Engineering Sciences
The collaborative research centre "Form-Memory Technology: Basic Principles, Design, Production" at Bochum University combines basic scientific materials research, modern materials technology and applications in the engineering sciences. The initial focus of interest of this project are nickel-titanium form-memory alloys. These combine high strength with low proclivity to fatigue. In view of the wide range of applications available for form-memory alloys -- extending from mechanical engineering, to medical engineering and finally to aero-space, the demand profiles relating to this material are manifold. Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gunther Eggeler, Institut fur Werkstoffe, tel.: 0234/322 8022
The strengthening of small and medium-sized companies through the medium of long-term, self-supporting, regionally-specific economic structures is a prerequisite for the dynamic development of an economy. The present forms of co-operation are based on hierarchical structures between companies, in which small companies are normally unilaterally dependent on large ones. This creates problems for new companies wishing to enter the market . The collaborative research centre Non-hierarchical Regional Production Networks. Theories, Models, Methods and Instruments" at Chemnitz University aims to develop novel forms of customer-orientated regional production and service networks devoid of hierarchies. Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Wirth, Institut fur Betriebswissenschaften und
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Contact: Dr. Eva-Maria Streier
em.streier@dfg.de
49-228-885-2250
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
6-Dec-1999