Year: 2023

Klara Feile joined the research group for machine elements and tribology as a research assistant at the beginning of September. Previously, she studied mechanical and medical engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Within student theses as well as a student assistant at...

During the summer semester, Prof. Moh'd Sami Ashhab, an expert in mechatronic systems in mechanical engineering at Hashemite University, visited KTmfk for a three-week research stay. In addition to initiating joint research projects, he was able to use the time to share his knowledge with the mechan...

The 24th International Conference on Wear of Materials (WOM) was hosted in Banff, Canada from April 16-20, 2023. The conference is focused on advances in understanding the fundamental and applied aspects of wear and friction of materials. Unique to the conference is the paper submission process, whi...

The International Society of Posture & Gait Research (ISPGR) World Congress took place in Brisbane, Australia from 09 – 13 July. Our institute was represented by a team member (Julian Shanbhag) from the research area user-centered design, who presented our current research in the field of postur...

At the same time as the Bayreuth Festival, the 6th YTRS took place in Bayreuth from July 24 to 25. At the Chair of Engineering Design and CAD under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Stephan Tremmel, young researchers and students were able to present their research subjects and ideas at the symposium. Almo...

The International Conference of Engineering Design (ICED), the flagship conference of the Design Society, took place this year in Bordeaux with over 600 participants. The Chair of Engineering Design KTmfk was represented with eight exciting presentations on various topics and made a lasting impressi...

The 33rd International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) was held in Honolulu, Hawaii from July 15-20. The International Symposium is the largest international conference on systems engineering and combines research, industrial application and teaching. Together ...

The potentials of digital engineering for SMEs are undisputed. Unfortunately, there is no current overview of already realised applications, best-practices and use-cases of these methods in mechatronic product development, which currently leads to comparatively little usage of these methods. In our ...

Simon Schleifer joined the Digital Engineering group as a research assistant at the beginning of July. Previously, he studied mechatronics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. As part of an INI.FAU project, he is working on the use of artificial intelligence in model-based systems ...

The 28th congress of the European Society for Biomechanics took place in Maastricht (Link) from 09 - 12 July. Our institute was represented by 3 members from the research area user-centered design. They presented the current research results of the KTmfks in a presentation (Mr. Scherb) and a poster ...