Research Groups

Construction Materials

• Focus:
  • Cellulose fibre lightweight concrete (CFLC)
  • Influences on the frost and freeze-thaw de-icing salt resistance of concrete
  • Strength development of concretes in the young stage of hardening
  • Influence of formwork, technology and release agents on concrete surface
• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Matschei and Dr.-Ing. Thomas Thiel

Railway Construction

• Focus:
  • Vibration and continuous load behaviour of rail fastening systems and complex load-bearing systems
  • Effect of geosynthetics in the load-bearing system
  • Investigation of stress and quality assurance of rail joints in tram track construction
• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrike Weisemann and M. Sc. Steffen Großmann

Geotechnical Engineering

• Focus:
  • Investigation of the hydromechanical properties of geosynthetics
  • special tests on the soil/geosynthetics composite behaviour
  • model tests on erosion resistance and stability
  • development of a knowledge-based system for the management and use of environmental geotechnical data
• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jens Engel and Dipl.-Ing. Carsten Lauer

Construction Engineering

• Focus:
  • Assessment and handling of existing steel constructions
  • lightweight construction
  • Carbon reinforced concrete structures
• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Bösche, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Flederer, Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Olaf Kempe, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Wolf and  Dr.-Ing. Lars Sieber

Road Construction

• Focus:
  • Asphalt additives
  • aggregates
  • performance-oriented asphalt testing
  • Performance-oriented tests on bitumen
  • recycled building materials
• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ines Dragon and Dipl.-Ing. Jutta Borek

Water Engineering

• Focus

  • Groundwater management

  • Integrated water resource management

  • Bank filtration and groundwater recharge

  • Simulation of flow and transport processes in groundwater

  • Underground deferrisation

  • Laboratory and field measurement technology for sampling and flow time determination

• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Grischek and Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Macheleit

Focus:

• Industrial design using innovative materials and manufacturing processes

• Interface and communication design

• Development of hybrid products and apps

Projects of the Faculty

Electrical Machines and Drives

• Focus:

  • Design and calculation

  • Numerical field calculation

  • Operating behaviour of electrical machines

  • Motion and operating behaviour control as well as control of drive systems

  • Cooling and heating behaviour

  • Testing of rotating machines and drive lines

• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schuhmann and Prof. PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Wolfgang Michalik
• Research Group

Electrostatic Coating Technology

• Focus:
  • Consulting and expert opinions on electrostatic coating processes and equipment
  • Test coatings with different application devices and parameters
  • Measurement of powder lacquers/powder coating layers
  • Optimization of electrostatic coating systems
  • Research and development services especially for small and medium-sized companies
  • Processing of company tasks by students, e.g. as internship or diploma theses
• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reinhard Bauer
• Research Group

Electric Railways and Installations

• Focus: Consulting, expert opinions and development work in the fields of research
  • Calculation of electrical railway networks and train simulation
  • Stochastics in electrical power supply
  • Magnetic fields during energy transmission
• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Gerhard Hofmann
• Research Group

Automotive Electronics

• Focus:
  • Electric power supply and storage in vehicles
  • Examination of ignition systems
  • Expert opinions and consultations
  • Student works
• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Hübner
• Research Group

Switchgear Engineering

• Focus:

  • Practical studies (thermal, dielectric, mechanical)

  • Software development (DGA, magnetic field calculation, mechanical stress, pressure calculation in case of arc fault, cable calculation, heating calculation)

  • Theoretical studies (Ansys, heat network, pressure calculation, magnetic field calculation)

• Contact: Prof. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf-Dieter Rogler
• Research Group

Signal Processing / Information Transmission

• Focus:
  • Signal encryption with nonlinear dynamic systems
  • Digital image processing: Selection and development of problem-adapted processing algorithms as well as corresponding hardware and software systems
  • Simulation of telecommunication processes
  • Takeover of research and development services, especially for small and medium-sized companies
  • Processing of company tasks by students, e.g. in the form of internships and diploma theses
• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kristina Kelber
• Research Group

Simulation of Semiconductor Devices and Electromagnetic Fields

• Focus:
  • Simulation of nanoelectronic semiconductor devices
  • Numerical simulation of electromagnetic fields
• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil Roland Stenzel
• Research Group

Mobile Communication Networks and Wireless Systems

• Focus:
  • Planning of wirelessnetworks
  • Methods for traffic, coverage and network quality optimization of mobile radio networks with channel- and packet-switched data traffic
  • Development of methods for the determination of locations with high traffic density (Hot Spot Detection)
  • Investigation of methods for determining the location of mobile stations (Mobile Positioning)
  • Development of antennas and passive RF circuits
  • Measuring station for functional testing of mobile phones
  • Expert opinions and consulting
• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Collmann
• Research Group

Real-time Localization Systems (RTLS)

• Focus:
  • Systems for real-time localization of people, equipment, and workpieces in a modern production environment
• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sven Zeisberg
• Research Group

Focus:

• spatial data acquisition, geodata management, statistics, adjustment calculation, geovisualisation

Methods:

• Geodetic sensors, remote sensing and photogrammetry, terrestrial laser scanning, web-based geoinformation systems (GIS), building information modeling (BIM) and online map services

Projects of the Faculty

DREMATRIX

• Focus:
  • Computer animation and computer graphics
  • Motion Capture
  • Tangible user interfaces
• Contact: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Markus Wacker

Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Robotics

• Focus:

