ESTIEM Magazine | Autumn 2006 | Managing Energy, Managing Life

Issue 31 2006/II | ISSN 0874-5242 | Price 0 Euro | www.estiem.org

ESTIEMMAGAZINE Managing Energy, Managing Life.

Exploring the Economical Aspect of Energy

European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION 4 5 6

Editorial President’s Speech Introduction to ESTIEM

NEWS

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CRC: Retrospective and Perspective ESTIEM Travel Trophy FREE Vision Update The Bazaar at the Doorsteps of the Cathedral The ESTIEM Student Guide Entrepreneurship Shaping the Future of TIMES TIMES Project Europe 3D – Living Differences

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CM Porto Post-CM Lisbon Free Vision First in Izmir Vision of Cycles Final Conference Activity Guys in Poznan Summer Academy Hungary 2006 Activity Week Groningen ReCom Dortmund

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 FOCUS 17 18 20 22 24 26 28

A Tour at Los Energy The End of Cheap Oil Energy Outlook in Europe UCTE: Elecrticity Borders Diminished in Europe?

The Risk of Underestimating Energy Efficiency Promoting Green Power Sell or Keep?

30 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 PROFESSIONAL 40 42 44

INSIDE ESTIEM The New Voting System in ESTIEM Ride Your Bike the Dutch Way As Open-Minded as the Dutch?

A Successful Estiemer in the USA What’s Happening in Izmir?

ESTIEM Alumni Board

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AGENDA

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The Cutting Edge of Car Technology Interview with Jim PLatts Boasting a Broad Base for Hybrids

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Story

Begins...”

In the early morning: you wake up, open your eyes, wash your face and begin to consume energy. This is our main difference from our ancestors. We live via tools that consume external energy. In fact, we use it so much that predictions show our consumption will rise at 50% in the next 20 years. Indian and Chinese economies are upgrading their capacities incredibly fast and the current (non-renewable) energy sources will not last more than 50 years.* Could you ever imagine having a life without your emails? What if we did not use neither trains nor automobiles? Could you take the electricity out of your life? (OK maybe except romantic days, but life is not always so romantic to bare without electricity.)

While energy is so much involved in our daily life, its intersection with the economy results in an even broader area. The economical perspective of energy is even related to social, political and international issues.

And since we mention economics, we should also mention that every bit of energy means money.

This is the simplest rule in our life. Modernity means energy consumption via spending money.

Even just a day long shortage of energy can mess the daily life and the economy of a country. “Men in black” give their comments daily on the energy market and guess the worldwide impacts of the last incidents. Something so intensively present in our daily life should be somehow related to IEM, right? You can join us on our journey to the discussions about efficiency of energy usage, or can try to grab the essence of endless discussions� about oil. Moreover, you may question the sustainability of the sector or follow the EU works upon electricity.

Not all the predictions of the future are positive in these articles. Fortunately, as ESTIEMers, we have an endless and free source of energy..

Notes 1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/turkish/indepth/story/2006/02/060215_energy_demand.shtml

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ELIAS FAETHE

Dear Readers of the ESTIEM Magazine, Looking at “Economics of Energy” as a European STudent of Industrial Engineering and Management I first see the opening of European energy markets for foreign companies, in particular a German utilities company trying to take over a Spanish one or the opening of the Serbian market. This political change in Europe will definitely increase the demand for graduates with a European background.

But for now we are still students. Nevertheless we, as students, will live and work when the oil peak has already ben reached and the soaring prices are rocketing prices. Economies are growing. So far, it is estimated that a 1% growth in GDP needs a 0.64%1 growth in energy consumption. What will happen, when this consumption has grown higher than the production? You may read that in Frank Segtrop’s article. The Industrial environment must adept to this, to solve the challenges in reducing the energy consumption.

Apart from the engineering challenges there are major solutions needed in the management of organisations. Not only the increased travel and transportation costs will lead to changing the current processes, but customers and societies will have to be convinced of new technologies.

Pioneers and entrepreneurs will be looked for and the evaluation of the possible solutions will be a management task, especially for managers with an engineering background.

One sector, where the efforts to reduce the consumption are the most intensive, is the transportation sector, as it accounts for more than 50% of the total usage of oil. I personally had the chance to experience the increased efficiency of a hybrid engine and was impressed by the technology behind it, but there are still other challenges ahead.

For example, a European aircraft manufacturer is researching on this issue and there are also countless prizes promised for the first solar planes.

In high ESTIEM Elias Faethe President

Following the line of thought it comes down to ESTIEM: As ESTIEMers our education enables us to accept the challenges. We will play our role in this change – even more: We are ready for it!

Inspired from a presentation by Mr. Hermann during TIMES Semi Final in Grenoble

Notes 1

http://www.iea.org/Textbase/nppdf/free/2000/weo2002.pdf p.40

Introduction

Back in 1990,

students from five different countries founded an organisation which they named ESTIEM: European STudents of Industrial Engineering and Management.

Its aim was and still is to establish and foster interrelations among European students of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM).

In 16 years, it has grown into an organisation bringing together 40 000 students from 65 universities in 23 European countries, and is still growing. All these universities offer courses in IEM. Based on this structure, ESTIEM forms links between students, academics and companies in order to create a Europe-wide, multi-level IEM network.

part in international projects and become friends with other ESTIEMers from all over Europe. Our belief is that the activities and projects of ESTIEM give our members knowledge and experiences that are important for their personal development and the realisation of future goals. The students involved in ESTIEM incorporate both the skills required for modern business and an open-minded approach towards other people and cultural issues.

The decision-making body of ESTIEM is the Council, which meets twice a year, in autumn and in spring. Each university, represented by its so-called ‘Local Group’, sends two student representatives.

The five members of the Board of ESTIEM are elected during the autumn Council Meeting.

The Board is responsible for the management, coordination and administration of the association. It represents the association in all legal matters.

ESTIEM has continuously increased the number of its activities, thus being able to offer a great variety of events to IEM students. Based on its activities, ESTIEM has attracted many active students, and the organisation has seen rapid growth since its founding. Major activities on a European level besides Council Meetings include the only European wide IEM case competition TIMES, the seminar series Vision, ESTIEM Magazine, Entrepreneurship, Europe 3D, Summer Academy and Student Guide (a database with information for students who want to study abroad); all led by Project Leaders who are elected at the Council Meetings.

Through involvement in ESTIEM, students get an opportunity to experience different cultures, take

Besides taking leadership positions in the Board and as Project Leaders, ESTIEM members can also take up more responsibility by working in one of the committees. The committees work together closely with the Board, supporting it in its tasks. ESTIEM has six of them at the moment: the Information and Communication Technology Committee, the Public Relations Committee, the Members Committee, the

Introduction

CM

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Council Meeting. Organised twice a year, this general meeting of member groups holds the ultimate decision-making power in ESTIEM.

CoM, Coordination Meeting, Regional Coordination Meeting. An event where a ReCoM small group of people get together for a Project Meeting or a meeting of Local Groups in a particular region.

CRC

Corporate Relations Committee. Responsible for adding value to relationships between ESTIEM and its current and potential corporate partners.

FLC

Financial and Legal Committee. Members of this committee have an advisory function for those who are responsible for financial or legal affairs in ESTIEM.

KMC

Knowledge Management Committee. This committee ensures that all knowledge is preserved and that experiences don’t get lost during handover periods or when people resign from their active ESTIEM career.

LG Local Group. ESTIEM is basically a network of these IEM student associations located at different universities around Europe.

LR MC

Local Responsible. The person in charge of a LG. Members Committee. This team supports the member groups of ESTIEM and provides information to those who are interested in joining the ESTIEM organisation.

PL,CL Project Leader, Committee Leader. PL is the person in charge of an ESTIEM project. Analogously, Committee Leader is designated with CL.

Knowledge Management Committee, the Financial and Legal Committee and ESTIEM’s youngest asset, the Corporate Relations Committee.

With lots of teams and tasks to choose from, there is a place for everyone. Naturally, the backbone of ESTIEM is the European IEM student. Openminded and keen on developing him or herself, he or she is eager to make friends and create contacts with different IEM representants from all over the continent.

PRC

Public Relations Committee. Concerned with ESTIEM’s outer appearance and increasing the awareness of ESTIEM among companies, professors, as well as IEM students throughout Europe.

SAC

Summer Academy. A two-week event, of which two editions are held somewhere in Europe each summer. It is highly academic and guided by a well-known professor.

TIMES WG

Tournament in Management and Engineering Skills.

Working Group. In Council Meetings, several Working Groups are formed to discuss different crucial ESTIEM matters.

WGL Working Group Leader. A person who is in charge of the WG. He or she plans, guides the members and prepares the documentation.

When ESTIEM was founded, the aim was to make it an abbreviation-free association. However, this goal was not completely achieved… After all, “CM” fits much better in your mouth than “a Council Meeting”. The table at the right offers a brief introduction to the most common ESTIEM abbreviations.

For more detailed information about our organisation and its activities, please visit our website at www.estiem.org. Here you can also find everything you need to know if you want to get involved. So don’t hesitate and start moving…. you won’t regret it! 

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NEWS CRC: Retrospective and Perspective One year ago, Mikko Rönkkö , the first Committee Leader and co-founder of the Corporate Relations Committee (CRC), introduced the idea of systematic corporate Ignacio J. P. Prat relations in ESTIEM. Furthermore, he also introduced two tools to be provided by CRC, the customer management system as an instrument to enhance the way we handle our companies and the toolkit as a collection of guidelines on how to communicate and manage companies.

The Planning The Vice President of Activities 2005, José Luis Leon Henkle was the second Committee Leader.

Together with his successor, Ignacio J. Perez Prat and Elias Faethe (current President), they made a roadmap for the year 2006. The goals for this year were basically two. One goal was to establish the committee within the organisation and on the other hand to recruit ESTIEMers and set up a basic working structure. Besides, José Luis Leon Henkle was to coach Ignacio J. Pérez Prat from January 2006 to become a Committee Leader at the Council Meeting in Porto.

At the moment, CRC is involved in different issues in ESTIEM, such as the search for a new partner or the support to the TIMES project as well as other advisory tasks. Moreover, the recruiting is slowly starting up, having six people currently working for the committee – namely José Luis Leon Henke and Nilla Lansman in the partner pages, Patri Valkama as our alumni contact, Marc Obieglo and Ugur Gurler supporting the board with the search of a new partner and the committee leader coordinating the work. Even though we still need more people, it is very encouraging to see how the committee is growing.

The Action The first Coordination Meeting (CoM) was mostly dedicated to the TIMES Project and was held in March 2006 in Hamburg. There, we developed a first draft of the toolkit especially made for TIMES. To ensure its consistency, we invited Heikki Saukola - leader of the TIMES Committee – and Olivier Zimmer – leader of the TIMES Project 2006.

At the Council Meeting in Porto, CRC came up with a quite different way of work. Since ESTIEM is a “matrix organisation, a committee is supposed to support the Board and the Projects. The main idea was to split the working group into three teams, each working on a single topic during the council meeting. Each team had to interact with a project’s working group. After getting a first introduction, the team had to go to work on a task to come back afterwards to the project and present a draft. After some corrections, they had to adjust their work and hand it out to the project.

Sadly the shortened working group sessions did not allow this concept to glow.

Nonetheless, we still believe this is the way a committee like CRC is meant to work.

The second CoM took place in Bremen, right after the ESTIEM College in September. There, we had four members of the Board. The goal was to initiate the search for a new partner and coordinate the workflow with the board.

Our committee also visited the Regional Coordination Meeting in Dortmund to reach the local groups. This measure was enhanced by the presence of CRC with articles in the newsletter.

The Perspective After a year of official life, CRC has started to grow in both its tasks and its members. Nonetheless, there is still a vast room for improvement and corrections. The work of CRC went a few times further than advice, support and tutoring, which are the real tasks of CRC. However, those adjustments are minor issues and we are confident that we can take new challenges for the future! 

Travel Trophy: New Step In Tradition From Zero to Hero

From Zero to Hero Greetings from the Capitol of Turkey…

As CM 2006 Porto participants might remember, LG Ankara – Bilkent was honored with the travel trophy of ESTIEM which is traditionally given to the most active Local Group of the last year.

What did we do and what kind of improvement policy did we follow to deserve this trophy? We hope to share this with you, so that it might help you in raising the activiy level of your LG. LG Ankara- Bilkent’s ESTIEM adventure started in 1999 at the next Council Meeting Place Eindhoven, we got our observership at a very important date November, 2nd which is also the date for probably the best CM ever. (yes, CM Ankara 2006) After that, LG Ankara- Bilkent got its membership in the season 2000–2001 at CM Cambridge.

But in such a short membership period how did our LG reach first place? Since we got our observership, for Bilkent University’s IEM local student club ESTIEM has always had a unique place and the local board of the time decided to give the responsibility of vice presidency of the local student club to the Local Responsible.

Our local student club includes five subgroups and one of them is called the ESTIEM subgroup.

This means our LR is also the coordinator of ESTIEM subgroup and vice president of the student organization. ESTIEM subgroup, since 1999, has had the most crowded meetings. During these meetings, LG members get informed about ESTIEM activities and ESTIEM Portal. Members are also informed by the experienced ESTIEMers and our success depends on these meetings and their ambition. By these meetings arranged once a week, we aimed to show the ESTIEM spirit and encourage people to participate ESTIEM activities. Generally, we use the most common and effective way: memories, photos and videos.

Our university arranges an orientation period for new registration students and for IEM students our student club has a cocktail meeting during orientation. By using attractive presentations, LR and the other members of the board add new people to our active members. LR is the luckiest

among them because he has billions of photos and interesting memories. Having just 6 years of ESTIEM history, LG Ankara – Bilkent had just five participants at the first years, but last year, over forty ESTIEMers travelled, creating over 100 participants around Europe. Activities and meetings arranged by the student club and our university are the main reasons of this trophy.

Famous ESTIEM Spirit is represented well during these meetings. As a result, ESTIEMers programmed their next ESTIEM activity just after their first one. I call this case as “ESTIEM MADNESS”. Having to arrange draws for Vision activity participation and meetings with the local board for hours just to decide CM Delegates, are the nice results of activeness and also these cases show your LG is on its way and understand what ESTIEM Spirit means.

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LG Ankara – Bilkent is really active in events but what about the central ESTIEM and organizing ESTIEM activities? Because it does not mean that your LG is really involved with Central ESTIEM when you have a trophy. Let’s get started with activities.

ESTIEM activity history started with TIMES Semi Final and Vision of Risk Ankara-Bilkent.

From that year on, our LG organised international activities every year.

At Central ESTIEM, during these 6 years, LG Ankara – Bilkent had 3 Project Leaders, 1 Key points of our activation strategy: Committee Leader, 3 Local Project Leaders and also for • A position and subcommittee devoted solely each CM, our LG has average to ESTIEM 3 WGLs. With almost 100 • Continuous communication and training members and this profile, • Comunication of experience and feelings it is a great honor for me rather than information to be the LR of LG Ankara • Promotion of activeness in central ESTIEM – Bilkent Finally, Thank you for LG Karlsruhe for preparing this trophy for us. As the whole LG, we hope every LG experiences this honor during their ESTIEM Life. As Jose Luis mentioned: “ you all know how to get there...” 

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FREE Vision Update Vlada Demydova

We want to break FREE!…

Jim Morrison, rock legend: “There are things known and unknown and between them there are the doors.”

