Graduation Ceremonies of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics

The ceremony took place on Friday, 10 November 2023, from 18:00 in the Coronation Hall of Aachen City Hall.

• 18:30 - Start of the ceremony
• Moderation: Prof. Dr Raphael Pfaff, Faculty of Rail Vehicle Technology and Prof. Dr Axel Thomas, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, FH Aachen
• Welcoming address: Prof. Dr Walter Reichert, Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics at FH Aachen
• Greeting from the Rectorate: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martina Klocke, Vice Rector for Diversity and Equity of Opportunity
• Musical intermezzo: Band of the faculties - "Rolf and his friends"
• Guest and ceremonial address: Sascha Hermanns, M. Eng., Meta Motoren-und-Energie-Technik GmbH
• Musical intermezzo: Band of the faculties - "Rolf and his friends"
• Studying at FH Aachen - a graduate reports: Katharina Brockhaus, graduate B. Eng. Mechanical Engineering
• Musical intermezzo: Band of the faculties - "Rolf and his friends"
• Honouring the graduates of the faculty
• Farewell and joint photo of the graduates
• Musical intermezzo: Band of the faculties - "Rolf and his friends"
• 21:00 - Conclusion and exchange over finger food and drinks
• Around 23:00 - End of the event

The graduation ceremony 2022 took place on Friday, 18 November 2022, from 6:00 pm in the Coronation Hall of Aachen City Hall.

Those graduates of the faculty who successfully completed their Bachelor's or Master's degree at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics at FH Aachen between mid-September 2020 and mid-September 2022 were honoured. Since the graduation ceremonies in 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to corona, two years of graduates from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics were honoured this year.

Organisation of the 2022 ceremony: Christine Cordes

• Admission and welcome reception: 6.00 p.m.
• Start of the celebration: 18.30
• Musical accompaniment: Rolf and his friends
• Moderator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raphael Pfaff, Subject Area Rail Vehicle Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics
• Welcoming address: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Walter Reichert, Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences
• Greeting from the Rectorate: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martina Klocke, Vice Rector for Diversity and Equal Opportunities
• Keynote speakers:

1. Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Liffmann, Head of Sales Carl KRAFFT & Söhne GmbH & Co. KG, Düren (and alumni of the faculty)
2. Studying at the FH Aachen - two graduates report: Stefan Sutter, graduate of the B.Eng. degree programme Mechanical Engineering, and Sophie Charlotte Katharina Keunecke, graduate of the  M.Sc. degree programme Mechatronics

• Honouring of the graduates
• Farewell
• Joint graduates' photo on the steps of the Coronation Hall
• 9.00 p.m. - Conclusion and exchange with finger food, drinks and musical entertainment (if desired, individual and group photos can be taken by the photographer on site)
• around 23.00 - end of the event

• Admission and welcome reception: 6.00 p.m.
• Start of the ceremony: 18.30
• Musical accompaniment: FH Jazzcombo under the direction of Boris Bansbach
• Moderation: Prof. Dr. Raphael Pfaff, teaching subject area Rail Vehicle Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics
• Welcome address: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus-Peter Kämper, Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences
• Greeting from the Rectorate: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Josef Rosenkranz, Vice-Rector for Studies and Teaching at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences
• Ceremonial addresses:

1. Dipl.-Ing. Daniel Jordan, Planning Car Body Production K1, Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen Plant, Daimler AG, Sindelfingen (and graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics at FH Aachen)
2. Dr. Christian Otten, Executive Director of LaVa-X GmbH (and graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics at FH Aachen):  "Studying at the FH welds us together!"

