Laboratory activities

• education
• research
• consulting and various activities

Education:

• Undergraduate program
  • Methodology of Engineering Design
  • Computer Aided Design
  • Product Modeling
  • Non-metal Materials in Engineering Design
  • Methodology of Engineering Design and Computer Aided Design
  • Basics and Techniques of Engineering Design

• Graduate program
  • Engineering Design Theory with Applications

• Additional educational programme
  • machine design software
  • FEM
  • Project management
  • Rendering techniques and algorithms
  • Solid modeling
  • Surface modeling
  • CNC programming with regard to solid in surface modeling
  • STEP (ISO 10303) standard

Research:

• Theory of Engineering Design
• Models of Engineering Design
• Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design
• Information Flow in CAD
• PDM systems
• Project Management
• Rendering Techniques and Algorithms
• Geometric Modeling
• Application of FEM and CFD
• Turbomachinery research
• Scientific visualization
• Fusion

Consulting and various activities:

• Conceptual and preliminary design, and analyses of technical systems
• Damage analyses of of technical systems
• Quality auditing for certification of ISO 900X standards
• STEP (10303-XX) standard
• FEM Analyses
• Solid modeling
• Surface modeling
• CNC programming and machining on 3-axis milling machine
• Conceptual and preliminary design of computer networks
• Software engineering of the introduced domains
• CFD analyses

National projects:

• Study of engineering design techniques using working principles of complexes and elements (1993-1995)
• Product genesis using functions and working principles, function-form connection and representation of models of shape (1996-1998, 1999-2001)
• Representation of internal human structure (1998-2000)

International projects:

• Intelligent design environment for the optimization of gear transmissions - IDEOGRAM (COPERNICUS CIPA-CT94-0175) (1995-1998).
• EURATOM-Slovenia Cost-Sharing Action Contract No. FU06-CT-2003-00321,
  "Investigation of boundary conditions for fusion plasmas and their implementation in existing and future simulation codes"
• Integrated Tokamak Modelling and Simulation (ITMS) Based on Existing Core and SOL Codes,
  Project No. P16807-N08, supported by the Contract of Association between EURATOM and the Austrian Academy of Sciences and by the Austrian Research Fund (FWF)
• WENDELSTEIN 7, Analysis of Narrow Support of W7 Magnet system under maximum design loads
• LOMAC (LOcal MAChining), Precise machining of the holes to accommodate various external connections to the vacuum vessel of ITER (and similar devices)