from rails to the digital age,

           from smart factory to entrepreneurship,

                                           from science to application.

Mid of march Siemens CTO Peter Körte was welcomed by Rector Harald Kainz and Vice-Rector of Research Horst Bischof TU Graz to give him a tour through our large and interconnected ecosystem at TU Graz according research and innovation.
Presentations around “Dependable Internet of Things” by Kay Römer, “Cybersecurity Research Challenges” by Stefan Mangard and “Embedded Machine Learning” by Horst Bischof led to high-level talks and discussion. Another proof of the well-functioning “Research and Innovation Ecosystem Graz (RIE Graz)” included Stefanie Lindstaedt introducing the Competence Center Know-Center – Research Center for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence and Data.
Finally, Martin Leitner and his team presented insights in his Institute of Structural Durability and Railway Technology, a truly unique place where Siemens has been researching with TU Graz on rail technologies such as bogies for decades already. Ending with a very personal exchange with two young talents who have now found their place at Siemens Mobility, Peter Körte left Graz with a lot of impressions.
Thanks to Erlach Stefan, Head of Siemens Mobility Graz and Herbert Tanner, Site Manager of Siemens AG for Graz & Klagenfurt, who took the time and once again emphasised that the cooperation at RIE and especially TU Graz are great and indispensable for them.

Big thanks to the 8 teams of TU Graz for their engagement in the AI-DA Challenge (AI-Dependability Assessment) of Siemens Mobility in the last weeks.

“What was so interesting about this task is that it wasn’t only about reaching as high accuracy as possible but also required us to consider real-world safety aspects. For example, we made trade-offs between different kinds of errors and gave bounds to our misclassification rates, so the model could actually be used in a safety-critical environment”,  Patrick Deutschmann and his team partner Lukas Timpl stated.

Due to this strong participation of our TU Graz, the jury decided at the award ceremony on 16 July to increase the prize money and to award three out of eight teams from TU Graz with the Runners-up prize of € 1000 for each team:

• Adna Ribo | Markus Schiffermueller | Lucas Weitzendorf
• Felix Muetter
• Patrick Deutschmann | Lukas Timpl

Furthermore, our CKI office at TU Graz and Siemens Mobility Graz invite all 8 teams at the beginning of the next semester, please contact christine.schichlernoSpam@tugraz.at

"Over 7 months, students of the Product Innovation course at Graz University of Technology worked on real-life challenges given by industrial partners – Andritz, Fronius, ÖBB, OMV, Palfinger, Payer – to develop innovative concepts, new products and functional prototypes. At the Innovation Gala, they presented their results at the Schumpeter Laboratory of Innovation. Additionally, two Keynote Speakers Roland Busch (CEO Siemens AG) and Gerald Hörhan (Investment Punk) provided valuable insights on innovation topics.

If you didn't have time to watch the event live or if you want to rewatch it: the whole event including Gerald Hörhan's key note is still available for streaming on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d5H88RclIc) Best regards Your IIM Team"

On the occasion of the course Product Innovation Project of Prof. Ramsauer,
Dr. Roland Busch (Deputy CEO, CTO, CHRO and Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG) gave his keynote speach for the first time online with the title "Innovation in a conected world" at TU Graz.

He presented some of the innovation fields of Siemens and their Innovation Ecosystem, which bundles resources and people to foster connected innovation - all at one place.
He thanks the students for the good discussion.

Ein thematisch sehr umfangreicher Tag für unsere Gäste von Siemens.

Bild oben v.l.n.r.: Paul Pavetich, Norbert Gaus, Konrad Diwold, Michael Weinhold, Rudolf Pichler, Claudia Windisch, Harald Loos, Christine Schichler
 

Großer Dank an Dr. Michael Weinhold, CTO der Smart Infrastructure, für seinen Vortrag am 23.1. an der TU Graz.

Vor allem die Studierenden aus den energietechnischen Bereichen von Prof. Schürhuber und Prof. Schichler und aus dem Hochspannungszeichensaal diskutierten vielseitig noch im Anschluss mit Dr. Weinhold.

Vielen Dank an Dr. Helmut Figalist, Ernst Blank und Kollegen, die für unsere Professoren und Forscher einen sehr interessanten und beeindruckenden Tag bei der Siemens DI ermöglicht haben.

v.l.n.r. Dr. Forgber (RCPE), Denis Helic (TU Graz/Know Center), Kay-Uwe Römer, Horst Bischof, Franz Haas, Christine Schichler (TU Graz), Ernst Blank (Siemens), Konrad Diwold (Pro²Future/TU Graz), Helmut Figalist (Siemens)

In Würdingung ihrer Erfindungen erhielten Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Dutzler, Dipl.-Ing. Imre Karacsonyi und Dipl.-Ing. Martin Rieger die Auszeichnung "Erfinder der TU Graz" am 11.11.2019.

Herr Diemo Wojik, Engineeringleiter der Siemens Mobility GmbH, gratulierte den drei Nachwuchswissenschaftlern zu ihren Erfindungen, die für die Drehgestelle in Graz zum Einsatz kommen werden.