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Team from Wildauer Maschinen Werke visits NAFEMS World Congress for Simulation in Florida and the University of Tampa
Wildauer Maschinen Werke (WMW) is the learning, research and transfer platform for digital skills at TH Wildau. It is a network of various study courses and research groups that are linked together in the context of a vehicle manufacturing company to form a virtual case study. In May, some WMW representatives were guests at the NAFEMS World Congress for Simulation in Florida and at the University of Tampa.
Wildauer Maschinen Werke (WMW) at Wildau University of Applied Sciences (TH Wildau) proves how interdisciplinary cooperation works. As a learning, research and transfer platform for digital competences, it is a network of different study courses and research groups that are joined together in the context of a vehicle construction company to form a virtual case study. In concrete terms, this means that, for example, mechanical engineering students are responsible for the design, telematics and traffic systems engineering students for the driving assistance systems and logistics students for the logistics of the model trucks.
In May, a team from Wildauer Maschinen Werke travelled across the pond to Florida. At the NAFEMS World Congress for Simulation, one of the largest conferences for simulation-related topics worldwide, the team was involved with one of a total of over 300 presentations. In addition to selected presentations from the areas of simulation data management and crash impact simulation, topics from the area of autonomous driving were also more strongly represented this year and formed their own so-called session clusters. In one of these clusters, Tobias Peuschke-Bischof, a doctoral student at the TH Wildau in the field of autonomous driving at the WMW Learning Factory, gave a technical lecture. This was well received by the audience. In addition, the team was able to establish interesting contacts with international companies in this field.
International cooperation in teaching
Another highlight of the trip was a visit to the University of Tampa with its approximately 10,000 students in four departments, especially the Chair of Computer Science of Prof. Jean Gourd. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science is offered there, with a focus on cyber security, data science, artificial intelligence and human-machine interaction, among others. The teaching is strongly project- and application-oriented, similar to the teaching at the TH Wildau, which is why a presentation of the Wildauer Maschinen Werke was the focus.
The event initially had the character of a classic pitch, i.e. a kind of competitive presentation. The team started in a lecture hall of the brand new computer science building and was supposed to present the topics at the lectern. After only ten minutes, however, the atmosphere changed to a relaxed workshop-like character. All participants sat together, talked through the slides and discussed various points of contact in teaching. In particular, topics in the areas of autonomous driving and data science emerged, for which initial collaborations were subsequently agreed for the next semester. A cooperation agreement that might be necessary for this has already been loosely discussed. After the official part, Prof. Gourd invited the team to a tour of the impressive campus and continued the pleasant exchange, including a guided tour of the city of Tampa.
"We are pleased that we were able to present the potentials of a possible cooperation and met with such positive interest. Of course, we now have some homework to do in terms of sharing the project management and IT infrastructure of our learning factory. We still have a lot to do here to enable German and American students to work together on selected topics and to actually start a living cooperation," says Prof. Stefan Kubica, Vice President for Digitalisation and Quality Management at TH Wildau and spokesperson and coordinator of Wildauer Maschinen Werke.
Further information
Information on the Wildau Machine Works of the TH Wildau: www.th-wildau.de/wmw
Information on the NAFEMS World Congress for Simulation: https://www.nafems.org/congress/
Professional contact at the TH Wildau:
Prof. Stefan Kubica
Wildau Machine Works
TH Wildau
Hochschulring 1, 15745 Wildau
Phone: +49 3375 508 327
E-mail: stefan.kubica@th-wildau.de
Contact persons External Communication TH Wildau:
Mike Lange / Mareike Rammelt
TH Wildau
Hochschulring 1, 15745 Wildau
Phone +49 (0)3375 508 211 / -669
E-mail: presse@th-wildau.de
Caption: The University of Tampa in Florida was a stop for the Wildauer Maschinen Werke team in May 2023 to establish possible teaching collaborations.
Image: Stefan Kubica