Digital workshop of Mechanical Engineering
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The EMW Mechanical Engineering Department's digital workshop on Campus Köthen is still relatively young, but its work is already bearing fruit.
Since the first public presentation at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty Day in November 2019, which focused on digitalization in Mechanical Engineering, the digital workshop has gradually been further equipped and designed - also thanks to the support of the university management and projects funded by the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The digital workshop comprises three areas that are not only close to each other in terms of space, but are also closely interlinked in terms of content. Firstly, there is the idea and concept development area, the brain poola computer lab where young students and those interested in founding a company at the university transform concepts and plans into technical drawings and 3D models on screen.
Right next door is the workshop, the FabLab so to speak, where computer-aided ideas are turned into reality. This was recently demonstrated in a very impressive, practical and even media-effective way: PhD student Sebastian Gersch provided "tangible" corona help in the 3D printing workshop and delivered suitable containers for vaccine ampoules to the head of the Bitterfeld-Wolfen health department within a few days, which were completely designed, developed, optimized and manufactured in the digital workshop using the non-metallic 3D printing process. That was quick practical help live from Mechanical Engineering.
Between the brain pool and FabLab is the space where you can relax, exchange creative ideas and recharge your batteries. The combination of kitchen and bar is well received by the young workshop users.
The digital workshop is equipped with state-of-the-art, powerful computing technology. This enables the use of practice-relevant, professional high-end software in Mechanical Engineering, which not only maps individual elements and complex machines, but can also simulate them in real time.
The digital workshop in Köthen offers the opportunity to progressively master digitalization in Mechanical Engineering. The initiating professors Carsten Schulz and Holger Gruss see it as part of the implementation of an integrative digitalization concept. Theory and practice meet, research and teaching are directly linked.
