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At this year's CADFEM Conference 2024 in Darmstadt, 700 international representatives from science and industry met for professional exchange and networking. Keynotes and top-class user presentations with topics from everyday engineering and simulation were held in the "Darmstadtium" conference buil...

The Chair of Design Engineering congratulates Mr Sven Wirsching on successfully passing his doctoral examination to become a Dr.-Ing. on 12.04.2024. Mr Wirsching presented the contents of his dissertation entitled "Numerical optimisation of secondary, lubricated point and elliptical contacts for the...

The Chair of Design Engineering congratulates Mr Matthias Müller on passing his doctoral examination for the degree of Dr.-Ing. on 18.04.2024. Matthias Müller successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Potentials and perspectives of a ring lubrication system for the lubricant supply of rolling...

Marc Behringer joined the Digital Engineering department as a research assistant at the beginning of February. Prior to that, he studied in the master's program in mechatronics with a focus on design and embedded systems at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He also wrote his mas...

The Chair of Design Engineering congratulates Mr Martin Roth on successfully passing his doctoral examination for the degree of Dr.-Ing. on 21.12.2023. Mr Roth presented the contents of his dissertation entitled "Sampling-based Tolerance-Cost-Optimization: The Key to Optimal Tolerance Allocation". I...

The Chair of Engineering Design congratulates Michael Jüttner on successfully passing the doctoral examination for the degree of Dr.-Ing. on 21.12.2023. Mr. Jüttner presented the contents of his dissertation entitled "Bewertung von Kantenpressungen auf Basis von Simulationen mehrfach überrollter ela...

The Chair of Design Engineering congratulates Fabian Dworschak on successfully passing his doctoral examination for the degree of Dr.-Ing. on 24.11.2023. Mr. Dworschak presented the contents of his dissertation entitled "Self-reinforcing learning as a contribution to the automation of adaptation des...

Congratulations to Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Benjamin Schleich who completed his habilitation in the field of engineering design and virtual product development. The title of his thesis is „Automatic information processing in tolerance management in the context of industry 4.0“. The supervisors were Pro...

Marc Gadinger joined the Lightweight Design Group as a research assistant in October. He previously studied mechanical engineering at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. In his scientific work and as a student research assistant at the KTmfk, he already studied the fatigue behaviour o...

This year's strategy meeting of the KTmfk took place from September 19 to 22 in Riederau at the Ammersee. The first days were devoted to the organization of the department, the handover of tasks and the review of goals, as well as the identification and development of new research projects. In small...