Events

The student working group EVOLONIC at FAU has developed a drone that will detect forest fires at a very early stage in the future, saving valuable time for firefighting. Participants from EVOLONIC attended the KTmfk elective course (Prof. Wartzack) Concept Development of Innovative Products (KIP) an...

The International Society of Posture & Gait Research (ISPGR) World Congress took place in Brisbane, Australia from 09 – 13 July. Our institute was represented by a team member (Julian Shanbhag) from the research area user-centered design, who presented our current research in the field of postur...

The International Conference of Engineering Design (ICED), the flagship conference of the Design Society, took place this year in Bordeaux with over 600 participants. The Chair of Engineering Design KTmfk was represented with eight exciting presentations on various topics and made a lasting impressi...

The 33rd International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) was held in Honolulu, Hawaii from July 15-20. The International Symposium is the largest international conference on systems engineering and combines research, industrial application and teaching. Together ...

The 28th congress of the European Society for Biomechanics took place in Maastricht (Link) from 09 - 12 July. Our institute was represented by 3 members from the research area user-centered design. They presented the current research results of the KTmfks in a presentation (Mr. Scherb) and a poster ...

After more than 6 years of joint research work in two funding phases, the DFG-funded research group FOR2271 "Process-oriented tolerance management based on virtual computer-aided engineering tools" was concluded on 04.07.23 in the context of a colloquium. The KTmfk worked on a subproject and was spe...

The 5th Summer School Tolerance Management was hosted in Erlangen in presence this year. This promoted, above all, the personal bilateral exchange and again offered a good platform for an intensive dialog between education, research and industry. With this year's focus on digitalization and data-dri...

The 18th IEEE System of Systems Engineering conference was held at Polytech in Lille from June 14-16. It was hosted by the Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique Lille (CRIStAL), which is dedicated to research in robotics, digital health, and AI. The Chair of Engineering Design w...

After a digital run in 2021, the two-yearly VDI symposium on journal and rolling bearings finally took place again in Schweinfurt on June 14-15. This time KTmfk was represented by Mr. Halmos, Mr. Kramer and Dr. Bartz. Mr. Kramer, together with Mr. Rüth from the Chair of Machine Elements, Gears and T...

The European Group of Research in Tolerancing (E-GRT) met for the 5th time, this time in Bordeaux, France. The E-GRT consists of an association of institutes from France, Sweden, Italy, England and Germany with the aim to improve networking in the field of "Tolerancing". The focus of the event is th...