• Honouring of the graduates
• Farewell ceremony
• Joint graduates' photo on the stairs of the Coronation Hall
• 9.00 p.m. - Conclusion and exchange with finger food, drinks and musical entertainment (if desired, individual and group photos can be taken by the photographer on site)
• around 23.00 - end of the event

The following students are honoured for their studies with a certificate from the faculty (listed by the name of their first examiner):

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sabri Anik: Peter Husemann, Tizian Schappacher, Jannick Uhlemann
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Benner: Adrian Kurmann, Robert Milzner
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus-Gerd Bullerschen (FB6): Naveen Kalra
• Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Constanze Chwallek (FB7): Lars Tafelmeier
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Dahmann: Sumit Chindarkar
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Enning: Bastian König
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Ferrein (FB5): Sayali Rokde
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Feuerriegel: Daniel Becker, André Breuer, Annik Metje, Felix Winter
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Gebhardt: Karim Abbas, Lea Eilert, Marius Giese, Noel Kuske, Hannah Lehnen, Marius Schild, Marco David Skupin
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Heynen: Felicitas Carls, Ferdinand Müller-Gladen, Marco Solasse, Maximilian Sonntag
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Felix Hüning (FB5): Nikitha Suresh Badas, Srinivas Gollapudi, Akshit Goyal, Gaurav Kulkarni, Deepak Rao
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Janser (FB6): Dominic Wolf
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus-Peter Kämper: Adnan Boxwala, Fabian Host, Pratik Panchal, Katrin Scharf
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Kallweit: Harshal Dawar
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martina Klocke: Jan Bockwinkel, Diana Diefenthal, Björn Heiko Härtel, Peter Snellings, Marcel Spoden
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nils Luft: Moritz Schnorrenberg, Tobias Schroer, Alexander Segin, Constantin von Hörsten
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Meinecke (FB7): Din Coralic
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Karin Melcher: Matthias Blumenschein
• Prof. Dr. Raphael Pfaff: Zied Elfen, Sebastian Schubert
• Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Wolfram Pietsch (FB7): Felix Dannhauer, Mailin Scheuls
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Jürgen Raatschen: Anmol Alghare, Raphael Orlik
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Walter Reichert: Felix Wirthmüller
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Schleser: Manuel Dederichs, Frederic Dutzke, Tobias Göttert, Johannes Rose, Simon Verbücheln, Pascal Weiß, Andreas Wiesen
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf-Werner Schmitt: Thorsten Olschewsky, Simon Theres, Jerome Smets
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Günter Schmitz (FB6): Yannic Gerads
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Schulte-Zurhausen (FB7): Laura Fautz, Simon Jörgens, Jonathan Knodel, Paul-Jannik Seidel
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Pamela Stöcker: Hanna-Sarah Holthaus, Dennis Radtke
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Weigand: Christopher Gahler
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Wollert: Florian König, Daniel Sürken

• Admission and welcome reception: 6.00 p.m.
• Start of the celebration: 18.30
• Musical accompaniment: Rolf and his friends
• Moderation: Prof. Dr. Axel Thomas
• Welcome address: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Gebhardt, Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences
• Greeting from the Rectorate: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Marcus Baumann, Rector of the FH Aachen
• Speeches by Dipl.-Ing. Heinz Thoma, Managing Partner IMATEC GmbH Simmerath (and former graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics at FH Aachen)
• Speech by a graduate: Lukas Schulte
• Honouring of the graduates
• Farewell
• Joint graduate photo on the stairs of the Coronation Hall as well as individual photos on request
• 9.00 p.m. - Conclusion and exchange with finger food, drinks and musical entertainment
• around 23.00 hrs - end of the event

The following graduates are honoured for their studies with a certificate from the faculty (listed by the name of their first examiner):

