Author: Marius Anger

Starting the winter semester 2008/2009, students of Computational Engineering can obtain a double Master’s degree from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and Kungl. Tekniska Hoegskolan, Stockholm, Sweden. According to the agreement between the universities, both universities will award the candidate a master’s degree, giving the graduates an important extra qualification for the international job market.

The first year program at the home university covers advanced basics of Computational Engineering, and the second year at the guest university is devoted to depth in a choice of specializations, and to the writing of the Master’s thesis. The programs at KTH and FAU are international and the instructional language is English. The DAAD academic mobility funding agency supports the double degree program with travel grants and scholarships for participating students.

The double degree can also be combined with participation in the Bavarian Graduate School in Computational Engineering (BGCE). The first BGCE students have started their stay in Stockholm for winter term 08/09, already.

The IHK in Westerham was once more the site for the BGCE Opening Weekend, the inauguration of new BGCE students, and come-together of all BGCE students and staff.

Report and pictures …

The Elitenetzwerk graduation ceremony 2007 was celebrated at the Glaspalast Augsburg on November, 17th. State minister Dr. Goppel and the CEO of the Bavarian Business Association, Bertram Brossardt, honoured the honours graduates of BGCE and of all other master’s and doctorate programs within the Elite Network of Bavaria.

• BGCE: short report and pictures of the ceremony

The third joint degree ceremony of the two Master’s programs come.tum and CSE, took place on Oct 25. Among the graduates was also the second year of honours graduates who finished the BGCE elite program in Munich.

• pictures of the ceremony

The summer trip 2008 of BGCE’s two Munich programs, CSE and come.tum, went to the center of Bavaria: the Befreiungshalle near Kelheim, the famous Donaudurchbruch, and the Kloster Weltenburg. (see pictures of the event).

This year’s joint summer trip of BGCE’s two Munich programs, CSE and come.tum, led us into Bavaria’s beautiful mountains – we enjoyed a hiking tour near Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

After a visit of the Partnachklamm, which offered a spectacular though wet experience, a nice hiking tour led us up to Eckbauer, through Wamberg – Germany’s highest village with an own church – and back to the Olympic ski stadium in Garmisch (see pictures of the event).

For the first time, the former BGCE Opening Weekend was organised as a come-together of all BGCE students and staff at the Generali-Seminarzentrum in Bernried. On Friday, Mar 16, the official welcome of the new BGCE students was followed by the so-called “Kaminabend” with Prof. Freymann from BMW Forschung&Technik as special guest, giving an exciting talk on “Mobility in the Future”. On Saturday and Sunday, the BGCE students attended the seminars

• When Teamwork Works (moderated by Katrin Lippmann and Andrea Haider), a teamwork seminar for the new BGCE students.
• Creating and Developing a Business Idea (moderated by Dierk Röschke with Dr. Bernward Jopen from UnternehmerTUM as special guest on Sunday).

Alfonso Bueno Arovio of Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in Spain has been awarded the 2007 BGCE student prize in Computational Science and Engineering at the SIAM CSE conference, February 23, 2007, in Costa Mesa, California. Read more about the BGCE Student Prize Session on the GSCI Digest.

• see the front page article in the SIAM News 40 (5)

The first Elitenetzwerk graduation ceremony was celebrated at the Residenz in Würzburg on November, 25th. State minister Dr. Goppel honoured the first honours graduates of BGCE and of all other master’s and doctorate programs within the Elite Network of Bavaria.

• see ENB’s press release
• BGCE: short report and pictures of the ceremony

During the second joint degree ceremony of the two Master’s programs come.tum and CSE, on Oct 23, the first honours graduates who finished the BGCE elite program in Munich were celebrated.

• see TUM’s press release
• pictures of the ceremony