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Neuer Mit­arbeit­er am KAt

Der KAt-Lehrstuhl wird seit dem 01.01.2025 durch einen neuen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter verstärkt. Henning Haffert

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In­form­a­tion event at KAt

Last Monday, KAt offered an information event for students. As part of the event

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In­aug­ur­al event of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Balázs Mag­yar

Last Thursday, 20 February 2025, Prof. Balázs Magyar gave his inaugural lecture as part of the Mechanical Engineering Forum. Among the invited guests were colleagues and former employees. Prof. Magyar was particularly pleased that his former supervisor and friend Dr. Péter Horák had travelled from Hungary to attend the event

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Form­next 2024

KAt was represented at the DMRC stand at the “Formnext” trade fair in Frankfurt from November 19-22, 2024. Exciting discussions

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Der erste Platz ging an Marvin Klocke (dritter von links) und Henrik Münstermann (dritter von rechts). Wir gratulieren herzlich!

Present­a­tion of the CLAAS Spon­sor­ship Award 2024

After last year's premiere, we are happy to award the CLAAS sponsorship prize again this year. All in all, this was the 19th time fourth semester mechanical engineering students received this award at the Chair of Design and Drive Technolgoy at Paderborn University.

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Con­fer­ral of Doc­tor­ate Stefan Lam­mers

We congratulate Stefan Lammers to the successful completion of his doctoral studies on "Development of a method for the systematic development of design guidelines for a production-oriented support structure design in laser beam melting. Stefan Lammers focussed on the systematic examination and evaluation of support structures for metal-powder based Laser Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB/M). Based on the method developed by

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Con­fer­ral of Doc­tor­ate Thomas Kün­neke

We congratulate Thomas Künneke to the successful completion of his doctoral studies on "Methodical development of design guidelines for the design of directly additively manufactured particle dampers from laser beam melting". His research focussed on the respective development of a test stand as well as experimental analyses of

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New staff mem­ber at KAt

As of September 01, 2024, the KAt Chair is supported by a new scientific research assistant. Xiaoyu Zhang received her M. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at Paderborn University in March 2024.

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Mini­ature demon­strat­or to im­prove the qual­ity of teach­ing

The KAt chair has successfully recreated the chair's own research platform ‘KAtAMaran’ (construction and drive technology in AM-optimised modular drive) on a scale of 1:2 as a functional miniature demonstrator ‘KAtA-Mini’. The miniature demonstrator is used as an application example in courses to demonstrate design aspects of

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Ex­cur­sion to Claas

As part of the Machine Elements Drive Components lecture, we invited interested fourth semester mechanical engineering students to an excursion to Claas

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KAt ex­cur­sion to ZF in Stem­wede

m 07. Februar 2024 haben wir als Lehrstuhl für Konstruktions- und Antriebstechnik der Universität Paderborn eine Exkursion zum Unternehmen ZF in Stemwede durchgeführt. Neben Mitarbeitenden

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New staff mem­ber at KAt

As of January 15, 2024, the KAt Chair is supported by a new scientific research assistant. Lea Küpper received her M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering

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Form­next 2023

KAt was represented at the DMRC stand at the "Formnext" trad fair in Frankfurt from November, 07.-10., 2023. Exciting

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15th In­ter­na­tion­al For­um of Ex­perts - FVA

At the 15th International Forum of Experts - FVA, the KAt presented an insight of the Chair's research with a lecture "Electric motors

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64th Tri­bology Sym­posi­um 2023

The KAt team participated in the 64th Tribology Symposium in Göttingen. Tobias Bührmann presented his research

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