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The Department of Mechanical Engineering is part of KIT's Area 3 "Mechanical and Electrical Engineering" together with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, four Helmholtz programs, and eight institutes of the large-scale research area. The department consists of more than 20 institutes with about 1,000 employees, including about 45 professors, 460 scientific employees, and 200 employees in administration and technology. In addition, there are several hundred tutors and scientific assistants.
The European Research Council (ERC) is funding KIT twice with a "proof of concept" for medical diagnostics and materials development. The funding supports projects that aim to translate basic research into concrete applications. Chemist Dr. Frank Biedermann from the Institute of Organic Chemistry was successful with his "SupraPlate" application. The second grant supports Professor Christian Greiner from the Institute of Applied Materials. With his SOAR project, he aims to develop a new class of copper-based alloys that are resistant to friction and wear.
Training young research talents in the field of AI and transferring research results to industry more quickly – that is the goal of a joint center for applied artificial intelligence established by KIT, the University of Stuttgart, and the University of Tübingen. In the presence of the state government of Baden-Württemberg, they signed the founding agreement for the graduate center "connAIx – Research School for Applied AI" today. The facility will be located in Heilbronn and will promote the practical application of AI in areas such as robotics, chip design, and cybersecurity.
Professor Jürgen Fleischer, Head of the Institute for Machines, Plants, and Process Automation at the Institute for Production Technology (wbk), is celebrating his 25th anniversary. Our photo shows him receiving his certificate from Professor Christoph Stiller, Dean of the KIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Department extends its warmest congratulations to Professor Fleischer.
Global population growth and changing consumption and production patterns are driving up demand for resources. Against this backdrop, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is investigating product and material cycles and environmental interactions in its new flagship project. The aim is to develop integrative, resource-efficient recycling systems that take into account interdisciplinary approaches as well as sustainable technologies and nature-based solutions.
At the "Formula Future" motorsport event, teams of students compete with vehicles they have developed themselves and test concepts under the same conditions. Fuel cells, hydrogen engines, combustion engines, and hybrid drives are permitted. Malki Maliha, postdoctoral researcher at KIT and event manager, explains: "The combustion engine is far from obsolete for the next generation." Unlike the purely electric Formula Student Germany, Formula Future focuses on technological openness.
Source: Springer Professional
For the first time, tankers in Mannheim can now load fuel blends that not only contain bioethanol, as is usual with the well-known E10 or E5 fuel grades, but also other renewable components such as electricity-based or biogenic fuels – known as reFuels. A new pilot plant at the Exolum Mannheim GmbH tank farm flexibly mixes these components and digitally documents the greenhouse gas savings for each delivery. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is providing scientific support for the construction of the plant.
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