Doctorate Sebastian Bickel
The Chair of Engineering Design congratulates Mr. Sebastian Bickel on successfully passing his doctoral examination for the degree of Dr.-Ing. on May 7, 2025, which he completed with distinction. Mr. Bickel presented the contents of his dissertation titled “Development of a Procedure Model for the Automated Utilization of Existing Data in the Early Stages of Product Development.” In his dissertation, he developed a machine learning model for the automatic recognition of hand-drawn sketches of conceptual designs. Furthermore, the recognized hand-drawn sketches are compared with existing CAD assemblies to identify similar assemblies in the early stages of product development. Following the successful completion of the internal doctoral examination, Mr. Bickel was ceremoniously presented with the doctoral cap by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandro Wartzack. We thank him for the excellent collaboration during his doctoral studies and wish Mr. Bickel all the best and every success in his future career!