TY - CHAP A1 - Steuer-Dankert, Linda A1 - Leicht-Scholten, Carmen T1 - Social responsibility and innovation - Key competencies for engineers T2 - ICERI 2016: 9th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation: Conference Proceedings : Seville (Spain), 14-16 November N2 - Engineers are of particular importance for the societies of tomorrow. The big social challenges society has to cope with in future, can only be mastered, if engineers link the development and innovation process closely with the requirements of people. As a result, in the frame of the innovation process engineers have to design and develop products for diverse users. Therefore, the consideration of diversity in this process is a core competence engineers should have. Implementing the consideration of diverse requirements into product design is also linked to the development of sustainable products and thus leads to social responsible research and development, the core concept formulated by the EU. For this reason, future engineers should be educated to look at the technical perspectives of a problem embedded in the related questions within societies they are developing their artefacts for. As a result, the aim of teaching engineering should be to prepare engineers for these requirements and to draw attention to the diverse needs in a globalized world. To match the competence profiles of future engineers to the global challenges and the resulting social responsibility, RWTH Aachen University, one of the leading technical universities in Germany, has established the bridging professorship “Gender and Diversity in Engineering” (GDI) which educates engineers with an interdisciplinary approach to expand engineering limits. The interdisciplinary teaching concept of the research group pursues an approach which imparts an application oriented Gender and Diversity expertise to future engineers. In the frame of an established teaching concept, which is a result of experiences and expertise of the research group, students gain theoretical knowledge about Gender and Diversity and learn how to transfer their knowledge into their later field of action. In the frame of the conference the institutional approach will be presented as well as the teaching concept which will be introduced by concrete course examples. KW - diversity KW - innovation KW - social responsible engineering KW - engineering education Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-84-617-5895-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2016.0353 SN - 2340-1095 SP - 5967 EP - 5976 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Weis, Fabian A1 - Schorn, Christian A1 - Anthrakidis, Anette A1 - Herrmann, Ulf T1 - Entwicklung eines kleinen Parabolrinnenkollektors mit Kunststoffkorpus zur Bereitstellung solarer Prozesswärme : Poly-P : Abschlussbericht Y1 - 2016 PB - Solar-Institut Jülich CY - Jülich ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hallmann, Marcus A1 - Heidecker, Ansgar A1 - Schlotterer, Markus A1 - Dachwald, Bernd T1 - GTOC8: results and methods of team 15 DLR T2 - 26th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Napa, CA N2 - This paper describes the results and methods used during the 8th Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (GTOC) of the DLR team. Trajectory optimization is crucial for most of the space missions and usually can be formulated as a global optimization problem. A lot of research has been done to different type of mission problems. The most demanding ones are low thrust transfers with e.g. gravity assist sequences. In that case the optimal control problem is combined with an integer problem. In most of the GTOCs we apply a filtering of the problem based on domain knowledge. Y1 - 2016 N1 - 26th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, February 14-18, 2016, Napa, California, U.S.A. Napa, CA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kerpen, Nils B. A1 - Bung, Daniel Bernhard A1 - Valero, Daniel A1 - Schlurmann, Torsten T1 - Energy dissipation within the wave run-up at stepped revetments T2 - 8th Chinese-German Joint Symposium on Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, Qingdao, China KW - energy disspation KW - wave run-up KW - friction Y1 - 2016 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jung, Alexander A1 - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel T1 - Computing olympic gold: Ski jumping as an example T2 - 1st YRA MedTech Symposium 2016 : April 8th / 2016 / University of Duisburg-Essen Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-940402-06-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/40821 SP - 54 EP - 55 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ferrein, Alexander A1 - Schiffer, Stefan A1 - Booysen, T. A1 - Stopforth, R. T1 - Why it is harder to run RoboCup in South Africa: Experiences from German South African collaborations JF - International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems N2 - Robots are widely used as a vehicle to spark interest in science and technology in learners. A number of initiatives focus on this issue, for instance, the Roberta Initiative, the FIRST Lego League, the World Robot Olympiad and RoboCup Junior. Robotic competitions are valuable not only for school learners but also for university students, as the RoboCup initiative shows. Besides technical skills, the students get some project exposure and experience what it means to finish their tasks on time. But qualifying students for future high-tech areas should not only be for students from developed countries. In this article, we present our experiences with research and education in robotics within the RoboCup initiative, in Germany and South Africa; we report on our experiences with trying to get the RoboCup initiative in South Africa going. RoboCup has a huge support base of academic institutions in Germany; this is not the case in South Africa. We present our ‘north–south’ collaboration initiatives in RoboCup between Germany and South Africa and discuss some of the reasons why we think it is harder to run RoboCup in South Africa. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1729881416662789 SN - 1729-8806 VL - 13 IS - 5 SP - 1 EP - 13 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wulfhorst, H. A1 - Duwe, A. A1 - Möhring, S. A1 - Jurca, O. A1 - Tippkötter, Nils T1 - Analysis of pretreated biomass by differential scanning 132 calorimetry and multivariate data analysis T2 - New frontiers of biotech-processes (Himmelfahrtstagung) : 02-04 May 2016, Rhein-Mosel-Halle, Koblenz/Germany Y1 - 2016 SP - 132 PB - DECHEMA CY - Frankfurt am Main ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hackl, Michael A1 - Kahmann, Stephanie Lucina A1 - Wegmann, Kilian A1 - Ries, Christian A1 - Staat, Manfred A1 - Müller, Lars-Peter T1 - Shortening osteotomy of the proximal radius — a treatment option for isolated osteoarthritis of the lateral column of the elbow joint? JF - Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy N2 - Treatment of posttraumatic osteoarthritis of the radial column of the elbow joint remains a challenging yet common issue. While partial joint replacement leads to high revision rates, radial head excision has shown to severely increase joint instability. Shortening osteotomy of the radius could be an option to decrease the contact pressure of the radiohumeral joint and thereby pain levels without causing valgus instability. Hence, the aim of this biomechanical study was to evaluate the effects of radial shortening on axial load distribution and valgus stability of the elbow joint. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-016-4080-7 SN - 0942-2056 VL - Volume 24 IS - Supplement 1 SP - 128 EP - 129 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Harzheim, Thomas A1 - Heuermann, Holger A1 - Marso, Michel T1 - An Adaptive Biasing Method for SRD Comb Generators T2 - 2016 German Microwave Conference (GeMiC) Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/GEMIC.2016.7461613 N1 - GeMiC 2016 ; March 14–16, 2016, Bochum, Germany SP - 289 EP - 292 PB - IEEE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Niemueller, Tim A1 - Reuter, Sebastian A1 - Ferrein, Alexander ED - Almeida, Luis T1 - Fawkes for the RoboCup Logistics League T2 - RoboCup 2015: Robot World Cup XIX Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-319-29339-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29339-4_31 N1 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 9513 SP - 365 EP - 373 PB - Springer International Publishing CY - Cham ER -