Finally the doors of FREE Vision are opened by two LGs and two countries: Turkey and Ukraine.

FREE Vision Izmir has started the annual series of Vision seminars with research in resources of energy: “Oil and Oil Derivatives for Sustainable Growth. The main organiser Gorkem Ozbek did a great job during the whole FREE Vision project, not only by being the head of the organising team, but also sharing responsibilities with Murat Buyumez (Ankara-Bilkent) in the whole project’s theme development and explanation in further seminars.

FREE Vision in Kiev continued the Energy topic named Enterprise Energy consumption and the ways of it’s conservation. Seminar was prepared 99% by girls’ work lead by LR Olga Galushko.

Now from the hot South and crazy East FREE Vision is moving to Brussels and Berlin, where Helena Mira Navarro and Jens Jerratsch… preparing ‘studying/

partying ’ program. If you still doubt take a look www.freevision.estiem.org and find your personal perfect Vision. If Brussels or Berlin is a bit far from you or besides of traveling you still need to study somehow, be sure to catch the next round. Lets say thanks to Enver Ak (Ankara-Bilkent) for giving us an opportunity to trace lecture paperworks, theme articles and scientific researches in handouts, written by active members and academical staff, and also available on FREE Vision webpage as an online Vison library...

During last half of a year, the project was growing fast with the work of excellent members. To reach the main goals, which were set in the beginning of the project we have tried to build the team, solve a lot of questions and bring to life a huge amount of ideas.

Especially, I want to thank a lot Sandra Karsch (Bremen) and Lena Slobodyanuk (Kiev) for the sponsor search team who are still trying to find the head sponsor for the project.

From past to future, both Visions - Vision of Cycle and FREE Vision–meld with each other with the help of devoted people like Cornelia Bauer PL VoC. We hope that contacts with patrons taken place in previous Vision projects will be successfully transfered to future ones!!!

Thank you, everybody! Keep it real! Free Vision goes on!

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The Bazaar

at the Doorsteps of the Cathedral

In 1997, Eric S. Raymond wrote an article on software development and proposed two structures for the process: “the bazaar” and “the cathedral”. As the article itself developed and expended until 2000, it received huge attention from not only IT specialists but managers and other engineering disciplines that were involved in developing anything at all.

If you simply look at the sheer number of ideas that have surfaced in a bazaar like environment such as the Wikipedia or Linux, you will realize that the wild but dedicated collaboration of people is a force to be reckoned with. An example is close by. ESTIEM creates new and excellent ideas by everyone giving input in an ad-hoc manner, with more arguments taking place and more time being “lost” than a “cathedral” structure would have provided. There are, however, advantages that a cathedral can never provide. Reaching a consensus instead of a majority and ensuring the continuing dedication of people to the creation are only a few. But let us turn to the key question: Why do we try to control chaos if it is so useful?

The cathedral is a structured effort right from the beginning. It is an established action plan that proceeds to the goal with certainty and accomplishes exactly what is. It can be controlled. The bazaar on the other hand has a vague idea of where it wants to go and strays from the path quite a lot. Looked in this context, the bazaar is not something to be controlled but managed. It is a creative effort you can steer.

However, managing such complexity requires an understanding of systems and relations.

Thus, a successful manager should also be an industrial engineer because, as Ed White says: “An industrial engineering looks at chaos and has a vision of order”.

The cathedrals of today, big corporations, may be in need of introducing more chaos into their companies since they rely heavily on innovation to remain competitive. Ironically, if you examine the most basic OZAN efe ertem tools of development, such as “I believed that the most important software […] brainstorming, you will see that the needed to be built like cathedrals, carefully crafted bazaar is already on the doorsteps of by individual wizards or small bands of mages the cathedral. The biggest challengers working in splendid isolation […]. Linus Torvalds’s of these companies are start-ups, that style of development—release early and often, allow themselves to start very chaotic delegate everything you can, be open to the point and let ideas and visions shape them of promiscuity—came as a surprise. No quiet, (think of Microsoft vs. Google).

The western world of engineering learned a lot from the east when they imported Six Sigma and lean manufacturing. Perhaps, it is also time that the west learns from the eastern philosophy that it is best to let development take its own course and flow with it. 

reverent cathedral-building here [but] a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches […] out of which a coherent and stable system could seemingly emerge only by a succession of miracles.”

Eric S. Raymond, The Bazaar and the Cathedral, 1997

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The ESTIEM Student Guide European IEM Education peter gelbrıch

Borders are disappearing. Globalisation can be seen at every corner. People are becoming more mobile. Today, students are interested in going abroad for either part of their studies or for an additional degree. ESTIEM is doing its part to help students look into different universities offering IEM courses with the ESTIEM Student Guide.

Over the past years, ESTIEMers have been able to broaden their horizons through various projects and events, one of which was the ESTIEM Student Guide. The ESTIEM Student Guide has its origins in the Catalogue of Recognisable Studies (CORS), which was an effort to list all universities with IEM education and to develop a system of exchanges between these universities. The CORS project was ended due to the initiation of ERASMUS, which has a broader scope than just IEM studies.

Nevertheless, IEM students wanted to have a platform, where they could find via the internet interesting universities offering IEM courses. The focus of the Exchange Project was to develop an internet platform providing students with academic and cultural information about universities, cities and countries. After achieving its goal, the Exchange Project was considered successful and therefore closed during the Council Meeting in Istanbul 2004.

After a period of neglect, a group of ESTIEMers got together to bring a fresh wind to the Exchange internet platform. In fall 2005, the Exchange Task Force took the challenge to develop a concept for providing students with information on IEM education that would be sustainable. The ESTIEM Student Guide was the final result of the concept.

The ESTIEM Student Guide maintains the goal of providing potential and current IEM students information about IEM education in Europe. The information covers various universities offering IEM courses, the student life at those universities and the differences in IEM education throughout Europe.

The first steps of this new project were taken in a joint effort with the Magazine Project to publish an edition about IEM Education in Europe.

The ESTIEM Student Guide now has a new face in the internet (www.studentguide.estiem.org) and is integrated into the ESTIEM website. The new Student Guide website can be easily maintained by Local Responsibles and also by Regional Responsibles (ESTIEMers in charge of maintaining information about non-ESTIEM universities). In addition, other tasks are in the development process to further expand the Student Guide’s services to students throughout Europe.

ESTIEM has always been a platform for motivated IEM students to exchange ideas and stay flexible and mobile for their studies. The ESTIEM Student Guide is an essential part of mission of ESTIEM, and a really interesting source of information about IEM education.

On that note: Broaden your horizons with the ESTIEM Student Guide! www.studentguide.estiem.org 

Entrepreneurship

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The ESTIEM entrepreneurship network: encouraging entrepreneurial activity within ESTIEM

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”

I believe that by having an open mind, your sights set on the future, and by fostering creativity, you’ll have a competitive advantage no matter what you choose to tackle. ESTIEM is a unique network that enables you to develop these philosophies into talents. I hope that the entrepreneurship network will further enhance the ESTIEM network, and therefore benefit all of us.

The primary mission of the entrepreneurship network is to “encourage entrepreneurial activity within ESTIEM”. Our aim is to accomplish this by increasing and facilitating communication about entrepreneurship; mainly creating connections between entrepreneurial ESTIEMers, thus supporting the ESTIEM mission of creating and fostering relations between IEM students.

I just finished reading an article1) about five researchers from the Technical University of Denmark who founded a company called Amminex A/S. They have invented a hydrogen pellet which they hope will be able to solve the problem of storing hydrogen in a practical, cheap and secure way. Since the publishing of their invention on the 7th of September 2005, the researchers have raised capital and got worldwide media coverage.

They have also received criticism, but let us hope that they will succeed in their mission to create a cheap, safe and environmentally friendly solution to provide energy.

What caught my attention in this article was a piece of advice to all entrepreneurs from professor Claus H. Christensen, one of the inventors and partners in Amminex; “get advice from people who know what they are talking about. Join a network.“ I hope and expect we can fulfill this need with ESTIEM and the entrepreneurship network. We have a lot of alumni

want to shape and be part of, please read our notice board on the portal, join our discussions in our forum under the notice board and don’t hesitate to contact us at entrepreneurship@ estiem.org!

specializes in project risk management.You can find more information about it at www.concilio.nl. He says that it is great that entrepreneurship is getting the status it deserves in ESTIEM, and hopes students will see entrepreneurship as an interesting and rewarding alternative to working for a consultancy or multinational as most alumni do.

I hope that the entrepreneurship network will foster relations and encourage entrepreneurial activity within ESTIEM and ESTIEM Alumni. Furthermore, I hope it will give many of us the willpower and trust to become entrepreneurs. And succeed. 

RIKU seppela

entrepreneurs who can certainly be of a great help to the ESTIEMers who are planning to start their own business. We have already received great sugAccording to an urban myth this bold statement was gestions and support from one ESTIEM alumni entrepreneur, Bart Jutte. His company, called Concilio, made by Charles Duell in 1899, commissioner of the US patent office at the time. Whether true or not, it is a very good reminder of how easily one can Do you want to be a part of the entrepreneurget stuck looking at the world through the rearview ship network? We are continuously improving mirror. the network, so if you feel it is something you

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Shaping the future of T I M E S Heikki Saukola

TIMES is one of the biggest case competitions in the world in terms of number of participants and nationalities taking part in it. It also has a long, and to a great deal successful, history behind it, being organised for the 14th time in 2007. Lacks of continuity, resources, and experience in the organisation, however, have kept the competition from reaching its full potential.

It had thus become clear that there was a need for a permanent component in the structure of TIMES; one that could plan and drive the development of the competition outside of individual projects’ time spans. An unofficial support group was established under the TIMES 2006 project after the Council Meeting K2K with this need in mind. The support group undertook a number of tasks in accordance with its target to develop TIMES in the long term.

In the Council Meeting Porto last spring, changes to the organisational structure of TIMES were officially introduced, and the all-new TIMES Committee was founded.

The clear distinction between the duties and responsibilities of the committee and those of the TIMES project team in the new organisational structure of TIMES is based on the time frame of these duties. The project team is responsible for and in charge of everything that is specific to a particular year’s project.

The committee, on the other hand, is in charge of all strategic, long-term, non-project specific planning and tasks concerning TIMES. These include the continuous improvement of the quality of TIMES, in terms of both the quality of the organisation of the competition and the quality of its participants, working with strategic partners, and developing the rules of TIMES. Collaboration with the Corporate Relations Committee (CRC) in

developing relationships with new key partners for TIMES, and setting up a new TIMES web site have been among the first tasks the TIMES Committee has undertaken. These will continue to demand attention in the future.

The committee has also began to address the quality of the TIMES participants. The level of the participants’ capabilities can be increased for example by providing basic training to all participants and perhaps more advanced training to those moving on to semi-finals. Another possibility is to promote the case method of learning in the ESTIEM universities, i.e. try to increase the degree to which cases are used in teaching. The former approach is rather straightforward, and can provide limited results quickly. The latter one is a far more complex long-term approach, the results of which would benefit a larger number of students, and which would have implications beyond the scope of TIMES. In addition to these activities, the committee is looking into a number of other ways to develop TIMES. These range from minor rule changes to more radical ideas that, for example, could transform the case solving process in the competition into a much more versatile experience for the participants.

If you want to learn more about the work of the TIMES Committee, or would like to join us in shaping the future of TIMES, drop us a line at times@ estiem.org. 

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TIMES

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IEM Student of the Year... Is that you?

Personally, I heard TIMES for the first time when I was in the first year of my studies. I was lucky that I had the chance to see the first step of the organisation in a couple of weeks. It was amazing.

Teams formed by four IEM students, dressed in suits, were trying to explain their solution to the jury. They were totally engaged with the project and the enthusiasm of the four presenters of the case study was impressing people in the hall. Being not so familiar with this organisation, I asked myself how professional and well organised it can be, if the first step as the Local Qualification of the whole organisation was like that and I expected a professional competition with the participants, partners, professors and of course a well defined organisation team leading, planning, arranging and bringing to life the project! As soon as I learned more and more, I realised that I was right. This project was breathing! Next year, I found the chance of organising an LQ and a SF the following year.Now after being more than two years involved in such a great project, I am leading it. The three step of the organisation set off with the finalisation of CM Porto and now it is going further and further, but with some changes from previous years.

To give some news about TIMES, we are still in contact with the possible head sponsor companies and hopefully will give you the good news about that. Besides the head sponsor issue, we had an agreement with Brose and Lufthansa Technique but these were on the semifinal level.

They will both support the SF in Ilmenau according to their decision and recruitment process for this year. On the organisational level, we have our Coordination Meeting in Berlin. All of the final and SF organisers will come together to meet each other, work, plan and evaluate the

recent situation.

In my opinion TIMES is a project that every single ESTIEMer can be part of it. You can organise an LQ as being the responsible (LQR), participate in the competition or in the committee and create new ideas for the project. So take your place in TIMES, make more people aware of the most prestigious event of ESTIEM and from the first step, improve the quality of the competition.

Denız aslan

25 countries, 66 universities and one target: to be the best qualified student of Europe in engineering and management skills. This is what TIMES aims under the flag of ESTIEM; “Tournament in Engineering and Management Skills”.

Please check TIMES webpage under www.times. estiem.org and don’t hesitate to contact me for questions.

Hope to see you somehow in TIMES!  TIMES Evolves Continuously…

This year we still have the same team building but the project has its final in another LG and there are additional colleagues to work with. As being the PL, I am leading the project whilst the final is in Lyon. It helps the final organiser to be more focused on the arrangement of the final issues and the PL to be busy with controlling the overall project like seeing the big picture while having input from all parties. Also, the new TIMES Committee gathers round the project with their decisions about the long term aspects such as head sponsor and external webpage issues. The last circle of the new structure is Corporate Relationships Committee. CRC is not directly involved in since it works with all of the projects in ESTIEM. Anyway, since CRC supports us in partnership issues and also we had a toolkit created by CRC which is very beneficial for the organisers. I hope you can imagine the structure better now.

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EUROPE 3D – Living differences katrın Kramer

We are representing Europe! Sure we know about that – after all, ESTIEM represents 23 countries out of Europe.

But what is Europe? What do we really know about each other? Since years we are used to working together for long nights, organising events and after it partying until dawn. We try to form a union but have we ever tried to learn from our differences?

Europe 3D is seminar series over 5 days that will focus on the political, economic and cultural specialities of the hosting country. That means the host has to give a brief introduction to the legal construction, of actual political discussions and of the basic economic structure – for example one can give a review on the steps of founding a business.

Besides partying we would love it if participants can take part in typical cultural events such as theatre or sports activities. The end of the seminar will be marked by a short case study to broaden and deepen the learned facts.

We will have succeeded, if after such an event participants have the feeling of understanding a country and its people better. It is therefore important that participants take an active part by getting into discussion with each other and do not hesitate to ask questions.

The EU is opening new markets for employees as well as employers. But besides great chances, that also involves risks. Every action out of the domestic market requires dealing with a new and often unknown legal and business environment.

Above political and economic differences one has to grapple with cultural differences. Those are challenges companies are facing in their daily business while dealing with suppliers, employees and customers as well as in their strategic decisions.

Therefore a basic understanding of political, economic and cultural circumstances seems to be essential for entering new markets successfully.

In the beginning of 2007 Dresden loves to welcome you to the first Europe 3D event. We hope to see you all there! 

