“I rather have the feeling that it was just an excerpt of everything that’s happening here,” says Tim Klüssendorf in an interview with the President of TH Lübeck, Dr. Kim Muriel Helbig. The SPD politician Klüssendorf is represented in the Committee for Digital Affairs in the Bundestag and is informed about the activities in terms of digitization in Lübeck as part of a digital policy week. “The TH Lübeck is of course the first point of contact for me on this subject,” adds Tim Klüssendorf.
The AI Nose
A tightly scheduled program awaited him at the TH Lübeck. At the competence center CoSA of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Prof. Horst Hellbrück’s team presented various projects related to artificial intelligence (AI). These particularly impressed the SPD politician: “I have several highlights: the AI-supported nose, for example (…), which can use odor sensors to recognize which liquid is in front of it.” The intelligent nose is constantly being further developed in the CoSA and is now also on the robot dog “Skip”. The advantage of the artificial nose: it has the ability to detect high concentrations of pollutants without “getting used to” an odor like the human nose. “That was very, very exciting, because this AI also learns and keeps getting better,” summarizes Tim Klüssendorf.
Concrete from the 3D printer
Another highlight for Klüssendorf: “The concrete from the 3D printer and everything that is possible with it nowadays – such as the exhibition stand, which is now being implemented in practice.” RoboLab in the Department of Civil Engineering, Tim Klüssendorf got to know the use of digital manufacturing processes in teaching and research projects. This year, the students of the TH Lübeck are producing a trade fair stand for the Nordbau in Neumünster for the second time with Professors Michael Herrmann and Benjamin Spaeth. For this they use the 3D printer of the RoboLab to obtain efficient and therefore more sustainable constructions.
A keyword that the President of the TH Lübeck likes to take up: “Digitization runs through all our topics and research fields (…), always with a practical application (…) – according to ours Profile also technology and people to think together. We don’t do it for the sake of technology, we don’t see digitization as an end in itself, we try to find an application.”
Digital Skills
Andreas Wittke reported on how digital education can work, digital certificates look like and which platforms are being developed at TH Lübeck Institute for Interactive Systems (ISy). The competence center is managed by Professor Dr. re. of course Monique Janneck and currently employs almost 40 people in 20 projects. This includes, for example, the Future Skills Platform, which was developed for the universities in Schleswig-Holstein and provides digital teaching and learning opportunities for students and teachers and is intended to network teachers from different universities. The focus is on learning opportunities for basic digital skills, such as topics such as New Work and Future Skills or an introduction to AI.