Harnessing Algae-Based Bioplastics as a Sustainable Alternative to Fossil-Derived Plastics
Akbar, Samra; Knoblauch, Anke; Tekiner, Ismail Hakki; Yalcin, Dilek (2025)
12th INTERNATIONAL EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, July 11-13, 2025 / Roma, Italy (THE PROCEEDINGS BOOK), 533 - 534.
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Tackling the Stem Crisis: making STEM exciting and easing students' fears
Gaisser, Sibylle; Knoblauch, Anke; Reimann, Silke; Martin, Annette (2025)
INTED2025 Proceedings 2025, 602-609.
DOI: 10.21125/inted.2025.0240
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Engineers and scientists, i.e. STEM educated persons, are seen as strong drivers for technology and knowledge-driven growth and productivity in the high-tech sector including ICT services. However, since 2020 there has been a decline in the absolute number of new entrants to STEM courses.
In 2023, the Federal Statistical Office of Germany reported that 6.5% fewer students had enrolled on STEM courses in Europe. By contrast, countries in the Arab world and East Asia were able to significantly increase the proportion of STEM graduates.
A variety of measures are needed to make STEM attractive to students. This paper explains a package of measures to systematically familiarize children and young people with STEM and thus allay their fears of studying science and engineering. Over the past eight years, the Faculty of Engineering at Ansbach University of Applied Sciences has developed a concept in which participants from pre-school age to high school graduates are addressed with all their senses in age-appropriate laboratory experiments. The Ansbach model for promoting STEM acceptance begins with children of pre-school age by playfully awakening their natural curiosity. In child-friendly experiential spaces at the university, children experience themselves as researchers. In workshop topics from the fields of microbiology, food technology, and molecular biology, which become increasingly complex with the level of education, pupils are introduced to engineering and scientific issues in an age-appropriate way. It is always about experiencing science with all the senses and thus opening up not only a cognitive but also an emotional awareness for STEM.
To reduce the heavy time burden on individual members of the university, the measures are coordinated within the faculty and realized with the involvement of as many faculty members as possible in a modular way resulting in approximately four to six person weeks to attract 400 pupils per year.
Biomimicry Technology and Design through Microalgae for Bio-Based Sustainability
Yalcin, Dilek; Tekiner, Ismail Hakki; Knoblauch, Anke; Akbar, Samra (2024)
IX-INTERNATIONAL EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, January 19-21, 2024 / Valencia, Spain, ABSTRACTS BOOK , 103.
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Response of Secondary Structural Components of Egg White Proteins to Cold and Thermal Extremities in Water/Deuterium Oxide Mixtures
Tekiner, Ismail Hakki; Knoblauch, Anke; Sover, Alexandru; Häfner, Philipp; Muschler, Nadja; Tainsa, Marwa (2024)
Tekiner, Ismail Hakki; Knoblauch, Anke; Sover, Alexandru; Häfner, Philipp...
Carpathian Journal of Food Science and Technology 16, 1 | 198-209.
DOI: 10.34302/crpjfst/2024.16.1.16
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Für MINT begeistern – Interesse wecken und Berührungsängste abbauen durch das Ansbacher Modell
Gaisser, Sibylle; Knoblauch, Anke; Martin, Annette (2023)
Tagungsband zum 5. Symposium zur Hochschullehre in den MINT-Fächern, Nürnberg 2023, 18-24.
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Investigating Thermal Stability Behaviour of Proteins
Tekiner, Ismail Hakkia; Knoblauch, Anke; Sover, Alexandru; Häfner, Philipp; Muschler, N. (2023)
Tekiner, Ismail Hakkia; Knoblauch, Anke; Sover, Alexandru; Häfner, Philipp...
V. INTERNATIONAL HALICH CONGRESS ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, January 15-16, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Soft matter physics can set biological clock of industrial food science and (bio)technology
Tekiner, Ismail Hakkia; Knoblauch, Anke; Özatila, Bahar; Ay, Murat (2022)
Proceedings - 4th International Conference Business Meets Technology 2022, 12-21.
DOI: 10.4995/BMT2022.2022.15542
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anke Knoblauch
Hochschule Ansbach
Hochschule Ansbach - Fakultät Technik
Residenzstr. 8
91522 Ansbach
T 0981 4877-298 anke.knoblauch[at]hs-ansbach.de