People as decisive initiators

This year's networking meeting at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology was held under the motto “Fresh wind”. With the Managing Director Dr. Ellen Diehm as well as Professor Myriam Koch and Professor Yves Burkhardt, three of the new members of the faculty introduced themselves and reported on their different career paths.

Project Days for Schoolgirls 2023 at the Department etit

At this year's Project Days for Schoolgirls, a total of 65 schoolgirls from Darmstadt and the surrounding area were once again able to get to know various specialist areas of the Department etit – and thus gain an insight into the diverse subject areas. The three-day workshops were offered by the Laboratories of Measurement and Sensor Technology, Adaptive Lighting Systems and Visual Processing, Integrated Electronic Systems and Computational Electromagnetics. The project days for schoolgirls are organised by the department's Gender Equality Team in cooperation with the Dean's Office.

Start of the project Reallabor Antrieb 4.0 – Department etit doubly involved

The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) has approved funding for the research project Reallabor Antrieb 4.0 as part of the KoPa 35c funding program. During the project, cross-manufacturer use cases for digitization and along the value chains, for example the possible “plug & play” commissioning of drives or their optimization with regard to various applications, will be tested. To date, the lack of data availability and the absence of open standards and concepts for interoperability, among other things, have prevented market-ready innovations. For this reason, the Reallabor Antrieb 4.0 is researching the fundamentals for the development of required standards in the field of Industrie 4.0 and is developing new business model approaches based on digitized value chains. This addresses central topics of the Industrie 4.0 Platform's Guiding Principles 2030, in particular the economic and ecological aspects of industrial sustainability.

Graduation ceremony etit in the winter semester 2022/23

On Friday, February 10, 2023, the graduates of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology were given a ceremonial send-off. After graduation, they are now tackling their master's degree, are on their way to their doctorate or directly into business.

Since February 1, Dr.-Ing. Yves Burkhardt has been a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (etit). His field of research is electrical drive systems. Previously, the 39-year-old was, among other things, Head of Electrotechnics Engineering Discipline and Head of Motor Electrical Engineering at Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH in Erlangen/Bad Neustadt. We asked Professor Burkhardt a few questions about his start at TU Darmstadt.

Professor Heinz Koeppl involved in founding of new start-up Dirac Biosciences

A new start-up with significant participation of etit professor Heinz Koeppl is dedicated to the computer-aided design of innovative gene circuits in synthetic biology. In addition to Koeppl, partners of the new company Dirac Biosciences are the TU Darmstadt and the investment company eureKARE, which finances and develops innovations in the field of synthetic biology in Europe. The founding of the start-up was supported by the Innovation and Start-up Center HIGHEST of the TU Darmstadt.

Recycling lithium batteries – and still ‘reLiable’

Electric car batteries last around eight to ten years – after which their charging capacity drops to below 80 per cent, which is too low for electric car operation. The remaining high capacity is utilised by a young team of founders as an electricity storage system, for example for photovoltaic systems. They have developed an intelligent battery management system that extends the life of the battery by a further eight to ten years. reLi, the name of their start-up, says it all: recycling lithium batteries – and making them ‘reLiable’.

Since the beginning of October, Li Zhang has been a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology with a research focus on hardware for artificial intelligence. Previously, the 34-year-old was a group leader at the TU Munich. We asked Professor Zhang a few questions about her start at TU Darmstadt.

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology is helping to write the future of lighting technology

More than 600 experts from internationally renowned research institutes, automotive companies and semiconductor and optics companies met from 04 to 06 April 2022 at the ISAL.

Digital networking meeting of FB 18

On 5 April 2022, the decentralised gender equality team of the department etit had invited to the annual networking meeting followed by a women's general assembly. The focus was on the topic “2 years of digitalised teaching and university operations. A résumé”.

Safely through crises

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Vahid Jamali has been Professor for Resilient Communication Systems at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology since April and strengthens the area of Networked Systems. Previously, Professor Jamali was a researcher at Stanford University, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Princeton University

ERC Starting Grant for research project at Department etit

TU Darmstadt receives a further Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The project “ScReeningData” by Dr.-Ing. Michael Muma has received 1.5 million euros for excellent and innovative foundational and pioneering research. The project develops methods for discovering relevant information in complex biomedical data using computer-aided learning.

Symposium brings together scientists and industry representatives

In January 2022 more than 100 participants from more than ten countries joined the 1st edition of the fully virtual one-day HVDC Cable Systems Symposium: Theory and Practice to discuss current trends and challenges in the field of HVDC cable system technology. The Symposium was organised by Yvonne Späck-Leigsnering and Herbert de Gersem from the TU Darmstadt together with Myriam Koch from the TU Munich.

EU Research Council funds project by etit-Professor Sascha Preu with 150,000 euros

etit- Professor Sascha Preu is awarded a “Proof of Concept” grant of 150,000 euros by the European Research Council (ERC). This will fund his “PhoSTer THz” project, which focuses on the development of systems for the spectral analysis of powerful terahertz sources. One of the important uses of the latter will be for applications in 6G mobile networks.

First German-Austrian Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio approved

TU Darmstadt and TU Graz are intensifying their research into how electrical machines can be decisively improved through computer simulation. To this end, the first German-Austrian Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio (TRR) 361 has been approved. The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Austrian Science Fund FWF are funding the TRR “Computational Electrical Machine Laboratory” with a total of over eight million euros.