Award for young academics
ACE shock absorbers: Innovace award ceremony
At the second edition of Innovace, the award created by ACE Shock Absorbers for young academics, two teams were selected as equal winners at the award ceremony on November 21 in Langenfeld. The winning concept designs for a mechatronic holding and locking system were developed by Nico Graßmann and Rick Storm from Fontys Venlo University of Applied Science and Mathias Blessing, Jannik Montag and Chris Taschelmayer from the Georg Agricola University of Applied Sciences in Bochum.
Both teams provided the technical proof required in the tender that their lockable safety gear with integrated damping and a triggering lock via smartphone work. Accordingly, the prize money of 7,000 euros will be split between the two winning teams.
For the first time, foreign universities also took part in Innovace 2018. André Weßling, globally responsible for marketing at ACE and one of the initiators, is delighted with the international participation: "Unlike last year's competition, there was greater participation in all phases this year. We communicated with the teams in web conferences and answered queries on the phone and by email through our student employees."
The overall quality of the submissions was so high that it was difficult for the company's five-member jury to select just one winner when evaluating the challenging and extensive entries. The difficulty was mainly due to the approaches of the teams awarded the Innovace 2018. While the work from Bochum follows the classic methodical development approach from mechanical engineering, the solution from the university in Venlo in the Netherlands also includes elements of product design and is freer in terms of form and idea development.
The ACE jury, which also includes two work-study students, was faced with a stalemate even after intensive discussions and assessments of the work. "So this year there are two equal and absolutely deserving winning teams," says André Weßling and continues: "The quality of all the entries is so great that we are not worried about the next generation of academics in Europe."
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