On Friday 08 October Prof. Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and Prof. Jakob Beetz welcomed our new students at the reference construction site Campus West with a nice BBQ dinner, some drinks, and the October sun of Aachen. After a long period of online classes, it was a nice get-together for students from different semesters and our IP RWTH Aachen teaching staff (Orwa Diraneyya, Ethan Kerber, Thomas Adams, Davide Picchi, Christoph Heuer, Peter Wildemann von Leonhard Weiss), to finally meet in person.
For the upcoming winter semester 21⁄22, we are thrilled to welcome 44 students out of 841 applications from a total of 17 countries to the master program Construction Robotics.
We wish all master students a fresh and good start into the coming semester in presence!
After a long and an interesting semester at RWTH (SoSe21), we celebrate the conclusion of the final presentations on the construction reference site with a BBQ dinner and a social gathering, joined by our students and staff members.
Special thanks go to our premium industry partners of the Center Construction Robotics for their valuable participation/feedback during the finals, and for our students for the great work presented during and for the social participation afterwards.
We are happy to announce the final presentation of our third batch of students of the international Master of Construction & Robotics (CR). Once again, we invite a top-class industry jury to represent the board members of the CR programme and our premium partners of the Center Construction Robotics, to help guide the concepts and the developments on the reference construction site on the RWTH Aachen Campus West.
Students of the Master’s program Construction & Robotics as well as employees of the Chair for Individualized Production of RWTH Aachen University (under the direction of Prof. Dr.-techn. Sigrid Brell-Cokcan) visited PORR’s largest construction project to date, FAIR (i.e. the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), in Darmstadt.
A particle accelerator with a 1.1 km long accelerator tunnel and buildings above is being built on a 20 ha site. PORR is responsible for the shell construction of the northern section of the facility. After an introduction to the construction project for heavy ion research by the head of technical office Thomas Beckmann and Saleem Javed, the students were guided through the construction site.
The dimensions of the overall project become apparent, for example, by the 6-meter-thick, massive reinforced concrete structures and 25 km of cable pipes, and present a challenge for construction site logistics.
Special thanks for making the site visit possible to the innovation team of PORR AG, Karina Schiefer, Lina Wallmann and Estefania Betancourt. Also, a big thanks for guiding the construction site tour to PORR GmbH&Co KGaA, Thomas Beckmann, Karim El-Joudi, Saleem Javed, Berge Kuhn and the whole project team. We wish them great success for the further execution.
We are very grateful to our Premium Member PORR AG for inviting the Master Construction&Robotics students to the impressive construction site of FAIR Darmstadt. Learning from experts in the construction industry rounds up the curriculum in the best way!
We are happy to announce the final presentation of our second batch of students of the international Master of Construction & Robotics (CR). Once again, we invite a top-class industry jury to represent the board members of the CR programme and our premium partners of the Center Construction Robotics, to help guide the concepts and the developments on the reference construction site on the RWTH Aachen Campus West.
We look forward to seeing you all and to the presentations.