At the annual Graduation Ball of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering graduates and members of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering meet to celebrate a successful year. One highlight of the evening 2015 was the presentation of the certificates to the Ph. D. candidates. They had to “earn” their certificates by answering some entertaining questions by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Mahnken. We are pleased that our employee Dr.-Ing. Guido Adam was honored…

Going into its third year, the Chair of Design and Drive Technology has been offering the “Basic principles of gear assembly – practical course” since the winter semester of 2013/14.

On July 22, 2015, 19 participants started on this year’s excursion of the Chair of Design and Drive Engineering (KAt) to visit Karl E. Brinkmann GmbH (KEB), REINTJES GmbH and Lenze SE. Through a number of company presentations and tours as well as interesting discussions in the field of magnetic couplings and brakes, transmission and electronics manufacturing the participants had the opportunity to expand their knowledge. On Wednesday morning,…

11-28-2013 | Communication Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Reception of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering: Granting of the FERCHAU Advancement Award 2013 11-28-2013 | On November 9th, the 8th FERCHAU Advancement Award for Outstanding Academic Achievements was granted at the Chair of Design and Drive Engineering within the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Paderborn, honoring the following…

07-27-2013 | Brief report KAt-Excursion 2013 On July 24th, 2013 the Chair of Design and Drive Engineering headed by Professer Zimmer went on a two-day excursion. The Chair, staff members, a number of student assistants and interested students started out on a tour to expand their knowledge in the field of drive engineering. Twenty-two participants visited the companies Siemens, Winergy and Vogelsang as well as the mining museum in Bochum. In…