  • Guidance and information systems in public buildings (museums, airports, train stations, exhibitions, etc.)
  • Assistance systems in stores (do-it-yourself stores, shopping malls)
  • Systems at home, in particular in the field of ambient assisted living
  • as well as robots in industrial environments (e.g. mobile measure and surveillance systems)

• Contact: Prof. PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Hans-Joachim Böhme

Modeling and Simulation

• Focus:
  • simulation principles of complex biological, chemical and physical systems
  • Interaction of liquid, elastic and chemically reacting phases
• Contact: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian Aland

Smart Production Systems

• Focus:
  • Manufacturing Scenarios Using Industry 4.0
  • Physical cyber production systems
  • Industrial Internet of Things
• Contact: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Dirk Reichelt

Technical Visualistics

• Focus:
  • Visualization of large, complex, and abstract datasets, for example in the field of machine learning.
  • Design of image-based approaches using creativity techniques such as metaphor production or morphological analysis
  • Testing interaction techniques for graphical user interfaces
  • Exploration of novel graphical user interfaces such as the Elastic Display
  • Formalizing gestures and interactions on graphical user interfaces
• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietrich Kammer

tactile vision

• Focus:
  • Development of hardware, e.g. vibrotactile displays or control elements 
  • Development of software, e.g. data formats or generators for tactile patterns
  • Integration of tactile interfaces in (protective) clothing
  • Usability of multimodal systems and tactile ones in particular
  • Basic research on the perception and interpretation of tactile patterns
• Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Freitag

DataMedAssist: Data-diven modelling for the analysis of multicellular tissue organisation

• Focus:
  • Modeling, implementation, and simulation of complex systems, for competent model selection and data-driven calibration, and the development, application, and evaluation of artificial intelligence methods in the context of systems medicine issues.
• Contact: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Anja Voss-Böhme

CCL-KI HTW Dresden

• Focus:
  • Knowledge-based application systems in real and virtual spatiotemporal environments
  • Combination of computer graphics, image processing, visualization and artificial intelligence
• Contact: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Oertel

Chemical Engineering

• Focus:
  • Biotechnological product syntheses (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Jörg-Uwe Ackermann)
  • Enzymatic synthesis (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Marina Vogel)
    • Biocatalytic methods in organic synthesis
    • Chiral compounds from renewable raw materials
  • Solid state chemistry (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Jörg Feller, Dr. rer. nat. Udo Steiner))
  • Catalysis/willow extract (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Holger Landmesser)
  • Thermodynamics of mixed phases and interfaces (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Grit Kalies, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Jürgen Schmelzer, Dr.-Ing. Mandy Klauck)
  • Modification of tribological properties of elastomer surfaces

Horticulture

• Focus:
  • Production horticulture, horticulture and landscaping
  • greenhouse exposure
  • electron beam technology
  • fruit storage
  • ecologically usable plant systems
• Contact: Prof. Dr. agr. Fritz-Gerald Schröder
• Research Group

Environmental Monitoring and Landscape Development

• Focus:

  • Revitalization of a wild river landscape in Central Germany

  • Biodiversity

• Contact: Prof. Dr. Frank Dziock und Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Matthias Jentzsch

Organic Agriculture

• Focus:

  • allelopathic effects of root exudates

  • symbiotic N2 fixation performance and area balances of fodder and grain legumes

  • Effects of organic and mineral fertilization strategies on grain legumes

  • N-Rhizodeposition of fodder and grain legumes

  • agronomic strategies for the cultivation of soya, pea, field bean, rape and maize in organic farming systems

  • agrophotovoltaics

  • Catch crop cultivation/catch crop management

  • Water balance of soybeans and field beans (plant physiological and morphological investigations)

  • Mulch and direct sowing in the cultivation of grain legumes

  • Ecotoxicological assessment of bio-based materials

• Contact: Prof. Dr. agr. Knut Schmidtke und Dr. rer. agr. Guido Lux

Animal Husbandry and Breeding

• Focus:
  • Dairy farming and production (Prof. Dr. agr. Steffi Geidel)

  • Behavioural disorders in laying hens (Prof. Dr. med. vet. Markus Freick)

  • biological diversity and gait analysis in horses (Prof. Dr. agr. Michael Klunker)

Focus:

• Autonomous driving, vehicle communication, driving behavior
• Accident analysis and biomechanics
• Commercial vehicles and mobile machinery
• Investigation and development of automotive components and engines
• Generative manufacturing
• Process optimization
• Joining of complex mixed joints
• Electron beam technologies
• Reliability and intelligent linking of supply systems
• Investigation of the consequences of climate change on buildings, neighborhoods and cities

Research at the Faculty

SME sector

• Focus:
  • Strengthening the cooperation of basic research institutions and universities with medium-sized companies
• Contact: Prof. Dr. phil. et. rer. nat. habil. Rüdiger von der Weth

Human Factors and Resources

• Focus:
  • Improving the compatibility of professional and private care tasks
  • Integration of ServiceRobotics into the work organisation of complex social services using inpatient nursing care for the elderly as an example
• Contact: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Anne-Katrin Haubold

Digital Transformation

• Focus:
  • Integrative teaching in human resources management in the form of collaborative case studies in virtual space

Industry 4.0

• Focus:
  • Agent based simulation demonstrator for scenarios in work 4.0
• Contact: Prof. Dr. phil. et. rer. nat. habil. Rüdiger von der Weth

Technology Transfer

• Focus:
  • Transfer indicators
• Contact: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Swen Günther

Entrepreneurship

• Focus:
  • Fostering Entrepreneurship - Summer School in Jordan 2019
• Contact: Prof. Dr. rer. pol. René Thamm