About DSPE
The Dutch Society for Precision Engineering (DSPE) is a professional community for precision engineers: from scientists to craftsmen, employed from in laboratories to and workshops, from working for organisations ranging from multinationals to small companies and universities.
Welcome to the community of precision engineers
The Dutch Society for Precision Engineering (DSPE) is an independent, professional branch organisation for precision engineers, founded in 1954 and based in the Netherlands. DSPE is an unique community that stimulates professional contact and the sharing of knowledge and passion in the field of precision engineering. The DSPE community is highly diverse: from scientists to craftsmen, employed in laboratories and workshops, working in organisations ranging from multinationals to small companies and universities.
What makes membership of DSPE unique
- Active since 1954!
- The only community in the field of precision engineering in the Netherlands with its own journal, Mikroniek, an international magazine on precision engineering.
- Members receive Mikroniek for free six times a year and every new member receives free editorial publicity in the journal.
- Networking events with others in the profession, including the Precision in Business (PiB) days, which happen a few times a year, and biennial events the Optics & Opto-Mechanics week and the DSPE Conference on Precision Mechatronics.
- Groups including the Special Interest Groups on Optics and Opto-Mechatronics and Thermomechanics.
- Member benefits at fairs, conferences and for training programmes, such as the five-day Opto-Mechatronics Summer School, LiS Academy Summer School on the manufacturability of metal precision components, Precision Fair and High-Tech Systems event.
- The four annual and biennial awards DSPE offers for the promotion of precision engineering at both senior and student levels.
- Being able to join the Young Precision Network for engineers who have just started their working career and want to build a network.
- The CPE programme.
Joining the DSPE
If you are interested in joining the DSPE, you can download the form below.
Download registration formIf you would like to ask a question, feel free to use the contact form.