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A Tour at Los Energy Industrial Engineers love discussing. So, assume that we live in a country called Los Energy and energy is the biggest topics of discussion in this country. But, try as we might, we have been unable to limit this discussion and now the ministers of economics, environment, trade and all the cabinet have something cabinet session

to say. Well then, welcome to the most recent of Los Energy. Enjoy your stay.

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FOCUS The End of Cheap Oil

Billions of Barrels Billions of Barrels

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Oil is a very special good. It is not only the world’s most used energy source, it is also used as an important basic material in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Transportation is almost completely fuelled by oil, for a very good reason: Oil has a very high energy density. It is fluid at normal temperatures, and as such, it can be easily distributed.

Cheap oil has been one of the key drivers of globalisation. Fertilisers based on natural gas were the enablers of the Green Revolution, allowing us to sustain more people on our planet than ever before. Oil allows us to enjoy an unprecedented standard of living.

very important factor is the simple – yet often overlooked – fact that oil is a finite resource.

There are the two simple fundamentals that determine the oil supply: 1.)The natural depletion of existing oil fields 2.)The exploration and exploitation of new oil fields

When we examine these two fundamentals, we find that, in many countries, the oil production is now declining. Oil production in the US has peaked in 1970, in the North Sea in 1999, and in 39 oil producing countries, despite all technological efforts of extended Oil Recovery (EOR). A closer look reveals that some 20% of the world’s oil During the last five years, the price of crude oil has production comes from three super giant fields: more than quadrupled, from merely 15$ per barrel Ghawar in Saudi Arabia, Cantarell in Mexico and Burgan in Kuwait. These fields have already been to 75$. Unlike in the 70s, the increase is not the result of a short term Arab embargo. It is the soaring discovered some 40 - 50 years ago. Large amounts of water have been injected into these old fields to demand both from transition economies such as China and India and industrial countries such as the keep up the pressure. Eventually, however, the water reaches the well-head, and the field effectively dies.

US. From 1999, demand has risen from 73 million Indeed, the production of all these three fields is barrels per day (mbpd) to 85 mbpd in 2005 or in decline already. Obviously, new fields must be 2% p.a., despite the high prices. The oil producing explored in order to compensate for the decline countries could hardly manage to produce the oil the market demanded, so that now, there are almost from the old fields. In order to exploit new fields, they have to be discovered first. no spare capacities left. During the 90s, whenever there was a problem with oil production, Saudi Unfortunately, we have not found sufficient new oil Arabia opened its oil pipes and easily covered the for about 30 years now. The oil fields we still find problem, acting as the “world bank of oil”. When are relatively small, often very difficult to produce, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the Saudis could or deepwater. There are still some oil fields that have easily replace Kuwait’s Global Decline of Oil Discoveries been discovered in the past, but not yet exploited. oil production with their Averages of each Decade Global Decline of Oil Discoveries These fields are now in development, but they can own crude.

However, Averages of each Decade only compensate for the decline in the old fields, when hurricane Katrina 45 they cannot keep up with the soaring demand. hit the Gulf of Mexico, 40 The oil company Chevron admits in a campaign: the Saudis were unable (http://www.willyoujoinus.com): to replace the 1.5 mbpd 35 shut in by the storm.

30 “The world consumes two barrels of oil for every barrel Saudi Arabia is no longer able to serve as the world discovered.

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market share, the countries simply have to report higher reserves. In addition to that, if demand grows at 2% p.a., the 30 years shrink to 24 years only.

Because of the importance of cheap oil for our economies, a sharp increase of oil prices could result in a major shock. The Paradigm of Globalization could fall – is it sustainable? Transport costs could rise so high that it might not make sense any more Supplying Oil and Gas Demand Will Require Major Investment to ship goods all around the globe. It could be more Millions of Barrels per Day of Oil Equivalent (MBDOE) economical to produce close to where the demand companies have recently merged or just bought back is again. Because of rising fertiliser costs, food their own shares, because the companies did not see could become much more expensive, too. Poorer countries could hardly afford any oil, any fertilisers. profitable investment opportunities, even though This is already happening. Rising energy costs are the oil price has increased and they make record profits. Some analysts think that oil has become that inflationary, in the US; inflation is at 3.5% already, scarce that it is no longer worth looking for it. If the which is the highest rate in 20 years. Because of that, central banks increase interest rates. These could oil price stays as high as it is, oil companies might cripple GDP growth worldwide. still decide to explore the few untouched areas of the world, mainly Deep water and the Arctic. But Not only the foreseeable problems in global oil it would take many years to ramp up production in such difficult environments, years during which the supply, but also the impacts of Global Warming oil production from the existing fields declines year send us a very clear message: The oil age will and has to phase out. A report for the US Department by year. Geologists estimate that the peak in global of Energy comes to the conclusion that it takes 20 oil production will occur between 2010 and 2030, after that, oil production would decline, and nothing years crash program to mitigate the impacts of the could be done to avoid. This does not mean that we decline of global oil production. During these 20 are running out of oil, only oil will not be cheap any years, huge amounts of capital need to be invested in unconventional oil, alternative fuels and energy more. efficiency. This transition is a huge In contrast, the main stream media usually say that there is enough oil for the next 30 years “at current challenge for policy makers, engineers, levels of consumption”. They simply divide the investors and every “proven” oil reserves through the current demand. citizen.  But oil reserves are carefully guarded secrets of oil companies and countries. No independent audits are available. The BP Statistical Review of World Energy, which is often used by mass media as a reference, states in a footnote explicitly that the reserves as reported are taken from the Oil and Gas Journal, and did not in anyway reflect the confidential information known to the company. In fact, the numbers are reported just as the countries publish them. Some countries report the References same numbers every year, as if they were not • Energy Information Administration: /International Energy Outlook 2006./ producing any oil. The OPEC quota is linked http://www.globaloilwatch.com/reports/EIA%20Outlook%202006.pdf to the reserves, so, in order to increase their • Campbell, Colin J. (2005). Oil Crisis. Multi-Science Publishing. ISBN0-906522-39-0.

• Robert L. Hirsch, Roger Bezdek, Robert Wendling (2005). Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management. http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf • Simmons, Matthew R. (2005). Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi

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Energy Outlook In Europe: Toward a more sustainable energy future Ehsan ehsanı

Today, half of Europe’s energy consumption derives from imported fossil fuels.

And on current trends, over two-thirds of our energy consumption will come from outside the EU by 2030. Fossil fuels, used in both the energy and transport sectors, are also the main cause of CO2 being released into the atmosphere, which is the most important greenhouse gas responsible for climate change. The impact of increased renewable production and consumption is considerably less than increased supply and consumption of conventionally produced energy.

tions are in place, the member states still adhere to their own national agendas.

The European Commission is stressing the importance of a coherent European-wide policy regarding Energy supply, and its influence on the competitiveness of European products, while most member states are trying to hold their independence in energy issues.

Rising oil prices as well as concerns about the dependency on fossil fuel exporting countries and also In future energy supply and demand in Europe will increasing carbon pollutions within the European have to make significantly greater use of renewable Union, drives Europe towards the use of nuclear energy sources and focus more on energy-efficient power and renewable energies. Many member states, e.g. Finland, which will operate a new power methods, otherwise, given the low security levels of fossil-based energy sources and negative environ- plant until 2009, France, which heads forward to a new generation of reactors which should be in mental impacts, tomorrow’s Europe won’t be the operation in 2020 or Bulgaria, which attempts to one we desire… renew old nuclear reactors which remain from the Soviet era are heading to increase the supply of So, it is worth taking a closer look at the current situation of the energy sector in Europe to see what energy by nuclear power. The industry’s lobby association comes to the conclusion that people within the challenges and the areas for improvement are.

This will provide useful insights about what should Europe are much more positive towards nuclear be done regarding sustainability in the energy sector energy than they used to be in the past. Rising energy prices may be a reason for this shift in public within Europe. opinion.

Current situation of energy sector in Europe In case of biomass, the Austrian EU presidency has Speaking of energy, the investigated data for the energy consumption in the EU 15 countries, as well intended to speed up adoption of the Commission’s Biomass Action Plan in view of the urgent need to as in Switzerland, shows that energy consumption diversify Europe’s energy sources. Currently bioper capita is increasing. The investigated data for mass contributes approximately 70 million tonnes these countries for the year 2003 shows that the of energy equivalent within the European Union. household and service sector contributes most to the energy consumption per year in each country . For 2010 an amount of approximately 190 million tonnes energy equivalent is aimed. Therefore, the EU biomass treatment gains priority treatment.

At the governmental level, while many economic decisions are now influenced by European CommisIn the conference “Energy Paths – Horizon 2050” sion’s policies and frameworks, the energy market which was held in Vienna in 2006, it was concluded has not been unified at all; although recommenda

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that Europe must make domestic energy more competitive, else the import dependence may climb up to 70%. Today the import dependency is 50% of the European Union’s energy requirement. Beside the rise of energy demand there is a need for investment to replace the ageing infrastructure. The amount of money needed is estimated to be about one trillion euros within the next 20 years .

Toward a European Sustainable Energy Future Looking at the current situation of the energy sector in Europe, one can realise that European and national politicians have started to take action, and the importance of policies and the improvement of energy efficiency have been rightly stressed. But it’s disappointing to see the overall progress and effect of the initiatives, which seem scattered and not necessarily including the most important “decisionmakers”, the individual consumers. Interestingly, it is private consumption that has the most prominent effect on CO2 emissions, which can be thought of as a proxy for energy consumption.

The 2000-watt society is an interesting concept in this respect because it clearly sets a “limit” on individual consumption. The idea of the 2000-WattSociety centres on limiting individual consumption of Watt/year from a European average of 6000 to 9000 Watt down to 2000 Watts. Already, this is technically feasible without loss of comfort for individual consumers. While the 2000-Watt scheme focuses mainly on technical solutions to increase efficiency, it seems that individual consumption decisions have also an important role. Smart ways of living and decision making means that the right of future generations to live adequately does not necessarily stand in contradiction with keeping today’s quality of life, and improving consumption habits as well as putting the already existing technologies in practice are the first steps in the right direction. But investments have to be made, and individual habits and routines have to be changed – for both of them consideration of the sustainability and energy efficiency have to become individual and societal priority.

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As energy decisions are mostly related to governments and individuals, it’s good to look at what can be done at the policy maker level and at individual level. Governments surely have to form more flexible and practical structures to conduct sustainable energy projects and sustainability should be looked as one of the top priorities at the national level, more than present level. There is also a great need to come up with more effective ways of unifying decision making at European level. For us, finding answers as to how individual (energy) consumption can be lowered is a central aspect in Europe’s energy future because it’s even more influential. Thus, we should take a closer look at individual consumption decisions, and how these could be made more sustainable.

The future of the Europe (and also the world) is in our hands. It’s up to us how to shape it, either in a sustainable way or not!

This article is developed based on the ideas and thoughts of the participants in theYouth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) program held in August 2006 in Braunwald, Switzerland. 

References - www.worldchanging.com - www.wbcsd.org - www.eu2006.gv.at - European Commission Documents (http://ec.europa.eu/energy/index_en.htm) - EuroStat Directory (http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu)

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“2000 watt society” is a radical model of efficient, high-quality being pushed by the Swiss Council of

the Federal Institute of Technology. Worldwide average energy consumption per capita is about 17500 kilowatt hours, working out to a continuous consumption of 2000 watts. Obviously, this per capita is not evenly distributed. The goal of the 2000 watt society is to move the nation as a whole towards a 2000 watts per person goal, not by cutting back on the standard of living, but by dramatically improving the energy efficiency of all aspects of life. (Source: www.worldchanging.com)

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UCTE: Electricity Borders Diminished in Europe?

Bulent Ozan, Manager Deloitte Consulting

Electricity is treated as a product in everyday life that we only use at the point of delivery and we pay for a single delivered tariff. However, transportation of electricity to end users consists much more than conventional transportation of a product and the transportation process, in fact called transmission in electricity terminology, has to be differentiated from what is being transported in order to understand the electricity economics.

determining the route the electricity is transmitted and controlling the route itself if required.

• The fourth and the last characteristic to be mentioned is that electricity networks are not isolated but interdependent. Networks use their resources for security and quality of supply and this requires definition of physical and economic interdependency among the networks.

All of these unique characteristics introduce very difficult questions to tackle such as

Electricity has unique characteristics which require 1. How long does it take for a generation system to increase or decrease it’s working load to pick up for somespecial handling of the topic in terms of business body else’s generation responsibilities?, modeling, utilisation of the assets, competition, pricing, investment and so on and so forth. What are 2. What type of trading arrangements should be in place to facilitate the electricity generation?, these unique characteristics then?

3. Who is going to tell a generator to generate more or less? or • First and most important of all is that electric4. Is it possible to quantify the physical and economic inity can not be stored. It should be consumed at the terdependencies among the different networks? time of production. Excess or insufficient electricity generation may result in malfunctioning of electrical devices that we use in our everyday life, affecting the These questions are extremely difficult to address and different types of models and simulation apelectricity dependent industry more. This leads to the question of demand and supply equalisation, i.e. proaches have been defined to handle them. The characteristics, questions around these characterishandling of imbalances. tics and business models to address these questions • The second characteristic is that electricity travels have been mentioned to visualise the importance and peculiarity of “electricity” and will not be anain the speed of light and transmitted over the network of high-, mid-, low-voltage carriers involving lysed here. Rather than that, interdependency of networks will be explained in general by focusing a whole lot of peculiar elements such as turbines, on a specific organisation, UCTE, which has the sole transformators, meters, busbars, etc. complicating purpose of facilitating the transmission of electricity every inch of transmission. in Europe.

• The third characteristic is that very rules of physics The Union for the Coordination of Transmission of apply to the transmission of electricity; i.e. generated electricity picks up the congestion free network Electricity (UCTE) is an association of transmission component for transmission. This necessitates devel- system operators (TSOs) in Europe, providing reliable market base by efficient and secure electrical opment of certain techniques and systems for both

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power highways. The interconnected system ensures the technical condition for the reliable operation, and provides benefit for all market participants because they guarantee market access.

interconnections. In addition, TSOs which co-operate within UCTE, are provided with a prospective view of supply reliability developments throughout the network.

UCTE has been coordinating the international operation of high voltage networks by a variety of technical rules and recommendations, to work with one heart beat. UCTE handles one of the biggest electrical synchronous interconnections worldwide

Effectiveness of UCTE is determined by the adequacy level of the network. Adequacy measures the capability of the power system to supply the load in all the steady states in which the power system may exist, considering standard conditions. Adequacy is assessed under two different headings: Generation adequacy verifies the capability of

the available generation capacity to cover the peak load. Uncertainties on generation (resulting from planned and unplanned outages, availability of primary sources...) and on load levels (resulting from weather conditions) are taken into consideration to the possible extent, and

System adequacy includes the flexibilities provided

by the interconnected network (possibilities of import / export).

Apart from aiming a reliable electricity network Figure 1 – UCTE and Associated Countries, ucte.com across the continental Europe, UCTE facilitates investors by providing reliable data for the generation and transmission system for the large part of the consisting 23 countries and covering more than Europe.  450 million people. UCTE is planning to increase its coverage UCTE develops and tries to sustain the system to meet all of the new market requirements without any compromises to the reliability of existing system. This technical solution UCTE presents, Note About the Author provides the possibility of the free market operaBulent Ozan is working as Manager at Deloitte tions across the whole Europe.

