Photo collage: Zschiebsch and Johst’s doctoral defenses, August 2026 at TU Dresden; Prof. Böhm in the center © HTWK Leipzig from 17. August 2026 Successful PhD theses in the field of lightweight construction Dr.-Ing. Willi Zschiebsch and Dr.-Ing. Philipp Johst have successfully completed their PhDs at TU Dresden more information
Scientist Davood Peyrow Hedayati, M.Sc., in the lab with the PalmSens4 potentiostat © HTWK Leipzig from 24. April 2026 Project start ScStruct | Realisation of fibre composite structures with integrated structural supercapacitors Orientation project on multifunctional fibre composites launched at the Faculty of Engineering at HTWK Leipzig. more information
from 21. April 2026 Project start ReComCret | Glass fibre concrete from old wind turbine rotor blades Interdisciplinary research project - the teams "Sustainable Construction" (Faculty of Civil Engineering) and "Composite Circularity Lab" (Faculty of… more information
Kaskawi Kick-Off Meeting on March 24, 2026, at the CCL (from left to right): Dr. Patrick Schiebel (Faserinstitut Bremen), Dimitrij Seibert (HTWK), Simon Boysen (Faserinstitut Bremen), Thomas Heber (Swiptec GmbH), Thomas Sperl (Swiptec GmbH), Prof. Robert Böhm (HTWK) © HTWK Leipzig from 14. April 2026 New project launched for the secondary utilisation of end-of-life rotor blade structures Project start Kaskawi | Development of a circular material cycle for the reuse of EoL rotor blade materials from the wind energy industry more information
VDI-Förderpreis 2025 (v.l.n.r.): Die Preisträger Jan Bertram (3. Platz), Luca David Kukuk (2. Platz), Fabian Duckhorn (1. Platz) © HTWK Leipzig from 04. December 2025 VDI Sponsorship Award 2025 | Young HTWK engineers honoured for their theses Prize winners 2025: M. Eng. Fabian Duckhorn (1st place), B. Eng. Luca David Kukuk (2nd place), M. Eng. Jan Bertram (3rd place) more information
from 15. April 2025 KARL KOLLE Prize | Awarded for outstanding theses During the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Engineering on 12 April, awards were presented for Bachelor's and Master's theses more information
Laborführung während des 3. Internationalen Workshops in Athen im Rahmen des Projektes Eurecomp, © NTUA/Eurecomp from 26. March 2025 EU joint project EuReComp | Interim results at the review meeting Athens, March 2025 - At the official review meeting, two EU representatives assessed, among other things, the project progress and the realistic… more information
from 31. January 2025 New project launched for the secondary utilisation of end-of-life rotor blade structures RecyRotor project: Scanning and separation process for the reuse of wind turbine rotor blade structures is being developed more information
from 27. January 2025 New Saxon validation project launched to reuse old wind turbine rotor blade structures The ValidFloatingPV project of the Faculty of Engineering is developing a large-scale demonstrator for floating solar systems (floating PV) with… more information
from 21. January 2025 New BMBF project: Protection and rehabilitation of Ukrainian hydropower plants using innovative coatings The ProHydroComp project of the Faculty of Engineering aims to develop innovative composite materials more information
from 08. January 2025 "Composite Circularity Lab" and "Advanced Materials and Structures Lab" founded Two new labs of the Faculty of Engineering's Lightweight Construction research group more information
from 16. October 2024 Successful completion of Cost Action EsSENce The final meeting in Porto (Portugal) marks the end of the four-year EsSENce network project for Prof Robert Böhm's lightweight construction research… more information
from 27. September 2024 VDI sponsorship award goes to HTWK young engineers Award winners 2024: M.Sc. Paul-Maximilian Otto, B.Eng. Moritz Bühl and B.Eng. Karl Marbach more information
Abbildung 2: PV-flaoting System mit umfunktioniertem Rotorblatt Schwimmsegment © Philipp Johst, HTWK Leipzig from 12. September 2023 EU joint project EuReComp | HTWK research team presents PV floating system at progress meeting At the progress and review meeting on 11 and 12 September 2023 in Porto, Prof. Böhm and Philipp Johst presented their PV floating demonstrator more information
KARL-KOLLE-Preis: Graduierungsfeier 2023 Fakultät Ingenieurwissenschaften - Preisträger'innen und Dekan Prof. Stephan Schönfelder (ganz links), Prof. Winfried Pinninghoff Kuratoriumsvorsitzender KARL-KOLLE-Stiftung (2. von rechts), Prof. Mark Mietzner Rektor HTWK Leipzig (rechts) © WOT HTWK Leipzig from 03. May 2023 KARL KOLLE Prize | Outstanding theses at the Faculty of Engineering honoured The best Bachelor's and Master's theses in the Mechanical Engineering and Energy, Building and Environmental Engineering degree programmes were… more information
