‘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 700 members and organizes an annual symposium, field trips in the Netherlands and a foreign trip once a year. It organizes various activities in partnership with sister associations, including the introductory activities for first-year students and the Bèta-bedrijvendagen (a career event for science students). Membership is a must for students with a technical bent. read more