Projects and Portraits

With their idea of a 3D-printed bioreactor, Team AIRGAE won first place twice at the European 3D Printing Challenge finals. Kaung Myat, Olesia Omelko and Andrea Vasquez won first place, but also the livestream's viewer prize. Team Airgae's goal is to… [read more]

At this year's international trade fair Formnext, the TUM School of Engineering and Design demonstrates what sustainable additive manufacturing looks like. Using several projects, scientists show how to reduce resources, CO2 footprint, and… [read more]

Climate researchers around the world are sounding the alarm about exceeding critical temperature values on the Earth. If temperatures pass what are called tipping points, the results could be catastrophic. An international team of researchers,… [read more]

Especially in uncertain or dynamic times such as crises, manufacturing and service industries must adapt quickly to the new situation. Prof. Khaled Medini (Mines Saint-Etienne, Univ Clermont Auvergne, INP Clermont Auvergne) and Kathrin Land (TUM… [read more]

TUM Alumnus Uchendu Eugene Chigbu was born in a rural town in Nigeria. Already as a teenager, he was concerned about how rural areas could be developed further and the lives of the local people improved. To learn more about this subject from an… [read more]

Whether sustainability, digitization, artificial intelligence, or entrepreneurship: The project weeks create a framework in which students and teachers can work on issues across curricula and locations. They expand their subject expertise and… [read more]

Connecting water, energy and food to save the world – that’s the mission undertaken by an international research initiative focusing on the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus. Its research- ers are developing alternative solutions to the consumption of… [read more]

Die diesjährige Architekturausstellung "AJA" der Technischen Universität München (TUM) findet von 9. bis 14. Oktober 2023 unter dem Titel "Perspektiven | Perspectives" statt. [read more]

The exhibition “Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals” at the TUM Architecture Museum presents an international selection of still rare hospital buildings which support the healing process. The presentation of scientific findings from… [read more]

Whether Industry 5.0 or Smart Cities: engineering and design services will not be able to do without digital twins in the future - in addition to cobots, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. The digital twin is a simulation model that… [read more]

At the buildingSMART International Awards ceremony in Lillestrøm, Norway, on September 20, 2023, a team from the TUM School of Engineering and Design was honored with the internationally renowned award in the categories "Student Research" and… [read more]

A recently published study, jointly prepared by Dr. Essam Heggy, NASA expert and research scientist at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, Dr. Sara Fouad, a Humboldt Research Fellow hosted by TUM Landscape… [read more]

The Japan Art Association honors architect and TUM Professor Diébédo Francis Kéré for his life's work with the Praemium Imperiale 2023. The highly endowed and well-known cultural prize has been awarded in the genres of architecture, painting,… [read more]

Students from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the longest range electric car in the world. The team drove more than 2,573 kilometers on a single battery charge. As part of the IAA Mobility fair, the team competed for the new… [read more]

In this episode of NewIn, we meet architect Jeannette Kuo. In order to build more sustainably and climate-friendly, she wants to fundamentally change how our built environment is designed. And she's convinced: There's no single answer, there are only… [read more]

Elke Dreier, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Department Architektur der TUM School of Engineering and Design, wurde mit dem Kunstpreis der Stadt Kempten ausgezeichnet. Der auf 5.000 Euro dotierte Preis wurde ihr für das zweiteiliges Werk „Massages… [read more]

Die am Department of Mobility Systems Engineering entstandene Dissertation mit dem Titel "Integrierte Knotenpunktsteuerung für automatisierte und vernetzte Fahrzeuge, Fußgänger und Radfahrer" wird mit dem Carl-Pirath-Preis 2023 ausgezeichnet. [read more]

Unter Leitung der School ED und zusammen mit der Landeshauptstadt München, den Stadtwerken München, der Hans Sauer Stiftung und der UnternehmerTUM wird untersucht, wie nachhaltige Mobilität in urbanen Stadtvierteln aussehen kann. [read more]

Paul Tuch completed his bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the Technical University of Munich and is currently in his second semester of a master's program in computational mechanics. He has been working as a high school tutor for over two… [read more]

Last week, the doors of the listed combined heat and power station at the courtyard of our campus opened for the first time since 15 years. [read more]