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Walter Reiners Foundation awards Six Young Engineers (c) VDMA
Anna Markic, Mark Zenzinger, Lena Fink, Peter D. Dornier, Fabio Bußmann, Katharina Maria Ernst, Lennart Hellwig, Dr. Harald Weber
03.05.2024

Walter Reiners Foundation awards Six Young Engineers

At the Techtextil trade fair in Frankfurt, the Chairman of the Walter Reiners Foundation of the VDMA, Peter D. Dornier, presented awards to six successful young engineers. Promotion and sustainability prizes were awarded in the categories bachelor/project theses and diploma/master theses. Academic theses in which, for example, solutions for resource-saving products and technologies are developed are eligible for the sustainability prizes.

The Walter Reiners Foundation awarded Anna Markic a sustainability prize worth 3,000 euros in the Bachelor's category. The topic of her thesis, written at Reutlingen University, was the recycling of carbon fibres.

Mark Zenzinger, Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, received a 3,000 euro promotion award in the Bachelor's category. His topic was the automation of the process chain for the production of welded textile hard goods.
 
Lena Fink from the TU Dresden received another promotion award worth 3,000 euros. Her construction engineering project work focused on a device to simplify the maintenance of braiding machines.

At the Techtextil trade fair in Frankfurt, the Chairman of the Walter Reiners Foundation of the VDMA, Peter D. Dornier, presented awards to six successful young engineers. Promotion and sustainability prizes were awarded in the categories bachelor/project theses and diploma/master theses. Academic theses in which, for example, solutions for resource-saving products and technologies are developed are eligible for the sustainability prizes.

The Walter Reiners Foundation awarded Anna Markic a sustainability prize worth 3,000 euros in the Bachelor's category. The topic of her thesis, written at Reutlingen University, was the recycling of carbon fibres.

Mark Zenzinger, Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, received a 3,000 euro promotion award in the Bachelor's category. His topic was the automation of the process chain for the production of welded textile hard goods.
 
Lena Fink from the TU Dresden received another promotion award worth 3,000 euros. Her construction engineering project work focused on a device to simplify the maintenance of braiding machines.

Fabio Bussmann from RWTH Aachen was awarded a promotion prize in the Master's category, worth 3,500 euros. In his thesis, he analysed the life cycle assessments of alternative semi-finished products for geotextiles.

Katharina Maria Ernst, TU Dresden, was honoured with a sustainability prize of 3,500 euros in the Master's category. Her work focused on the development of a suitable process for the treatment of chitosan fibres as an alternative starting product in the production of carbon fibres.

Lennart Hellwig, RWTH Aachen University, was awarded a 3,500 euro prize in the Master's category. He focused on the topic of machine learning using the example of a nonwovens plant.

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VDMA e. V

01.07.2022

Award for best master's thesis of the German Textile Mechanical Engineering 2022 goes to young engineer of ITA Aachen

The 2002 prize of the Walter Reiners Foundation of the VDMA Textile Machinery Association for the best Master's thesis in German textile mechanical engineering was awarded to a young engineer from the ITA Institut für Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University. The prize ceremony took place at Techtextil 2022 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Peter D. Dornier, Chairman of the Board of the Walter Reiners Foundation, presented the award at the VDMA Textile Machinery Association’s booth.

Felix Xaver Zerbes, M.Sc., was awarded the "Promotional Prize for the Best Master's Thesis of the German Textile Machinery Industry 2022", endowed with 3,500 EUR, for his master's thesis "Development and Construction of a Separation Unit for Weft Yarns in Air Jet Weaving".

The 2002 prize of the Walter Reiners Foundation of the VDMA Textile Machinery Association for the best Master's thesis in German textile mechanical engineering was awarded to a young engineer from the ITA Institut für Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University. The prize ceremony took place at Techtextil 2022 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Peter D. Dornier, Chairman of the Board of the Walter Reiners Foundation, presented the award at the VDMA Textile Machinery Association’s booth.

