lektor January & February 2021 21the server processed to determine the optimal and personalized
therapeutic parameters. Then the device is controlled accord-
ingly via a WiFi network. For its achievement, e-Fásli Ltd won a
€25,000 Elektor marketing budget.
See You Next Year?
The virtual the electronica Fast Forward 2020 competition [4]
was a success thanks to its wide field of high-level participants.
Visit the e-ffwd page (www.elektormagazine.com/effwd-2020) to
learn about all of the finalists. The technologies included:
Wireless charging
Edge computing
Electric vehicles
Energy harvesting
MEMS mirror and laser
scanning solutions
> Actuator technologies
> Real-time control and
monitoring
> And more...Hopefully, things will be back to normal soon, and we’ll see you
at the next event!
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Professor De Doncker
The virtual Fast Forward Award
jury was headed by Professor
Rik W. De Doncker from RWTH
Aachen University.Rik W. De Doncker (M’87
SM’99 F’01) received in 1981
his Diploma in Electrical-
Mechanical Engineering and
in 1986 his Ph.D. degree in
electrical engineering from the
KULeuven, Belgium. In 1987,
he was appointed Visiting
Associate Professor at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1988, he joined the GE
Corporate Research and Development Center, Schenectady,
NY. In November 1994, he joined Silicon Power Corporation
(formerly GE-SPCO) as Vice President Technology,
developing world’s first medium-voltage static transfer
switch. Since October 1996, he is professor at RWTH Aachen
University, Germany, where he leads the Institute for Power
Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA). In October 2006, he
was appointed director of the E.ON Energy Research Center
at RWTH Aachen University, where he also founded the
Institute for Power Generation and Storage Systems (PGS).
He is director of the RWTH CAMPUS Cluster Sustainable
Energy and leads the German Federal Government BMBF
Flexible Electrical Networks (FEN) Research CAMPUS. He
has a doctor honoris causa degree of TU Riga, Latvia. First-prize winner AXS
Motionsystem develops
an ergonomic expert
system to evaluate and
qualify workplaces.Runner-up Micropack3D offers innovative
packaging options for electronic circuits.A rendering of the fourth prototype of
e-Fásli’s self-learning heat therapy device.1
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3 rdWEB LINKS[1] AXS Motionsystem Ltd:
http://www.elektormagazine.com/labs/axs-motionsystem-ltd
[2] MicroPack3D:
http://www.elektormagazine.com/labs/micropack3d
[3] e-Fásli Ltd: http://www.elektormagazine.com/labs/e-fasli-ltd
[4] e-ffwd 2020 Participant Profiles:
http://www.elektormagazine.com/effwd-2020