𝗠𝗕𝗢 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘅 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱
The first thing Salaheddine Gattaa (20) asked, when he started his internship at Sioux's assembly plant last August, was whether his assignment could be altered. 'I really wanted to learn more about electronics and hoped I would get the chance here, because at school you only learn a little about everything,' he explains. Sioux's team could appreciate his ambition and adapted his assignment. A few months later, the third-year Summa Technology and Engineering student surprised everyone with a self-designed circuit board. 'Not every MBO student can do this,' underlines mechanic Sebastiaan Hovens (49).
Tinkering and fiddling with appliances is a hobby Salaheddine shares with his uncle, together they always pick up a different chore: 'Every time he has something to fix, he calls me: a broken television, a coffee machine that no longer works - we enjoy getting things up and running again,' he explains. So, his choice to study MBO Technology and Engineering was easy, but it is definitely not an end station. Salaheddine wants more: he dreams of a college degree in electrical engineering and a job as an electronics designer. 'I eventually want to design systems myself. Designing is a difficult subject and at school there are few teachers who know much about it. At Sioux, they are right at the forefront, so this internship was a great opportunity to gain more knowledge. It will give me a head start when I move on to higher education later.'
𝘙𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦
With this goal in mind, Salaheddine decided to ask if his internship assignment could be adapted accordingly. 'The original assignment had little to do with electronics, so I asked if it could be something else.' It was allowed. Assembly Mechanic Electronics Sebastiaan Hovens is part of the team that came up with a new assignment for Salaheddine. 'We were using a temporary machine to test the PCBs that come from our suppliers; these PCBs have electronic components on them, which we have to check before use. However, the testing machine was becoming outdated: it took too long to start up, it was not user-friendly and also not reliable enough anymore,' he says. 'The question to Salaheddine was simple: improve that.'
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