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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

The BGCE took part in the first member conference of the Elitenetzwerk Bayern.

• Report and pictures

For the second time, the BGCE contributed (12 students, 4 lecturers) to two simulation courses at the Sarntal Ferienakademie. This year’s, “BGCE courses” were

• “Numerische Optimierung und Formfindung – Realisierung an einem Membrantragwerk“, and
• “Numerical Simulation – From the Modell to the Software“.

The students of the “Optimization and Form Finding” course also proved their practical skills during the seminar by designing, simulating, and putting up a party tent for the final session.

The joint summer trip of BGCE’s two Munich programs, CSE and come.tum, has become a nice tradition. After trips to Herrenchiemsee (2003), Kaltenberg (2004), and Königsee (2005), this year’s summer excursion led us to Schloss Linderhof and Ettal.

The thorough inspection of Schloss Linderhof, including park and grotto, was followed by a visit of the cheese manufactoring centre and the monastery in Ettal (pictures of the event).

The 2006 class of honours students will start the BGCE program with this opening weekend at the IHK Tagungszentrum in Westerham. Friday, 24th, will see the introduction of students and lecturers, and the presentation of activities in the following year.

Prof. Dr. Reinhard, head of Siemens Medical Solutions in Erlangen, will be our guest of honour for Friday evening.

On Saturday and Sunday, there will be a block seminar for the honours students.

Pictures of the opening weekend.

The BGCE hosted the first joint degree ceremony of the two Munich program, come.tum and CSE. Invited speaker of the evening was Dr. Jürgen Kohler from DaimlerChrysler, giving a lecture on the importance simulation in automotive engineering (pictures of the ceremony).

Disregarding the Oktoberfest, 14 students of BGCE spend the final two weeks of September in Sarntal/Italy to join the Ferienakademie. This year, two courses,

• “Computational Mechanics – Modellierung, Simulation, Experiment”, and
• “Numerische Simulation – Vom Modell zur Visualisierung“

where dedicated to topics in computational engineering, and where thus attended by the CSE students.