Teacher Manfred Bayer, President of TU Dortmund University, welcomed the lots of guests in the Center for Entrepreneurship & Transfer (CET) and congratulated the award winners picked by the CET’s Research Transfer Advisory Board. The prize is presented every 2 years. The funds for it, EUR10,000 in total, are contributed by Dr. Michael Brenscheidt, a lawyer for commercial law in Dortmund, in acknowledgment of unique accomplishments in research transfer and to support new business concepts and collaborations with partners from practice.
The prizewinners
Lisa Kröger and Professor Bettina Brune from the Chair of Steel Construction at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, who encouraged the jury with their practice-oriented idea for repairing steel bridges without closing them, won first reward, which deserves EUR6,000. In their project, the two civil engineers defined criteria for injection screws for the first time and corroborated both the technical expediency and the economic advantages in practice. Together with a panel of specialists from science and market, they effectively shifted the principle into national and European guidelines. This implies that the process can be used in Germany with immediate effect– not just in bridge maintenance however likewise in basic building.
“5G. NRW vor Ort” (5G. NRW On Site), a task by Stefan Böcker and the team from the Chair of Interaction Networks (ComNets) at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Infotech of TU Dortmund University, took second location and was granted EUR3,000. The scientists are closing the gap in between theoretical 5G research study and the useful usage of personal campus networks with a three-phase model. The group has actually developed “Campus Network Strategy”, a complimentary tool that estimates the application charges for a scheduled network and pre-completes the application. In the frame of 5G project days on site, the researchers make it possible for visitors to their mobile lab to collect useful experience and make it possible to examine individual network performance in everyday operations through a technical deep dive. The objective is to transfer the design to 6G at some point in the future.
3rd reward, worth EUR1,000, went to “Strategic Network Preparation for Seaport Hinterland Transportation”, a task by Niklas Jost and his coworkers at the Institute for Transport Logistics (ITL) and the Chair of Discrete Optimization at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Together with their industrial partner, DB Schenker, the group has actually established a software application solution that automates intricate routing choices in international supply chains. The system not only conserves time and money; it likewise serves as a tactical instrument for simulating network structures where a single choice concurrently influences all others.