With his presentation entitled ‘Sound Imaging for a quieter living environment’ Scholte outranked the other two nominees, PhD candidates from Delft and Twente. At the conference thethreesome tried by means of lucid presentations to win over an audience counting some three hundred and fifty listeners. The audience assessed them according to qualities such as ‘scientific excellence, the communicative skill to make people understand the importance of their research and an active contribution to the application of the research results’.
Scholte, who was last year’s runner-up for the STW Simon Stevin Pupil Prize, says he is ‘elated’ by the recognition of STW for his PhD work. “Especially when you consider the high level of the competitors.”

STW annually awards the title of Simon Stevin Apprentice to a very promising young researcher who obtained his PhD the year before for an STW project and has made a contribution to the valorization of the results from the doctoral research. By presenting this prize STW wants to encourage technological top talents to continue along the road they have chosen and thus to enhance the innovative power of the Netherlands.
In 2008 Scholte obtained his PhD degree at the TU/e Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research concentrated on sound imaging, making sound visible. By means of a measuring robot a sound source is traced with great precision. It enables design engineers to adapt the design, so that an irritating noise disappears or is in any case reduced. Scholte has meanwhile set up his own enterprise Sorama . (FvO)/.