Year: 2024

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...

The latest publication of the KTmfk with the project partners from Hamburg (LaFT) and Karlsruhe (IPEK) was selected as the cover story for the March issue of the journal Applied Sciences. The publication addresses a co-simulation model consisting of a musculoskeletal human model, an exoskeleton mode...

For sampling-based tolerance-cost optimization, a high number of function evaluations is unavoidable, which can lead to long calculation times. To overcome this shortcoming, the latest KTmfk publication presents an innovative strategy that combines metaheuristic optimization and adaptive surrogate m...

Mechatronic systems have become increasingly important in recent years and have become an integral part of our lives today. They are characterised in particular by the combination of the fields of mechanics, electrical engineering and information technology. To date, the development of mechatronic s...

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...

On March 12, Shannon O'Donnel, Global Strategy Leader Siemens and Martin Koczmann, Academic Project Manager Siemens visited the KTmfk. The aim of the meeting was to exchange knowledge and experience with best practices on the use of digital tools in mechanical engineering education at FAU and the us...