Prof. Dr. Raphael Pfaff

Lecturer for Module 1 “Basics”
Working in rail technology for 16 years

FH Aachen:

• Professor of rail vehicle technology at FH Aachen since 2014
• Teaching and research in the field of rail vehicles, in particular digitization and automation

Work Experience (Excerpt):

• Systems engineer at Siemens AG
• Head of design of the coupling area at Faiveley Transport Witten GmbH

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Lars Lange

Lecturer for Module 1 “Basics”, Module 2 “Homologation” and Module 5 “Practice

Work Experience (Excerpt):

• Active in railroad engineering and certification for 14 years
• Managing Director and Principal Consultant of InterEngineer GmbH
• Until 2018: Expert of a testing organization

Expertise (excerpt):

• Safety Management and Safety Engineering
• Functional safety (IEC 61508, EN 50126, 50128, 50129, 50657, 50159, ISO 13849, EN 62061, EN 61511, EN 50156)
• CSM-VO and V- Model
• Test Management
• Requirements Engineering & Requirements Capture
• FMEA & FTA
• Hazard and risk analysis

Dipl.-Ing. (FH)
Alexander Milosavljević

Lecturer for module 5 “Practice

Work Experience (Excerpt):

• Active in railroad technology for 24 years
• Managing Director, Chairman and Principal Consultant of InterEngineer GmbH

Expertise (excerpt):

• Safety Management, Safety Engineering
• Functional safety (IEC 61508, EN50159, 50126, 50128, 50129, 50657)
• System and process analysis (Rational, UML, SysML)
• Maintenance processes
• Documentation of complex systems/processes

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Günther Staudner

Lecturer for module “Common safety method for risk evaluation and assessment (CSM-RA) and module 3 “Standards”

Work Experience (Excerpt):

• Since 2019 drawing AsBo specializing in rolling stock for Arsenal Railway Certification GmbH
• Generally sworn and certified court expert (Austria) since 2016
• Engineering services for rail vehicles since 2000
• Managing Director of RAE Railway Applications Engineering e.U.
• 15 years of RAMS management at Siemens Mobility

Expertise (excerpt):

• Safety management, functional safety, system architecture & control technology
• Legal requirements EU and national requirements in the D-A-CH region (incl. local transport)
• Overview of standards and state of the art, member of the Austrian Standard Institute
• Driverless driving, driver assistance systems and AI for rail applications
• Side entry systems and platform screen doors
• Subway drivers without passenger transport (BOStrab, DE, dormant) – Procedures in driving operations
• Maintenance and TCO considerations for rail vehicles

Prof. Dr. Paweł Buczek

Lecturer for Module 4 “Measures & Techniques”
Working in rail technology for 12 years

Hamburg University of General Sciences:

• Professor at the HAW Hamburg since 2018
• Focus on the development and evaluation of safety-critical systems (hardware, software, operation and system engineering)

Work Experience (Excerpt):

• RAMS and system engineer at ICS AG and various customers in the rail sector
• System and software developer in the aerospace sector

Dennis Thiel M. Sc.

Lecturer for “Validation Engineer” & the “Project Manager Training”

Work Experience (Excerpt):

• In rail technology for over 10 years
• Managing Director of InterEngineer Switzerland GmbH

Expertise (excerpt):

• Safety Management and Safety Engineering
• Functional safety (IEC 61508, EN50159, 50126, 50128, 50129, 50657)
• Validation

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Enning

Lecturer for Module 1 “Basic”

Experience from 40 years of teaching and research on rail topics

Since 2010 Professor for Railway Systems Engineering at the FH Aachen with the courses

• Fundamentals: control engineering, information technology
• Control and safety technology
• Control technology for rail vehicles
• Quality and safety in the life cycle

Some projects

• Clutch robot (automation of the Knorr Z-AK in sequential operation)
• Adaptive wheel slide protection system
• FlexCargoRail (potential of powered freight wagons)
• Freight wagon 4.0 / WagonOS / Assisted brake test