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Walk the plank, please

[...] It's supposed to be straightforward – we smile at our conversation partner, and the other person smiles back. But what if our smile is not understood, or not interpreted as friendly? Those diagnosed w

Walk the plank, please

Virtuosity over five axes

[...] It's all a question of surface. Do you want a material to repel liquids, or should they adhere well? Should light be reflected or not? It sounds a bit like "Make a wish!" but at the Institute for Prec

Virtuosity over five axes

“What did the Black Forest sound like in the 1950s?”

[...] "The interesting thing about sound is that it is completely underestimated," says Professor Dr Norbert Schnell. "If you get the basics right, it's a real 'Oooh' experience; if you don't, you might not

“What did the Black Forest sound like in the 1950s?”

Saving time and money with AI

[...] How can small and medium-sized enterprises use artificial intelligence profitably? This is the question being investigated at Furtwangen University in the "Artificial Intelligence Mountains Labs" (KIM

Saving time and money with AI

AI and looking into the crystal ball

[...] Errors occur in production processes. Even in carefully set up and maintained equipment, every now and then a defective piece is produced resulting from faulty interaction of the machines involved. In

AI and looking into the crystal ball

Good vibes and slanting teeth

[...] If you want to improve the vehicle transmission of electric vehicles, you have to go back to basics – of that Prof. Dr. Steffen Jäger is convinced. Jäger teaches in the Faculty of Business Administrat

Good vibes and slanting teeth

Dr. Alexandra Bormann to become HFU President

[...] Furtwangen University (HFU) will have a female president next year. The Senate and the University Executive decided for Dr. Alexandra Bormann from Freiburg as the successor to Prof. Dr. Rolf Schofer d

Dr. Alexandra Bormann to become HFU President

Lecturer with impact

[...] The "impact" (i.e. effect and influence) of scientists is published every year in a report by Stanford University. Publicly accessible databases, such as Scopus, are analysed with regard to the most c

Lecturer with impact

Fully automatic and absolutely minute

[...] Dental and oral surgical treatment should ideally be completed as quickly and painlessly as possible – and with excellent results. To achieve this, even in complex and lengthy procedures, developers o

Fully automatic and absolutely minute

Listening in on laundry germs as they grow

[...] Germans wash more than 5 kg of laundry per week. What many people don‘t realize is that even freshly washed laundry still contains significant amounts of microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi. A g

Listening in on laundry germs as they grow

Where even the pencil sharpener is dangerous

[...] It starts off well – posted on the door of the Furtwangen University Hazardous Materials Lab there‘s a 20-page list of lab regulations which sound pretty serious; and after visitors have gone through

Where even the pencil sharpener is dangerous

“Off to the lab” means “Off to bed”

[...] It doesn’t have that sterile hospital smell. And no staff in white coats running through the corridors. But as soon as you enter the HFU “Multiprofessional Skills Lab” on the Furtwangen Campus, you fe

“Off to the lab” means “Off to bed”

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Walk the plank, please

Virtuosity over five axes

“What did the Black Forest sound like in the 1950s?”

Saving time and money with AI

AI and looking into the crystal ball

Good vibes and slanting teeth

Dr. Alexandra Bormann to become HFU President

Lecturer with impact

Fully automatic and absolutely minute

Listening in on laundry germs as they grow

Where even the pencil sharpener is dangerous

“Off to the lab” means “Off to bed”

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