EMT study day: two farewells and a new dean for the department

On Monday, July 3, the new Dean Iris Groß opened the 39th Study Day of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Technical Journalism (EMT) in the auditorium of the Steyler Mission. Mechanical engineering professor Iris Groß was previously elected dean on June 22 during the monthly department council meeting, and journalism professor Tanja Köhler is now associate dean. In addition to ongoing program items such as the evaluation results and feedback from the student council, there was also an exchange of experiences on "Flipped Classroom", a didactic concept that makes learning content available in prepared form, for example as a video, before a classroom event, in order to use the time spent together more intensively for practice and application. The event concluded with a workshop on "How have our students changed since Corona and how do we deal with it?" in which faculty members actively participated.

And Johannes Geilen was also officially bidden farewell, at least from his position as dean. He was dean of the EMT department for almost 13 years, from 2011 to June 2023. His long-time companion and colleague, Professor Paul Melcher, praised his services to the department in the eulogy - for example, the accreditation of future-oriented degree programs such as Sustainable Engineering Science, the four-one model with the project weeks, the first-class equipment of the laboratories and studios, and the initiation of the TREE research institute. Johannes Geilen will remain with the department as Professor of Engineering Mechanics.