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Invitation to the DVWG panel discussion

Hosea Winter

On 12 October 2022 at 6.30 p.m. (admission from 6.10 p.m.), at POT/06, the Saxony District Association of the German Transport Science Society will be hosting a specialist event with panel discussion on the topic of “Transport in Dresden – Where is the journey heading?”

Following three short and informative keynote speeches by Lutz Auerbach from Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe GmbH, Martin Gawalek from Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG and Frank Fiedler from the City Planning Office of the State Capital Dresden, these three key players in Dresden’s transport will engage in conversation with each other and the auditorium during an interesting and insightful panel discussion. The event will be chaired by Prof. Arnd Stephan, holder of the professorship for electric railways at the TU Dresden and Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Saxony District Association.

Participation in the event is free of charge for all. For organisational reasons, please register by email to sachsen@dvwg.de.

First semester introduction

Victor Nitzsche

Dear freshmen,

From Tuesday, 04.10.2022 to Sunday, 09.10.2022, we will offer you a varied programme as part of our first semester introduction (ESE) to enable you to get to know the TU Dresden, the city and, of course, your fellow students. You can find all further information and the exact programme for the ESE on our website in the section Freshman orientation. If you are still unsure about anything, please send us an email at fsrverkehr@tu-dresden.de.

We look forward to welcoming you to our faculty in October!

Einladung zur Podiumsdiskussion der DVWG

Victor Nitzsche

Am 12. Oktober 2022 um 18.30 Uhr (Einlass ab 18.10 Uhr), im POT/06 veranstaltet die Bezirksvereinigung Sachsen der Deutschen Verkehrswissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft eine Fachveranstaltung mit Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema „Verkehr in Dresden – Wohin geht die Reise?“

Im Anschluss an drei kurze und aussagekräftige Impulsvorträge von Lutz Auerbach vom Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe GmbH, Martin Gawalek von der Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG sowie Frank Fiedler vom Stadtplanungsamt der Landeshauptstadt Dresden werden diese drei Hauptakteuren des Dresdener Verkehrs bei einer interessanten und aufschlussreichen Podiumsdiskussion miteinander und mit dem Auditorium ins Gespräch kommen.

Durch die Veranstaltung führt Prof. Arnd Stephan, Inhaber der Professur für elektrische Bahnen an der TU Dresden und stellv. Vorstandsvorsitzender der Bezirksvereinigung Sachsen.

Die Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung ist für alle kostenfrei möglich. Aus organisatorischen Gründen wird um eine Anmeldung per Email an sachsen@dvwg.de gebeten.

RepairCafé on campus starts in the new semester

Jakob Eichholz

Repair instead of buying new! When your household appliance stops working or sewing is needed, the RepairCafé on Campus can help. The self-help workshop helps people make the broken appliance work again under the guidance of volunteers.

The Repair Café takes place every third Tuesday of the month in the Makerspace of the DrePunct Library (Zellescher Weg 17). Not only the volunteers of the initiative Repair Café Dresden/Freital support, but also the employees of the SLUB with knowledge and equipment from 3D printers to sewing machines. Every person is welcome who would like to be supported and advised on repairs free of charge.

In addition to repairing, the café character should not be neglected. Coffee and cake invite to refreshment and conversation.

Registration for the Repair Café online at: https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/umwelt-und-klima/greenoffice/anmeldung-repaircafe or at the Green Office of TU Dresden at 0351 463-33037.

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Betreuerinnen für “Her*(bst)Camp – Nachhaltigkeitswerkstatt” gesucht

Hosea Winter

Die TU-Dresden veranstaltet in den Herbstferien vom 17. bis 22.10 eine „Her*(bst)Camp – Nachhaltigkeitswerkstatt“ für 30 Mädchen ab Kl. 9 in Weißwasser/Lausitz. Dabei gestalten wir als Fakultät Verkehrswissenschaften an 3 Tagen (Di. bis Do.) drei Vormittagsworkshops rund um Verkehr und Nachhaltigkeit.

Für das Camp wird noch eine Studentin aus den Verkehrswissenschaften gesucht, die dort mit vor Ort ist und die Mädchen insbesondere Früh und am Nachmittag nach den Workshops mitbetreut, als Gesprächspartnerin zur Verfügung steht und natürlich auch von ihrem Studium erzählt.

Die Konditionen wären folgende:

  • Anreise Montag, 17.10., bis 12 Uhr – Abreise am Sa. 22.10
  • Arbeitszeit insgesamt 50 Stunden angesetzt – Früh zwischen Frühstück und Start Workshops 9 Uhr + am Nachmittag ab ca. 17 Uhr nach den Workshops bis Bettzeit (und falls nachts etwas wäre – es sind natürlich noch weitere Betreuerinnen vor Ort). Dazwischen kann die Zeit individuell genutzt werden.
  • Vergütung: 12 Euro /h > bei 50 h = 600 Euro
  • Verpflegung, Unterkunft sowie An- und Abreisekosten werden ebenfalls übernommen.
  • Anstellung als SHK für das Projekt Herbstcamp

Es besteht auch die Möglichkeit, dass sich zwei Studentinnen die Zeit teilen – also z.B. eine von Montag bis Mittwochvormittag und die andere von Mittwochnachmittag bis Samstagvormittag (oder eine andere Variante).

