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New Fraunhofer Center Digital Energy for Aachen
Even in challenging times, future crises must be addressed:
How can the challenges for the energy sector and the energy-intensive industry resulting from the coal phase-out be mastered?
Scientists at the new Fraunhofer Center for Digital Energy in Aachen are researching answers to these questions. This week the starting signal was given for the construction of the center (construction work is expected to start in 2022 on the Melaten campus). Under the leadership of Fraunhofer FIT, our chairs Automation of Complex Power Systems (Prof. Monti) and Active Energy Distribution Networks (provisionally Prof. Moser) are also involved.
According to Prof. Wehrspohn, Fraunhofer Executive Board member responsible for technology marketing and business models, this launch will make an important contribution to the innovation-oriented structural change in the Rhenish region. The aim is to lay the foundations for technically reliable, hacker-proof and economically attractive digitalized energy infrastructures in the Rhenish mining area and to put them into operation.
You find more information on the website of Fraunhofer Center Digital Energy
Second Place QS Worldranking 2020
Second place for electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University among German faculties in worldwide ranking
In the current QS World University Ranking 2020, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at RWTH Aachen University is among the top 40 universities evaluated in the worldwide ranking with rank 34. While in the years 2015-2017 the faculty was still ranked between 51 and 100, since 2018 the faculty is among the top 50 in an international comparison. In comparison to other german universities, the faculty is in second place.
Decisive for the rankings are opinions of scientists, employers, as well as data on citations and the H-Index. The almost unchanged results once again confirm the high reputation of our faculty.
Teaching Award 2019 Prof. Dr. Dirk Uwe Sauer
Foto: ISEA
Prof. Dr. Dirk Uwe Sauer was awarded the RWTH Teaching Award in the “Lecturer” category. RWTH Aachen has been awarding a teaching prize since 2001 to honor outstanding achievements in teaching at the university. The award recognizes the redesign of the electrical engineering 1 lecture. The award ceremony took place as part of RWTHtransparent on January 31, 2020.
The ISEA is pleased to receive this special award, which also recognizes the work of the employees who contribute to the design of the lecture, the exercises and the exam every semester. Thanks also go to the HiWis, the student council, the media office for teaching and many others Faculty and central university administration services.
Mr. Hoog Antink, PhD. is the new member of Junges Kolleg NRW
Dr.-Ing. Christoph Hoog Antink began studying electrical engineering and information technology at RWTH Aachen University in 2005. In 2018, he received his doctorate as Dr.-Ing. at the Chair of Medical Information Technology and has since then been head of the Medical Signal Processing group as a senior engineer.
As one of 7 new scholarship holders of the Junges Kolleg, he will receive an annual grant of 10,000 Euro for a period of four years. Furthermore, he participates in the life of the Academy, which enables him to discuss his projects in interdisciplinary working groups and to exchange ideas with renowned members of the Academy. In order to be appointed to the Junges Kolleg, scientists and scholars of all disciplines and artists must have already made outstanding scientific achievements in addition to their doctorate and not yet hold a permanent university teaching position. Furthermore, members must not be older than 36 years at the time of admission.
Dr. Hoog Antink has described his field of research and his intentions as follows:
“I am researching signal and data processing in medical technology. I use a wide variety of signal sources, from one-dimensional modalities such as ECG and blood pressure curves to multidimensional video data. I am interested in how robustness can be increased by intelligently combining information from different sources. In practice, sensor fusion can be used to reduce false alarms in intensive care units. Another field of research is the development of contactless measurement technology. Contactless measurement data are often more susceptible to interference and offer special optimization potential through sensor fusion. Vital parameters can be determined contactless using several cameras, whose data are analyzed using current machine learning methods. Here I use cooperation with neonatology and geriatric medicine to increase comfort and freedom of movement for both patient groups and to minimize skin damage and the risk of infection”.
Project upBUS
The television format SAT1.NRW just reported about the “upBUS” project, a collaboration of the Chair of High Frequency Electronics and the Institute of Structural Mechanics and Lightweight Design.
The scientists conduct research focussing on a public means of transport, combining the advantages of bus and cableway. The aim is to avoid and decrease inner city traffic jams as efficient as possible with the help of the autonomously driving upBUS. RWTH’s research team plans to implant the project in the city of Essen three years from now.
More information are given in an interview by a member of the research team of the Chair of High Frequency Electronics, David Bierbüsse.
The complete report can be watched on the homgepage of SAT1.NRW.
