Events

Following the invitation of Prof. Göbel, Head of the Chair for Virtual Product Development, the WiGeP Assistants Meeting took place in Kaiserslautern on October 17–18, 2024. Researches from across Germany, including Jessica Pickel from the Chair of Engineering Design (KTmfk), gathered to discuss cur...

The seventh "Young Tribological Researcher Symposium", organized by the Young Tribologists Working Group of the „Gesellschaft für Tribologie”, was held on July 22 and 23 at the KTmfk. The two days were filled with diverse and informative presentations on current experimental and numerical research i...

The 29th Congress of the European Society for Biomechanics took place in Edinburgh from July 1 to 3. Our institute participatd with 3 employees and senior engineer Dr.-Ing. Jörg Miehling from the User-Centered Product design group. They presented the current research results of the KTmfk in three po...

On 18 June 2024, Prof. Sandro Wartzack was a guest as a representative of the universities in the live talk of the Blueprint episode "AI in Digital Engineering - Ready for the Revolution?" The advantages and challenges of using AI in digital engineering were discussed: accelerated development cycles...

The 18th International DESIGN Conference was held from May 20-23, 2024 in Cavtat, Dubrovnik, Croatia. 433 participants were able to gain an insight into exciting research results and current hurdles in the field of "DESIGN" through a variety of sessions with a total of 305 contributions, exciting wo...

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...

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...

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 Gesellschaft für Tribologie e.V. (Society for Tribology) again organized this year's Tribology Conference, already in its 64th year, which took place from September 25th to 27th in Göttingen. This time the KTmfk was represented by Mr. Neusser and Dr. Bartz. Mr. Neusser gave a presentation on the...