Honors and Awards 2005

• Abhari’s Laboratory for Energy Conversion:

• Prof. Abhari received a donation of about 2,8 million CHF from Dr. Branco Weiss for ACAP (Academic and Career Advisory Program)

• Glocker's Center for Mechanics:

• Prof. Glocker received the Goldene Eule Award for his teaching

• Guzzella's Measurement and Control Laboratory:

• The research group of Christopher Onder received the Swiss Technology Award from the Paul Scherrer Institute

• Jenny's Institute of Fluid Dynamics:

• Prof. Jenny received the Nationaler Latsis-Preis

• Kleiser's Institute of Fluid Dynamics:

• Prof. Kleiser received ETH-Medaille for Doctoral thesis Dr. Philipp Schlatter (PhD defense April 2005)

• Nelson's Multiscale and Robotics Lab:

• has been selected as one of the „Scientific American 50“ for 2005, Scientific American magazine‘s annual list of 50 science and technology leaders, for his work on nanotube manufacturing

• Prof. U. Meyer:

• Prof. Meyer received donations of CHF 10kCHF from Du Pont, Geneva, 2kCHF from Scaglia S.p.A., Brembilla (BG, Italy), and 2kCHF from Moog GmbH, Böblingen, Germany

• Panke's Institute of Process Engineering:

• Prof. Panke received the humanTech Innovationspreis 2005 (2nd place) from IBM & Swiss Engineering for the Projekt MIDAS
• Johannes Kluge received the SGVC-Price for his diploma work

• Poulikakos' Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies:

• The Award of the ASME Systems Analysis Technical Committee was given to Stephan M. Senn, doctoral student of D. Poulikakos

• Pratsinis' Particle Technology Laboratory:

• PD Dr. L. Maedler received the 2005 Marian Smoluchowski Award for Aerosol Research by the European Aerosol Association in Ghent, Belgium, for his research on Flame Spray Pyrolysis. This is the oldest award of that association that is given once a year to a scientist under 40
• Prof. S.E. Pratsinis has been appointed the Russell Severence Springer Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, for 4 weeks in 2005-2006.

• Rudolf von Rohr's Transport Processes and Reactions Laboratory:

• Tobias Rothenfluh received the SGVC Innovation Award. The first prize was given to Tobias Rothenfluh from the Institute of Process Engineering at ETH Zürich for his work entitled "Measurements and Visualization of Velocity and Concentration Fields in Turbulent Channel Flows with Complex Surface Geometry." The Swiss Society for Chemical Engineering (SGVC) has for the third time awarded young ETH-engineers for their exceptional and innovative diploma theses.

• Wegener's Institute of Machine Tools and Manufacturing:

• Dr. Andreas Kunz has been honored with the title Privatdozent by the rector of ETHZ; this implies the right to teach (venia legendi)

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