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VDMA's honours engineers for high-tech industry

01 Jun '17

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The Walter Reiners-Stiftung (Foundation) of the VDMA, the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association from Germany, that is actively engaged in promoting junior engineers, has honoured five junior engineers at the trade fair Techtextil, the international technical textile exhibition, which took place from May 9 to 12, 2017, in Frankfurt, Germany.

Two promotion prizes for the best dissertation and master thesis as well as three creativity awards for clever bachelor and seminar papers were awarded. Peter D. Dornier, chairman of the foundation and chairman of the Lindauer Dornier Board of Management, honoured the young engineers.

The promotion prize in the dissertation category, endowed with €5,000, was awarded to Dr. Cornelia Sennewald, TU Dresden. In her doctoral thesis, she developed new technology concepts for production of 3D structures in lightweight design based on a weaving process.

Dirk Fischer, TU Chemnitz, was honoured with a promotion prize worth €3,500 for the best master thesis. In his work, a classic component, namely a bicycle spoke, was replaced with a flexible wire to achieve benefits in weight and dynamics.

Philipp Kempert (TU Dresden), Karsten Neuwerk und Lukas Völkel (both from RWTH Aachen) received creativity awards including a scholarship of €250 a month for two semesters.

Kempert developed a shuttle changer for a shuttle loom. Neuwerk’s work deals with light transmitting filaments. Völkel’s bachelor thesis focuses on fabrication of woven-fabrics of multifilament yarns for use as electrode materials in super-capacitors. (GK)

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