The Walter Reiners-Stiftung (Foundation) of the VDMA Textile Machinery honored five junior engineers at the trade fair Techtextil, which was held in Frankfurt. Two promotion prizes for the best dissertation and master thesis as well as three creativity awards for clever bachelor and seminar papers were awarded. Peter D. Dornier, chairman of the Foundation and chairman of the Lindauer DORNIER Board of Management, honored the young engineers.
With regard to the Techtextil special event „Living in Space“, Mr. Dornier stated: ”If you look at how technical textiles make space colonization within reach or how fiber composite materials significantly reduce weight and fuel consumption of cars and aircrafts, it can be rightly claimed that textile machinery is a part of a real high-tech industry. Thus, it is the industry which is attractive for young people who are enthusiastic about new technology.
The award-winning papers of the young engineers make it also clear that textile machinery means high tech.”
The promotion prize in the dissertation category, endowed with 5,000 euros, was awarded to Dr. Cornelia Sennewald, TU Dresden. Dirk Fischer, TU Chemnitz, was honored with a promotion prize worth 3,500 euros for the best master thesis. Philipp Kempert (TU Dresden), Karsten Neuwerk und Lukas Völkel (both from RWTH Aachen) received creativity awards including a scholarship of 250 euros a month for two semesters.
