At the 65th Spring Congress of the Society for Human Factors and Ergonomics (GfA) in Dresden, Prof. Dr. Klaus J. Zink, Scientific Director of the Institute for Technology and Work at the TU Kaiserslautern and Senior Research Professor "Industrial Management and Human Factors" in the Department of Economics at the TU, was awarded honorary membership of the GfA. With this he is honoured for his outstanding achievements and merits within the GfA.