Dr habil. Wolfgang Hansal holds graduation speech at the TU Chemnitz graduation ceremony
In June, around 350 students at Chemnitz University of Technology received their graduation certificates in person at St Peter's Church in Chemnitz. Dr habil. Wolfgang Hansal, who completed his habilitation at the Chair of WOT in December 2018, gives an emotional graduation speech.
On 22 June 2019, around 350 graduates of Chemnitz University of Technology were personally bid farewell to a new phase in their lives. A total of around 1,400 students and doctoral candidates graduate from the TUC each year, of which a good 400 are from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Among them are always around 50 graduates in the specialised field of materials and surface engineering. The Rector of Chemnitz University of Technology, Prof Dr Gerd Strohmeier, congratulated the graduates in person and presented them with their degree certificates. A total of around 1,200 guests attended the event. Due to the great popularity and demand for a centralised graduation ceremony, the format is now held twice a year. In addition to speeches by the Rector and representatives of the city, the programme of the ceremony also included musical interludes by the Collegium Musicum of Chemnitz University of Technology and a humorous speech by poetry slammer Erik Leichter.
However, the closing speech by Dr Wolfgang Hansal, Managing Director of the Austrian company Hirtenberger Engineered Surfaces GmbH, aroused some emotion. Hansal completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Chemnitz University of Technology in December 2018. His supervisor was Prof. Dr habil. Thomas Lampke, holder of the Chair of Materials Science and Engineering WOT. Hansal looked back on his time at the university with gratitude. He praised the intensive contact he had with Prof Lampke, but also with the retired professors Wielage and Steinhäuser. „There is achievement without success, but there is no success without achievement“, said Hansal with a view to his CV, but also took his hat off to the achievements of the other graduates and his supervising institution. He had great respect for the achievements of the WOT professorship and the entire Institute of Materials Science and Engineering at Chemnitz University of Technology. „Great things have been achieved here in recent years, and the balancing act between basic research and work on industry-related topics“ has been mastered, said Hansal. He will therefore remain in close contact with his university – in particular with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the WOT –.
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The Rector of Chemnitz University of Technology, Prof. Dr Gerd Strohmeier (left), and Prof. Dr habil. Thomas Lampke (right), Chair of Materials and Surface Technology at Chemnitz University of Technology, present the habilitation certificate to Dr Wolfgang Hansal, Managing Director of the Austrian company Hirtenberger Engineered Surfaces GmbH
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