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Student sits at workstation and looks at laptop. © Aliona Kardash​/​TU Dortmund

Outstanding research projects honored with transfer award

© Oliver Schaper​/​TU Dortmund
University President Prof. Manfred Bayer (2nd from left) and award sponsor Dr. Michael Brenscheidt (5th from left) congratulated the winners of the second Transfer Award: Lisa Kröger and Prof. Bettina Brune (3rd and 4th from left) as well as Stefan Böcker (5th from right) and Niklas Jost (2nd from right) with their teammates.
Congratulations to our colleague Niklas Jost and his team for their project "Strategic Network Planning of Seaport Hinterland Transport" (Strategische Netzplanung von Seehafenhinterlandverkehren). Their work impressed the CET Transfer Advisory Board enough to award them third place in the "Dr. Michael Brenscheidt Transfer Prize", which was awarded for the second time by TU Dortmund University to three research projects with successful practical applications.

Three IT research projects that have successfully proven their practical application were awarded the Dr. Michael Brenscheidt Transfer Prize on Thursday, January 29, 2026, as part of the tenth “Future Dialogue.” Dr. Michael Brenscheidt, founder of the biennial transfer prize, appeared in person and, together with Prof. Manfred Bayer, our President (Rektor), congratulated the winners at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Transfer (CET).

Optimizing supply chains in the hinterland of seaports – The project “Strategic Network Planning of Seaport Hinterland Transport” (Strategische Netzplanung von Seehafenhinterlandverkehren) by Niklas Jost and his teammates at the Institute for Transport Logistics ITL (Institut für Transportlogistik) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (Fakultät Maschinenbau) and the Chair of Discrete Optimization (Lehrstuhl für Diskrete Optimierung) in the Department of Mathematics (Fakultät für Mathematik) took third place. Together with industry partner DB Schenker, the team developed a software solution that automates complex routing decisions in global supply chains. The system not only saves time and money, but also serves as a strategic tool for simulating network structures in which a single decision influences all others at the same time.

Setting up a private 5G network – Second place went to “5G.NRW vor Ort” by Stefan Böcker and the team from the Communication Networks Institute CNI (Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationsnetze KN) at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik). The project bridges the gap between theoretical 5G research and the practical use of private campus networks with a three-phase model that uses the self-developed and free tool “Campusnetzplan” to estimate the application fees for a planned network and pre-fill an application. During on-site 5G action days, the researchers offer practical experience with the mobile laboratory and enable individual performance evaluation during operation in the “Deep Dive.” In the future, the model will also be transferred to the use of 6G.

Repairing steel bridges without complete closure – Lisa Kröger and Prof. Bettina Brune from the Chair of Steel Construction at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Lehrstuhl Stahlbau der Fakultät Architektur und Bauingenieurwesen) won first prize for their practical concept for repairing steel bridges without complete closure. The civil engineers defined criteria for injection screws for the first time and demonstrated both the feasibility and the economic advantage in practice. Together with a panel of experts from science and industry, they were able to translate the concept into federal and European guidelines that enable immediate application of the process in Germany – not only in bridge renovation, but also in general construction.

Quelle und mehr dazu: https://www.tu-dortmund.de/detail/herausragende-projekte-mit-transferpreis-ausgezeichnet-60294/ 

© Oliver Schaper​​/​​TU Dortmund
Niklas Jost expresses his gratitude for the award at the microphone.