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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Hady Mohamed joined the Lightweight Construction Group in mid-May as a research assistant. He previously studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich. After completing his master's degree, he worked as a development engineer at TWT Science & Innovation. During his master ...

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...

According to the citation database Scopus, Prof. Sandro Wartzack, as author and co-author of 472 peer-reviewed publications, achieves an h-index of 30 with a total of 3,678 citations. "I am pleased that we reach so many readers with our publications, who then cite us in their scientific articles. Th...