发展战略研究院邀请了两位德国工程院院士——来自柏林工业大学的Wolfgang Koenig教授和来自卡尔斯鲁厄工业大学的Albert Albers教授，将于2015年11月6日（周五）9:00-12:00在紫金港校区图书信息中心C楼1202会议室，与工程院教育委员会共同举办Workshop——Engineering Education in Germany and China。两位教授的报告题目是:
Prof. Wolfgang Koenig: The Development of German Engineering Education from the Beginning until Today
Prof. Albert Albers: The State of Engineering Education and Reform Initiatives in Germany
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附：专家简历
Prof Wolfgang Koenig
He is now retired Professor for the history of technology at the TU Berlin, Germay. He is a member of acatech, the German Academy of Science and Technology. Prof Koenig has published a lot of books and articles on the history of technology and on engineering education.
He has received several prices from the German Engineering Association (VDI), the Association of Electrical Engineers (VDE) and other institutions for his work on the history of technology and on technology assessment.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. Albert Albers
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. Albert Albers, born in 1957 in Papenburg/Ems, has been head of the IPEK – Institute of Product Engineering since 1996.
After his studies of mechanical engineering at the University of Hannover from 1978 to 1983, Prof. Albers had a assistantship at the Institute of Machine Elements and Engineering Design under Professor Paland and obtained his doctorate in 1987 with honors (summa cum laude). From 1986 to 1988 Prof. Albers had a position as a senior engineer at the Institute of Machine Elements and Engineering Design at the University of Hannover until he changed his employer in 1987 and started his career in industry at LuK, a company of the Schaeffler-Group with focus on clutch- and gear-systems. Before returning to academia in 1996, Prof. Albers was product development manager, responsible for clutch-systems and member of the executive board.
Since 1996 Prof. Albers is head of the IPEK (the former Institute of mechanical design) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and established the research fields drive systems, design-methods and -management as well as mechatronics. He divides product development into its systems, methods and processes. All three areas are worked on by his team in research and teaching in order to satisfy the complexity of today’s product development. Round about 50 scientists are currently researching at the IPEK with a range from fundamental research to applied science in cooperation with industry.
Prof. Albers is also well involved in teaching, in particular by restructuring the content of teaching and by applying new teaching methods which especially aim at teaching professional skills. Therefore, the KaLeP – Karlsruhe teaching model of product engineering – as a holistic approach for teaching product engineering was developed and realized successfully.
Research Fields
· Strategies, methods and tools for supporting the product development process
o Development methods for mechatronic systems
o Management of product development processes
o innovation management
o CAE methods with focus on computer-aided form and shape optimization as well as the simulation of complex drive systems
· Drive systems (in particulary vehicle drive systems) and their components with focus on dimensioning, dynamics, NVH, acoustics and comfort as well as energy efficiency
o Friction and bearing systems
o System performance, dynamics and dimensioning of complex power trains
o Condition monitoring
o XiL – X-in-the-Loop – A framework for validation of complex mechatronic drive systems
· Mechatronic Systems
o Drive systems
o Robotics
o Mechanical micro-systems
· New teaching concepts for teaching expertise and professional skills
Memberships and Functions (Selection)
· Member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and acatech- ambassador at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
· Member oft he advisory board oft he VDI-Society “Development – Engineering – Sales (EKV)
· Member of the Desing Society
· Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
· Member of the university council of the university of applied science Kaiserslautern
· Member of the review board of DFG-FK 402 “Mechanics and Constructive Mechanical Engineering”
· President of theWissenschafltiche Gesellschaft für Produktentwicklung – WiGeP
· President of the General Association of Faculties (AllgemeinerFakultätentag e. V. – AFT)
· Member of the advisory board of Freudenberg New Technology KG and the Brand Group, Anröchte
· Visiting professor in Shanghai at CDHK of the University of Tongji as well as at the University of Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
