Laudatory speech for Dr Hans Franzen

Dr Hans Franze receives this year's Weierstrass Teaching Award in the teaching category.

Dr Hans Franzen is a director of studies in the Algebra group of Prof. Burban at the Institute of Mathematics. Mr Franzen has been teaching "Linear Algebra 1 and 2" and "Linear Algebra for Computer Scientists" since the summer semester 2022. He receives the Weierstrass Teaching Award 2024 for the excellent evaluations of his lectures "Linear Algebra 2" and "Linear Algebra for Computer Scientists" in the winter semester 2022/23 and summer semester 2023. Students not only emphasise Mr Franzen's great commitment - the evaluations particularly praise his way of presenting complex contexts in an understandable way. Here are a few student quotes: "Best visualisation and descriptive elaboration I've had in LinA so far." "So far the best professor and above all the best maths professor, for the first time you understand the material and can apply it in the exercises." "He makes maths understandable and has a good thread running through the subject areas. I wish he would also give other maths lectures in the Bachelor of Computer Science." "Top event, highly recommended, next time I'll take my family with me."

Congratulations to Dr Hans Franzen on receiving the Weierstrass Teaching Award 2023 for excellent teaching in the category of lecturers.

Laudatory speech for Mr Markus Hennig

Mr Markus Hennig receives this year's Weierstrass Teaching Award in the category of exercise group leader.

Markus Hennig is an academic advisor in the department "Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering" with Prof Mertsching at the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. Mr Hennig is a "repeat offender" - in the best sense of the word. He received the award back in 2014 and has been the exercise group leader for the Bachelor's course "Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering A" since 2011 and additionally for the Master's course "Digital Image Processing" since 2021. He received the Weierstrass Teaching Award in 2024 for the excellent grades he received for his tutorials on these courses. Students not only emphasise Mr Hennig's always friendly manner and patience - his explanatory skills are particularly praised in the evaluations. Here are a few quotes from students: " Always very friendly and motivated. Responds well to students' questions and tries to make it understandable for everyone. Also has a very sound knowledge and describes/explains everything very specifically, also uses a lot of technical terms." "Everything is explained well and important contexts are labelled separately. Practical contexts and use cases are also explained." "You realise that each exercise is prepared individually. The exercises are always discussed in great detail and are easy to understand. Every exercise is a straight 1!"

Congratulations to Mr Markus Hennig on winning the Weierstrass Teaching Award 2023 for excellent teaching in the category of exercise group leader.