The BTU's DAAD Prize 2023 goes to Yuyao Jiang

The matriculation ceremony to mark the start of the new academic year is an excellent occasion to honor the excellent academic performances and commitment of student Yuyao Jiang. The 26-year-old student was born in China and came to BTU three years ago to pursue a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering in the discipline of Automation Technology. She was nominated for the DAAD award by the supervisor of her master's thesis, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Gardill. Yuyao Jiang completed her master's degree with an overall grade of 1.2 and the distinction "with distinction".

BTU President Prof. Gesine Grande says: "The study results, commitment and motivation of student Yuyao Jiang are exemplary - for young women who choose to study engineering, but in particular also for those who see their destiny in research and innovation and thus help shape our future. I am pleased that, with the support of the DAAD, we can honor such outstanding achievements by our international students - forty percent at the BTU. At the same time, the annual award is an incentive for many of our students."

Prof. Markus Gardill, Head of the Chair of Electronic Systems and Sensor Technology, added: "Ms. Yuyao Jiang is not only one of the best students at our university. Rather, I am also particularly pleased that this highly qualified and committed young woman will remain at BTU as a junior scientist. In the future, she will conduct research at my chair of Electronic Systems and Sensor Technology as part of the DFG project "DatProForge". She plans to do her doctoral studies in the area of analyzing data from a heterogeneous sensor network using machine-learning methods to optimize a drop forging process. In particular, this will be the first time that high-precision radar sensors for process monitoring are integrated into an energy-bound forming machine and evaluated in endurance tests. We are proud that Yuyao Jiang has chosen this path in an engineering subject."

During her master's studies, Yuyao Jiang already delved into a previously novel topic of microwave spectroscopy. Based on laboratory experiments, she produced valuable preliminary results for microwave spectroscopic determination of blood parameters for applications in dialysis. In her master's thesis, she took a more in-depth scientific look at this topic and produced particularly detailed models and results for the calibration of coaxial probes for this very metrological challenge.

In addition to her academic achievements, Yuyao Jiang stands out for her above-average commitment to the university. While still an undergraduate, she helped transfer documents for the seminar "Electrical Measurement and Measurement Data Acquisition" into a contemporary, interactive format. Students are thus able to access the interactive course content with their e-readers and tablets and use it for direct participation in the lecture. Following this high-quality pilot project, the chair is now converting all lecture materials to this format.

The DAAD award is intended to help put faces to the large numbers of international students at German universities. Their stories and successes should show that each and every one of them takes a piece of Germany back to their respective home countries and leaves something of themselves in Germany - an enrichment for both sides. The students who have received such an award from their host university represent their fellow students from all over the world. They are future partners for Germany in business, politics and science.