Felix Xaver Zerbes, M.Sc., was awarded the "Promotional Prize for the Best Master's Thesis of the German Textile Machinery Industry 2022", endowed with 3,500 EUR, for his master's thesis "Development and Construction of a Separation Unit for Weft Yarns in Air Jet Weaving".

The subject of the master's thesis was the development of a mechanism with which faulty sections in the weft yarn can be sorted out before they are woven into the textile. This way, both yarn-related weft defects and material defects can be drastically reduced. The prototype developed by Mr Zerbes shows how this can be done even during the ongoing weaving process without having to stop production. Due to its modular design, the yarn rejection unit can be retrofitted to many different types of air-jet weaving machines, which represents an enormous savings potential not only in Germany but in weaving mills all over the world.

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ITA – Institut für Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University

(c) ITM TUD
24.06.2022

VDMA verleiht Nachhaltigkeitspreise an Ingenieurnachwuchs am ITM

Die Verleihung der Förderpreise 2022 der Walter Reiners-Stiftung des VDMA, Fachverband Textilmaschinen an Studierende und Nachwuchsingenieur:innen deutscher Universitäten für Spitzenleistungen im Studium fand am 22. Juni 2022 im Rahmen der Techtextil 2022 in Frankfurt/Main statt. Die bundesweit ausgeschriebenen Förderpreise wurden durch Peter D. Dornier, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Walter Reiners-Stiftung, auf dem VDMA-Messestand verliehen. Zum ersten Mal stand bei der Auswahl der eingereichten Arbeiten der Fokus auf Nachhaltigkeit.
 
Frau M. Sc. Marina Andrea Michel wurde mit dem mit 3.500 EUR dotierten Nachhaltigkeitspreis für die „Beste Masterarbeit des Deutschen Textilmaschinenbaues 2022“ geehrt. Ihre am Institut für Textilmaschinen und Textile Hochleistungswerkstofftechnik der TU Dresden Abschlussarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der „Funktionalisierung von Garnen mittels Cyclodextrinen zur Filtration von Mikro- und Nanoplastik, Übertragung auf Gewebe“.
 

Die Verleihung der Förderpreise 2022 der Walter Reiners-Stiftung des VDMA, Fachverband Textilmaschinen an Studierende und Nachwuchsingenieur:innen deutscher Universitäten für Spitzenleistungen im Studium fand am 22. Juni 2022 im Rahmen der Techtextil 2022 in Frankfurt/Main statt. Die bundesweit ausgeschriebenen Förderpreise wurden durch Peter D. Dornier, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Walter Reiners-Stiftung, auf dem VDMA-Messestand verliehen. Zum ersten Mal stand bei der Auswahl der eingereichten Arbeiten der Fokus auf Nachhaltigkeit.
 
Frau M. Sc. Marina Andrea Michel wurde mit dem mit 3.500 EUR dotierten Nachhaltigkeitspreis für die „Beste Masterarbeit des Deutschen Textilmaschinenbaues 2022“ geehrt. Ihre am Institut für Textilmaschinen und Textile Hochleistungswerkstofftechnik der TU Dresden Abschlussarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der „Funktionalisierung von Garnen mittels Cyclodextrinen zur Filtration von Mikro- und Nanoplastik, Übertragung auf Gewebe“.
 
Im Fokus stand ein Verfahren zur textilchemischen Ausrüstung von Garn- und Gewebematerialien aus nachwachsenden Rohstoffen mit Cyclodextrinen, die Mikro- und Nanoplastik (MNP) anbinden. Die grundlegenden Erkenntnisse zeigen dabei das Potenzial daraus hergestellter faserbasierter Filter zur deutlichen und nachhaltigen Minimierung der MNP-Belastung, sowohl von lokalen Trinkwasserquellen bis hin zu globalen Wasserkreisläufen, auf. Die Masterarbeit beinhaltet erstmals die innovative Anwendung von Cyclodextrinmolekülen zur Anbindung kleinster Plastikpartikel unterschiedlicher Form und molekularer Zusammensetzung.
 
