Event Report: After Work Beer December 2025
On December 11, 2025, the last IEEE SB Karlsruhe After Work Beer event of 2025 took place at Pfannestiel. A total of 16 participants took the opportunity to meet and discuss their interests and possible IEEE events in 2026.
After a short introductory round, we discussed two dates for presentations in the Science Spotlight event series.We co-organize them with the Institute of Radio Frequency Engineering and Electronics (IHE) on January 29th, 2026, and February 5th, 2026. The first talk is presented by Dr. Grzegorz Adamiuk from Airbus Defence and Space on the topic "In 90 Minutes Around the World: Engineering of Radar Satellites for Earth Observation." Registration for attendance is now open. To register, please follow this link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/531906. This will help us plan refreshments after the presentation and provide an opportunity to speak with the speaker. The second talk will be given by Dr. Ing. Martin Kunert, a retired radar expert formerly working at Robert Bosch GmbH. The topic of the second talk will be "Imaging Radar for Cars - The Big Challenges Ahead. Please register at the following link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/531911 to help us plan refreshments after the presentation.
A few members of the local student rocket university group introduced themselves and discussed possible collaborations with the IEEE student branch. A possible venue of collaboration is the organization of a space engineering workshop under the umbrella of our Science Spotlight talk series. Possible topics and speakers will be evaluated together with the student rocket university group, and a date at the end of the summer term is preferred.
The German Microwave Conference will soon happen (9.3.26 - 11.3.26) at the KIT. It is co-hosted by IHE, and possible collaborations with the IEEE student branch are evaluated. Some help for logistical tasks like joining the participants on the tour to Campus North as local guides and providing some helping hands in exchange for participation is possible. Interested students should send an email to info@ieee-ka.de so we can put you in touch with the organizers.
In 2025, there was no signal intelligence challenge hosted by the IEEE student branch. We decided to hold another edition of the signal intelligence challenge in 2026. This time it should start on April 15th, 2026, and should run through May 6th, 2026. This should provide us with some better opportunities with good weather. Oliver Fritz from the Communications Engineering Lab (CEL) will help out with running the challenge and organizing the events.
The next After Work Beer is on February 12, 2026, we will elect a new executive committee and thus we are looking for active IEEE student members who want to take a role at the IEEE student branch.