Consulting Turkey. He is specialised in energy sector, In accordance with its objectives UCTE aims at providing all European electricity market players with an overall view on system load evolution, as well as on the resources available to satisfy the system load, as an early input to investment decisions. All European electricity market players are continuosly informed about overview on the main changes expected in the UCTE transmission grids especially

specifically electricity industry and experienced in; Operational and Financial Planning in Electricity Sector, Balancing and Settlement Operations and Regulation (Design and Development), Energy Sales and Purchasing Agreements and Physical and Financial Energy Trade. For more info on Deloitte Consulting Turkey’s services please visit www.deloitte.com.tr and/ or reach the author at bozan@deloitte.com.

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The Risk of

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Energy Efficiency valery paternotte

Renewable energy is increasingly popular, at least on paper and in a few leading countries. Laws are passed and implemented, people study the most effective measures to promote green power (see article in this issue), oil companies invest in green power generation… Should environmentalists therefore be satisfied? Not really. For at least two reasons.

First, ecologically debatable forms of electricity generation could still be considered as “green“. For instance, hydropower is, no doubt, renewable but is it necessarily green? Leaving aside huge social issues like mass displacement of people, Patrick Mc Mully1 stresses that hydropower is far from being as climate-friendly as its proponents allege (p.141). In some cases, the contribution to climate change can be greater than that of a fossil-fuel-burning plant producing an equivalent amount of electricity.

Second an increasing share of renewable energy may lead us to forget about energy efficiency and demand-side management. We may have long discussions about whether electricity produced from waste could qualify as green or not, but one thing is clear: no form of energy can be greener that the one we do not need to generate! Hence the concept of “negawatt”. ”Negawatt”: examples There are countless ways to reduce the amount of energy we consume. Next to obvious changes in behavior (like switching off the television instead of leaving it on standby), attention should be paid to the energy consumption of devices (DVD-players, refrigerators or even buildings themselves).

As a matter of fact, buildings can be designed so as to require very little energy. For example, the

headquarters building of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a nonprofit organisation promoting efficient use of resources, is superinsulated. It has no heating system (in the usual sense) at all: it is heated by passive solar gain through the windows and the central greenhouse. As their website (http://www.rmi.org) explains in further details, the net additional cost of the energy-saving features was about $6 000. This cost should be compared to the fuel saved : about $2 000 a year. In other words, a pay-back period of only three years, with the technology available in 1984! We could do better today.

The keyword “passive house” will allow the interested reader to get more information on ultra-low consuming buildings.

Information about energy efficiency of refrigerators, washing machines and the like is now easily available and these devices are even classified: from the least consuming (class A or, even better, AAA) to the least efficient (class G).

For the same light, one can switch, for instance, from a 60W incandescent bulb to a 15W fluorescent lamp; a factor 4 saving. Energy savings are very often in the range of a factor four. This simply means tremendous amounts of resources.

Small private gains for a huge social benefit We have seen that a low-consuming building allows the owner to save a lot of money. But there is a so-

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cial benefit too. The following drawing2 and text box allows us to understand why.

Out of the initial 100 units of energy contained in the oil, less than 2 actually serve the purpose of lighting. Note that from the plant to the entrance of our buildings, we have an efficiency of 36% (i.e., about two thirds are lost).

If we reduce the consumption of this lamp by a factor 4, it would consume every hour, say, 60 instead of 15 Watt.per hour. After 10 hours, assuming a price of 10 eurocent per kiloWatt per.hour, we would save 4.5 cents, which is fine, of course, but

not the whole story ! As a matter of fact, in order to produce 60 energy units at the entrance of a building, we actually need 167 (60 divided by 36%) units of primary energy. And in order to produce 15 energy units at the entrance of a building, we need 42 units of primary energy. So, what society as a whole saves is not 45 units of energy, but 125. After all, energy imports and environmental impacts are related to the consumption of primary energy. That is why energy efficiency is, even at the level of the end-consumer, very important.

Industrial engineers to overcome some of the obstacles?

So, why are energy efficiency technologies so rarely used? Part of the answer could just be ignorance.

Very few people know how much their fridges consume and even less the price of a kiloWatt.hour.

Besides, many people still believe that low-consuming devices do not really work or that they are expensive. The latter is partially true : the investment cost is often higher, even though the pay-back period is usually short. In some cases, such as for the construction of a house, the owner may not be

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able to support higher costs in the short run. Banks could help to overcome this obstacle: the owner of a low-consuming house should be able to borrow more money since he would have a reduced energy bill and therefore be able to repay a higher loan.

Another obstacle would be that people living in the house and paying for the monthly energy bill may not be the owner, who pays for the construction.

Again, higher construction costs may allow the owner to ask for a higher rent : after all, the renter will save on energy bills.

For many years, energy efficiency has been advocated by “environmentalists”, with a noticeable but limited success. Today, time may have come for energy efficiency technologies to be promoted by people who perhaps have the most appropriate training to do so: industrial engineers. After all, energy efficiency more often than not combines advanced technology and energy cost optimisation. Social and environmental advantages are just extra-benefits.  Inefficiency?

In order to compute the overall efficiency from primary energy to the energy effectively used by the end consumer, we have to look at the efficiency of all energy conversions. In a typical thermal plant, chemical energy (in the form of oil, for example) is first transformed into heat (to produce steam). This steam is used to move a turbine (mechanical energy), coupled to the generator (producing electrical energy). Each conversion means a loss of energy. The efficiency of a thermal plant is about 40%. In other words, from 100 units of energy in the form of oil, we only get 40 units in the form of electricity. Let us note that more efficient plants exist (combined heat/gas cycles 55%; cogeneration of heat and power : 80%).

Part of that electricity, around 10%, is lost in the form of heat during transmission.

Some very inefficient lamps would then waste up to 95% of that electricity, still in the form of heat.

If we multiply all these efficiency ratios, we obtain the overall efficiency ratio of 1.8%.

References

Mc Mully (2001), Silenced rivers. The ecology and politics of large dams, Zed books.

• Greenpeace Belgium, energy guide (see http://www.greenpeace.org/belgium/) 1

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Promoting Jens-Peter Springmann Mathias Erlei

Green Power

Electricity is one of vital sources of energy.

Despite a uniform promotion policy for electricity from renewable resources is being tried to be promoted among EU, the economic discussion about the benefits and disadvantages of certain promotion schemes has not come to a conclusive end yet.

This article summarises the main conclusions derived by Springmann (2005) who discussed 20 different models of feed-in, quota and bidding/tender schemes by applying comprehensive evaluation criteria of regulatory politics Promoting green energy In general, the public promotion of renewable energy aims at reaching environmental, macroeconomic and research-oriented goals1 i.e. “new” technologies shall contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing national competitiveness and shall lower their total costs Dispatching decentralised and “environmental-friendlier” power generators can contribute to public goods like security of supply and environmental protection which cannot be realised by the market alone9. While positive external effects of these technologies are fully embodied in their total costs, negative external effects of conventional technologies are still imperfectly internalised.

So cost disadvantages of “green” technologies can justify governmental actions to enable their market competitiveness.

Promotion Schemes under Consideration Our analysis is restricted to 20 stylised models of feed-in, bidding/tender and quota systems2 . All

models are specified by certain design parameters.

So four feed-in models are analysed according to their specification of the market access (self-marketing or demand obligations) and their funding sources (public budgets or cost sharing in the electricity market). Additionally, bidding/tendering policies also allow for different subsidy payment schemes (non-recurring investment or continuous operating subsidies), so that eight different policies are identified. Supplementary to the market access regime, quota models are characterised by their compliance mechanism (purchasing green power or purchasing green certificates) and the addressee of the quota obligation (power retailers or end customers), so that eight models are taken into consideration.

Evaluation Criteria In the first step, promotional targets have to be formulated and concretised sufficiently. By applying contract-theoretical considerations, all targets are examined if they are in line with (hypothetical) public interest. The next step is to identify the optimal governmental level to decide on the choice of instruments according to the subsidiarity principle.

The economic assessment takes place by discussing the schemes’ static and dynamic efficiency properties as well as their specific transaction costs. Finally, public choice arguments are set forth to analyse potential political risks linked to certain model types, which may curtail their specific effectiveness.

Results The analysis shows on the one hand that environmental and R&D oriented targets can easily be transformed into secondary target formulations

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An Economic Assessment of Public Promotion Schemes for Electricity from Renewable Energy like share of green power or total costs of operating plants. On the other hand, macroeconomic targets like job creation in the field of new technologies are in fact measurable, but hard to control. The secondary target creation of an investment friendly atmosphere for renewable can be easily stated, but seems to be hard to measure.

Basically, all target dimensions for renewable are to be considered in line with public interest. Nevertheless one may surely scrutinise why new technologies should be promoted instead of using “classical” policies to reach macroeconomic targets. Moreover, promoting renewable appears to be a “pretence of knowlege of knowledge” since politicians in principle cannot anticipate if this policy is an appropriate mean to meet macroeconomic problems. Especially due to this last argument, macroeconomic targets are left out the further analysis.

by public budgets, whereas in bidding schemes nonrecurring investment subsidies should be paid out.

Quota models with flexible compliance mechanisms like green certificates, which pose obligations on power retailers, constitute the models of choice.

Conclusions From a regulatory politics perspective highly-flexible quota mechanisms, which are capable to minimise unwanted market distortions, are best suited to reach the targeted shares of green power in the European electricity market. This result contrasts to the assessment of the EU Commission which recommends the implementation of feed-in policies. Indeed, since 1990 these model have proven to be highly effective in respect to create new markets for alternative generation technologies on the one hand. Wind energy may be considered as an appropriate example. But on the other hand, these advances have only been possible by bearing high Since different promotion policies may cause market distortions for green power, promotion policies promotional costs, which are also a disadvantage of feed-in models in our theoretical study. Feed-in should be coordinated at the EU level. Regarding schemes are best suited in early stages of market the instruments’ design, one cannot identify an development since they provide comparably high overall optimal model type. In contrast to the inincentives to utilise new technologies. If these troductory statement of the EU Commission, the new markets become more and more competitive, discussion shows a clear dominance of quantitythe more flexible and cost reducing quota models oriented models, especially of quota models. This assessment is due to the fact that quota models com- render to be reasonable. In the end, the promotion bine high target and market system conformity with of green energy should also be accompanied by further measures to internalise the external costs of high degrees of economic and political efficiency. conventional technologies, like the new European If focusing on target conformity and economic efficiency, feed-in models are clearly preferred to bid- market for CO2-Emission Certificates.  ding/tender schemes. Concerning the market access regime, self-marketing represents the best alternative. Feed-in and bidding models should be funded

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Sell or Keep?

Serbian Oil Industry to be privatized amidst rising oil prices

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Privatisation of the oil sector is old news for many countries, but for some countries in Eastern-Europe it is just a recent one as the majority of the staterun companies have been privatised during the transitional period to the market economies, not all that long ago.

aimed at improving the infrastructure, education, healthcare, tourism etc.

With an estimated cost of 1,5 billion euros until the end of 2007, it shall become the primary driver for economic growth in the country and the region.

However the question arises, how the government will finance this NIP in the long run. Two clear Some countries are lagging behind with reform and answers are foreign direct investments and privatisation. As FDIs in Serbia are expected to reach the privatisation, and Serbia is no exception. With a state-run monopoly in the oil industry, the govern- level of 3 billion euros in 2006, it is still far away from what’s needed to continue its GDP growth ment was reluctant for some time to start the difficult task of restructuring this industry giant. How- of at least 5% per year. The other option is privaever with mounting pressures from the International tisation. As it draws to its close, some great result Monetary Fund the government has finally decided have been achieved by the selling of Mobi63, the second largest mobile phone operator to Telenor in to restructure and privatise state-run monopolies July 2006, for a record sum of 1,513 billion euros like Naftna Industrija Srbije a.d. (NIS)–the Serbian oil industry and to slowly liberalise the whole ener- of which 1.155 billion will directly go to the NIP. gy sector by 2010, in line with liberalisation efforts However, many economists fear that this may be one of the last successful privatisations in the country as in the EU. The forthcoming privatisation of NIS is the county runs out of good businesses to sell, exalso seen as the precursor for a number of forthcept for one company, the biggest earning company coming transactions, including electricity companies, railway companies and the national air carrier. in the country – Naftna Industrija Srbije a.d., with revenue of 1.997 billion EUR in the last six months of 2005.

To better understand why this is happening now, a broader perspective must be taken on how the restructuring and privatisation process of state-run With an estimated market value of 2.0 billion USD, the company could become the single biggest cash monopolies is crucial to the countries’ economic flow for the straining Serbian budget. In 2005 at an reform. A new seven year long, so called National international tender, a consortium of Merrill Lynch Investment Plan is to be introduced in late 2006, and Raiffeissen Investments has won the right to debased on the experiences of countries which have faced similar economic and political troubles (most velop the strategy of privatisation which would ensure the maximisation of the wealth of the company. notably Ireland). This NIP endorses the funding of NIS is a closed joint stock company operating in a variety of local and regional investment projects three core assets divisions: NIS – Naftagas (Exploration & Production) is the only exploration and production company operating in Serbia with a production of around 710 000 tons in 2005.

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two refineries Novi Sad and Pancevo with a total capacity of 7,3 million tons and the two wholesale and retail networks NIS-NAP and NIS-Jugopetrol.

In 2005, NIS had a combined market share of 72% in the domestic oil products wholesale and retail markets.

NIS – TNG (LPG Transport & Marketing) is engaged in the transport, handling, bottling, storage, and marketing of LPG. In 2005, the sales of LPG were 170 000 tons, in which NIS-TNG had a market share of 37%.

According to this strategy, the privatisation process will take place in two main steps. It shall not be privatised in parts but rather as a single, vertically integrated entity. In the first phase which is to be finished by the end of 2006, 25% of the company will be sold off to a strategic partner, while the state remains the biggest shareholder, until the second phase in 2009 when the strategic partner will become the biggest shareholder through the stock market. This will also help develop the Serbian financial markets with the expected biggest IPO in the country’s history. In the mean time, some of the stocks that the state own will be given to small shareholders (mostly workers and pensioners), while in the first three years the strategic partner is obliged to invest 500 million USD to increase the efficiency and the value of the company, 250 million USD at once and 80 million USD per year in the next three from the revenue stream the company will generate.

So far the companies which have expressed direct

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interest in acquiring NIS, solely or through consortiums are Hellenic Petrolem (Greece), Lukoil (Russia), MOL (Hungary), OMV (Austria) and PKN Orlen (Poland) which have done similar M&A activities in the region (see table 1) At this time estimates of capital gain for the State range from 500 to 750 million euros, but apart from cash, the state will end up with wealthier stockholders and a modernised company ready to face stiff international competition, EU and environmental regulations.

We can conclude that the aim of privatisation can’t and shouldn’t be merited solely by the value the company reaches during the process but the long term benefits it shall bring to the future shareholders, stakeholders and the environment. For Serbia, the privatisation of the Serbia Oil Company will mean a small step towards EU membership, but also a big test for the current and future governments to invest this money wisely to recover the struggling Serbian economy, an economy of an increasing importance for the whole region of South-Eastern Europe. 

Petrom (Romania)

INA (Croatia)

Slovnaft (Slovakia) Neftochim (Bulgaria)

PKN Orlen (Poland) OMV (Austria)

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Complete control after 30 days by holding 3 of 5 executive board votes.

