Jury enthused about 3D technology: Bremens students qualified for international competition

29.06.2010 - (idw) Universität Bremen

Bremen is in the finals of the euspen Challenge from 1-3 July in Jena / euspen Director Ekkard Brinksmeier: We support promising talents and create opportunities for them! PowerPoint-presentations have become daily routine in science and only seldom spark enthusiasm in the audience. Unlike the elaborate and entertaining 3D-presententation of a team of students from Bremen who, with their work presented in Bremen, late in April this year, qualified at the German pre-competition to the euspen Challenge of the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (euspen), and are to participate in the finals that are taking place in Jena on 1-3 July.
Euspen Challenge is an international competition organized by the society to identify outstanding students across Europe with potential to be future leaders in the field. It is managed by Bremens university scientists belonging to the LFM Micromachining Laboratory at the IWT Foundation Institute of Material Science and by Carl Zeiss under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ekkard Brinksmeier, euspen director and head of LFM. That a contribution made in Bremen reached the finals greatly pleases the former euspen president: euspen has committed itself for many years to the promotion of young academics with great dedication and supported promising talents to the best of its abilities. With the euspen challenge we want to set an example and create new opportunities.
The teams, each including three students coming from the RWTH Aachen University, the Deggendorf University of Applied Science, or the University of Bremen, qualified in the German pre-competition with their contributions to the field of optics. Excellent performances and convincing presentations, decided the jury which is composed of four representatives, two from industry and two from science, and selected from each group one candidate who is to participate the final competition. The members of the jury, Dr. Miriam Schwentker (Olympus Europe) and euspen directors Dr. Klaus-Friedrich Beckstette (Carl Zeiss), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Brecher (RWTH Aachen University), and Prof. Brinksmeier decided in favour of Carla Brandao (Bremen, 3D vision in photography and cinematography), Manish Muthreja (Aachen, Machining technology applied to hot embossing of optical microstructures), and Roland Maurer (Deggendorf, Algorithms applications in microscopy).

For a remarkable 3D presentation: special prize award for Bremens students

In addition, the jury awarded a special prize to the students from Bremen for their remarkable 3D presentation. Florian Böhmermann, Christian Haase, and Carla Brandao each received an Olympus digital camera. More important than all material prizes are the chances that come with the nomination, says Carla Brandao. The opportunity to gain better insight into the professional world are priceless, the Brazilian holds. You cant save money for a thing like that, you simply cant buy it.
The possibility to study mechanical engineering and process engineering in the interdisciplinary degree course Production Engineering was the reason why she moved to Bremen. Like her two team mates in the competition, she is now writing her Diplom degree thesis. Still, the trio took a time-out of four weeks to find a solution to the euspen challenge, which consisted in working out a 20-minute presentation of a subject related to optics. The team decided on three-dimensional representations and also applied this technique when they held their lecture. We wanted to entertain as well as enthuse the audience, Brandao says.

With their victory the students not only secured a ticket to the finals but also an invitation to euspens 10th International Conference and Exhibition, which took place in Delft, the Netherlands, early in June, with more than 400 science and industry representatives attending. Here, Brinksmeier introduced the participants of the Challenge to the members of the euspen community. They became acquainted with each other and established first contacts with leading scientists and entrepreneurs active in the field of precision engineering.
At Carl Zeiss in Jena, the host of the Challenge, the three German finalists will have to compete with 18 students from six other countries. Divided in seven triads, the students will take on another challenge and after only one day of preparation present their solution to a top-notch international audience of experts.

European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (euspen)

The European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology euspen was formed in 1998 when a group of leading industrialists and academics came together with a wish to provide a networking forum for this key community. Nowadays a self-supporting society it has membership in over 30 countries world-wide and has brought together more than 4000 experts engaged in the field of ultraprecision engineering in a globally influential society.
The society unites entrepreneurs, researchers, and cooperation partners from all over the world. Their members meet at the annual euspen conferences, which are held in alternate Europe cities, and beyond this maintain permanent contact with each other. euspen is a platform where the latest findings and innovations, technological developments, products, and services in the field of fine mechanics, microengineering, and nanotechnology are discussed. It promotes the scientific further development in ultraprecision manufacturing, the cooperation between research and industry and between the various science disciplines. Besides, professional qualification and career advancement of new talents are important issues. For this reason it supports talented students and engineers. The network seeks to motivate young scientists with competitions like the euspen Challenge and set new standards.
(Sabine Nollmann)

Notice to Editors:
Photographs can be downloaded at http://www.iwt-bremen.de (Presse/Aktuelles) or obtained directly from mail@kontexta.de.
More information is available at:
http://www.iwt-bremen.de
<www. euspen.eu>
Dr.-Ing. Oltmann Riemer (LFM, University of Bremen)
Phone: +49 (0)421 218-94 33, E-mail: oriemer@lfm.uni-bremen.de
Axel Meier (LFM, University of Bremen)
Phone: +49 (0)421 218- 94 00, E-mail: E-Mail: a.meier@lfm.uni-bremen.de
Sabine Nollmann (Science Communication)
Phone: +49 (0)170 904 11 67, E-mail: mail@kontexta.de

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