Project Overview:

• Smart textiles (E-textiles) are of great interest with diverse applications in transportation, healthcare, wellness, and sports.
• Functionalizing these textiles can be done through methods like weaving or knitting conductive threads, embroidery, or additive methods such as inkjet printing.
• This internship is part of a collaboration between two research laboratories at the University of Haute-Alsace: IRIMAS and LPMT.
• LPMT has two industrial embroidery machines and an inkjet printer (conductive ink), aiming to combine inkjet printing and embroidery to create a sensor.
• The ultimate goal is to design more flexible sensors that are mechanically and electrically more reliable.

Job Description:

• Duration: 6 months (between February and September 2026), with compensation.
• Follows a previous internship conducted in 2025.
• A Textile competent intern will also be part of this study.
• Steps involved in the internship:
• Literature review.
• Understanding the challenges of E-textiles and related topics.
• Characterization of electronic circuits to be developed.
• Developing an experimental plan to minimize configurations and samples.
• Collaborative fabrication of circuits with the Textile intern.
• Characterization of the produced E-textiles.
• Report writing.