Month: August 2018

We are looking forward to welcoming our international students at the Faculty of Engineering with a Kick-Off event on 4 September 2018 - and for students arriving later: on 4 October 2018 again. On this Kick-Off and the following first weeks we will guide you through your first steps in Erlan...

A talk on scientific career planning and networking On July 16th 2018 the Brown Bag Break took place at the Faculty of Engineering of FAU. First, the young researchers were welcomed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Stamminger, Chair for Computer Science 9 (Graphic Data Processing). Following this, various se...

A love of steel Is there anything new we can learn about steel? Peter Felfer, junior professor at the Chair of General Materials Science is often asked this question whenever he talks about steel, an area of research which he is particularly enthusiastic about. ‘Steel is of such importance that eve...

Plasticity at the fingertips: Scientists at FAU directly control dislocations In the 1940s, scientists first explained how materials can deform plastically by atomic-scale line defects called dislocations. These defects can be understood as tiny carpet folds that can move one part of a material rel...