Awarded - WOT graduate receives Eleonore-Dießner Prize of the TU Chemnitz 2021
The TU Chemnitz awarded nine young female scientists for outstanding final theses. Alina Joanna Meyer, who completed her Master's thesis on the topic „Influence of Plasma Electrolytic Polishing on Medical Products Based on Nickel-Titanium Shape Memory Alloys“ at the WOT Chair, is one of them.
The Eleonore-Dießner Prize is awarded by the university management and the Equal Opportunities Commission of Chemnitz University of Technology to young female academics who have demonstrated through excellent theses that they are particularly capable of working scientifically and investigating a research topic in a results-oriented manner. The prize also serves as an encouragement to the graduates to continue their commitment in leading positions in science and research. The award's namesake, Dr. Eleonore Dießner, was one of the first female students at the University of Mechanical Engineering in Chemnitz, which was then still called Karl-Marx-Stadt. After graduating from this precursor institution of today's TU Chemnitz in 1969 as the second woman in the STEM field, she worked successfully as a scientist and was also involved as a board member of the working group „Women in the Engineering Profession“ of the Association of German Engineers in Saxony.
In her work, Ms Meyer investigated the manufacturing process of plasma electrolytic polishing. This is based on material removal by a process-related plasma that encloses a workpiece immersed in an electrolyte and removes its surface micromechanically by means of ion bombardments. Since almost no mechanical forces act on the workpiece surface, conductive materials can be machined regardless of their hardness and toughness. In order to characterise the effect of plasma electrolytic polishing processes on medical-technical products, an experimental set-up was to be developed and realised within the scope of the work. On this, Ms Meyer carried out investigations on the finishing of medically relevant NiTi shape memory alloys.
The master's thesis was co-supervised by the WOT professorship and the BTE Beckmann Institute for Technology Development e.V. in Chemnitz.
The entire press release on the prizes awarded is available on the website of the TU Chemnitz press office ( https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/tu/pressestelle/aktuell/11033 ).
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Alina Joanna Meyer with the certificate for receiving the Eleonore-Dießner Award of the TU Chemnitz 2021 (Photo: private)
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