On 18 January this year the annual Bachelor Prize Awards ceremony took place
at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH). The prizes are given to
students with an outstanding performance.
Adam Beck, Eduard Eichner, and
Lorenz Streckmann were honoured for the best bachelor degree in their
respective courses of study - Bioprocess Engineering, Process Engineering and
Power and Environmental Engineering.
Representatives of the three
companies GEA Brewery Systems, Dow Deutschland and Hamburg Energie presented
the prizes established by Professor Andreas Liese and worth € 1,000 each during
the lecture "Engineering Mechanics I" given by Professor Uwe Weltin in the
presence of the dean professor Stefan Heinrich in the lecture hall Audimax II.
Award for outstanding performance
The
Bioprocess Engineering student Adam Beck from Hamburg, who was awarded the
prize donated by GEA Brewery Systems, presented the Bachelor Prize by Kristina
Böe, Technical Director of GEA Brewery Systems Büchen and Process Engineering
alumna of the TUHH.
At the age of four Adam Beck, born 1988 in
Kazakhstan, came to Germany, where he grew up and went to school near
Bielefeld. He never perceived his migration background as limiting, although he
admits to "have sometimes worked harder than the average to disprove the cliché
that university studies are too difficult for migrants."
Now Adam is
enrolled in a Master's program in process engineering. His next goal is to
study a semester abroad, preferably at the University of Berkeley. Adam is an
athletic engineering student with a wide variety of interests. He likes
climbing and hiking, plays basketball or relaxes with yoga. But he is no less
interested in philosophy, art, sociology and psychology.