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Mr. Maximilian Hausmann studied industrial engineering and management at the RWTH in Aachen, specializing in mechanical engineering with a focus on construction technology and operations research and management. He wrote his master thesis at the IMSE (Prof. G. Jacobs) with the topic “Conception and validation of a method for semi-automated extraction of reference product structures using data mining approaches”. Mr. Hausmann is working on a DFG-funded project at pmd with the project number 431606807 and the title “Product development with sensor-integrating machine elements – mastering the uncertainty of in-situ acquired data in the mechatronic system”. The aim is to model the structure-integrated signal and energy transmission along the chain of action from a sensor integrated in the machine element to the data transfer at the end of a structure-integrated transmission path.

Mr. Yanik Koch has successfully completed the Mechanical and Process Engineering course at the TU Darmstadt, during a semester abroad he gained international experience at the Indian Institute of Technology (India, Delhi). After his master thesis “Potential analysis of existing methods to compensate for geometric errors of a machine tool”, Mr. Koch is now working at pmd on the development of a condition monitoring system for polyurethane timing belts as part of an AiF-funded project. He is also responsible for the development of a validation infrastructure for condition monitoring of large gears in industrial applications, which is supported by the state of Hesse within the framework of an EFRE grant.

Mr. Peter Welzbacher studied Mechanical and Process Engineering at the TU Darmstadt and successfully completed his studies with his master thesis “Development of an approach to consider uncertainty within the conceptual integration of measurement functions into existing systems”. As part of his studies, Mr. Welzbacher spent a semester abroad at Tongji University (PR China, Shanghai) from September 2017 to March 2018. At pmd, Mr. Welzbacher is working on the DFG project with the project number 426030644 for the development of analysis and synthesis methods to control uncertainty in the development of mechatronic systems with sensor-integrating machine elements.