Kai-Uwe Schröder
Kai-Uwe Schröder (born February 12, 1973 in Hanover ) is a German civil engineer . Since 2013 he has been Professor of Structural Mechanics and Lightweight Construction at RWTH Aachen University . He has headed the Institute for Structural Mechanics and Lightweight Construction there since August 2014.
Life
From 1993 to 1999, Schröder completed a degree in civil engineering with a focus on “structural engineering” at Leibniz University in Hanover. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Statics and Dynamics there until 2005. From 2005 to completing his doctorate in 2007, he took on a position as research and development engineer at ELAN GmbH in Hamburg . Subsequently, he received a position as senior engineer in the field of method development and project team leader at ELAN-AUSY GmbH in Hamburg.
From 2010 to 2011 Schröder was taken on as a university assistant with a doctorate at the Institute for Lightweight Structures at Johannes Kepler University Linz , where he subsequently worked as an assistant professor until 2013. From 2012 to 2013 he was division manager for the area Austria Central-West in the Association of German Engineers (VDI).
Kai-Uwe Schröder has been Full Professor of Structural Mechanics and Lightweight Design at RWTH Aachen University since October 2013, where he has headed the Institute for Structural Mechanics and Lightweight Design since August 2014. The projects he manages include the hybrid local transport concept “upBus”, in which a passenger cabin is to alternate between a bus on a chassis and a gondola on a cable car.
Awards
- 2016: The Derek George Astridge Safety in Aerospace Award from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Web links
- Literature by and about Kai-Uwe Schröder in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kai-Uwe Schröder , on sla.rwth-aachen.de, accessed on May 31, 2019
- ↑ Annika Kasties: RWTH start-up “upBus”: A “plug” against the traffic collapse. In: Aachener Zeitung . February 19, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schröder, Kai-Uwe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |