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At the Chair of Engineering Design, we research, improve and validate new processes, methods and tools to support demanding development- and design activities. We are active in the fields of virtual product development and design methodology, machine elements and tribology as well as lightweight design. Through our research and teaching activities, we create the foundation for innovative, new or optimized products and thus contribute to maintaining and strengthening the industrial base in Europe. We would like to invite you to learn more about us during your stay on our website!
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Tim Ruf joined the Lightweight Design Group as a research assistant at the beginning of November. He previously studied mechanical engineering at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. In his master's thesis at KTmfk, he developed methods for quantifying subjective design characteristic...
Conventional tolerance management aims to limit variations of components to a degree that guarantees the function of the product. Frequently, aspects such as manufacturability, assemblability, and influences of operation are not taken into account. As a result, variations that lead to assembly prob...
The consideration of variations and their functional restriction during the design of a product is an important task of tolerance management. Endless-fiber reinforced plastics (FRP), which are increasingly used due to their high lightweight potential, increase the complexity of this task due to the...
The Chair of Design Engineering congratulates Dr. David Scherb on passing his doctoral examination with flying colors. In his dissertation, Mr. Scherb addressed the topic of “Simulative design of wearable support systems using musculoskeletal human models, using the example of an ankle orthosis.” I...
Following the invitation of Prof. Zimmermann, Head of the Laboratory for Product Development and Lightweight Design, the WiGeP Assistants Meeting took place in Munich on October 23-24, 2025. Researchers from across Germany, including Simon Schleifer from the Chair of Engineering Design (KTmfk), gat...
On October 7, the CADFEM Conference 2025 took place in Künzelsau. The focus of this application-oriented conference was on simulation and digital methods in engineering, particularly in the areas of structural mechanics, AI, automation, process integration, and design optimization. The KTmfk partic...
We congratulate PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Jörg Miehling on successfully completing his habilitation in the field of "User-Centered Design" and on being granted the teaching authorization. His research, titled “Integration of Simulation Models and Sensor Data into Human-Centered Engineering”, focused on li...
The KTmfk – Chair of Design Engineering at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg received two awards at the 2025 fall conference of the Scientific Society for Product Development (WiGeP) at Chemnitz University of Technology. Dr. Benedict Rothammer received the Pahl-Beitz Prize for his dissertation “Amorphous carb...