Complete control by naming 4 of 7 executive board members.

2 of 7 executive board members, 2 of 7 control board members, veto rights for contracts over 10 million euros.

Has not gained majority control.

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EVENTS In April 2006 ESTIEM’s Council traveled west to meet the city of Porto. tıago lopes

Local Group Porto proudly hosted ESTIEM’s 32nd Council Meeting during the third week of April 2006. This was a tremendous adventure for a small, but motivated, Local Group, and you’re about to find out what that adventure was all about. Travelling back in time to our LG’s midterm General Assembly you will know how it all started. After the approval of the delegates for CM Lyon our Local Responsible had something to propose: after organising Activity Weeks, Vision conferences, TIMES semi-finals there was one thing that hasn’t been held in Porto and that was a Council Meeting.

This proposal was approved and as far as story goes LG Porto was chosen to host the Council Meeting and that’s were the adventure starts.

During the summer of 2005 we were already loaded with preparations and we started what is usually referred, and quoting a former Project Leader, as “the most challenging job” in organising a Council Meeting: raising funds and finding partners to support the needs of the 160

delegates. We had diverse partners such as the constant supporters from ESTIEM’s partner pool Bosch, Rolland Berger Strategy Consultants, we had Microsoft and a good portfolio of Portuguese companies and institutions that were willing to help us, Delta Cafes, Andante/TIP, University of Porto, Socitrel, Cimpor, REN, BA vidros, BPI, Unicer and Deloitte. By the end of March 2006 everything was set to go and Local Group Porto was prepared to host 160 ESTIEMers.

This takes us to April when some participants started to arrive as soon as a week prior to the official opening of the General Assembly. Living up to the fame of Portuguese having an enormous hospitality, we went on to host some of these participants. With the arrival of more and more people some Local Group members were able to improvise a pre-CM of sorts with some of the wildest parties ESTIEM has ever seen. Those took place in empty apartments and pool houses, filled with ethanol based beverages, where we were able to host Project and Committee leaders who were arriving sooner for their trainings. The trainings happened

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through out Tuesday (the first CM day) while participants from all over Europe were starting to arrive and doing their registration. We were set for the first party with, almost, everyone already in Porto. The party took place in Cat’s night club where old friends got together and new friendships started to shape. This was not a long night, at least considering the following ones, but it was a pretty fun one, and had it not been for the long line to leave the club it would have ran perfectly.

all went back to the hotel with the help of a couple rental buses to get some sleep or to join a long lasting after-party.

“It was my first time in Portugal and I expected an uncoordinated and chaotic CM. I wouldn’t mind if it would have been like this but it was totally different from my expectations. I was impressed by the friendly Portuguese people and their way to handle one hour delays with a smile on their face. This LG has potential and I wish them good luck to impress the rest of ESTIEM again soon!”

Philipp Baechle LG Karlsruhe

“Sharing ideas, developing our skills, taking part in an Europe-wide event. I experienced my first CM in Porto. With 160 participants, it was the biggest international event in my life and also the best place to understand ESTIEM spirit. “

Waking up on Thursday morning was even more difficult but eventually happened and once again everyone was headed to the faculty, this time for Working Group sessions only. As usual, lunch took place in the canteen and we started to prepare for the afternoon’s city tour. Even escorted by the heavy rain that had hit Porto on that same day most ESTIEMers completed a pedi-paper through Porto’s Waking up on Wednesday was not easy for us. That was nothing compared to the difficulty in waking up historical places and known monuments like Torre 160 sleep-hungry ESTIEMers (we just didn’t knew dos Clérigos or the Ascensor dos Guindais. We then went on to have a wet boat trip on Douro River that it would get harder each day). After a quick that ended in the famous Port wine cellars where breakfast we were headed to our faculty where the everyone had their chance to taste the delicious first General Assembly and the Working Groups Port wine. The group of European students went were taking place. All the GAs were taking place in our faculty’s auditorium which was described by back to the hotel, most of them carrying some Port wine bottles bought in the cellars. What happened Anna Marszalkiewicz as “the greatest conference later in the evening was something rather unique. room I have ever been for a GA”. As the General After having a special meal at the faculty’s canteen Assembly took place our Logistics team was we were presented with a live performance from preparing the coffee-break and the rooms for the 50 students dressed all in black, known as TEUP, Working Groups in the afternoon. Everyone had Tuna of Engineering of the University of Porto. lunch at the faculty’s canteen and the WGs started in the afternoon quite smoothly. Wednesday evening This traditional music group made an outstanding performance that became the most memorable was the time for the most awaited party of the moment of this CM and songs like “Oh Maria” and whole Council Meeting. It was time for the beach “Só um Beijo” will be remembered by most of the party held at Miramar’s beach restaurant Areal, ESTIEMers present for a long time to come. A really and even after missing the first train to leave Porto wild party took place in the faculty itself afterwards, we arrived on time for dinner. This was where the wildness amongst ESTIEMers started to scratch the party which was organised by LG Porto members in the faculty’s hall, filled with cheap drinks and a surface and even the cold night wasn’t enough to really good mood. stop some Northern Europeans to taste the feeling of a swim in one of Portugal’s sandy beaches. We

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After such a long and exhausting party it was odd to notice how everyone was willing to work and discuss on Friday that led to a delay in the General Assembly, luckily it was not problematic.

After the General Assembly, mixed with company presentation from Bosch and Roland Berger, and the last Working group session another day in Porto had passed and another wild night was about to start.

The party was set to take place in Porto’s trendiest

club “Via Rápida”. We had dinner there and after informing everyone that the drinks were actually for free the bar got crowded. With those free-drinks and a full house, the celebration went on all night long with some party prone ESTIEMers leaving the club around five and six in the morning (sadly there was no time to sleep for them).

The last day of the CM had arrived and waking everyone up in the morning was one of the most difficult tasks of the whole CM organisation for

the waking up Committee. As usually everyone, well almost everyone, headed to the faculty for the last General Assembly. The voting was taking place and everyone was a little bit anxious. When the President of ESTIEM called LG Porto to receive a distinction it was overwhelming to hear and see the whole Council on their feet singing “Porto! Porto!”.

This is a memory that will remain forever in each and every organiser’s heart and mind, and for this I would like to personally thank everyone present in the CM for their support, understanding and spirit.

The Gala Dinner was set to take place in the beautiful room of Porto’s trade and business association that has its place downtown near by the hotel where we were staying. With everyone dressed up and with a smile on their faces this Gala Dinner went quite well and it was a good culmination for an exhausting but outstanding week. Given that the dinner took place downtown, and Porto’s local football team had jut won the national championship, the ESTIEMers were left in the middle of a city party once again singing “PORTO! PORTO”. After celebrating a bit F.C. Porto’s victory we went to Club Mau Mau for the last party of the CM. This was the place for goodbyes and last minute hugs and kisses and it put an end to the infamous week of the spring Council Meeting 2006 in Porto.

On behalf of LG Porto and the organising team, I would like to say that hosting such a great and important event, and doing it in a good way, was one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences of our life. We hope we can meet you all at least once again either here in Porto or through out Europe. 

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While some participants traveled by car, arriving already during the event, most of them got to Lisbon by train, on Sunday morning, the 23rd. Upon their arrival, they were met by the organising team at the St. Apolónia train station. Everyone boarded a coach bus (where the official welcome actually took place) which headed for the hostel along the scenic, riverside Marginal Way. After leaving the baggage in the hostel, there was a quiet lunch at the Belém gardens, each one munching on his/her baguette while sitting on the grass. For dessert, we had the traditional “Pastéis de Belém” (something like Pies of Belém, in English), small custard pies with cinnamon. Everybody was so tired after a week or so of craziness up in Porto that many would have been happy to sleep the rest of the day, right there in Belém, be sure of that. The blue skies and friendly temperatures helped, too.

The afernoon was spent visiting some of Lisbon’s monuments, namely the Jerónimos Monastery and 12th century St. George’s Castle. The monastery was nearby in Belém, as were other monuments such as the Discoveries Mark and the Tower of Belém. To reach the castle, we took a bus in the traditional path up the hill where the castle is situated, dominating the city. Afterwards, back to the hostel for dinner, watching the Tagus river giving itself to the ocean, and a much needed good night’s sleep.

The Jerónimos Monastery The following morning, the group went for a coach tour, stopping over at Guincho beach. The plan also featured a stop at the Roca Cape, the most Western piece of land in the European continent, but it wasn’t possible due to the traffic. After lunch, there was a visit to Sintra, a picturesque town west

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of Lisbon. It’s in fact classified as a World Heritage Site by Unesco and imortalised by Lord Byron in some of his poems. Places visited included the Village Palace and the lovely Regaleira Manor, which used to be the property of a wealthy man in the 1900’s. The house and garden, full of subterranean galleries and secret places, were described by Anna Marszalkiewicz, from Poland, as “the most beautiful place” she had ever seen.

The event ended in style with a very animated dinner in the centre of Lisbon, with laughing and singing in the purest ESTIEM fashion. The organisers were presented with gifts by some participants.

When dinner was over some went to the Bairro Alto – or “Upper Neighbourhood” – while others preferred to go “bar-hopping” or back to the hostel, not yet fully recovered from the extremes in Porto.

To conclude, in the name of ESTIEMstiem Local Group Lisbon, I would like to thank everyone who came and hope they’ve enjoyed it as much as we have. Judging by the opinion of a German ESTIEMer, who at the end said he’d come to every event in Lisbon from now on, we would call it a success. ESTIEM rules!! 

ALBERTO bIAMONTI

In the aftermath of CM Porto, as the tradition dictates, another Post-CM took place, on the 23rd and 24th of April. This time it was organised by LG Lisbon, and its main goal was to give the ESTIEMers who came from Porto a well deserved rest, after a Council Meeting that was as hard as it was exciting.

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Free Vision First in Izmir

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(one of the giant oil companies that was mentioned in Ivan Karlovic’s article as well), we were expecting to see all the processes of distillation of petroleum, but due to security issues we only got to observe a part of it. Afterwards, we were welcomed by a well qualified and experienced engineer at Petkim, the petroleum-chemistry company that we visited.

He was interested in such student associations, so in a very short time he caught our ESTIEM spirit.

We had a chance to talk about process, politics on FREE Vision Izmir, in other words the debut of FREE Vision seminars, was also a starting point for the petroleum companies, engineering etc. The LG Izmir. As we had already known, Vision has many funny part of this visit was the sandwiches which will remain as a memory of the day only for the differences from other ESTIEM events. During participants. The night ended up with a bowling the agenda preparation stage of arrangements, tournament. We randomly selected one player per it was important to pay attention to the balance LG and made up the teams, but somehow our team of academic and social sections of the activity. was totally devasted, in a way I still couln’t figure Separately we had a special case, such as being out. a mysterious city for most of the ESTIEMers.

Therefore familiarising Izmir to all participants was On the third day, our guests experienced a special among our goals as well as the common objectives time for Izmir, by joining to the celebration of of Vision seminars. independence of the city with a great excitement.

Summers have an essential function for ESTIEMers The building where we had our presentation had a nice scenery, so we preferred to watch jet-aircrafts’ who would rather prefer to relax and save some gorgeous show instead of our lunch for some time. energy for the new season. This makes the first activities of the agenda a little more attractive than The same day we also had the chance to visit the the others, so the first FREE Vision should have had Internation Fair of Izmir and the famous historical the same attraction. Frankly speaking, I was waiting bazaar. for more participants from different LGs but I As an organiser, I was also counting days to go suppose everyone’s schedule was not suitable for this summer event. Nevertheless, those who came to Kusadasi for the last day of vision, to enjoy its sandy beaches, clubs and bazaars. After our visit to made this a truly great event. antique city of Ephesus, Virgin Mary’s House and the beautiful mountain-village Sirince we arrived We spent our first day with arriving, getting to in Kusadasi afternoon, and the next 24 hours were know each other –with a cult game of ESTIEM– time for nothing but entertainment. As you can eating, drinking and dancing as a warming up! guess, after all the lectures about energy, we had lots of energy to spend. It was the perfect end to a great Second day, we had to get up early to visit some of event. Many thanks to everyone who participated the big petroleum companies which are allocated quite far out of the city. In the first company, Tupras and the organisers that made this event possible.  At the beginning of sweety September in Izmir, fundamental energy source of the past times, today and the future were happily shining in the sky, not knowing anything about our pursuit for the “Future Resources of Energy and Economy”!!

It was still summertime full of dynamism and numerous activities to take part in.

Vision Of Cycles

The seminars began the 1st of May with three lectures. Prof Dr. Cengiz Yalcin talked about the knowledge based economy while Yusuf Isik gave a foresight about the next 20 years in business and industry. The day was concluded with a lecture by Prof. Dr. Dietrich Brandt which in he explained the Alexander Hornung-LG Ilmenau: These days were some kind of special. Remarkable lecturers from all over Europe made the seminars valuable. Sightseeing of Ankara especially with the Atatürk Mausoleum and old town was very interesting. Thank you for organizing this benchmark-setting event.

Alexander Hornung LG Ilmenau importance of learning cycles.

The next day there were two seminars and one panel. The first seminar lead and held by Prof.

Dr.Yaman Barlas from Bogazici University and was about cycles caused for either seasonal or endogenous reasons. The day continued with a seminar by Vesna Damnjanovic from the University of Belgrade. Its academic part was concluded by a panel held by Mevlut Çavusoglu and Osman Coskunoglu, who are members of PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe), giving two points of view of the same topic.

After tasting Turkish kebap for the dinner, we had great fun while singing karaoke songs together.

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Final Conference The third day started with a lecture from Dr. Alper Alsan from Siemens. Afterwards we visited the Atatürk mausoleum. We went up to the old town of Ankara and watched the scenery from Ankara Castle. After visiting a mosque and museums there, it was time to have dinner. For the night we went to a special Turkish night called “Fasil” where we drank “Raki” and danced to folk music.

The last day started with Sitki Ogutcu from Ar-Ge Consulting with a lecture about product life cycle management approaches. The last seminar of the I was very much looking Final Conference was lead by Stephan Albrecht forward to this event because who is the representative of Peter Eyerer (Vision I would meet new people, of Cycles Academic Patron). He explained the discover a new culture and concept of life cycle engineering and talked about enrich my knowledge via the life cycle assessment and gave various examples. lectures performed. I wasn’t Final Conference ended with Gala Dinner which disappointed at all! I got to everybody seemed gorgeous in their formal suits. know the Turkish cuisine and practised my dancing skills 5th of May was the day of departure. One by one on Turkish music. I was very each room at the dormitory was becoming empty surprised by the quality of but fortunately everybody left with their luggage the lectures. I learned a lot full of ideas about “Cycles” subject and with new about the various friendships. Cornelia and Saija, were happy to see life cycles existing the glamorous end of the Vision of Cycles project in the business after working so hard for it. world.

MERVE GUMUS

It was a dream to be achieved and needed hard work and enthusiasm to be organised.

When we as LG Ankara–METU decided to organise the Final Conference, we knew that it would be the first Final Conference for many years and that we had the responsibility of concluding the glamorous Vision of Cycles project.