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Benner: Enrico Steffens, Nils Wrede
• Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Constanze Chwallek (FB7): Lars Tafelmeier
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Feuerriegel: Julia Rauw
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Gebhardt: Ingo Vincent Dietz von Bayer, German Frikel, Erik Hartl, Florian Kellermann, Matthias Küpper, Lukas Tirre, Martina Wangnick, Lukas Schulte
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Wilhelm Hanrath: Eduard Grossmann
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Heynen: Norbert Broos, Jonas Klother, Thomas Schütt
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Felix Hüning (FB5): Stephan Schütz
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Kallweit: Sriram Badri, Nachiket Bapat, Enno Dülberg, Maurice Iven
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus-Peter Kämper: Amrith Ganesh, Febin Jose, Yigit Alp Sadiki, Anish Subramanian
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martina Klocke: Jan Cremer, Lioba Keusen, Lukas Klee, Daniel Konopka, Philipp Köpf, Sebastian Sklenak, Jörn Strauch
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nils Luft: Britt van Deursen
• Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Wolfram Pietsch (FB7): Laura Seith
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Jürgen Raatschen: Hendrik Pegel, Nadia Pinedo Oruna, Robert Stepanov
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Walter Reichert: Simon Niklas Dunkel, Julian Hurtienne, Sebastian Kaldenbach, Christoph Lessmann, Jens Niklas Schmiemann, Marline Stock
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Schleser: Michael Lothar Heliosch, Lisa Kristin Kahler, Florian Kessel, Tillmann Knoche, Mathis Konkel, Juri Kopp, Horst Thomas Kreitz, Joscha Lauterborn, Matthias Peters, Matthias Reeken, Bengü Sivit, Bastian Sonntag, Andreas Vondeberg, Jonas Wisniewski Vonester, Jan Peter Wisniewski, Thomas Zerbst
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Schmidt: Alexandra Daniela Wilbring
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf-Werner Schmitt: Felix Leiting, Marilena Oetjen
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Schulte-Zurhausen (FB7): Thomas Breuer, Mira Sophie Frei, Wilhelm Hohnen
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Pamela Stöcker: Dewina Leeweei Chia, Jonas Lohmann, Marius Umlauf
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Wollert: Felix Geppert, Jessica Ulmer

• 18.00: Welcome reception
• The evening will be hosted by: Prof. Dr. Axel Thomas
• Musical accompaniment: Rolf and his friends
• Rolf and his friends: Come as you are
• Welcome address: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Gebhardt, Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics
• Greeting from the Rectorate: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Wulf, Vice-Rector for University Development (Pro III) at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences
• Ceremonial address: Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Houben, MBA, Executive Director of JHT, Jakobs-Houben Technologie GmbH, Member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics
• Rolf and his friends: My Ing.
• Honouring the graduates
• Rolf and his friends: Graduate heroes
• Rolf and his friends: Verdamp Lang Study
• Farewell
• Rolf and his friends: My FH
• Photo of all graduates on the stairs to the Coronation Hall
• 21.00 - Conclusion and exchange with canapés, drinks and musical entertainment
• around 23.00 - End of the event

The following graduates were honoured for their studies with a certificate from the faculty (listed by the name of their first examiner):

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Dahmann for the professors of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering: Justin Jason Freudenreich, Vanchinathan Ganesan, Andreas Groß, Oliver Lück.
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Enning: Lothar Hilgers, Johannes Knapp, Benjamin Lieck, Gregor Röring, Martin Schöppner, Dirk Vogel, Tobias Wall
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Feuerriegel: Frank Meeßen, Julia Rauw, for Prof. Joachim Benner: Orhan Gündogan
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Gebhardt: Alexander Groß, Keno Maywald, Timo Naumann, Jian Zoing Tan, Christopher Thelen, Thilageswary Tiagarajan, Livia Carmen Wiedau
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Heynen: Michael Kahlen, For Prof. Wilhelm Hanrath: Thilo Klaus Bialaschik
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Kallweit: Alexander Jungen, Martin Klein, Ankit Shrivastava,
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus-Peter Kämper, and
• for the professors of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering: René Kitten, Christopher Hendrik Alexander Werner, Rahul Pandey, Kartheek Suresh,
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martina Klocke: Lukas Jöhren, Marie Lindemann, Dominique Preis, Jasmin Prince, Matthias Sebastian Quincke, Marius Reißdörfer, Lukas Schäper,
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ludger Knepper for the Faculty of Economics: Kerstin-Nathalie Barstadt, Thomas-Maximilian Böhm, Serkan Ceran, Jens Dittrich, Annika Hartmann, Kevin Katzke,
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Karin Melcher: Matthias Blumenschein
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Walter Reichert: Sven Brüggemann, Kaan Goezler, Simon Jörgens, Hendrik Matschke, Patrick Mücke, Lukas Nölle, Marcel Pfeiffer, Johann Sebastian Schmidt
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Schleser: Denis Buchenthal, Manuel Dederichs, Eugen Ditzel, Fabian Eichler, Lea Eilert, Matthias Grobelny, Miriam Gunkel, Klaus Heuken, Nils Hillmer, Anne Katrhin Jünger, Matthias Loick, Niko Majolo, Philipp Zimmermann
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf-Werner Schmitt: Benedikt Alt, Markus Buchau, Patrik Heldmann, Jens Mensing
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Pamela Stöcker: Simon Scheuer, Fabian Stellberg
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Wollert: Hilario Salomón Galván Guzmán, Mandar Gole, Niklas Loosen

