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Success for RWTH’s Online Teaching Strategy
The NRW Ministry of Culture and Science and Digitale Hochschule NRW provide funding for five RWTH remote learning projects.
Professor Dirk Uwe Sauer has a leading role in the project “EOR4EE – Technologies for the Energy Turnaround”, one of a total of five projects at RWTH Aachen University which is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science as well as the Digital University NRW, among others. In the “OERContent.nrw” funding line, 18 concepts for digital teaching and learning formats are funded with a total of 10.5 million euros over a time span of two years.
OER is the abbreviation for Open Education Resources – freely accessible e-learning formats such as online courses, learning videos, podcasts, or virtual laboratories. Funded are joint projects between at least three universities, as the goal of the initiative is to promote inter-university collaboration. RWTH is involved in the following five projects, in three of them as project-leading institution:
- DecisionMaster 2020 – Training Tool for Clinical Decision Making for the Implementation of the National Catalogue of Learning Objectives in Medicine (NKLM) (Professor Martin Georg Häusler, Martin Lemos)
- Digital Learning Environment – Structural Analysis – as a Holistic Concept (Professor Sven Klinkel, Professor Volker Rexing)
- Hydro OER – Hydrology Repository (Professor Heribert Nacken, Dr. Malte Persike)
- Digital Histo Atlas NRW (Professor Thomas Pufe, Professor Cordian Beyer)
- EOR4EE – Technologies for the Energy Transition (Professor Dirk Uwe Sauer)
Among the participating universities, RWTH Aachen University was granted the largest number of projects with project leader status. According to Professor Aloys Krieg, Vice Rector for Teaching, this success highlights the great acceptance of free online formats at the University: “This shows that we have been driving forward the digitalization of teaching and learning for some time. The coronavirus crisis has demonstrated how important it is to develop digital course offerings for securing student success”.
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”.
