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Starting in the upcoming winter semester 2023/24, the TU Ilmenau will offer orientation programs for students of engineering programs.

In Germany, about ten per cent of all children are born before the 37th week of pregnancy and are thus considered premature.

Quantum simulator provides insights into the dynamics of complex quantum systems A quantum system consisting of only 51 charged atoms can assume more than two quadrillion different states. Calculating the system's behavior is a piece of cake for a quantum simulator. Yet even with today's supercomputers it is almost impossible to verify the result.

Her workplace is six hours away from Earth by rocket. It is 1,200 cubic meters in size, about the size of a small factory hall, and orbits the Earth once every 94 minutes.

Dr. Serena Gambarelli from the Materials Testing Institute at the University of Stuttgart wants to understand and model the hygro-thermo-mechanical properties of wood, and has been included in the Baden-Württemberg Foundation's Elite Program for postdocs.

A simple, crisis-relevant product to protect against coronavirus infection has been developed by Campus Schwarzwald, which is a partner of the University of Stuttgart, in cooperation with the Institu

The Flying Laptop project from the University of Stuttgart: the small satellite that has been a big success.

In the future, electric wing end propulsion systems can simplify the control of aircraft. This is the conclusion after the first manned test flights of the solar aircraft "icaré wtp", which is equipped with two electric wingtip propellers (wtp).

In response to epoch-making developments in aviation and space flight, the Bavarian Minister President Dr. Markus Söder announced the establishment of a new engineering department at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in his government statement on April 18, 2018.

This questionnaire-game is still as worthwhile as it was in the days of Marcel Proust. Here, we have answers by Franziska Ochsenfarth, student representative in the TUM Senate and the TUM Board of Trustees.

No 206/2018 from Jul 27, 2018 The Institute of Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin is involved in a joint project that deals with testing and optimizing the safety aspects of networked, self-driving cars. In a project called "Security For Connected, Autonomous Cars" (SecForCARs), a group led by Jörn Eichler is investigating the interaction of cybersecurity and functional safety and their systematic inclusion in the development of interconnected vehicles with automated driving functions.

Campus news The super-high-speed train Hyperloop is intended to carry passengers at close to the speed of sound.

Physicists and material scientists have succeeded in constructing a motor and an energy storage device from one single component.

Research news The German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funded project UNICAR agil aims to rethink vehicles and their development processes.

Research news Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed an e-trike on behalf of the Munich Public Transit Agency (Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft or MVG).

Research news Additive manufacturing processes are the major topic for the future of production engineering.

Research news An electric car for Africa, custom-designed for the needs of the population there, that strengthens rural structures and helps drive the economy: Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and partners have been working intensively towards this goal for four years.

Research news The unmanned aircraft Sagitta has successfully completed its first two test flights at the Overberg test range in South Africa.

Campus news SGL Group will renew its commitment to endowing the Chair of Carbon Composites (LCC) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), which began eight years ago.

Research news Often hundreds of rotors can be installed in a typical wind farm. A little known fact, however, is that the shadowing caused by the wind turbine rotors impacts the performance of neighboring turbines and reduces their lifespan.

Even today, cocoa pods are still harvested by hand. In order to relieve the farmers of this work and to reduce the risk of injury, the TUM's Chair of Product Development is developing a cocoa pod splitting machine.

Research news Engineers at TUMCREATE in Singapore have developed an electric motor which can be easily attached to almost any bicycle, turning it into a pedelec (pedal electric cycle).

Research news The future of manufacturing belongs to Industry 4. Anyone not willing to accept it is seen as behind the times.

Campus news It will be almost as fast as sound: the super-fast train of the future, also known as Hyperloop.

Research news Missions at sea, in mountainous regions or close to skyscrapers are extremely risky for helicopter pilots.

Campus news Starting in January 2017, the Syrian scientist Prof. Abdul Ghafoor Al-Shehabi will conduct research as a guest professor at the Institute of Flight System Dynamics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

Campus news Two spin-offs of the Technical University Munich (TUM) are among the winners of the start-up contest "Weconomy": Cevotec is bringing a new technology to market that makes the production of carbon components more efficient.

Campus news The new Fraunhofer Research Institution for Casting, Composite and Processing Technology IGCV (Fraunhofer IGCV) was inaugurated yesterday in Augsburg.

Termin From September 12 to 15, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) will host the "European Space Elevator Challenge" for the third time, an international competition for developing space elevator prototypes.

Campus news The Fraunhofer IGCV, the new Fraunhofer facility for Casting, Composites and Production Technologies, will begin operation in Augsburg and Garching (near Munich) as of July 1, 2016.

Campus news If the German Innovation Lab (GIL) gets its way, the Garching campus of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) my become one of the first testing sites for autonomous vehicles within the next few years.

There has never been an Egyptian astronaut. But that will not prevent Akram Abdellatif from realizing his dream of going into space.

Suddenly he moves from the street onto the sidewalk, sidling through the traffic, right to the front, and is one of the nimblest of road users: the cyclist.

Head-up display on the windshield, connected simulations, tactical behavior of bicyclists and phased traffic lights for trucks: These are among the technologies being presented by the Technical Unive

LMU-scientists have developed a new class of molecular motors that rotate unidirectionally at speeds of up to 1 kHz when exposed to sunlight at room temperature.