Professor Manfred Bayer, President of TU Dortmund University, welcomed the lots of visitors in the Center for Entrepreneurship & Transfer (CET) and congratulated the award winners selected by the CET’s Research Transfer Board of advisers. The reward is presented every 2 years. The funds for it, EUR10,000 in total, are contributed by Dr. Michael Brenscheidt, an attorney for business law in Dortmund, in recognition of special accomplishments in research transfer and to support new company ideas and cooperations with partners from practice.
The prizewinners
Lisa Kröger and Teacher Bettina Brune from the Chair of Steel Building And Construction at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, who persuaded the jury with their practice-oriented principle for fixing steel bridges without closing them, won first prize, which deserves EUR6,000. In their task, the two civil engineers specified requirements for injection screws for the very first time and supported both the technical expediency and the financial benefits in practice. Together with a panel of professionals from science and market, they successfully transposed the principle into national and European standards. This means that the procedure can be used in Germany with immediate impact– not just in bridge maintenance but also in general construction.
“5G. NRW vor Ort” (5G. NRW On Website), a project by Stefan Böcker and the group from the Chair of Communication Networks (ComNets) at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of TU Dortmund University, took second location and was granted EUR3,000. The scientists are closing the gap between theoretical 5G research study and the useful usage of private campus networks with a three-phase design. The team has actually established “School Network Strategy”, a totally free tool that estimates the application costs for a planned network and pre-completes the application forms. In the frame of 5G project days on website, the researchers enable visitors to their mobile lab to collect useful experience and make it possible to assess specific network performance in day-to-day operations via a technical deep dive. The objective is to move the design to 6G at some time in the future.
3rd prize, worth EUR1,000, went to “Strategic Network Planning for Seaport Hinterland Transport”, a task by Niklas Jost and his coworkers at the Institute for Transportation Logistics (ITL) and the Chair of Discrete Optimization at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Together with their commercial partner, DB Schenker, the team has actually established a software application option that automates complex routing decisions in international supply chains. The system not just conserves money and time; it also serves as a tactical instrument for replicating network structures where a single choice simultaneously influences all others.