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23.04.2024 Events of the Professorship
The Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction (IUL) at TU Dortmund University and the IWW have been cooperating for many years in various research projects and currently also in the DFG Research Group 5380 ("FUNDAM³ENT"). Accordingly, the entire IUL team was delighted to visit on 10 April 2024.
23.04.2024 Events of the Professorship
On 11 April 2024, the series of events organised by the DGO Saxony district group continued at Chemnitz University of Technology. With 22 participants, the lecture by Mr Höland, Managing Director of Spaleck Oberflächenveredlung GmbH in Greiz, Thuringia, was very well received.
20.03.2024 Events of the Professorship
On 7 March 2024, the 29th Leipzig Technical Seminar took place at the Congress Center in Leipzig with over 220 participants. The specialist seminar is one of the most important ZVO/DGO events with an exciting lecture programme, an informative accompanying exhibition and a wide range of opportunities for professional exchange. The WOT professorship was represented with several contributions.
19.03.2024 Projects of the professorship
As part of the REDUCE project, employees from the Human-Cyber-Physical Systems (HCPS) department took part in a specialist discussion in the production halls of Vitesco Technologies (VT) in Limbach-Oberfrohna on 27 February 2024. The BMBF-funded joint project REDUCE (Resource Efficiency Derived from User Centered Engineering in Industrial Production) aims to significantly reduce resource consumption in industrial production through human-centred digitalisation measures and a transdisciplinary approach.
14.03.2024 Equipment of the professorship
The new powder atomisation plant at the Chair makes it possible to adapt powder materials to specific applications, customer requirements and manufacturing process profiles. And, of course, the new plant will significantly expand our profile in basic research. Due to their versatile properties and processing options, metal powders have a wide range of technical applications, from the automotive to the electronics industry.
11.03.2024 People of the professorship
The online conference "TSS Thermal Spray Open Mic Series" provides a platform for students and aspiring professionals in the thermal spray industry to meet established experts, leaders and innovators in the field face-to-face. The series aims to promote the international exchange of knowledge, facilitate discussions on professional development and provide information on the latest advances, techniques and challenges in thermal spray technology.
26.02.2024 Co-operations of the professorship
Prof. Dr Thomas Lampke, Head of the WOT professorship, and Thomas Priemuth, Head of Production Systems at the BMW Group plant in Leipzig, have been developing the framework conditions for the content and formal cooperation between the TUC and the BMW plant in Leipzig for some time in order to consolidate the diverse bilateral relationships between professorships at the TU and the BMW plant and make them fit for the future. Now Petra Peterhänsel, Plant Manager of the BMW Group plant in Leipzig, and Prof. Dr Gerd Strohmeier, Rector of the TUC, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 22 February 2024.
05.02.2024 Teaching at the professorship
As part of the "Metallic Materials" course for students on the primary school teaching degree programme, a practical course for primary school classes has been taking place for five years now. The speciality here is that the student teachers plan and carry out the practical course themselves. This creates a completely new space for initial practical experience in the fields of materials and mechanical engineering - for both the students and the primary school pupils.
01.02.2024 Co-operations of the professorship
On 29 January 2024, Prof. Lampke was invited by the Institute of Materials Engineering IWT at TU Bergakademie Freiberg to give a lecture on the topic of "Cold-hardenable iron-based coating materials". The WOT took the opportunity to visit the Chair of Materials Engineering headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Horst Biermann, to advance a joint research project.
24.01.2024 Teaching at the professorship
On 16 January 2024, students had the opportunity to visit Winning Plastics - SMK GmbH as part of the WOT lecture "Electrochemical Coating".