Month: February 2023

The new term of office for student Program Coordinators begins on 1 April. They have the task of working on quality assurance and improvement in their respective degree programme and are also the first point of contact for students with problems in their degree programme.

If you are interested in becoming a Program Coordinator for your degree programme, you can register directly in this OPAL course. If you are interested in further information first, please feel free to contact us or the current office holders.

A more detailed description of the tasks of the Program Coordinators can be found here:

On 24 February 2023 at 10:00 a.m. there will be a guest lecture of the Chair of Railway Transport, Public Urban and Regional Transport on the topic “Deutschlandtakt – Development of Railway Planning in Germany” by Mr. Frederik Ropelius, Director of SMA und Partner AG Zurich.

The Deutschlandtakt concept starts with the timetable and derives from it the necessary infrastructure upgrades to create more frequent and faster connections for passenger and freight transport. Deutschlandtakt is a project of the Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport (BMDV). The BMDV pursued three goals with the project: Firstly, to increase the frequency: on the main axes, a train is to run every 30; secondly, to reduce travelling times: Optimised connections between trains in combination with a tailor-made expansion of the infrastructure; and thirdly, nationwide results: The long-distance network connects cities and regions. In this presentation, the project objectives, the procedure, the methodology and selected results will be presented and an outlook on further steps towards implementation will be given.

Frederik Ropelius is Director in the Consulting Division at SMA und Partner AG Zurich and responsible for consulting activities in Germany, Northern and Eastern Europe as well as for new international markets. He also heads the production teams of the SMA offices in Zurich and Frankfurt. He studied at RWTH Aachen University and has been with SMA und Partner AG since 1999 and a partner since 2013.

The event will be held in English.

Dear students,

for the engineering degree programmes (VIW, BSI, EVS, LuLo) the modalities for withdrawing from exams in case of illness have changed this semester. Previously it was sufficient to submit a certificate of incapacity for work (“yellow sick note”), now a medical certificate is required. Since some questions and uncertainties have arisen regarding this topic in recent days, we, as student members of the joint examination board for traffic engineering, would like to present our view of the current regulation here:

• The form published by the Examinations Office is merely a recommendation by the university and is not to be regarded as compulsory.
• The naming of symptoms of illness is neither required in the examination regulations nor in the resolution of the examination board of 31.01.. Furthermore, such a regulation outside of a law passed by parliament would be constitutionally doubtful, as also described by the Scientific Service of the Bundestag.
• A certificate of incapacity for work is not valid for withdrawing from examinations.

Best wishes and good luck for the exams

Christoph Heinzelmann, Fabian Rudolph, Henrik Neun, Oke Brandenburg, Thomas Weiher, Valentin Linz and Victor Nitzsche

+++ Update February 12, 2023, 1:30 p.m. +++

After an initial inspection of the damage, a clearing and subsequent expert examination of possible causes for the damage is now being initiated. For the cleanup, the electricity in stairwell 4 must be switched off.

This leads to the following adjustments in the blocking of house 2:

• The second and third floors of House 2 are expected to remain completely closed until the end of this week. Only through an expert can the release take place, we will inform you as soon as this happens.
• The first floor can be used again without restrictions as of now.
• The basement and the second floor can be used during daylight hours (7:30h -16:30h). The reason for the time restriction is the need for illuminated escape routes, which cannot be provided until further notice due to the power shutdown in stairwell 4.

The barriers and signage in the building are adjusted according to this regulation.

Study room E067a in the basement will thus be accessible from 7:30 to 16:30. Access to the lecture halls POT/51, POT/151 and POT/81 is still possible.

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In the night from 03. to 04.02.2023 an accident occurred in house 2 on the 3rd floor of the POT. In front of lecture hall 361, the ceiling plaster came loose on an area of approx. 50 m². Fortunately, no persons were harmed in the process. For the time being, all floors in house 2 are closed for this reason. Study room E067a in the basement is also affected and will not be accessible until further notice. However, access to the lecture halls POT/51, POT/151, POT/251, POT/351 and POT/81 is possible. Only the areas hatched in the graphic below are blocked. We will inform you as soon as the closure is lifted again!

According to information from the examination office, the physics practical course for VIW students (VW-VI-104 / VW-VI-1104) takes place regularly in the summer semester since the new study regulations. Therefore, students according to the examination regulations DPO 2013 who have not yet completed the practical course should also take part in this course. It is expected that there will no longer be a physics practical as a repetition for students of the old examination regulations in winter semester 2023/24.

Enrolment for the physics practical course in the summer semester 2023 is possible until 05.04.2023 in this OPAL course.

Die Lehrveranstaltung „Fallstudien in Energie und Umwelt“ wird dieses Sommersemester (SoSe) als Pilotprojekt des Fachgebiets Nachhaltige Finanzwirtschaft der Universität Kassel gemeinsam mit der Professur für Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement und Betriebliche Umweltökonomie erstmals angeboten. Der Inhalt im kommenden SoSe unterscheidet sich von dem regelmäßig im Wintersemester angebotenen Fallstudienseminar in Kooperation mit der Professur für Energiewirtschaft.

Worum geht es? Special Topics in Sustainable Finance „Mystery Shopping”!
Ziel des Seminars ist der Erwerb von vertieften Kenntnissen im Themenbereich der Sustainable Finance mit dem Schwerpunkt auf die Forschungsmethodik Mystery Shopping. Die Forschungsmethodik Mystery Shopping kommt in der Regel zum Einsatz, um Dienstleistungsqualität zu messen. Schrader (2006) hat als einer der ersten die Beratungsqualität in der Anlageberatung im Kontext ethischer Investitionen untersucht.

Was ist das Ziel? Das Seminar verfolgt das Ziel: Die Beratungsqualität im Bereich Nachhaltige Geldanlage bei verschiedenen Bankengruppen zu messen. Im Rahmen dieses Seminars soll zuerst die Forschungsmethodik Mystery Shopping mit ihren unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen erlernt werden. Im Anschluss erfolgt die praktische Anwendung der erlernten Forschungsmethodik. In diesem Zusammenhang werden die Studierenden in 5er-Gruppen selbstständig Daten erheben, auswerten und die dadurch gewonnenen Erkenntnisse im Rahmen einer Seminararbeit vertiefen.

Mehr Infos: https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal/auth/RepositoryEntry/38590971919?3

Last year, the COSMO Science Forum was opened in Dresden’s Kulturpalast. Since November, a series of research projects on the topic of “Urban Mobility” have been presented there in a first focal exhibition. The complex topic is being examined from as many different perspectives as possible and projects on autonomous driving, the future of cycling and (traffic) planning for sustainable urban districts are being exhibited.

At the end of the exhibition, a panel discussion will take place in which concrete theses for the future of mobility in Dresden will be developed. This event will take place on Thursday, 09 February 2023 at 7 pm in the COSMO Science Forum and will last approximately 90 minutes. A short impulse by all speakers (approx. 5 minutes) will be followed by a discussion on stage before the audience joins in the discussion.
The following persons will be guests as speakers:

• Prof. Angela Mensing-de Jong, Chair of Urban Planning
• Frank Fiedler, Office for Urban Planning and Mobility Dresden
• Dr. Michael Vogt, Director of the Dresden Transport Museum
• Marie Neumann, co-founder Stadt:wirken

You can also find more information here: https://www.kulturpalast-dresden.de/de/veranstaltung/podiumsdiskussion-urbane-mobilitaet.html