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We would like to thank all of the participants and many others for contributing the event

Adrien Ih – LG Grenoble

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Activity Guys in Poznan

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The first Activity Week in Poznan took place for the first time in years, in the middle of May. We made sure that all the participants had an unforgettable experience, a mix of cultural activities at during the day and great parties at night.

of ancient Slavs. The oldest wooden construction discovered in this place is 2 700 years old ! The buildings were reconstructed and now you can really feel the history in this place. Later there was a mix of bowling and partying . We proved that every ESTIEMer can be the lord of the bowls!

Wednesday - the event had just begun. We had been impatiently waiting for our guests to come. As soon as all the participants arrived, we moved to the pub so that we could get to know each other better and give a hint of the Polish parties.

The next day we showed Poznan to our participants.

The natural consequence of the great number of Poznan students is the huge amount of pubs, clubs and discos which one can visit. During the day, the city is rather calm and peaceful. It was an advantage for us - we didn’t have any disturbances during the City Tour. We visited a few historic buildings and listened to the short descriptions of each. of them. Then we watched the performance that takes place every day at midday on top of the city hall where two wooden goats fight each other.

According to the old legend, they saved Poznan from the attack of the enemies. In the evening, we went to party in a club full of flashing lights and great music.

The last day we had a little more sleep, because exhaustion was not an option. With bodies more relaxed and fresh, all open-minded, we visited The World Press Photo 2006 exhibition. It made a big impact on everybody and was very thought-provoking. Each picture Friday was a day filled with hectolitres of beer. No, no, showed the people from around the world, their story it was not a constant party. We visited the Lech brewery of pain or happiness. In the afternoon we had some and saw how much effort it takes to produce one bottle sports to fill our participants with fresh energy. So durof beer. Our participants were extremely interested in ing the final party we couldn’t restrain ourselves from one kind of beer with original name and slogan, which, dancing like crazy, mostly thanks to the very active however, is not too popular: “Dog in the Fog – will presence of the Vice President of Activities. never fail to find his way”. In the evening we went to Post-Dali, a club situated on the top floor of the a skyLocal Group Poznan would like to thank our great scraper. We could simultaneously dance and watch the participants for coming and filling the city with a real night panorama of Poznan at the same time.

ESTIEM spirit! We hope that you enjoyed this Activity Week as much as we did. You are always welcome in Despite the exhaustion, Saturday morning we had to Poznan! get up earlier to discover the remains of the Slavic settlement. We were absolutely delighted that the sun decided to come with us and make this trip even more pleasant. At the Biskupin, we learnt about the customs

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First of all, with SAC in Hungary we had not only the experience of learning about Human-Centred Systems Design but also the opportunity of doing it in beautiful Alsóörs in Lake Balaton.The professor, Dietrich Brandt, is one of the most charismatic people I have ever met. He created a team out of us and with his guidance we could achieve results that surpassed our expectations in those two weeks. Since the first day, where most of us were strange to each other, till the last day, we felt that, we developed skills that would ensure our work together and After this, SAC was unfortunately over.Time went fast most importantly, to rely on every one of us despite the in those two weeks. Departure time came and we were differences in background, culture and way of working. gone.This was not the end but probably a new beginning for us. Now, I sadly remember all those good and bad moments we had. And that feeling of loss can only be Besides the introductory lectures and presentations we had, in the last three days of the first week we also had a expressed with the Portuguese word “saudade”. workshop in one of the world’s top automotive equipment supplier,Valeo. For most of us it was the first real- Special thanks to our great professor for his guidance, to Gabriella and Balázs for organising this event and also to life experience and so, the idea to help them was really you my friends! Don’t forget our keyword: team develexciting to us.Things didn’t turn the way we expected. opment!  The information provided about the case we should work on was not clear enough for us.We were confused, drawn into chaos.We had no idea what we should manage in order to get anything that could satisfy both the Valeo professionals and us. From morning until night our brains didn’t stop thinking on what to do.We started looking for flaws in their plans which, as we explored in our presentation, were good enough to at least impress them!

The second week was starting and with it our work on the thesis each of us had to do. Even if people chose different and interesting topics, chaos showed itself once again. In our previous week we were a team but now we were just small groups of that big team we used to be.We started working on different schedules, some people worked during the day, others worked at night.The professor wanted us to keep working together but that didn’t happen, at least until the last days. In those last days, after we were warned about what was happening, we really started to understand all those theoretical concepts we learned.

Our team was back. And our last day presentations were probably something that none of us will forget from this experience.

Manuel Lorerio

Some people may think that an academy during summer is boring, too academic or even the worst way to spend the few holidays we have..

I am here to tell you how great this experience was for me and my fellow colleagues, I mean, friends.

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Groningen Activity Week

Our Activity Week started with this great party, called Idiot on the Boat: the best steersmen are still on the shore. Some participants had to get a little Sebastıan frıjlıng bit used to the very Dutch student like atmosphere, where throwing beer isn’t considered such a huge sin.

The most difficult moment of the week was the next morning: we had to be in time for an interesting lecture of Gasunie, the national gas company. The only way to get there is, by bike of course! We rented bikes for every participant.

But with a hangover and too little sleep it is quite hard to start up biking again. Just to annoy the organisers, they were so kind as to break up all the roads for us, so we arrived a little late. Anyway, the lecture and the tour through the office were highly interesting.

After dinner, we did something we are quite good at: taste beers. Dutchies are not necessarily that good in brewing beer, however in tasting we are expert. The best thing about testing beer is that you also get to know each other a little better.

Thursday we started on the university campus with a Virtual Reality tour on how the campus would look like in 5 years. There are quite some buildings being built in the next few years. It was a nice demo of what VR can do. An interesting lecture on Dutch culture followed. That afternoon the participants started running around our city: there were sights to be seen and difficult questions to be answered.

We topped it off by a nice drink and a tour offered by the city council, in the beautiful, 19th century city hall.

The following pub crawl was a huge success.

Groningen boasts a huge amount of really cool bars. As we tried to visit as many of them

as possible, we ended that night with the ESTIEM President standing on the tables, protecting some girls from harassment at 7 o’clock in the morning.

The best way to handle a hangover is to exercise: the next morning we climbed all the way up the Martini Tower. (no, not the drink). After lunch, we visited a real Dutch coffee shop. And, of course, within no time, a few of the participants were puffing away happily.

That evening there was at running dinner: all the courses at a different place somewhere in town, in the houses of some of the organisers. It was nice to see how students live in the Netherlands and how well, or bad they can cook.

And finally it was Saturday: sailing day! There is no better way to get totally relaxed again in the sun on the boat. We went all the way into sea, and enjoyed the fresh air. After a great final dinner, our treasurer saved enough money to pay the entrance fee of a really nice house party. And it was another long night.

On Sunday it was unfortunately time to say goodbye: the Activity Week was over. We all had a nice brunch, but some people still had the energy to visit Amsterdam, where we had our post-AW. We think it was a great week which everybody enjoyed a lot, while discovering Groningen. Most remarkable was that everybody in the evaluation form gave 5 of 5 points on general organisation. We are very proud of what we achieved. Hopefully by the time you read this article, we will be member.

You can then expect more interesting events from Local Group Groningen! 

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the sand of some beach volleyball court.

The various late night activities were also great. On Thursday we had a night out at the most popular student club in Dortmund which sadly had a cooling system break down that night. There was only one way to escape the heat: more liquids of questionThe ReCoM in Dortmund from the 16th to the 20th of May was a great success for our beloved LG. able composition. Some ESTIEMers seemed to have learned about this very quickly and tried to set a 13 ESTIEMers followed our invitation and came good example. On Friday after the trip to the medito visit us. We got together in the afternoon at the eval coal mine we had a dinner at the “speak easy”. university and had a dinner and our first night out.

We quickly discovered that this was the only day of Whilst sitting in the restaurant, there was a strange the ReCoM, where we didn’t have to struggle with bicycle competition outside, that was also completely new to the members of LG Dortmund: people on weather issues. bikes driving in the slipstream of 1950’s motorbikes on a big circle in the inner city. We still do not know “With great flexibility LG Dortmund arranged the deeper meaning of the contest. us some excellent places to work, nice free time activities, that were instantly adapted to the unexAfter the dinner we moved on to some little clubs in pected weather circumstances and showed us the Dortmund for hanging out (not hanging up, as some best places to party!” of our guests suggested as a reasonable alternative to listening to “Schlager”!). Sadly some ESTIEMers Ida Sanders went home early or had to get planes at four o’clock LG Eindhoven in the morning, so that the centre of attention On the next morning, the work lead by Anna and Elias started for our guests and us. The work on motivation and sponsoring issues in one’s LG or the new portal and the CRM software was significant.

After the first tiring half of the day we started for our fun program, which sadly had to be changed because of the weather. But the participants were quiet happy with the visit to the DAB brewery and a brewery museum. The visit ended with a beer testing competition which was transformed into a beer drinking competition by some anonymous ESTIEMers. After some free time, we gathered at the university to have a BBQ which thankfully was not interrupted by the weather. The following days included some hard work but also some interesting activities, like a trip to a medieval coal mine or a visit to a park near the city centre. The last trip was probably the most interesting trip, because some male ESTIEMers started to model their ideal girls in “We have visited a historical coal mine and a brewery - only a slaughter house was missing to have the perfect German barbecue seminar.”

Ignacio Perez Prat LG Karlsruhe

“As this was my second event in Dortmund, I was not really surprised to see that the members of this Local Group are excellent organisers and took perfect care of us during work and free time. It was simply a pleasure to be there again!

Thanks a lot!”

Anna Marszalkiewicz shifted to some house parties with people ending up sleeping in kitchens or corners.

Concluding the ReCoM has been great fun. We enjoyed organizing such an event and hope to get the chance for more of that in the future. I think it has been very important for our young LG to show our members that ESTIEM is enriching and that the fun with such an event is worth the work and trouble in the time before. For the next time we hope to have an even bigger rush on our events. For example our Vision seminar in November! 

Jan Knizia

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The Cutting Edge of Car Door Technology Achim Oettinger Human Resources

Vehicle doors provide of lot of opportunities for continuous product improvement as well as the development of increasingly efficient production and logistics processes. This can be seen in the numerous innovations created by the market and technology leader Brose.

Depending on customer requirements, the company is able to respond by incorporating an ever-increasing number of components and functions in a door system

(28 percent); in Europe it ranks third in the area of closure systems (10 percent).

Established technical standard In keeping with this position on the market, the door system concept invented by Brose has become a technical standard worldwide. Its main advantage: the integration of all essential door functions into one unit which is pre-checked and ready for delivery in line with the automaker’s own vehicle production schedule. Components like the window regulator, loudspeaker, latch, Brose is considered to be the inventor of the modular door system. Over the past twenty years, wire harnessing, airbag and the entire control the corporate group has played a fundamental role electronics are assembled onto a central carrier module. This also separates the door into a wet in building up car door technology and assembly and dry area. While the “dry” half of the door principles. In doing so, the automotive supplier houses the electronics, the mechanical compohas moved on from being purely a producer of window regulators to becoming a modern system nents are integrated into the “wet” part. integrator, responsible for the complete development of the door. The family-owned company has This technical innovation provides a number of benefits: fewer parts are required; the potential meanwhile become the world market leader in door systems (30 percent) and window regulators for error is reduced; and it is no longer necessary to seal individual electronic functional elements.

Moreover, the carrier module not only fends off damp but also prevents dust and outside noises penetrating inside the car. This door architecture creates an ideal resonating space improving the acoustics of the integrated loudspeaker. An additional benefit is the considerable reduction in logistical effort and assembly time at the automaker.

The strongest argument behind modularisation is the fact that automakers have only one supplier to communicate with regarding all process stages,

Comparison doors concepts

Conventional door design (pictured left): individual components like the window regulator are assembled directly on the door body-in-white at the automaker. Modular door structure (pictured right): the Brose door system with a steel carrier integrates essential door functions, separating the vehicle door into a wet and a dry area.

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the biggest benefit? What is the most efficient material for the project in question? Steel has always played a significant role in material selection. Compared to plastics, there are obvious advantages to using steel in terms of door rigidity and crash safety.

Nevertheless, the automakers’ Costs, quality and process benefits Nearly all the automakers have recognised the cost, lightweight design strategies are quality and process-related benefits of modular door increasingly focusing on alternasystems and have opted to use them for high-volume tives like aluminum or plastics. cars. 25 percent of all car doors produced worldwide are meanwhile designed along the lines of this Apart from lighter weight, plasinnovative principle. The individual solutions can be tics offer better noise reduction quite different, depending on the type of car, its de- properties and more design freedom. The first door systems sign or the automaker’s production/logistical conwith plastic carrier modules cept. Thanks to its own expertise, Brose can offer customers a tailor-made product which meets their “made by Brose“ were assembled this year in diverse Ford and specific requirements – these might range from Chrysler car models. The funccomponents like the window regulator, latch or door control-unit to a module or to the entire door. tional carrier with integrated window regulator rail is made of fiberglass-reinforced plastic, reOne example of Brose’s ability to fulfill individual sulting in impressive weight sav- Car Door Technology customer requirements is the door system with ings of 300 to 400 grams through The door system with frame and glass encompass frame and glass which was first used in the sister models VW Touareg and Porsche Cayenne. The door use of the lighter material; cost es 80 percent of the door functions. savings are also generated by ussystem developed at Hallstadt is particularly suited ing the integrated guide rail. for an automaker that outsources a wide range of manufacturing levels as Volkswagen in the aboveBrose focuses not only on the benefits for the automentioned example in Bratislava/Slovakia. makers but also aims to find solutions which result in increased safety and comfort for the car driver.

A further positive hallmark of such a door system is its variability. Irrespective of whether the door is Innovations such as the modular liftgate and modular sliding door with an integrated collision detecwith or without a frame, little assembling effort is required. Such aspects play a major role particularly tion feature exemplify this strategy. in the event of niche vehicles: coupes, cabriolets or sports utility vehicles can be produced together with high-volume vehicles on one line without any loss in assembly cycle time. A frameless variant with integrated and pre-adjusted glass is used, for example, in the case of the Mitsubishi Eclipse sports car produced in the USA. thus allowing them in turn to focus on their core business. The module supplier is subsequently given greater responsibility, something Brose has long since taken into account, for example, by setting up its own test center. The crash properties of new door concepts can be tested here at an early stage of development.

As far as materials are concerned, Brose acts according to the principle: what brings the customer

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INTERVIEW

Professor Jim Platts might well be the IEM graduate with the most fame among ESTIEMers. It is time to learn his drive and his perspective on life and the world of IEM...

HUSEYIN BINZAT

People who have interest in SAC know you more or less and tell other estiemers about your lectures in SAC. However could you introduce us yourself briefly? What is your educational origin for example? Are you an IEM as well?

I was an undergraduate at Cambridge, and Cambridge has always taught engineering as an integrated subject. I emerged focusing on civil engineering and designed some bridges, but I was very soon involved in major interdisciplinary projects such as high speed (4-500kp/h) hovertrains - the work which led to the mag-lev high speed trains - for which I designed the track (the bit which costs the money), and the extraction of energy from ocean waves, where, during the 1970s, I led the largest of the UK research teams. During the 1980s I created the designs, the manufacturing processes, the team and the company which continues to manufacture the best wind turbine blades in the world. That company is now part of Vestas, the largest wind turbine manufacturing company in the world. Since 1989 I have been back in Cambridge, teaching the Masters level Manufacturing Engineering course, which integrates all the technical aspects of manufacturing, all the human, management and leadership aspects, finance, accounting and everything else you need to understand to lead a successful company, from the first entrepreneurial idea, through developing the design and the market, then developing the manufacturing and supply chain processes and supplying and maintaining the products until their final recall and recycling. But more than just teaching those things as academic subjects, we have students in companies picking up real professional responsibility and we are out and about with them, coaching and steering as professional engineers. So I am constantly

engaged with large and small companies throughout the UK in every sector of industry on all manner of change projects. For the last 10 years I have also been Examiner for Manufacturing Leaders’ Programme, which is an international executive level leadership development course. I supervise projects as well as being examiner and through MLP I am involved in major global strategic change projects for both large and small companies, again across every sector of manufacturing industry.

