In November, the chairman of the Walter Reiners-Stiftung (Foundation) of the VDMA Textile Machinery Association, Peter D. Dornier presented awards to six successful young engineers in Dresden.
The award ceremony took place as part of the Aachen-Dresden-Denkendorf International Textile Conference.
The focuses of the award-winning works of the young engineers reflect the strengths of German textile machinery which is particularly strong in areas of high-quality applications and products
JaninaElser, TU Chemnitz, Abdelrahman Elbayoumi, ITA Aachen and Hendrik Pötzsch, ITM Dresden, were honored with creativity awards for the cleverest bachelor or project work. The prizes are endowed with 3,000 euros each.
Elser bachelor thesis dealt with the prototypical development of circular knitted knee bandages. The subject of Mr. Elbayoumi bachelor thesis is a feedback control system for an over-braiding process. Mr. Pötzsch project work deals with the production of carbon fibres using solvent wet spinning technology.
Tim Kaluza, ITM Dresden and Julia Eckert, ITA Aachen, were awarded two promotion prizes in the category diploma/master thesis with prize money of 3,500 euros each. Mr. Kaluza's diploma thesis deals with the automated production of mesh-free multiracial fabrics.
