Prof. Dr.-Ing. Burghilde Wieneke-Toutaoui Burghilde Wieneke-Toutaoui, born 1958, is married with three children. Born in the small town Dulmen in the Westphalian part of Germany, she started her studies of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin in 1976. In 1982, she received her Diploma Degree from this University and started as a research engineer at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production and Design Technology (FhG-IPK). Her field of work was facilities planning and she has done projects with most of the automotive companies in Germany and a lot of other medium and large sized companies. During this work she realized her idea of a simulation system to support facilities planning. In 1987 she received the Doctoral Degree from the Technical University. Shortly before that she was appointed group manager at the FhG-IPK. In 1990 she became professor for Industrial Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin, department of Mechanical Engineering. Since then she has also been actively involved in the field of Women in Engineering, inside her university and within the Association of Engineers (VDI), where she is in the following functions today: Spokeswoman for the Women in Engineering within the VDI, Member of the board of VDI, Member of the board of Directors of Berlin-Brandenburg Branch of VDI. Since 1998 she is responsible for the co-operation of her university with a Korean university, where she has since established an internship program and research work in the area of Rapid Prototyping Technology and is currently working on establishing a joint venture company. Her private interests are learning languages, learning about cultural aspects of daily life all over the world, the internet and her family.