On the occasion of the 50th IGIP International Conference on Engineering Pedagogy at the end of September 2021 in Dresden, Prof. Dr. Gudrun Kammasch was awarded the Nikola Tesla Chain at the award ceremony of the International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP).
Prof. Dr. Gudrun Kammasch was awarded the Nikola Tesla Chain PHOTO: PRIVATE
With her participation in the first International Conference on Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP) in 1972, Gudrun Kammasch, who was appointed to the then newly founded Technical University of Applied Sciences in 1971, became a founding member of the IGIP and its first working group “People and Technology”. She worked for many years on the board of directors and also as vice-president. Today she is President of the Engineering Pedagogical Science Society (IPW), which with its annual meetings, workshops and publications gives the differentiated profile of technical education in Central Europe a specific discussion forum. With this background, Gudrun Kammasch was and is active internationally, especially in development projects in African and Central Asian countries.
She was awarded the Nikola Tesala Chain “for internationally outstanding achievements in the field of Engineering Pedagogy”.
The “award chain” was made by students from the Higher Technical Federal Teaching and Research Institute (HTL) in Ferlach, Austria.
During the award ceremony, Prof. Dr. Kammasch:
“With the knowledge and skills that we acquire in the field of technology, engineering, we can shape the world more comprehensively than almost any other profession. Today we have obviously reached the natural limits of our planet earth. But, if we use all of our intellectual and moral powers, we can stop, avoid and also correct many things and make them “sustainable” in a comprehensive sense. “
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Prof. Dr. Gudrun Kammasch studied chemistry and food chemistry in Stuttgart, Marburg and Berlin and obtained a doctorate in pharmaceutical chemistry from the Free University of Berlin.
She was the first woman to be appointed to the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and, among other things, helped set up the “Food Technology” course. She initiated the first “women’s group at TFH Berlin” and the (West) Berlin working group “women at universities of applied sciences”. From 1991 to 1194 she was Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer at the TFH.
In addition to the direct support of international students, a major focus of her work is to make people aware of the importance of cultural diversity and cultural identity in everyday life at the university – based on the UNESCO “Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions”.
In 2010 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class “for your academic achievements, for your commitment to a dialogue between the world’s cultures and especially for the promotion of women at the state’s universities”.
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