OUR EXPERTS
Professionals from the field
Lecturers with years of experience who know what they are talking about – and are happy to share their knowledge.
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Prof. Dr. Raphael Pfaff
Lecturer for Module 1 “Basics”
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Biography
- Professor of rail vehicle technology at FH Aachen since 2014
- Teaching and research in the field of rail vehicles, in particular digitalization and automation
- Working in rail technology for 16 years
Professional experience (excerpt):
- Systems engineer at Siemens AG
- Head of design of the coupling area at Faiveley Transport Witten GmbH
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Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Lars Lange
Lecturer for Module 1 “Basics”, Module 2 “Homologation” and Module 5 “Practice”
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Professional experience (excerpt):
- Working in rail technology and certification for 14 years
- Managing Director and Principal Consultant at InterEngineer GmbH
- Until 2018: Expert of a testing organization
Expertise (excerpt):
- Safety management and safety engineering
- Functional safety (IEC 61508, EN 50126, 50128, 50129, 50657, 50159, ISO 13849, EN 62061, EN 61511, EN 50156)
- CSM-VO and V- Model
- Test Management
- Requirements Engineering & Requirements Capture
- FMEA & FTA
- Hazard and risk analysis
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Prof. Dr. Paweł Buczek
Lecturer for Module 4 “Measures & Techniques”
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Professional experience (excerpt):
- RAMS and system engineer at ICS AG and various customers in the rail sector
- System and software developer in the aerospace sector
Experience
- Professor at the HAW Hamburg since 2018
- Focus on the development and evaluation of safety-critical systems (hardware, software, operation and system engineering)
- Working in rail technology for 12 years
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Dennis Thiel M. Sc.
Lecturer for “Validation Engineer” & the “Project Manager Training”
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Professional experience (excerpt):
- In rail technology for over 10 years
- Managing Director of InterEngineer Switzerland GmbH
Expertise (excerpt):
- Safety management and safety engineering
- Functional safety (IEC 61508, EN50159, 50126, 50128, 50129, 50657)
- Validation
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Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Günther Staudner
Lecturer for module “Common safety method for risk evaluation and assessment (CSM-RA) and module 3 “Standards”
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Professional experience (excerpt):
- Since 2019 drawing AsBo specializing in rolling stock for Arsenal Railway Certification GmbH
- Generally sworn and certified court expert (Austria) since 2016
- Engineering services for rail vehicles since 2000
- Managing Director of RAE Railway Applications Engineering e.U.
- 15 years of RAMS management at Siemens Mobility
Expertise (excerpt):
- Safety management, functional safety, system architecture & control technology
- Legal requirements EU and national requirements in the D-A-CH region (incl. local transport)
- Overview of standards and state of the art, member of the Austrian Standard Institute
- Driverless driving, driver assistance systems and AI for rail applications
- Side entry systems and platform screen doors
- Subway drivers without passenger transport (BOStrab, DE, dormant) – Procedures in driving operations
- Maintenance and TCO considerations for rail vehicles
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Enning
Lecturer for Module 1 “Basic”
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Since 2010 Professor for Railway Systems Engineering at the FH Aachen with the courses
- Fundamentals: control engineering, information technology
- Control and safety technology
- Control technology for rail vehicles
- Quality and safety in the life cycle
Experience from 40 years of teaching and research on rail topics
Some projects
- Clutch robot (automation of the Knorr Z-AK in sequential operation)
- Adaptive wheel slide protection system
- FlexCargoRail (potential of powered freight wagons)
- Freight wagon 4.0 / WagonOS / Assisted brake test