You have a wealthy research area consisting of pretty diversed subjects. Could you mention about those?

Over the last 10 years I have developed the computer modelling of the peen forming and creep age forming processes used in shaping the wing skins of the Airbus aircraft. That modelling and process development has enabled a complete new generation of manufacturing processes to be brought into use on the wing skins for the new A380 Airbus. More recently I have returned to the development of wind turbine concepts, to bring through the next generation of wind turbines, which will give radically lower costs of electricity than the current generation of designs, genuinely making wind energy the lowest cost electricity resource. I am involved helping the wind energy industry in China develop and become part of the world wind energy industry and I am involved in developing a Trust organisation to ensure that the profits which come from that are deployed to help education for the rural poor in China and elsewhere.

That is my technical research. I also do deeply reflective work on Leadership. I don’t call that research because the understanding that underpins good leadership is not new. We simply have to understand it and live it. Understanding what the

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wise men and women of the past have said so that you can both do it and demonstrate that it remains true, and also explain why it remains true and explain to others how to do it, is simply what it means to be mature. It is the responsibility of every adult to pave the way for the next generation to be adult too.

What is the importance of ethics in professional life so that you focus on that so much?

The oldest professional engineering body in the world, the Institution of Civil Engineers, of which I am a member, was founded in 1818 and they named themselves “civil” engineers because they were not military engineers. It defined the moral sphere in which they worked - the development of civilisation. not the artefacts of civilisation, the process of civilisation. the ability to cooperate and work and live together so that all may grow. Is that not still what matters?

Look carefully and see what needs to be done and then do it.

right it will grow the people who do it (because they can see its meaningfulness).

If you design the product right it will grow the people who use it (because they will experience the meaningfulness encapsulated in the product). If you do this you will be successful. If you invest the profits wisely it will grow the community. This is deep work.

But it is the only work which actually moves humanity forward.

You have attended projects concerning energy sector. How do you see the past, now and the future there? What are the threads, opportunities lying there from an IEM approach?

Energy is like a drug. It is addictive. I have easily travelled more than 100 times the distance my father travelled in his whole life, and more than 1 000 times further than my grandfather. Am I 1 000 times a more complete person? 1 000 times more a better person? Being mature is about an inward journey not about outward journeys, or about consuming things.You can see How could we be “moral” during the projects that I have done concerning competition in the professional area? generating energy. I have actually done Do you have a better idea? Do you think it is more work on projects to do with not using helpful to abandon the principles of humanity energy. The particular mastery that I have of in order to “win” something? The mark of a technology is that I am able to put it down great person is that they have the courage to and not use it. I am not addicted to it. That be honest in their actions as well as in their is the biggest thing I can teach you. For the words and, even more, the courage to be future not just of yourselves but of the whole kind, in a world where many many people planet, it matters that you learn that lesson. are not.

As one of most challenging and How about SAC? Your chosen topic promising sectors, energy can be related sounds interesting as well. What with entrepreneurship and ethical issues. should we understand from deep What do you think about it?

Entrepreneurship?

When you are my age, there will be no polar I think the paragraphs above give you the icecap and there will be no frozen tundra and understanding that being entrepreneurial is about bringing through things that matter for humanity. This is not only, or even predominantly, about products, it is mostly about processes. If you design the process

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(I hope, for your sakes) they might, finally, have finished fighting over who is going to have the last drop of oil. Water (and food) and energy will be the biggest technical challenges you will have. But the largest challenge of all will be still wanting to live in such a man-destroyed world. The biggest challenge you have is to find out how to still hold your heads up as human beings and have something that you have created that you will be proud to hand on to your children.

You know ESTIEM and ESTIEMers more or less. What do you feel when you hear about us?

In terms of breaking down barriers and creating the links of humanity that need to continue to exist for humanity to go forward, I am at every point in awe of the vision which originally created ESTIEM and which continues to power it. I know of nothing else like it. It is not enough simply to enjoy it.You have to continue to drive it forward - and I mean by that, not simply pass it on to the next generation of ESTIEMers, but down the future of your own lives.You, of all people, are the people who have the future in your hands. It matters desparately what you make of it.You might think of the ESTIEM song as a joke. It isn’t. It is simply a song which describes the job you all collectively have to do. But there is an addition. As well as going yourselves, make sure you at the same time carry up sunshine mountain those who are unable to get there on their own.take, you meet a lot of interesting people. That way, I have developed a large circle of friends with different interests and I learned quite a lot from them. In fact, some of these activities even improved my professional career.

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Boasting a Broad Base for Hybrids

hicle, that is to say a “boost” effect, and the combination of combustion engine and energy reclaiming results in fuel savings of up to 15 percent (New European Driving Cycle (NEDC)). The same is also true for the strong hybrid. It is equipped with a stronger power motor of up to 75 KW, in some cases with even more power. This results in a greater torque of up to 400 Newton meters from standstill, as well as potential fuel savings of more than 20 percent on average (New European Driving Cycle (NEDC)).

The system furthermore allows for driving shorter distances with just electrical power and thus zero Planned for 2006: the “Smart Electronic Start/ emissions locally. For these high-power electrical drives Bosch relies on their own production of perstop System” manent-magnet synchronous motors powered by a n the micro hybrid category, Bosch banks mostly high-voltage battery. The motor output is scaled with on the cost efficient “Smart Electronic Start/Stop System”, which works with a reinforced starter. The the battery voltage. Bosch expects, on the basis of system requires the least modification input for ex- present calculations, about 100 kilograms of addiisting vehicles, which offers a chance for deployment tional weight in a strong hybrid vehicle compared to in large unit numbers in the near future. In city traf- a conventional gasoline-powered vehicle. fic, vehicles more often than not are stopped by red traffic lights or simply because of traffic congestion. From a technical perspective, components of hybrid The Bosch Micro Hybrid System will then automati- drives such as high–power batteries, electric motor cally shut off the engine. Once the driver can move and DC/DC converter may be used in similar design on again, he simply steps on the clutch pedal and the also for the fuel cell vehicles expected in the long system re-starts the engine quickly and conveniently. run.

The use of the Start/Stop System may increase fuel Development of hybrids at Bosch efficiency by as much as eight percent (city cycle Bosch has been involved with hybrid technologies (ECE)). Bosch plans the first production of the mifor more than 30 years. No other supplier to the cro hybrid system Smart Electronic Start/Stop for automotive industry boasts such a broad knowledge the year 2006. base – with know-how in gasoline and diesel injecStrong hybrids by Bosch for greater driving fun tion just as in hybrid drives including brake system and energy management. Such a wide knowledge Both mild and strong hybrids contain the benefits base is essential for competently coping with the task offered by the micro hybrid systems. Mild hybrids are equipped with an electric motor of up to 25 KW of systems integration of hybrid systems. For this very purpose, Bosch founded the “Project Center output. This relatively small power motor offers additional acceleration when overtaking another ve- Hybrid Systems”. At the end of 2005, already more

Fuel consumption of automotive vehicles can be dramatically reduced especially in city traffic with hybrid technology. The electric motor installed in mild and strong hybrids adds, moreover, to greater driving dynamics and thus more driving fun. The hybrid systems offered

by Bosch can be divided into three functional categories: “micro hybrids” with start/stop function, “mild hybrids” with “boost” effect and “strong hybrids” which allow for driving with electrical energy over short distances.

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than 100 associates were working in development and sales of hybrid systems. Additional staff in other Bosch Divisions support the team, which means that some 200 associates are producing results in this new business area.

Economic aspects of hybrids Hybrid drives, when comparing them to equally powerful vehicles with combustion engines, have lower carbon dioxide and other emissions but require a more sophisticated technological equipment. Hybrids are especially efficient and of advantage in mixed driving cycles, such as dense inner-city traffic and overland traffic with great traffic density. It has been confirmed that for an SUV with gasoline engine in conventional technology of 170 KW output and automatic transmission, on an average 20 percent fuel efficiency or reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) are achieved. This is possible with a smaller combustion engine plus additional electric motor for boosting, which results in the same overall maximum performance. However, when driving on a freeway, a state-of-the-art diesel engine will consume less fuel than a gasoline hybrid.

The advantages of the hybrid also diminish in comparison to a gasoline engine with direct injection optimised for fuel savings.

A realistic alternative are diesel hybrids,

on the assumption that the twofold additional costs in comparison to gasoline engines (firstly: for the diesel engine and secondly: for the electric motor) are compensated by cost reductions in the overall system, such as exhaust gas treatment. The fuel saving potential of a diesel hybrid compared to a vehicle with only diesel engine amounts to up to 15 percent in mixed driving modes. These statements are based on calculations of simulations conducted with vehicles of the same maximum performance with conventional or hybrid drives, respectively.

The market potential for hybrids Previous market assessments assume a market share of 8 percent in Japan, 6 percent in the United States and 2 percent in western Europe by 2015. Estimates by independent market research institutes and some OEMs even assume significantly higher market shares. Bosch assumes that some 50 different hybrid models will be on the market worldwide by 2010. Bosch expects the largest market growth in North America. 

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Instant-Runoff Voting

The New Voting System in ESTIEM Philipp Bächle

hiSTORY of IRV In general IRV was invented around 1870 by the American architect W. R. Ware. Today it is in use at a national level to elect the Australian House of Representatives, the Fijian House of Representatives and the President of Ireland. In Australia it is also used for elections to the legislative assemblies (lower houses) of nearly all states and territories. IRV is also used for municipal elections in various places in Australia, the United States, and New Zealand.

At the last Council Meeting in Porto the council voted upon a new voting system for votes on persons. It is the “instantrunoff voting” (IRV) which is an electoral system used for single winner elections in which voters rank candidates in order of preference.

After the last voting rounds held at the Council Meetings in Istanbul and K2K (Kaiserslautern2Karlsruhe) the common opinion appeared that the voting system doesn’t fit to ESTIEM anymore. The main reason is that through the application of more than two persons for one position, it takes too long to get a single winner. It goes beyond the scope of the General Assemblies. This is because of several possible eliminations of candidates with the least votes with new voting sessions taking place among the remaining candidates every time (in case that nobody reaches the absolute majority). This time will be reduced to a minimum with the IRV. Essentially it is the same system as before because after the voting, the elected candidate will have an absolute majority. The difference is due to the way of voting. In the new system the members are not only giving their vote to one candidate but they hand in their preferences for the candidates. With the given preference it is in the most cases possible to get a single winner with only one voting round.

The chance of having a revote is in the old system much higher if there are more than two candi-

Ballot – CM North Pole Voting on President

3 Cindy __ __ Ström

1 Puppe __ __ Yogi

2 Re-Open Nominations __

dates for one position. With one or two candidates IRV is equal to the former system.

How do we vote in ESTIEM from now on?

The new ballots contain an order of applying candidates (including re-open nominations; abstention is only possible by casting a blank ballot). The ranking takes place by numbering the candidates.

The first choice candidate shall be numbered with the number one, the second choice candidate with the number two, and so on. If only one candidate is marked, this counts as a first choice vote. If more candidates are marked without giving an order, the ballot is invalid. After the voting, the voting committee counts the votes for the first place/preferences. If nobody reaches an absolute majority, the candidate with the fewest number of votes is eliminated and the votes of that candidate are transferred to the next ranked candidate on each eliminated ballot. The candidate who will remain after this process is the winner. With this system it is also possible to get two positions be filled if more than two people are required.

Still, there exist some cases where there has to be a revote, e.g. if there are two candidates remaining after the counting. But the real challenge to decrease the time for voting is solved. Furthermore, IRV is intended to reduce the potential for tactical voting by eliminating ‘wasted’ votes. Some voters could be encouraged to vote tactically by voting for only one of the two leading candidates, because a vote for any other candidate is unlikely to affect the result.

Under IRV, this tactic known as ‘compromising’, is sometimes unnecessary because, even if the voter’s first choice is unlikely to be elected, her vote has the opportunity of being transferred to her second or subsequent choices, who may be more successful.

To sum it up, we can say that it is a modern way of voting which fits our young and permanently developing organisation. 

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Ride your bike the Dutch way The welcome party was held in the youth hostels own cosy bar with lots of beer and a karaoke machine; you can imagine our rusty voices the next morning. Like in a CM there is also a General Assembly during an Alumni meeting, but less formal and more relaxed. Main topic of the first GA were Alumni activities: Last year saw a lot of Alumni Round Tables taking place in various locations and the ESTIEM “old peoples running team” came together for running half marathons in Amsterdam, Brussels and Helsinki. After a rather quick GA everybody got a bike and we spent the rest of the day on the beach and partied in downtown Haarlem.

During the voting session of the second GA on Sunday, Anna, Elias and Stefan held a presentation on what is happening in ESTIEM at the moment. As results of the voting session we have 60 new Alumni

members, a new Board consisting of Ana Rivas, Matti Rantanen and Ramon Pijst and the next AM will take place in Portugal, organised by Karin Arnefors and Norberto Guimaraes. For the afternoon our Dutch hosts organised a boat trip through the inner city of Haarlem. Since the captain of the boat wasn’t very good in English Eindhovens local hero Sjoerd Doebken took over the microphone and did a splendid commentary on the boat tour. In case you are interested you can also book him for a very special Eindhoven city tour. On the last night we partied again in the youth hostel bar and this time the bartender had to surrender before midnight: Mission accomplished

no more beer left. 

ramon

During the Whitsun-weekend the 13th ESTIEM Alumni Meeting took place in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Last October 50 Alumni were present at the CM K2K and for this AM we could even get more members together: On Friday more 80 Alumni from all ESTIEM generations made their way to the Dutch coastline.

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As open-minded as the Dutch?

RENÉ HEUNEN

The Netherlands: small, flat and wet.

Does the same apply to it’s inhabitants?

The comments on the following statements will try to give you an impression…

The Dutch are sober Dutchmen and -women like to take things as they are. A well-known saying is “Act normal, that’s already crazy enough”. This characteristic is clearly visible in different elements of the every-day life in the Netherlands. Compared to other European countries, there is a rather limited number of traditional celebrations and national holidays. The average Dutchman is reluctant to demonstrate any type of nationalism (except during international football games). This soberness is also reflected in the national cuisine; the number of traditionally Dutch dishes can easily be counted on the fingers of one hand. Boring? It might have been, if it wasn’t combined with a strong sense of tolerance and open-mindedness.

The Dutch are tolerant and open-minded Ten years ago, every single person in the Netherlands would have clearly agreed to this statement.

Nowadays, the answer might be slightly different.

