Education

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...

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...

The fact that the lecture does not have to be purely theoretical is shown by the diverse demonstrators that are integrated into the courses at KTmfk. Technology to touch - this is how machine elements become accessible. The KTmfk is therefore particularly pleased about the generous donation of vario...

The student working group EVOLONIC at FAU has developed a drone that will detect forest fires at a very early stage in the future, saving valuable time for firefighting. Participants from EVOLONIC attended the KTmfk elective course (Prof. Wartzack) Concept Development of Innovative Products (KIP) an...

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 organization and implementation of lectures is an essential pillar of the KTmfk's work. The KTmfk is represented in many courses at the FAU Faculty of Technology and aims to improve the lectures every semester according to the students' evaluations and to make them interesting by using up-to-dat...

Prof. Sandro Wartzack (KTmfk, FAU) visited Prof. Simon Bickerton at the Centre for Advanced Composite Materials and Prof. Jörg Diegel at the Centre Creative Design and Additive Manufacturing at the University of Auckland, NZ. Prof Wartzack was invited as a presenter for a seminar on "Lightweight Des...

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandro Wartzack (KTmfk, FAU) is delighted to have been awarded the Erskine Visiting Fellowship from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Within the framework of this fellowship, Prof. Wartzack will teach students in the transition from Bachelor's to Master's studie...

As part of this year's design project course (KoPra), the challenge for the students was to develop an autonomously driving vehicle for picking, transporting and placing a "KTmfk egg", which is controlled using a microcontroller. For this, the students' vehicles had to cope with the autonomous deliv...