• 18.00: Welcome reception
• The evening will be chaired by: Prof. Dr. Axel Thomas
• Musical accompaniment: Rolf and his friends "You've got it made".
• Welcome address: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Gebhardt, Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics
• Greeting from the Rectorate: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Marcus Baumann, Rector of FH Aachen
• Ceremonial address: Michael Mahr, Theodor Mahr und Söhne GmbH, Aachen
• Rolf and his friends "We'll make an engineer out of you".
• Honouring the graduates
• Rolf and his friends "Now I'm an engineer".
• Farewell
• Joint staircase photo of all graduates on the stairs to the Coronation Hall
• 21.00 - Conclusion and exchange with canapés, drinks and musical entertainment
• around 23.00 - End of the event

The following graduates were honoured for their studies with a certificate from the faculty (listed according to the name of their first examiner):

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Dahmann for the professors of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering: Bapat, Sieben, Vasekar
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Gebhardt: Buscher, Hinßen, Kaciran, Leusch, Moghadamfar, Rademacher, Schlimpen, Szenes Paredes, Tirre, Westerdiek, Wiesen
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Heynen: Gockel, Ziegler
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Kallweit: Brodersen Miethe, Dülberg, Frings
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus-Peter Kämper: Calderón Carlos, Kaster,
• for the professors of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering: Chakraborty, Dani, Gopalakrishnan Kavitha, Kamaraju, Majda, Ramalingam, Sundaram, Venugopal
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martina Klocke: Bachmann, Brück, Castro, Geick, Hendricks, Huck, Kunze, Libera, Müller, Nepicks, Roskopf, Scherer, Wäldchen, Zettel;
• for Prof. Stellberg: Hausold, Schnur
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ludger Knepper: Artelt, Bach, Bechtel, Behling, Bisselink, Erdinc, Ernst, Gennen, Herm, Kreuch, Meis, Naujoks, Riege
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Karin Melcher: Meder, Sivit
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raphael Pfaff: Bächler, Fleck, Lorang, Pöhlmann, Rampal
• Prof. Dr. oec. Bernd P. Pietschmann for the professors of the Faculty of Economics: Bertels, Claßen, Corselli, Esser, Fuß, Henn, Lauscher, Pickshaus, Rayeck, Rolf, Schnabel, Yildirim, Ziegler
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Jürgen Raatschen: Caßelmann, Hyoukap Ngansop
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Walter Reichert: Beckmann, Bittner, Braun, Dunkel, Keßler, Köser, Lappe, Michalke, Schnichels, Schummers, Timmer, Wangnick
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Schleser: Dippel, Fögen, Geisemeyer, Goldberg, Harloff, Kopp, Lübbering, Nagel, Richter, Rose, Schlösser, Schwinges, Sonntag
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf-Werner Schmitt: Cordewiner, Gholami Bajestani, Huwer, Ilikel, Muckel, Patuta, Tekampe, Theunissen
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Pamela Stöcker: Stengel;
• for Prof. Starke: Murali;
• for Prof. Benner: Barendt, Bauer, Koll, Orlik, Schlütz
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Wollert: Garg, Klinkhammer, König