WAK Brose Prizes: Award for innovative theses

The Wissenschaftlicher Arbeitskreis Kunststofftechnik (WAK) annually awards prizes to the best and most innovative theses in the field of plastics technology with the aim of both documenting important advances in the science and technology of plastics and motivating and supporting young engineers in their important work.

Particular emphasis is placed on the potential for usability and sustainability. The awards are based on the focal points of plastics technology research and training in the areas of materials, design, processing and recycling. The best master's thesis (€3,500) and the best doctoral thesis (€5,000) are awarded in each of these areas.

This year, the two Brose prizes, awarded for work in the field of new processes and techniques in the processing of plastics, went to Anke Kaufmann for her master's thesis on “Characterization of the structure formation of hydrogel-forming medical material composites in selective laser beam melting”, and Dr.-Ing. Michael Kröker for his dissertation on “Experimental and model-based investigations into the process behaviour of semi-crystalline materials in the special injection moulding process GITBlow”.