The Deep Forest project group, consisting of Jozef Mikyta, Merle Lessig, Sven Schneider, and Marija Lucic accepting prize money.
Faculty I's pioneering IT projects receive awards
Innovative solutions, technical skill, and a great deal of commitment. On Friday, 23 January, students presented their semester projects in the I Building during Faculty I's big presentation day.
“It's never easy, but this semester it was particularly difficult,” emphasised Prof. Dr. Ralf Gerlich, referring to the jury's work. The high quality of the submitted projects made selecting the winners a real challenge.
The traditional prize from M&M Software, St. Georgen, was awarded to the team behind the master's project “FLOW” (Domenik Zieten, Jannis Wiethüchter, and Cedric Andre). “FLOW” is an AI-supported assembly workstation that supports human-robot collaboration in manual but varied assembly scenarios. The scope and complexity of the project were particularly impressive − everything from the hardware to the software was developed independently.
For the first time, the PE Foundation St-Georgen, which is dedicated to promoting STEM education and technology jobs, also awarded two prizes. The awards went to student projects that highlight computer science as a key competence and demonstrate a clear practical relevance to digital and technical development in the Black Forest.
One of the prizes went to the “GoPiCopter” project. The students involved (Jascha Benjamin Lenz, Enis Sylejmani, Sören Bangert, Yannik Offermann, and Vadim Felker) developed a drone for autonomous tracking.