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After a hiatus of a few years, the ENB Elite Cup had returned to Munich on 11 June 2022, to the excitement of many students! This year multiple batches of MAP students joined together with the goal of having fun but still competing hard. Although it was difficult to coordinate practice with the enti...

One week after the 71st Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to chemistry in Lindau (June 26th to July 1st 2022), I am still overwhelmed by the experience. Being among about 600 young scientists without tenure, who were invited to join the arguably most brilliant gathering of scientists in the field of ...

Energy Science and Engineering (40), Telecommunication Engineering (64), Metallurgical Engineering (73) and Medical Technology (88) – these are the subjects in which FAU has once again ranked among the top 100 best universities worldwide in the recently published Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic ...

Palm trees, sun, and beach - this describes my stay abroad at UCSB best. The university has a beautiful campus right on the Pacific Ocean, which evokes beach and surfing vibes in every student. UCSB is one of the few universities where you can go surfing in the morning and attend a lecture in the af...

Building works at FAU are progressing: Two prominent guests, science minister Markus Blume and Minister of the Interior Joachim Hermann, came to FAU Campus Erlangen (South) to attend the ground-breaking ceremony for two new lecture hall buildings for the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Sci...

Supercomputers Alex and Fritz at the Erlangen National High-Performance Computing Center (NHR @ FAU) are among the world’s fastest (TOP500) and most energy-efficient systems (Green500) in current rankings. Alex secured 184th place and Fritz achieved 323rd place in the TOP500. The dynamic duo are ...

The back cover to our publication ”Deformation Behavior of 2D Composite Cellular Lattices of Ceramic Building Blocks and Epoxy Resin” in Advanced Engineering Materials (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adem.202100536) in collaboration with our colleagues at NiTech Institute of Techno...

Dr. Stephan E. Wolf, MAP lecturer (Privatdozent, PD) at the Institute of Glass and Ceramics in the MAP host Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been accepted to the prestigious Heisenberg Programme of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). In this pro...

Board of European Students of Technology (BEST) is a Europe-wide association of engineering students, with 88 Local BEST Groups in 31 countries. Every year, BEST organizes the European BEST Engineering Competition (EBEC) with the aim of giving students the opportunity to apply both their theoretical...

Several MAP first semester students attended a four-day intensive lab course hosted by the Chair of Process Biotechnology at one of MAP's partner universities, the University of Bayreuth. Travel and accommodations at a youth hostel within a 10-minute walk from the lab were funded by MAP Office. ...