Faculty II: Engineering & Technology

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erwin Bürk

Head of Technical Orientation prep course
Alumni coordinator (Campus Tuttlingen)

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Curriculum Vitae

Professional career

  • Summer semester 2023: Research and training semester at the Innovation and Research Center of Furtwangen University in the CASE4Med project
  • Summer semester 2017: Research and training semester at CADFEM GmbH in Stuttgart
  • Since 10/2012: Professor of Fluid Mechanics at HFU
  • 10/2004 to 09/2012: Consultant in the research department of Festo AG & Co. KG, Esslingen a. N.
  • Doctorate in engineering at the Institute for Fluid Technology at TU Dresden
  • Studied physics (Dipl.-Phys.) at the Universities of Stuttgart (intermediate diploma) and Tübingen (diploma)

Patents

  • Valve device (EP 2 347 887)
  • Valve for a blow molding machine (EP 2 335 904)
  • Compressed air silencer system (EP 2 216 579)
  • Valve (DE 10 2011 107 494)
  • Suction gripper operating according to the Bernoulli principle (DE 10 2008 062 343)

Memberships

  • Personal member of German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e. V.)
  • Personal member of Dresden Association for the Promotion of Fluid Technology (Dresdner Verein zur Förderung der Fluidtechnik e. V.)
  • Academic member of NAFEMS – The International Association for the Engineering Analysis Community
Field of research and / or teaching
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Heat transfer
  • Applied CFD simulation

Research interests

  • Fluid engineering components and systems
  • Physics teaching methodology for technical degree programmes
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