Year: 2024

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...

Knowledge from the AM manufacturing process about how certain process variables affect the product requirements must be considered early on in the product design phase. In its latest publication, the KTmfk has presented a method for simultaneous product and process design synthesis in the sense of D...

The technical implementation of the load-adaptive behaviour of the muscles of the human musculoskeletal system offers great potential for minimizing resource and energy requirements in many systems. However, a lack of knowledge about suitable linear actuators is a major reason for the inadequate tec...

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...

The exploratory study focusses on the design of physical products and their potential to empower users by promoting positive emotions and subjectively perceived self-efficacy. By investigating the usability and emotional appeal of one particular product - a walking aid - researchers at KTmfk and Fra...

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...

For this year's convention, the KTmfk – Engineering Design Institute at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg retreated to the pre-alpine lands at the "Wilder Kaiser" from March 19 to 21. The focus was on identifying and driving forward new research projects as well as the doctoral thesis. In addition to the worksh...

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...