Francken Vrij magazines.
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