Gudrun KAMMASCH

IGIP has a New Vice President!

It is a great honour for me to follow Kruno Hernaut as vice president of IGIP, a result of the election of the new IGIP board. With his energy, ideas and high profile Kruno gave great commitment in forming today’s modern IGIP.

For those to whom I am not yet known, I am pleased to outline some biographic characteristics.

After my studies in Food and Pharmaceutical Chemistry in Stuttgart, Marburg and Berlin I was appointed to the department of Food Science and Technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. At an early stage, I already got interested in engineering pedagogy. Geared by the strong motivation to educate and to form young people, I refused doing research alone, whereby education is understood to be well founded in the respective discipline as well as in their personality. In these early years I became acquainted with IGIP and its dedicated male and more and more female colleagues who were enthusiastic in improving their teachings as well as being concerned with ethical issues – in particular social and ecological impacts and crucial questions of how techniques may serve the human being in contrast to war and destruction.

The common dialogue continued soon over the entire year, exceeding the symposia, whereby the direct practice of technique-teachings became a benchmark and criterion for all theories. Albert Haug and Fritz Kath, archetypes in knowledge and humanity, should be mentioned as well.

The IGIP working groups became fora of an intensive dialogue and development of education theory. I was personally engaged in founding several working groups. The IGIP curriculum is the wonderful result of a fruitful cooperation within a continuing ripening process.

Gudrun Kammasch

I would like to continue to foster this agile and vital shaping – shaping which concerns the content of the work performed by IGIP members and other interested persons who will participate in the IGIP symposia.

I contribute international experiences from UNESCO and other organizations and recently from curriculum development in a comprehensive “engineering capacity building program” in Ethiopia as well as academic experiences from different academic positions which I was elected to.

I look forward to an animated and comprehensive cooperation whereto I would like to invite whole-heartedly all interested members and guests – and I am inviting all of you to make the IGIP further known for its high quality of exchange within the community of engineering pedagogy experts.