Sure, successful progressive legislation on soft drugs and prostitution have resulted in an image of open-mindedness. Discrimination against homosexuals and ethnic minorities is statistically a lot less present than in many other countries. Being the most densely populated state in Europe after Malta, Monaco and Vatican City and with one of every five citizens originating from another country1, the society can be affected by the effects of cultural and religious intolerance very fast. Tension rose quickly after the murder on the popular rightwing politician Pim Fortuyn (May 2003), and even more after the Islam-opposing movie-director Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered by an Islamicfundamentalist November 2004. Undoubtedly influenced by these events and their societal consequences, a recent poll showed that 53% of the people in the Netherlands is ashamed of the lack of tolerance in their country, opposed to a mere 25%

being proud of their country’s openness2.

The Dutch are traders The Dutch trading culture dates back to the 17th century, when the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC) formed the first multinational corporation. Their invention of joint ownership –it was the first company to issue shares of stock– enabled the Netherlands to become a maritime superpower owning a.o. what Holland or the Netherlands?

• A Dutchman would prefer the latter, since Holland only refers to a region in the North-West of the country.

However, because of linguistic simplicity it is preferred by most foreigners.

• Favourite snacks in Holland are the kroket and the frikandel, preferably to be eaten out of a compartment in the wall on public streets.

• 27% of the country is below sea level, an area home to 60% of the population.

• The Dutch are on average the tallest people in the world.

• The Netherlands has approximately 15 000 km of cycle tracks.

is now Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, South-Africa and New Amsterdam, which was later on traded for Surinam with the English and is now known as New York. Up to today, relative to Holland’s limited 16-million population size, a large number of players on many different international markets has Dutch roots.

The Dutch have a big mouth Just like most of their Western-European neighbours, the Dutch like to do business in a straightforward way; they usually don’t beat about the bush and have no problems separating personal and work-related judgements. Combined with their soberness, this can result in conflicting situations when the counterpart in the conversation has a different background and is not used to this straightforward method of expressing one’s opinion. So be prepared the next time a big-mouthed Dutch ESTIEMers thinks he knows best…  Sources:

.The CIA World Factbook

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www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook .Research by Visie21 project group

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ESTIEMer In The USA

First of all, thanks for sparing me time and a valuable ESTIEM Magazine page. I am thrilled with this opportunity of reaching current ESTIEMers in Europe. Although I am in the United States right now, I am (and will be) an active follower of ESTIEM as alumni.

For your question on academy, I cannot say that I have already chosen to be an academician. I just picked my option to come here for a doctoral education. Now, I am in my third year of study.

My decision was shaped in many ways. Most importantly, I had this international spirit in my blood stirred from ESTIEM days. So I wanted to go abroad for a graduate study. Then I didn’t want to stop at undergraduate level and always wanted to excel in a specific area. That’s how my journey to the new world began, and I came to Atlanta to attend Georgia Institute of Technology in Fall 2004.

As far as I know, beside the academic life, you are also working closely with industry. Can you tell us little bit more about what kind of things you are doing with the industry?

Other than my Intel project I mentioned above, I worked for a Third Party Logistics (3PL) company called Schneider Logistics last summer. They were simply a logistics consulting company, handling the

North American logistics activities of companies like General Motors, Ford, Proctor and Gamble, BP and Honda. For the Less-than-Truck-Load (LTL) market, I created a decision support system, which uses historical shipment information to benchmark company performances according to the market. This way, Schneider can sell its services to companies by showing them how much opportunity lies in terms of cost reduction in their logistics businesses.

What is your area of study and what kind of research you are doing?

I picked Supply Chain and Logistics as my PhD concentration. More specifically, I am working I pay attention to stay in contact with industry, on areas like forecasting, demand management, because I have seen this in many cases that there is a inventory management and distribution strategies on global supply chains. Right now I am doing an internship with Intel Corporation in Arizona, Phoenix, where I research on the value of demand information on Intel’s global supply chain. We are looking at ways to gather better demand information and use this information to have better supply-demand match in the market. The idea is to hold less inventory, have a more visible supply chain and be more responsive to the customer orders, so that we can have our Intel “Centrino” or lately “Core 2 Duo” laptops cheaper in the market.

HUSEYIN BINZAT

You are a former ESTIEMer, a former project leader here, and had been very active in student organisations. Most of the people, who have such experiences, choose professional life instead of being an academician. How did you decide to walk in that way?

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ESTIEMer In The USA

big gap of specialists, who can understand the best practices in theory and can apply them in practice.

You recently won a scholarship that is related to your IE activities. This news also took place in the ESTIEM web page and newsletter.

Could you tell us the story? How did you get the award? What does this mean for you?

This meant a lot to me. Not only because it was given to only one IE student in the world by Institute of Industrial Engineers, but also the reason they give the John L. Imhoff Scholarship is “the contribution to the Industrial Engineering profession through international understanding”.

My professors urged me to apply to one of the IIE Scholarships and I picked this one to apply. Because I thought my ESTIEM background and the diversity of places I worked supported the meaning of this scholarship. In addition to that, I love to be an IE, and served this profession in different local and international student organizations. This was a great motivation towards my goal of making this world a better place through the use of our IE techniques.

What about US? How is the life there? From an ESTIEMer approach!

We are Europeans and we better stay that way. Our way of living, our cities and history is a lot richer and outstanding than the way it is in the US. But to be honest, everyone should at least come and see the natural beauties that this country has to offer. Grand Canyon and Sedona (Red Rock) in Arizona, endless beaches in Miami, Los Angeles and San Diego, Michigan Lake by the Chicago’s high towers and the wonderful San Francisco Bay with the Golden Gate are all “must-see” for people to say “I have been to the US”. But if I ever have to compare the student life in Europe and in the US, I would say the American youth are more into the

sports and entertainment, whereas the European youth are doing more serious things that this world needs and they know how to enjoy the life too.

One big advantage of US is its diversity of people who migrated from all around the world.You get to know new cultures that you may never have chance to do so by visiting their country, but also have the great tastes of the world. The latter I am trying to make the best out of it :-) And the last one, what would be you advice for the ESTIEMers, who are in their early career steps? Any direction for aceademics vs. industry? Any tips?

This is a hard question. But I would like to shout out that: You – the reader of this magazine – are lucky because you made your choice to join ESTIEM and now you have a much broader vision to see this world more objectively.You have a chance to know more people from more diverse cultures.You can be friends with more individuals than you can imagine.

You can use this chance to make this world a better place! How? That is up to you.You have more influence in this world than any other ordinary citizen of your country has. Use this chance; use this network whether you be an academician or a business professional.

That’s all I want to tell to the motivated ESTIEMers.Keep up the good spirit! 

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What’s Happening In Izmir?

observed board members operating in a self-disciplined manner and in coordination, putting a lot of effort into their work. No doubt they motivated us to keep up what we had already in ourselves: enthusiasm and cooperation. In other words “teamwork”

cansu elmas

mentality is what LG Izmir builds on. We believe achievement is concealed between these two words.

After the BM, interest and courage of our local group members have increased swiftly. One by one, they participated events and came back with a mass Izmir’s ESTIEM journey, discovering the path where of memories, ready to talk about them all! To take we came across lots of opportunities, challenges and the progress one step further, we decided to organise a Regional Coordination Meeting. finally success, has started with only one person.

Our first local responsible Baki Can participated It came true at the end of March this year. Enjoying in Council Meeting Sofia as a guest, in 2003. After the sunny spring weather, ReCoM Izmir was exactly one tiring but marvelous week, he returned back home deeply impressed by the great atmosphere of “gone with the wind” for me. When I look back and CM. He had already prepared his vision for our local evaluate my observations, I can honestly say it has reached the goal. As a permanent effect of ReCoM Industrial Engineering Club on his way to Izmir.

He held some presentations, shared his experiences Izmir, regular coordination meetings between Turkish LGs can be shown. We’re grateful to all with other club members and without losing time participants of our first important event after BM. he started working on the observership presentaWe couldn’t accomplish that without feeling their tion, certainly having the assistance of some keen valuable support. Teamwork continues with Free Vifriends. In CM Istanbul, November 2004, we sion Izmir in September, once again feeling the same applied for observership and we were accepted excitement in ourselves. We hope that will show to anonymously. This was great news and success for all how we do our best to be worthy members of team members and everyone knew there was a lot to do as an observer group. It was time to work hard the incredible organisation: ESTIEM. and make other friends feel the fascinating “ESTIEM Finally it’s time to tell about our “unexplored” city.

Spirit”.

Izmir’s history goes back to 3 000 B.C. according to the results of historical knowledge and archaeoThat’s how LG Izmir started taking shape and the number of members attending ESTIEM activities is logical excavations. The third biggest city in Turkey, “Pearl of the Aegean”, gives us the chance to have increasing in a consistent manner. At the moment there are 41 portal members, and approximately 10 future dreams in the heart of ancient times. Also it’s quite different from other Turkish cities of ESTIEM, members participating in our weekly-held assemin both geographic and climatic characteristics. So blies. don’t hesitate to come and see Izmir where you’ll be welcomed by a gentle breeze of friendship.

Last year in September we proudly organised our first event: Board Meeting 2005. It was a unique op- On behalf of my local group I want to thank you all portunity for us all, to learn more about ESTIEM’s fantastic ESTIEMers, just for taking part in such an organisation.  contributions to our personal improvement. We The lines you’ll read shortly are going to reveal the mystery of achievement! Let me introduce you to LG Izmir in a few words: the extraordinary group of an unexplored city!

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ESTIEM Alumni BOARD

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This is my second time in board duties within ESTIEM. In 1998 the ESTIEM board, and now, eight years later, I find myself managing the Alumni. For me ESTIEM has developed special meanings: It is a network with a past, of unforgettable memories and old friends, but equally a network of further opportunity: of new friends, whom I have yet to meet, and people I want to know better still.

For me ESTIEM Alumni also represents a professional network that combines friendship with professional development in a unique way. This linkage has already shown considerable strength for many of us and will continue to do so: We have found invaluable support and advice in times of crisis and opportunity. And some of us have found lifelong partners in business and personal life from this network of ‘professional friends.’

Currently living in Helsinki I work as a researcher on social networks. Previously I have been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and MIT Media Lab. Sociology and networks are my professional aspiration and in my current position at ESTIEM Alumni I am offered a unique opportunity to practice this ambition.

Matti Rantanen President

Since my first activity in 2000 I hold very dear in my heart all my experiences with ESTIEM. ESTIEM opened my mind, internationalised me, developed my technological understanding and management skills and gave me the chance to meet engineering students with different cultural backgrounds and experiences that eventually became my friends.

I am a Project Manager in Real Estate at Nexity, Paris. I work in the design phases of a construction project, pricing it, launching the invitations to tender and assigning the construction companies.

Ana Rivas Vice-President of Administration

How can one stop being in contact with ESTIEM after the end of the studies?! That’s why I belong to the Alumni and want to devote some of my time this year as a board member.

As responsible for the activities, I have tons of ideas and I will contact some of you very soon!

If you already have something to propose, drop me a line, and working together we will make it an unforgettable event!

Ever since my first Council Meeting (1997 St. Petersburg) I knew ESTIEM was special. Enthusiastic, entrepreneurial, international, open-minded, and always in for a party! Now, 15 CM’s later, I can still find the strong ESTIEM spirit in me, and I find myself singing the ESTIEM song in the Alumni Board. In my daily life I’m in controlling at KPN Telecom in the Netherlands, and I will utilise my experiences there to manage the financials in Alumni. But far more important as a boardie for me is bridging and keeping together old and new ESTIEMers, supporting the sharing of experiences, ideas, passions, and making sure that ESTIEM doesn’t fade away after graduation.

It will be hard work to keep the contact data up-to-date, to motivate our members to keep up and extend our activities and to foster our relation with ESTIEM - the source of our inspiration (and new members!).

It may even require attending some ESTIEM activities, like a Council Meeting! But with the great people and the opportunities in ESTIEM and Alumni we will keep the spirit alive!

Ramon Pijst Vice-President of Finance

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Check the latest updated event information at www.estiem.org and register for your favourite events through the ESTIEM portal. See you somewhere in Europe!

NOVEMBER

2 – 7 Nov 33rd ESTIEM Council Meeting | Ankara - Bilkent

7 – 9 Nov Post Council Meeting | Istanbul

7 – 11 Nov PRC Coordination Meeting | Izmir

16 – 19 Nov Regional Coordination Meeting | Grenoble

16 – 21 Nov FREE Vision Seminar |Brussels “Waste Valorisa- tion and Management”

24 – 26 Nov Newcomer Weekend | Hamburg

22 – 26 Nov FREE Vision Seminar | Berlin “Approaches of Recycling and Reusing Valueble Recourses”

FEBRUARY

06 – 10 Feb FREE Vision Seminar | Tampere - Helsinki “Role of Knowledge Transfer in Effective Network”

08 – 12 Feb TIMES Semi - Final | Grenoble

10 – 14 Feb TIMES Semi - Final | Enschede

14 – 18 Feb TIMES Semi - Final | Linköping

18 – 21 Feb TIMES Semi - Final | Sofia

21 – 25 Feb FREE Vision Seminar | Trondheim “Energy Resources”

DECEMBER

29 Nov – 2 Dec FREE Vision Seminar | Dortmund “Saving Resourses by Applying Logistics” 29 Nov – 5 Dec Handover Board Meeting, somewhere in Eu- rope

6 – 7 Dec Bosch Workshop | Stuttgart

6 – 10 Dec Activity Week | Karlsruhe

15 – 18 Dec Regional Coordination Meeting | Graz

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APRIL

01 – 06 Apr FREE Vision Seminar |Bremen “Knowledge - a Ressource to Achieve Sustainability”

11 – 14 Apr FREE Vision Seminar |Paderborn “Models of Economisation”

23 – 29 Apr FREE Vision Seminar |Porto “Hydrogen, powerful enough to substitute oil?”

MARCH

27 Feb – 03 Mar TIMES Semi - Final | Ilmenau 27 Feb – 03 Mar TIMES Semi - Final | Istanbul -Yildiz

21 – 25 Mar FREE Vision Seminar | Trondheim “Time is Money! – Time Management as a Mean of Competition” 27 Feb – 03 Mar TIMES Final | Lyon

28 – 31 Mar FREE Vision Seminar | Novi Sad “HR - Recruiting and Developing Skilled Workers in the 21stCentury, a KM Approach”

ESTIEM Alumni One day you wake up and you realise you have graduated. Congratulations! But what to do next? Work, travel, or further studies? And will you see those great, enthusiastic, motivated and motivating ESTIEMers from across Europe ever again?

Don’t worry! There is life after ESTIEM! And it’s called ESTIEM Alumni. By now, almost 500 ESTIEMers have joined the ESTIEM Alumni, establishing a well-connected network of diverse European professionals.

How about renting a sailing boat or testing your stamina in a marathon race with friends and colleagues from around Europe? Or maybe fancy sharing your thoughts on professional life to the wider audience present at an Alumni Meeting, and by so doing convince some of the best talents to work with you! Don’t miss the chance to run Round Table events in your city.

The biggest event in the calendar is the annual ESTIEM Alumni Meeting in which new applicants are accepted, a new board is elected, and important decisions regarding the organisation are made. In addition, it is the best place to meet as many old and new faces as possible on one go!

Want to join already? It’s easy! Just log onto the Alumni Web pages at the ESTIEM portal and submit your application. People become members on the decision of the council, but the board can grant observer status for applicants during the year. Graduation is a requirement to become a full member, but anyone affiliated with ESTIEM (graduated or not) is eligible for Junior Alumni status. As such you will have access to all information and you can join in any activity. Membership in Alumni complements your participation in ESTIEM and the membership fee is an attractive 0 Euros!

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