Bei Interesse freuen wir uns auf Rückmeldung an uns (z.B. per Mail) bis zum nächsten Mittwoch, 10.8..

Dr. Nikola Bešinović takes over as temporary head of the Chair of Rail and Public Urban Transport

Hosea Winter

Nikola Bešinović succeeds as temporary head of the chair for rail and public urban transport its long-standing head, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer König, who retired on April 1, 2022 after 22 years at the faculty.

We as FSR Verkehr welcome Dr Bešinović, who most recently worked at TU Delft as a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences there, as a new member of our faculty, look forward to a good cooperation and wish him every success as temporary head of the professorship!

You can find more information about Dr Bešinović in the faculty magazine “Verkehrslage” or in our dean’s welcome letter, which you can download here.

Tutors wanted for the ESE 2022

Victor Nitzsche

This year we are once again looking for tutors for the freshers’ introduction (ESE), which will take place from 04.10.2022 to 09.10.2022. In order to give the first-year students the best possible start to their university life at the faculty, we are dependent on your help. Your task as a tutor is to give the freshmen all the important information they need for their start at university, to guide them through the faculty building, to show them the most important places on campus and to explore the city with them.

Especially for the supervision of the English-language Master’s programme Transportation Economics, we are looking for tutors who offer supervision in English. So we are looking forward to foreign students who can take on this task.

This year, you can easily register via the following OPAL course: https://tud.link/nk0a. You can register individually for each event you want to supervise. Therefore, it is not a problem if you do not have time for all ESE events. Only the supervision of a first-year group (including a tour of the faculty, a short explanation of the degree programme, etc.) on Thursday, 06.10.2022 is obligatory, as experience has shown that we need the most tutors there. We will also provide you with a short training session shortly before the ESE. Otherwise, we would be happy if you register for as many other events as possible.

If you have any questions or problems with enrolment, you can also contact us by email at fsrverkehr@tu-dresden.de.

Paddelbootregatta on Aug. 6

Oke Brandenburg

Do you feel like getting out of the exam stress, doing nothing for university for a change or just getting to know other people at our faculty? Then come along to our Paddelbootregatta this year. This will take place on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. We will meet at 9:45 am at the main station under the glass dome, then drive to Königstein and paddle from there with rubber boats down the river Elbe (less work) to Obervogelgesang. You can eat during the lunch break in Rathen or then in the beer garden in Obervogelgesang, where we arrive at about 5 pm.

The participation costs are 10 Euro per person. You can register until Wednesday, 27.8., 3 p.m. at https://tud.link/w1yy. We are looking forward to your participation!

Office opening hours during the examination phase

Hosea Winter

We as FSR will again offer office opening hours during the exam phase in SoSe 2022 to provide advice, exam printing service and many other services. The opening times are coordinated with the Examination Office for Transport Sciences, which is open during the semester break on Tuesdays from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. by appointment.

The FSR office is open every Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. during the exam period until August 12.

Teaching prize Faculty of Transportation and Traffic Sciences 2022

Hosea Winter

This year, for the first time, the faculty student council (FSR Verkehr) and the Faculty of Transportation and Traffic Sciences “Friedrich List” are offering a teaching prize to honor particularly outstanding teaching.

Together with the dean’s office of our faculty, we decided in April in the faculty council that there will be, initially limited to three years, a prize endowed with 250€, which will be awarded annually to two teachers:

  • to a teacher in undergraduate teaching
    (undergraduate transportation engineering or bachelor transportation economics)
  • to a teacher in the advanced teaching
    (main studies in transportation engineering or master studies)

Teaching awards will be presented on Faculty Day, which this year will be November 11.

Process flow:

  1. Pre-selection by the FSR Verkehr
    • Survey students for best course, instructor, and brief explanation by 07/29/2022 in an OPAL course.
    • Ranking of the courses and teachers to be awarded based on the results of the survey, taking into account the size of the course (ratio to the number of participants)
    • Justification of the proposal of the 3 best rated courses per category based on the student evaluations from the OPAL course.
  2. Decision in the faculty council
    • Submission of the ranking and justifications by the FSR Verkehr
    • Award of teaching prize to 1 out of 3 per category by voting.

Other determinations:

  • Teaching imports, i.e. courses offered by other faculties in our department (e.g. mathematics), will be considered. Teaching exports, i.e. courses offered by teaching staff of our faculty to students of other faculties, on the other hand, cannot be considered.
  • A teaching award will be given again to the same teacher after 3 years at the earliest (repetition block in favor of higher chances of winning per teacher).
  • The concept will be evaluated after the third run.

We as FSR welcome the concept and think it is very good to improve teaching at our faculty. However, such a teaching award is only meaningful if the survey is filled out numerously and truthfully until 22.07.2022. Therefore, we ask you for numerous participation! We hope that the quality of teaching at our faculty can be sustainably improved.