Education

As part of the Machine Elements course, students have the opportunity to independently disassemble and reassemble a gearbox in an assembly lab. This makes the theoretical content of the course tangible: machine elements are not only calculated and sketched, but experienced in their real function, a...

From September 8 to 12, this year’s “Girls and Technology” workshop for students in grades 7 to 12 took place at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Under the theme “Machine & Human,” Gwen Spelly and Jessica Pickel (KTmfk) gave participants fascinating insights into how gears and t...

On July 4, 2025, students of the courses “Tribology & Surface Technology” and “Rolling Bearing Technology” visited the Schaeffler company in Herzogenaurach as part of an excursion. The event offered the participants a comprehensive insight into the technologies, production processes and career o...

Research starts at university: FAU student Stefan Gäcklein is already investigating the behaviour of fibre-reinforced plastics under high strain rates in high-speed tensile tests at the KTmfk as part of his project work. The resulting material parameters are an essential basis for precise simulation...

This semester, CAD education in programs such as Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechatronics, Electromobility, and Artificial Intelligence is conducted using the Siemens NX CAD system. Under the direction of the Chair of Engineering Design (Prof. Sandro Wartzack), students acquire C...

In times of climate change, education for sustainable development (ESD) plays a central role in student education. We are therefore delighted to be playing a leading role in the new lecture series "(FA)U for Sustainability". The cross-faculty lecture deals with topics such as health and resource use...

Once again excellent teaching at KTmfk: Marcel Bartz was awarded with the Bavarian State Prize for Excellent Teaching 2023 by the Bavarian State Minister for Science and the Arts, Markus Blume, during the Day of Good Teaching at TH Nürnberg. With the prize for excellent teaching, the Bavarian State...

The ongoing development of KTmfk lectures in line with current technical challenges and the needs of students is an important focus of our work. The fact that this is once again working well is shown by the repeated award for our "Machine Elements II" course, which received excellent evaluations fro...

On March 12, Shannon O'Donnel, Global Strategy Leader Siemens and Martin Koczmann, Academic Project Manager Siemens visited the KTmfk. The aim of the meeting was to exchange knowledge and experience with best practices on the use of digital tools in mechanical engineering education at FAU and the us...

The ongoing optimization of the KTmfk's lectures represents an important focus of our work. The positive development of the evaluation results shows that our efforts are successful with the students. In the evaluations of the finished summer semester, this time all classes of the KTmfk were rated "v...