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Prof. Dr. Uwe Kay Rakowsky

Institut Naturwissenschaften

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Email:
uwekay.rakowsky@hs-ruhrwest.de

Telephone:
+49 208 88254-432

Occupation:
Programme Director for the B.Eng Safety Engineering and M.Eng Functional Safety programmes

Safety and Reliability Engineering

 

Uwe Kay Rakowsky studied Safety Engineering with a focus on traffic safety at the University of Wuppertal, graduating with a Diplom-Ingenieur degree. He subsequently worked at the same university as a doctoral researcher and research associate in the field of traffic safety engineering.

He completed his doctoral thesis on “Theory and Application of Multi-Valued Models in Reliability Engineering” and was awarded a Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) in 1991. He then continued his work in the same field as a C2 postdoctoral researcher. During this period, he also held a teaching assignment at the Haugesund University College in Norway and undertook research stays at TU Wien and University of Tokyo.

In 2000, he completed his habilitation and received the authorisation to teach (venia legendi) in the field of Safety Engineering and Reliability Engineering, also at the University of Wuppertal. From 2000 to 2014, he worked as an engineer for functional safety at a company in the railway technology and electromobility sector. At the same time, he taught System Reliability as a Privatdozent at the University of Wuppertal.

In early 2014, he joined Hochschule Ruhr West, where he was responsible for establishing and leading the Bachelor’s degree programme in Safety Engineering (BEng) and the Master’s degree programme in Functional Safety (MEng).

Uwe Kay Rakowsky is a member of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety.

 

  • Safety engineering, system safety
  • Reliability modelling, reliability engineering
  • Technik-Ethik und Ethik im Engineering

Publikationen

  • Bylski, E.; Rakowsky, U.K., Dietl; C.: Towards a model-based reliability prediction of semiconductor structures in the nanometre range. Proceedings of the 67th ESReDA Seminar, Høvik, Norway. September 2025.
  • Bylski, E.; Rakowsky, U.K., Dietl; C.: A quantum-physical approach to modelling the failure rate of a two-state component. Proceedings of the 35th European Safety and Reliability Conference – ESREL 2025, Stavanger, Norway. doi: 10.3850/978-981-94-3281-3_ESREL-SRA-E2025-P2968-cd, ISBN 978-981-94-3281-3.
  • Sehic, S.; Vališ, D.; Rakowsky, U.K., Mammitzsch; A.: Reliability in education – a hands-on university experimental course on accelerated life testing. Proceedings of the 35th European Safety and Reliability Conference – ESREL 2025, Stavanger, Norway. doi: 10.3850/978-981-94-3281-3_ESREL-SRA-E2025-P2968-cd, ISBN 978-981-94-3281-3.
  • Perlitz, L.; Rakowsky, U.K.: A lunar surface scenario simulation applying adaptive operating systems (revised version). Journal of Space Safety Engineering 10 (3-4), pp 82–87, December 2022. DOI:10.1016/j.jsse.2022.12.002
  • Perlitz, L.; Rakowsky, U.K.: A lunar surface scenario simulation applying adaptive operating systems (first version). Proceedings of the 73rd International Astronautical Congress – IAC 2022, Paris, France, September 2022. IAC-22,B6,2,3,x68592.
  • Perlitz, L.; Rakowsky, U.K.: Simulation of a multi-system scenario comparing non-derating versus reliability-adaptive systems. Chiara Leva, M. et al. (edts.) Proceedings of the 32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference – ESREL 2022, Dublin, Ireland. Singapore: Research Publisher, pp 614–621, August 2022. DOI:10.3850/978-981-18-5183-4_R14-02-136.