Experience electrical engineering! At the first digital Girls' Day, schoolgirls gained insights into the various areas of electrical engineering. Online experiments or videos, teamwork and a quiz challenged the curiosity of the young participants. The new format was organized by the department's gender equality team.

etit professor Jutta Hanson becomes member of EASAC

Jutta Hanson has been appointed by the Leopoldina as a German member of the Energy Steering Panel of EASAC (European Academies Science Advisory Council). In this capacity, the expert in the field of renewable energies will advise EU decision-makers.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Hoog Antink new professor for etit

Since 01.01.2021, Professor Dr.-Ing. Hoog Antink is the new professor for Medical Engineering at the Department etit. His research interests are in the field of artificial intelligence in medicine and medical signal processing. In his lectures, he plans to introduce students to the interplay between technology and medicine.

etit student receives LiTG Young Talent Award

How can the cultivation of plants be optimised in the face of ever-increasing demand and limited space? Tim Hegemann explored this question in his master's thesis in the Research Group of Lighting Technology at the Department etit. His innovative research was honoured by the LiTG with its Young Talent Award.

Student Best Paper Award for Aylin Tastan and Afief D. Pamudi

Darmstadt, 30.10.2020. At the 2020 IEEE Radar Conference, Aylin Tastan and Afief D. Pambudi from the Signal Processing Group of etit both successfully participated in the 2020 IEEE Radar Conference Student Contest. Aylin Tastan’s work on robust clustering for human gait signatures was awarded the Best Student Paper Award, whereas the runner-up by Afief D. Pambudi focused on robust landmine detection. Additionally, Pamudi also won the first prize in the Three-Minute Thesis competition, held for the first at an IEEE Radar Conference

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The etit graduation ceremony of the 2019/20 winter semester

The winter semester has nearly run its course. For about 100 graduates of the etit Department, this semester has been the final one in their university career to date. On 14 February 2020, they congregated for their graduation ceremony at the repurposed historic Maschinenhaus (turbine building) of TU Darmstadt, where they received their Bachelor’s and Master’s degree certificates along with words of congratulations from their professors and invited speakers.

Award for Lorenzo Bortot in the field of applied superconductivity

Lorenzo Bortot received an IEEE CSC Graduate Study Fellowship in Applied Superconductivity at this year's Magnet Technology Conference in Vancouver. He works at the Chair for Computational Electromagnetics of our department and at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

About international relations and terahertz systems

Anuar Fernandez Olvera, doctoral student of the Chair Terahertz Devices and Systems, had been granted the rare honour of giving a keynote speech to an international audience. In the following, a brief look at the internationality of etit.

Ralf Steinmetz accepted into the Academia Europaea

Professor Ralf Steinmetz was admitted to the Academia Europaea. The approximately 4,000 members, including more than 70 Nobel Prize winners, have set themselves the goal of promoting a broad understanding of the benefits of knowledge and learning and highlighting scientific topics that affect society. To this end, Academia Europaea organises annual meetings on a focus topic.

Strategy Day 2019 is dedicated to the challenges of the coming years

The Strategy Day on October 16th marked the beginning of the development of a new strategy for the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. In numerous workshops, participants from different status groups devoted themselves to the Identificatzion of problems as well as opportunities facing their Department. Valuable ideas for shaping the future of the department were developed.

New LOEWE center with 17.4 million euros in funding

The TU Darmstadt can establish a new center as part of the Hessian research funding programme LOEWE – it is entitled „The Resilient Digital City“ and will be funded by the end of 2023 with a total of 17.4 million euros. This was announced by the Hessian Ministry of Science. Several professors of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (etit) are involved in the joint project.

Freezing living cells under the light mircoscope

Professor Thomas Burg freezes living cells and organisms under the light microscope without a time delay. His aim: a better link between light and electron microscopy.

Open-door-day widely used

Which etit degree programme suits me? Do I need prior knowledge in mathematics? And what is Biomedical Engineering, Mechatronics and co all about? With these and many other questions in mind, students came to our annually TUDay at our faculty.

Department receives excellent ratings from HR managers and students

Germany's human resources managers rate etit as one of the top electrical engineering and information technology departments in Germany. This is the result of the current university career ranking of the „WirtschaftsWoche“. The CHE University Ranking 2019, based on a survey with undergraduate students, also shows top marks for the department.