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Twelfth Day Meeting

With their traditional Twelfth Day Meeting the student society thanked professors and staff for the good cooperation. Dean Wehn complimented the extraordinary engagement of the students and thanked for their invitation. At least 80 guests enjoyed Chinese delicacies in an impressive atmosphere.

First EMECS-Degrees

On November 27, 2012 the first graduates of the international Erasmus Mundus program “European Master in Embedded Computing Systems” received their Master certificates during an Erasmus Mundus Day.

Prominent speakers were Ivo Bolsens, technical director of Xilinx, and Prof. Dr. Klaus Landfried, former president of the University of Kaiserslautern and once chairman of the Conference of University Presidents.


Fotos: Koziel

Inaugural Lecture


Fotos: Koziel

During the energy management colloquium on November 23, Prof. Wellßow held his inaugural lecture within a festive frame.

Together with Mr. Dipl.-Ing. Joachim Vanzetta, manager systems networks Brauweiler, Aprion GmbH and Mr. Dipl.-Ing. Peter Hauffe, head of innovation and technology, Pfalzwerke AG as high profile industry representatives, he gave the audience an impressive glance at our renewable energy future.

Invitation to Erasmus Mundus Day

at the occasion of the first "Joint Degree" awards in the Master's program European Master in Embedded Computing Systems (EMECS)

Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 04:00 pm (CET) University of Kaiserslautern, Building 57 ("Rotunde")

Dominik Stoffel is Associate Professor

Priv. Doz. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dominik Stoffel, member of the Electronic Design Automation Group is awarded the title "Associate Professor".  So his special achievements and accomplishments in research and teaching are recognized.

Prof. Fohler stays!

We are very happy that Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Gerhard Fohler has not accepted the offer of a professorship at TU Graz, but remains at TU Kaiserslautern in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Fabian Kennel erhält Preis der Stiftung...

Die RHEINPFALZ berichtete am 01.09.2012

35th anniversary of student group „ETK“

On June 27, 2012 the student group “Elektrotechnischer Kreis” (ETK) celebrated its 35th anniversary. Enjoying steaks, sausages and beer, young engineers, former members of the ETK, talked about their professional experiences. Professors of the department complimented the cooperation with the student group while the ETK thanked the professors for their support.

Award of the Friends of the University of...

This year's award of the Friends of the University of Kaiserslautern goes to Dr.-Ing. Raphael Guerra for his dissertation "A Gravitational Task Model for Target Sensitive Real Time Applications". Dr. Guerra received his PhD in 2011 in the field of real-time systems with Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Gerhard Fohler. The award ceremony will take place on Thursday, 21 June 2012 at 18:00 o'clock in building 42, room 110

Still on the Road to Success

In the current ranking of WirtschaftsWoche the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern has significantly improved in comparison with the previous year and is now on an excellent 7th position.

The ranking of WirtschaftsWoche deliberately focusses on practice relevance. Beginning of the year, 7000 personnel consultants of Germany's largest companies were questioned - since they decide from which university graduates are preferably employed.

What universities personnel consultants prefer can be found here:

http://www.wiwo.de/ranking-die-besten-unis-und-fachhochschulen/6482762.html

Prof. Wehn honored with Rhineland-Palatinate...

As part of the academic program "Wissen schafft Zukunft", the federal state government gives the Rhineland-Palatinate Teaching Award for excellence in teaching. 

For the evaluation period 2010/2011 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Wehn was selected as winner. 

The official award and the prize money will be handed over in April 2012. 

State of teaching

 Students award the best lectures as well as the highest failure rate, the latter by the so called "Rusty Saw". 

Already for decades - long before the introduction of the university evaluation system - the student representatives have used to accomplish a survey on the situation of teaching which has been contributing to its preservation and amelioration. 

At the end of each semester the results are published during a little ceremony called the "Rusty Saw". 

We congratulate the awardees of the winter term 2011/2012: 

Best lecture course: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kunz 

Best exercise course: Dr.-Ing. Raphael Guerra 

Prof. Kunz stays!

We are very glad that Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Wolfgang Kunz will not accept the offer of a W3-professorship at TU Darmstadt, but remain at TU Kaiserslautern in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
 

New degree program Media and Communication...

Starting with the summer semester 2012, the University of Kaiserslautern offers the new bachelor degree program Media and Communication Technology (MKT). Besides the basics in mathematics, physics and electrical engineering there are also creative workshops such as audio and video production parts of the program.      In addition, the study covers a wide range of other courses, like 3D visualization, mobile communications, digital television, media formats and design to name but a few. Employers for MKT engineers are mainly companies of the media and communications industry, e.g. film, television and recording studios, IT companies or manufacturers of studio equipment.

Graduates of the bachelor program can continue their study with the follow-up master's program MKT. The degree programs can be started in the winter as well as the summer semester without numerus clausus and tuition fees.

For further information: http://medientechnik.eit.uni-kl.de  

Reopening

After 10 months of renovation due to water damage our hall for high-voltage experiments was completed in October. During the opening event at the start of the winter term 2011/2012 spectacular experiments were shown.