Chair of Design and Drive Technology

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detmar Zimmer

Member of the "Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Produktentwicklung WiGeP - Berliner Kreis & WGMK".

Electromechanical drive systems

Key aspects are

Reduction of resources required for the operation of drive systems and
Modularity of drive systems in light of an intelligent variant management

Design Engineering

Core subjects are – particularly in conjunction with additive manufacturing:

Design rules
Integration of functions
Tolerance management

Tools

We use the following tools for our research

CAD (FEM)
Multibody simulations
Extensive test engineering for experimental analyses

Current events

Current information on KAt exams during the wintersemester 2021/22

02/07/2022 | For the winter semester 2021/22, KAt has planned to carry out its written exams in the manner described below. Approximately two weeks

Retirement Professor Zimmer

01/20/2022 | After more than 20 years at Paderborn University, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detmar Zimmer went into his well-deserved retirement on December 31, 2020. The entire team of the Chair wishes you all the best!

Granting the FERCHAU Advancement Award 2021

11/04/2021 | Emphasizing and rewarding exceptional achievements – true to this motto, the FERCHAU GmbH, in close cooperation with the Chair of Design and Drive Technology (KAt) at Paderborn University, has been granting the FERCHAU Advancement Award since 2005.

Conferral of Doctorate Christoph Hübner

12/16/2020 | We congratulate Christoph Hübner on the successful completion of his doctoral studies on „ A contribution to the evaluation of the functional safety of spring-applied brakes“. Given the ongoing Corona pandemic, his PhD oral exam was held on Dec. 03,…

Granting the FERCHAU Advancement Award 2020

11/11/2020 | Emphasizing and rewarding exceptional achievements – true to this motto, the FERCHAU GmbH, in close cooperation with the Chair of Design and Drive Technology (KAt) at Paderborn University, has been granting the FERCHAU Advancement Award since 2005.…

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Konstruktions- und Antriebstechnik

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