Engineer Powerwoman Award
At WomenPower 2021, Deutsche Messe AG will honor for the ninth time a female pioneer in the STEM field who through her commitment, her ideas and her work promotes technical innovation within her company and thus is a motivation and inspiration for fellow women.
Dr. Kathrin Rüschenschmidt is Engineer Powerwoman
This year, Dr. Kathrin Rüschenschmidt was named Engineer Powerwoman at WomenPower during HANNOVER MESSE Digital Edition. She accepted the award following laudatory speeches by Dorothea Bär, Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery and Federal Government Commissioner for Digitalization, and Angela Josephs, Vice Chair of the WomenPower Congress Advisory Board and Director Corporate Communications at Phoenix Contact.
The winner of the Engineer Powerwoman Award can expect a media-effective award ceremony during the opening of the WomenPower Career Congress on April 16, 2021, as well as an attractive PR package for maximum visibility worth EUR 5,000.
Mrs. Elke Büdenbender, patron of the initiative Klischeefrei and wife of the German President, has taken over the patronage of the Engineer Powerwoman Award for the second time. With the renewed assumption of the patronage Elke Büdenbender wants to continue to draw attention to existing gender stereotypes in the choice of profession and to fight these."
This year's three award nominees have been named:
Continental Teves AG & Co.oHG
Mrs. Dr. Boger graduated from a specialized high school in Croatia in chemistry. In 1992 she started her chemistry studies and successfully obtained her PhD in polymer chemistry in 2002. She started her professional career in industry. Initially, she worked for the automotive supplier Behr in Stuttgart as project manager for "Innovative Surface Coating Processes for Heat Exchangers".
Emerson Automation Solutions
Dr. Kathrin Rüschenschmidt holds a doctorate in physics. Already during her studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, she volunteered in the physics department council. As a women's representative, she got schoolgirls interested in the STEM subject of physics and advocated for female students and doctoral candidates.
KUKA AG
With a refreshing mix of analytical competence, open mindset, empathetic leadership style and an infectious enthusiasm for complex technical solutions, Dr. Kristina Wagner is one of the key drivers of digital transformation at the robotics and automation group KUKA.
The nominees for the Engineer Powerwoman Award 2021:
INNIO Jenbacher GmbH & Co OG
Zita Baumann works as a "Performance Engineer" at INNIO Jenbacher and successfully managed the two-year project "Development of a 1 MW hydrogen engine". She was project manager from the project definition phase to the project completion and coordinated different partners. Among others, universities, suppliers, INNIO internal development departments, authorities and also the customer had to be coordinated. In addition to the project management tasks, the development of the burning process was one of her core tasks.
Continental Teves AG & Co.oHG
Mrs. Dr. Boger graduated from a specialized high school in Croatia in chemistry. In 1992 she started her chemistry studies and successfully obtained her PhD in polymer chemistry in 2002. She started her professional career in industry. Initially, she worked for the automotive supplier Behr in Stuttgart as project manager for "Innovative Surface Coating Processes for Heat Exchangers".
VITRONIC Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH
After completing her international and interdisciplinary engineering studies in Mexico and Germany, Ms. Forstmann started her career at VITRONIC 13 years ago where she has been working in the automation area ever since.
Altair Engineering, Inc.
In September 2020, Dr. Rosemary Francis sold her company, Ellexus, to Altair, a global technology company that provides solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI). The move culminated a decade of success growing an innovative and fast-paced tech company and brought Ellexus’ pioneering software to a much wider audience. Ellexus’ unique products, now Altair products, will now benefit many more organisations involved in HPC as Rosemary has taken on the role of chief scientist at Altair.
MAN Energy Solutions SE
Starting in 2017, Dr. Lehner established a new group for batteries and hybridization at MAN Energy Solutions as part of pre-development. This group has already developed simulation tools for hybrid systems in the stationary and marine sectors, designed and analyzed product concepts, and laid the foundations for offering hybrid systems as part of MAN Energy Solutions' transformation into a solutions provider.
Engel Austria GmbH
ENGEL is one of the leading Austrian mechanical engineering companies and is the world market leader in the development and production of injection moulding machines and their automation. Current focal points in development are digitalization, circular economy and energy saving in production. Ms. Markut-Kohl is at the forefront of development here as a project manager. She and her project teams deal with digitization topics, such as data consistency along the value chain and the links from the real injection molding process to its digital shadow.
Deutsche Telekom AG
Claudia Pohlink is head of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) at Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs), Deutsche Telekom's research and development unit. With her background in data science and innovation management, she successfully combines theory and practice.
Emerson Automation Solutions
Dr. Kathrin Rüschenschmidt holds a doctorate in physics. Already during her studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, she volunteered in the physics department council. As a women's representative, she got schoolgirls interested in the STEM subject of physics and advocated for female students and doctoral candidates.
KUKA AG
With a refreshing mix of analytical competence, open mindset, empathetic leadership style and an infectious enthusiasm for complex technical solutions, Dr. Kristina Wagner is one of the key drivers of digital transformation at the robotics and automation group KUKA.
Robert Bosch GmbH
During the initial challenges of the Corona crisis, Ms. Wurst was offered the project management for the in-house production of respirators, which were hardly available on the external market at that time, at Robert Bosch GmbH.
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