Simon Hoebel erhielt den mit 3.000 EUR dotierten Nachhaltigkeitspreis „Beste Forschungsarbeit des Deutschen Textilmaschinenbaues 2022“ über die „Weiterentwicklung des Versuchstandes zur Herstellung von flexiblen hochdrapierbaren Thermoplastfaserbandstrukturen aus recycelten Carbonfasern und Thermoplastfasern für hochbelastbare thermoplastische Verbundbauteile“.
 
Das Ziel der prämierten Forschungsarbeit bestand in der Weiterentwicklung eines Versuchstandes sowie eines anwendungsbezogenen technologischen Knowhows zur Entwicklung und Fertigung von unidirektionalen hochdrapierbaren Thermoplastfaserbandstrukturen aus recycelten Carbonfasern (rCF) und Thermoplastfasern (TFS) für hochbelastbare thermoplastische CFK-Bauteile. Im Rahmen der Forschungsarbeit untersuchte Hoebel den gesamten Prozess zur Herstellung von hochdrapierbaren Thermoplastfaserbandstrukturen von der Kardierung, Verstreckung, Banddoublierung und Konsolidierung. Aus den entwickelten rCF-TFS wurden thermoplastische UD-Verbunde gefertigt und ihre mechanischen Eigenschaften charakterisiert. Die Ergebnisse der Studienarbeit zeigen das Potenzial dieser neuartigen Prozesskette und der darauf basierenden leistungsfähigen und nachhaltigen Thermoplastfaserbandstrukturen auf Basis von rCF.

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Institut für Textilmaschinen und Textile Hochleistungswerkstofftechnik (ITM)

(c) VDMA
Award winners with foundation chairman and professors
23.06.2022

VDMA: Junior engineers with focus on sustainability

On the occasion of the Techtextil fair in Frankfurt, the Chairman of VDMA’s Walter Reiners-Stiftung Foundation, Peter D. Dornier, has awarded prizes to seven successful young engineers. For the first time, the Foundation awarded two Sustainability Awards. They are awarded to academic works in which, for example, solutions for resource-saving products and technologies are developed.

A Sustainability Prize in the category Project Work, endowed with 3.000 euros was awarded to Simon Hoebel, TU Dresden, for his thesis on recycled thermoplastic fibres for composite components.
Marina Michel, TU Dresden, received a Sustainability Award in the category Master, worth 3.500 euros. The topic of her master thesis was the functionalisation of yarns for the filtration of micro- and nanoplastics from water.

A Promotion Prize in the category Project Work, endowed with 4.000 euros, was awarded to a student group from RWTH Aachen. The teamwork of Luis Gleissner, Leopold Habersbrunner, Frederic Olbrich and Frederik Schicks was the construction of a test rig for tests on oil-adsorbing textiles.

On the occasion of the Techtextil fair in Frankfurt, the Chairman of VDMA’s Walter Reiners-Stiftung Foundation, Peter D. Dornier, has awarded prizes to seven successful young engineers. For the first time, the Foundation awarded two Sustainability Awards. They are awarded to academic works in which, for example, solutions for resource-saving products and technologies are developed.

A Sustainability Prize in the category Project Work, endowed with 3.000 euros was awarded to Simon Hoebel, TU Dresden, for his thesis on recycled thermoplastic fibres for composite components.
Marina Michel, TU Dresden, received a Sustainability Award in the category Master, worth 3.500 euros. The topic of her master thesis was the functionalisation of yarns for the filtration of micro- and nanoplastics from water.

A Promotion Prize in the category Project Work, endowed with 4.000 euros, was awarded to a student group from RWTH Aachen. The teamwork of Luis Gleissner, Leopold Habersbrunner, Frederic Olbrich and Frederik Schicks was the construction of a test rig for tests on oil-adsorbing textiles.

Felix Zerbes, RWTH Aachen, was awarded a Promotion Prize of 3.500 euros in the category Master. He developed a technical solution for air jet weaving to improve the quality of woven fabric.

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VDMA e. V.