Vienna, October 19, 2012 – This year, for the fifth time, Kapsch honors the best master’s theses at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien. Six students who impressed the jury of the university with outstanding performance and high-quality work in the 2011/2012 academic year received the Kapsch Award 2012. In addition to the recognition of their efforts, each winner also receives 2,000 euros in prize money.
"We established the Kapsch Award to promote students who have chosen a technical field of study. Well-trained technical graduates are in greater demand than ever before. We therefore want to motivate young people to study technical fields," says Rudolf Bernscherer, Head of Human Resources for the Kapsch Group, highlighting the importance of promoting education. One master’s thesis can be submitted per master’s program. The UAS Technikum Wien makes the selection. "The quality level of the master’s thesis was once again very high this year. The Kapsch Group gives us the opportunity to pay special tribute to the best achievements," says Gabriele Költringer, Managing Director of FH Technikum Wien GmbH. The prerequisites for a submission for the Kapsch Award are special distinctions on the completion of the last year of study, on the master’s thesis and master’s exam as well as completion of the study program in the standard period of time.
The winner of the Kapsch Award 2012 (from left to right): Mag. Markus Kreuzinger MSc, Dipl. Ing. (FH) Martin Hartmann MSc, Dipl. Ing. (FH) Georg Siegel MSc, Dipl. Ing. (FH) Simon Müller MSc, Dipl. Ing. Karl Holzer MSc and Dipl. Ing. Kurt Ambrosch MSc.
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The Winners and Their Master’s Theses |
House 2050 – Trend Analyses on the Energy Demands of Residential Buildings
DI Georg Siegl, MSc |
The work analyzes the current developments regarding the energy demands of households in Austria with a time horizon extending to 2050 in order to explore the areas in which intervention in these developments would be most effective in reducing the energy demand. Demographic, social and technical aspects were all taken into account. |
ReSearching Electronic Health Records: Quality Assurance in the Use of Routinely Collected Electronic Health Data for Research
DI Karl Holzer, MSc |
This master’s thesis concerns two work packets of a project carried out by the Medical University of Vienna, which pursued the goal of creating guidelines for the secondary use of routinely collected, electronically available health data. The data quality and the data sources available in Austria were analyzed. |
Use and Optimization of SURF for Facial Recognition
Mag. Markus Kreuzinger, MSc |
The primary goal of this work is the analysis of whether local features are suitable for facial recognition. A current process for facial recognition (Viola and Jones detector) and SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features) are combined in a program for this purpose. Various capturing conditions for images are also compared to thereby demonstrate the optimal use of SURF for facial recognition. |
Comparison of the traffic demand declines due to a mileage based urban charging and
a cordon charging
DI Martin Hartmann, MSc |
The aim of the thesis is to provide an insight look into different congestion pricing schemes and evaluate their effects on the travel demand in the city. The thesis studies the possible countermeasures of the city management in terms of tolling the road users on the polluter pays principle. |
Body Weight Index - A New Method for Classification of Overweight and Obesity
DI Kurt Ambrosch, MSc |
This work proposes a new method for evaluation of overweight and obesity as an alternative to the body mass index (BMI). The new body weight index (BWI) takes into account the ideal values of BMI, WHtR (waist to height ratio) and WHR (waist to hip ratio) in dependence on age and gender. |
Static and Dynamic Finite Element Modelling
of a Robot Structure
DI (FH) Simon Müller, MSc |
Dynamic as well as static functions arise in the development of mechanical and electronic structures. This work investigates the possible contributions of modern simulation environments and how they can be employed for complex mechanical structures. |
University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
With almost 6,000 alumni and more than 2,700 students currently taking its eleven bachelor’s and seventeen master’s degree programs, UAS Technikum Wien is the largest, purely technical university of applied sciences in Austria. All of the diverse bachelor’s and master’s programs are based on a solid theoretical foundations, while also being practice-oriented. They are offered as full-time and/or part-time degree programs. At UAS Technikum Wien, emphasis is not only placed on providing a high-quality technical education, but also on language training, business subjects and personal development. Close ties with business and industry provide students with the possibility of internships and offer graduates excellent career opportunities. UAS Technikum Wien was founded in 1994 and became Vienna’s first university of applied sciences in 2000. It is a network partner of the FEEI – Association of the Austrian Electrical and Electronics Industries. www.technikum-wien.at.
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