Institutes of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

At a Glance

Institute for Drive and Vehicle Technology (IAF)

Specialty	Management
Machine Elements and Tribology	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Adrian Rienäcker
Mechatronics with a Focus on Vehicles	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael U. Fister
Vehicle Systems and Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering	Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ludwig Brabetz
Electrical Machines and P ropulsion	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marcus Ziegler

Institute for Labour Studies and Process Management (IfA)

Specialty	Management
Work and Organizational Psychology	Prof. Dr. phil. Oliver Sträter
Human-Machine-Systems Engineering	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ludger Schmidt
Project Management in the Digital Transformation	Prof. Dr. Timo Braun
Quality and Process Management	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Refflinghaus

Institute of Mechanics (IfM)

Specialty	Management
Computational Mechanics	N.N.
Fluid Mechanics	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Olaf Wünsch
Technical Mechanics/Continuum Mechanics	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Ricoeur
Technical Dynamics	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Hetzler

Institute for Production Technology and Logistics (IPL)

Specialty	Management
Foundry Engineering	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Fehlbier
Production Organization and Factory Planning	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sigrid Wenzel
Cutting and Joining Manufacturing Processes	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Prof. h.c. Stefan Böhm
Forming Technology	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kurt Steinhoff
Environmentally Suitable Products and Processes	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Hesselbach

Institute for Measuring and Control Engineering (ISAC)

Specialty	Management
Measurement and Control Engineering	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Kroll
Intelligent Embedded Systems	Prof. Dr. Bernhard Sick, Department 16
Control and Systems Theory	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Olaf Stursberg and Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Arno Linnemann

Institute for Thermal Energy Technology (ITE)

Specialty	Management
Solar and Systems Engineering	Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Vajen
Turbomachinery	N.N.
Technical Thermodynamics	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrea Luke
Thermal Systems Engineering	apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ulrike Jordan
Sustainable Technology Design	Prof. Dr. Stefan Lechtenböhmer

Institute of Materials Engineering (IfW)

Specialty	Management
Plastics Materials	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Peter Heim
Mechanical Behaviour of Materials	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Benoit Merle
Metallic Materials	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Niendorf
Granularity of Structural Information in Materials Engineering	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wenwen Song
Extreme Light for Nanostructures	Prof. Dr. Camilo Florian Baron