News Archive
IKS and Analog Devices to Showcase AOC at ISE
The Institute of Communication Systems (IKS) and Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a leading global high performance analog technology company, unveiled the world’s first implementation of RWTH’s Active Occlusion Cancelation technologies for earbuds, headphones, hearing aids and hearables.
In Januaryr, the Institute of Communication Systems organized two events for pupils.
IKS|MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms
During the annual first semester project "MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms" many creative LEGO robots have been designed in the last two weeks at IKS.
Doctoral Examination of Dr.-Ing. Tim Schmitz
Dr.-Ing. Tim Schmitz has successfully completed his oral doctoral examination on December 17th. Already on Friday, 13 December 2019, Dr. Schmitz reported on his work in a 45-minute presentation with the title:
"Continuous-Amplitude Error Protection of Discrete-Time Signals"
In a long tradition, the IKS team celebrated the end of the year together with the students. With hot drinks, waffles and grilled food all culinary wishes could be fulfilled.
150 Years of RWTH | PNZ Annual Calendar with IKS Patent
The Patent and Standards Centre celebrates the 150th anniversary of the RWTH with 12 Aachen patents selected from the "Patent of the Month" (PdM) series. For more than ten years, this format has been used to draw attention to outstanding, historically significant and sometimes bizarre patents as well as to the importance of industrial property rights.
AES 147 in New York and WASPAA 2019 in New Paltz
In October, our doctoral researcher Tobias Kabzinski and Stefan Kühl joined the 147th Audio Engineering Society Convention. Mr. Kabzinski presented his poster on "An Adaptive Crosstalk Cancellation System Using Microphones at the Ears" in a session on spatial audio.
Block seminar "Der Ingenieur als Manager"
In this winter term the block seminar "Der Ingenieur als Manager" took place in the first week. During this week, students of IK und TI learn methods and procedures of self-analysis and self-management.
"Borchers-Plakette" for Dr.-Ing. Markus Niermann
Markus Niermann was awarded with the "Borchers-Plakette" in September of this year. The "Borchers-Plakette" is awarded to PhD students at RWTH Aachen University who have completed their doctoral examination with "summa cum laude". The award took place during the graduate festival and was presented by the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Ohm.
The "23rd International Congress on Acoustics" was chaired this year by Prof. Dr. Michael Vorländer and Prof. Janina Fels. And so the visit of the ICA led the scientists of the institute only to the Eurogress. Stefan Liebich and Johannes Fabry presented their research work in the area of "Active Noise Cancellation" as part of a poster session.