Princess Beatrix and Princess Mabel Attend Second Prince Friso Engineers Awards

Today, Wednesday March 16, Princess Beatrix and Princess Mabel presented the second edition of the Prince Friso Engineers Awards at the Inholland University of Applied Sciencies in Delft.

The award this year went to Tim Horeman-Franse, a BioMechanical Engineering with a PhD-research at the BioMechEng and Gynaecology department of the TU-Delft and Leiden medical centre. He is currently Director of Operations and Technology at TU Delft spin-off Medi Loved BV and Surge-On Medical BV. In 2007 he developed a tool that improve patient safety during endoscopic surgery. The Royal Institution of Engineers (KIVI), the Dutch Association of Professional Engineers, presents the award annually to engineers who excel in innovation capacity, entrepreneurship, personality and social impact.

Since 2015, the award has been called Prince Friso Engineers Award in honor of the Prince who studied Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering of the University of California at Berkeley (USA) and from 1988 aerospace engineering at the Technical University of Delft. Prince Friso received his engineering degree in 1994, and was a member of the Royal Institute of Engineers.

Prinses Beatrix en Prinses Mabel bij uitreiking 2e @PrinsFrisoPrijs bij InHolland in Delft. @KIVI_NL pic.twitter.com/E4VxdgpaO1

— Koninklijk Huis (@koninklijkhuis) March 16, 2016

Prince Friso died on August 12, 2013 after an accident occurred in February 2012 at the ski resort of Lech, Austria when he was victim of an avalanche.

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