28.08.25

Successful PhD Defense – Gabriele Immordino

On 26 August 2025, Gabriele Immordino successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “Data-Driven Modelling of Nonlinear Aerodynamics in High-Speed Aircraft Using Machine Learning,” at the University of Southampton, UK.

26.08.25

Dr. Wilfried Bürzle - New lecturer in the group Light Weight Design

We welcome Dr. Wilfried Bürzle as a new lecturer in the LWD group

18.07.25

Wind Tunnel Campaign with Flexible Model

Ludovica Onofri manufactured and assembled three different wind tunnel models, which were tested for the first time in the wind tunnel of Rome University, "La Sapienza"

06.07.25

The Biomechanics at the ESB 2025 in Zurich

The congress of the European Society for Biomechanics ESB took place from 6-9 July at ETH Zurich. The Biomechanical Engineering BME specialisation was also represented at the congress with several scientific contributions and keynote speeches.

17.06.25

Paper on "Non-linear finite element damage modeling" published by Robert Eberlein and Claus Wrana

Non-linear finite element damage modeling after multiple cyclic loading of rubberlike materials

28.05.25

Paper on Volterra Series published by Gabriele Immordino

Unsteady response of physical system may be modelled with Volterra Series. In this case, we modeled a parametrical system and exploited Neural Networks to interpolate the Volterra kernels

28.05.25

Paper on Bayesian Neural Networks published by Andrea Vaiuso and Gabriele Immordino

Bayesian Neural Networks allow multi-fidelity modelling and provide an indication of uncertainty

17.03.25

IMES wins 3 EELISA Projects

The Institute of Machanical Systems has won 3 EELISA Projects for 2025:

03.03.25

New lecturer Mechanics for Modeling

Dr. Sebastian Domaschke has started to work as a lecturer at IMES on 01.01.2025

18.02.25

Follow-up project with the Research Association for Drive Technology (FVA)

The approach developed for modelling the lifetime of POM gears is being generalised in the follow-up project which has just started.

17.02.25

New publication in the field of additive manufacturing

The strategic collaboration between IMES and IMPE is bearing fruit. Our publication in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A investigates the complex thermal expansion behavior of additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V.

28.11.24

Unique in Switzerland: CAS "Mechanical Rail Vehicle Technology" has started for the second time

The CAS, which was designed and implemented in collaboration with the Swiss rail industry, lasts 120 hours and started for the second time in September 2024 with 14 participants from all over German-speaking Switzerland and Germany. Speakers from the…

05.09.24

Interactive congress: Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering (SSBE) at the Institute of Mechanical Systems

On September 5tg 2024, the annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering SSBE took place in Winterthur. Around 100 participants gathered at the School of Engineering of the ZHAW. The Institute of Mechanical Systems IMES organized…

11.07.24

"Summer School" at MSE Medical Engineering, held for the first time!

As part of the MSE Medical Master, the "Summer School" was held for the first time in the form of a supplementary course (EVA).

23.04.24

Symposium on the MSE "Medical Engineering" at Balgrist University Hospital

The symposium on the Medical Engineering profile of the MSE Master's program took place at Balgrist University Hospital on 22.4.2024.

17.01.24

NEAPTIDE Acoustic Drone Database is available

On Monday 15th of January 2024, the “NEAPTIDE Drone Acoustic Database” was published on ZENODO. This IMES project, which is sponsored by the FOCA (Federal Office of Civil Aviation), focuses on the analysis of drone noise.

16.11.23

Sven Düzel wins the 2nd prize at the «Best Thesis Award 2023» of the Swissmem industrial sector "Drive Technology"

Sven Düzel, research associate at IMES, wins the 2nd prize of CHF 2000 at the "Best Thesis Award 2023" of the Swissmem industry sector "Drive Technology" for his master's thesis on "Damage modeling of POM plastic gears". The thesis was supervised by…

09.11.23

Virtual, Augmented or Passthrough Reality?

vielfALT - A blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences

15.06.23

Presentation at the AIAA Aviation 2023 in San Diego

Gabriele Immordino, DIZH funded PhD student at IMES, presented some research results of his thesis on "Deep-learning framework for aircraft aerodynamics prediction" in front of a large international audience at this year's conference of the American…

24.11.22

Former CLWD students win the Swissmem ATT sponsorship award

Lukas Gantenbein and Simon Metzger are among the winners of the Swissmem industrial sector drive technology sponsorship award for exceptional bachelor's and master's theses with their bachelor's thesis "Modelling of a resonance test rig for ROSTA…