Steel Institute VDEh awards Carl Lueg Medal to Wolfgang Bleck
"It gives me great pleasure to honor an extraordinary personality who has had a lasting impact on the field of metallurgy and materials technology for iron and steel," said VDEh Chairman Henrik Adam in his laudation. Wolf-gang Bleck had not only been the head of an institute at one of the most renowned training centers for young academics in the industry, but also a member of the Senate, Rectorate Representative, Dean and Prorector of RWTH Aachen University. His commitment to the VDEh was also very special: Wolfgang Bleck was a member of the Extended Executive Board for 24 years, played a key role in shaping the joint work for materials technology and provided many distinctive impulses in continuing vocational training as a seminar leader and lecturer at the Steel Academy.
"I am very pleased and appreciate this award. In more than 40 years of professional life I have encountered economic problems in the steel industry, but the material itself has never known a crisis. With its special physical and chemical properties, it has constantly been able to adapt to new requirements. Steel is the world's infrastructure, and the energy transition is only possible with it. It is our task at universities to demonstrate new material concepts and to inspire young people to become materials engineers," Bleck replied in his acceptance speech.
The award of the Carl Lueg Medal took place during the annual members' meeting of the VDEh steel institute. This year, the Düsseldorf-based institute had chosen the LWL Henrichshütte Museum (Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe) in Hattingen as a particularly historic venue for the event.
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