TUMstudinews: The Newsletter for Students

Nawal Hafez, who is from Egypt, has now been a student of Electrical Engineering at TUM for two years. A year ago, she was granted the “TUM Deutschlandstipendium”, and she does volunteer work for disadvantaged people. In an interview with TUMstudinews reporter Sabrina Czechofsky, she talks about her time in Germany – the country that has become her second home.

Every year, people all over the world write a wish list for Christmas. Nora Pohle, Student Representative in the TUM’s Senate and the University Council, has compiled a wish list for the students of our university – things that, in her opinion, would improve university life:

Many people think that a vegan lifestyle is all about renunciation and asceticism. A group of TUM students is trying to work against this prejudgment and to inspire fellow vegetarians and vegans at the same time. Within the framework of a project of the Junge Akademie, the five of them developed a cookbook in which they present their favorite recipies. Now, “QuasiVegan” is included in every welcome-pack for freshers. Simon Rieß is one of the authors.

Intelligent planning with TUMonline, measures to avoid dropping out of a course of studies, exchange via online platforms – a lot of ideas were submitted for this year’s “Academicus”-competition. The winners were awarded in the Audimax in the scope of the “Dies Academicus”.

The latest issue has just been published: the fatum-Magazine – which follows the motto “Philosophie entdecken” (“discovering philosophy”) is published every six months. It is made by students who are associated to the Master’s course “Philosophy of Science and Technology”. The magazine meets the highest standards: just recently, the editorial team was awarded with the TUM’s Karl Max von Bauernfeind Medal.

How much electricity flows through the grid? When and where? Where are the bottlenecks? What happens when wind turbines and solar cells feed in additional energy? The answer to these questions are essential for the global energy turnaround. However, for a valid planning, one first needs a solid understanding of the infrastructure. Researchers at the TUM are now collecting information via an open source platform accessible to everyone.

Johannes Ziegltrum is currently working on his Master’s thesis at TUM, for which the student of Computer Science developed an App that is supposed to inform teenagers and young adults about healthy eating and exercise in a playful way. In an interview for TUMstudinews, he has talks about how the App is structured and how it is integrated in the food cluster “enable”.

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Interested in an exchange semester within Europe? The application period for an international exchange with the Erasmus programme in the winter semester of 2017/18 or in the summer semester 2018 starts on January 11, 2017.