Year: 2025

On June 3 and 4, 2025, the 16th VDI Conference " Gleit- und Wälzlagerungen: Gestaltung – Berechnung – Einsatz" took place. The Chair of Engineering Design (KTmfk) actively participated in the conference with two contributions. In addition to Prof. Sandro Wartzack and Felix Pfister, students Max Poh...

Moritz Treschau joined the Lightweight Design research group as a research assistant at the beginning of June. Previously, he studied mechanical engineering at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He also wrote his master's thesis on Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINN) in the field...

The European Group of Research in Tolerancing (E-GRT) met for the 6th time - this time in Milan, Italy. The E-GRT is an association of chairs from France, Sweden, Italy, and Germany with the aim of promoting and strengthening international cooperation in the research field of tolerancing. The event ...

Perhaps a little less scientific, but just as engaging: This year, our entire team from the Chair of Engineering Design (KTmfk) once again took part in the traditional Bergdienstag at the Erlangen Bergkirchweih. Together with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandro Wartzack, we swapped the office for a relaxed after...

The Chair of Engineering Design congratulates Mr. Paul Schächtl on successfully passing the doctoral examination for Dr.-Ing. with distinction on 13.05.2025. Mr. Schächtl presented the contents of his dissertation entitled “Tolerance-compliant product and process design of additively manufactured me...

The Stuttgart Symposium for Product Development took place from 21 to 22 May 2025. KTmfk participated with two contributions and was represented on site by Yannick Utz, Jan Kopatsch, and Dr.-Ing. Stefan Goetz. The papers dealt with the efficient consideration of non-geometric key characteristics in ...

The Chair of Engineering Design congratulates Mr. Sebastian Bickel on successfully passing his doctoral examination for the degree of Dr.-Ing. on May 7, 2025, which he completed with distinction. Mr. Bickel presented the contents of his dissertation titled "Development of a Procedure Model for the A...

The Chair of Design Engineering (KTmfk) welcomes Prof. Dr.-Ing. Katharina Völkel to the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. She takes over the tenure-track professorship for Machine Elements in the Context of E-mobility at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of En...

At KTmfk, we often faced this challenge — especially when trying to reuse and communicate tolerancing approaches across disciplines in research and industry projects. After three years of collaboration, we are happy to share the results in our latest publication. We introduce a holistic descripti...

The KTmfk took part in SheMet25 in Paderborn from March 31 to April 3. SheMet is an international scientific conference that focuses on current developments, methods and applications in sheet metal processing and forming technology. The KTmfk was represented by a scientific paper by Jonathan-Markus ...