Studies and Teaching
The Institute of Mechanics is responsible for teaching solid mechanics and fluid mechanics within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kassel. In addition to the mechanical engineering program, it also supports programs in mechatronics, industrial engineering, vocational education, and mathematics, among others. As a result, the institute plays a central role in education, as its courses impart essential fundamentals of engineering.
Selected teaching modules are:
- Engineering Mechanics
- Continuum Mechanics
- Fracture Mechanics
- Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics
- Numerical Fluid Mechanics
- Flow Measurement Technology
- Engineering Dynamics
- Nonlinear Vibrations
- Multibody dynamics
- Finite Element Method
- Data Science and Machine Learning
- Mechanics of porous media