TUMstudinews: The Newsletter for Students

Don't miss anything: Important dates and infos for students, stories from the campus, interviews – this and more you can find in our newsletter TUMstudinews. It is published three times per semester. On this site you can subscribe and read all previous issues.

Bobsleighing: Student of Electrical Engineering runner-up in World-Championships
Johannes Lochner races to the podium
Johannes Lochner, a student of Electrical Engineering at TUM, is now runner-up world champion in Bobsleighing. At the World Championships in Innsbruck-Igls, he and his pusher Joshua Bluhm, reached the second place – only 17 hundredths of a second away from the championship title.
Physicist and TV host Philip Häusser:
Cosmic rays in the living room
If you run across Philip Häusser at TUM, you might have the feeling of knowing him from somewhere. From television? The young TV host has his own series in “Galileo” (ProSieben), called “High Speed Heros”. In everyday life, Häusser is a doctoral student at the TUM’s Department of Computer Vision in Garching. In a studinews-interview, he talks about his “double life”.
Scholarship student Annika Möslein:
Living in the Maximilianeum
Free board and lodging throughout a course of studies? A privilege for those who were able to get a scholarship of the Maximilianeum Foundation. Each year, a maximum of eight new students are selected – and Annika Möslein is one of them. She is a student of Engineering Science at TUM. For studinews, she speaks about her everyday life at the Foundation and about her dream of flying into space.
WARR-Hyperloop:
Traveling in a capsule
“That was great!” – Mariana Avezum is thrilled. The computer scientist and her “WARR-Hyperloop”-team at TUM, which consists of 20 members, recently returned from College Station (Texas). The reason of their stay: participating in a design competition for a new type of high-speed transport system at the Texas A&M University.
A cooking-trolley, designed by TUM students:
Thinking outside the box
“überkochen” is the name Constanze Buckenlei, Marco Kellhammer and Moritz von Ulardt gave their cooking-trolley. They developed the prototype in the scope of the project “Schule designen” (designing school) within the Master’s course of Industrial Design. The idea is to address the topic of food and nutrition in classrooms in a playful manner.
Firefighter Jacqueline Wagner:
Enzymes and firehoses
Jacqueline Wagner arrives for her interview right on time. For the 23-year-old student from Neufahrn, it is of vital importance to be fast, to be on time – not so much regarding her first Master’s semester of Biochemistry at TUM, but because she is a firefighter at the voluntary fire department Neufahrn.
Workshop at the Carl von Linde-Akademie:
Less stress!
Tests, an internship report, preparing presentations and doing a part-time job… it can get quite stressful. According to a study by the TK, more than half of the students in Germany are regularly stressed out – sometimes so much that their study progress suffers. “Stress lass nach” is a new workshop at the Carl von Linde Akademie. Kirsten Bannert explains what it is about.
Articles in journals and book chapters:
Free scans
Do you prefer to read texts for your studies on your laptop or tablet computer? The University Library offers free scans of articles in journals and book chapters.
Concept of personal accompaniment:
Buddies for Refugees to be continued
In the summer semester of 2016, the TUM’s concept of personal accompaniment and support for asylum-seeking refugees is to be continued.
“eAssessment”:
Digital examination certificates
Are you interested in how digital media can help you to capture, assess, reflect and evaluate your learning achievement? If so, visit this year’s eLearning-day at TUM!