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26.02.26

Silicone muscle for more accurate load testing of the shoulder

With the shoulder simulator developed by the Institute of Mechanical Systems, the MyoPlus project-team simulates and measures the loads acting on individual muscle portions of the Deltoid. This helps to understand how the shoulder joint behaves in…

26.02.26

PhD Position Biomechanical Engineering 100 % at IMES

PhD position in the field of soft tissue biomechanics: Be part of a translational research project combining experimental and numerical mechanics with AI-based optimization pipelines to improve pediatric orthosis designs

13.02.26

Dritter CAS «Mechanische Schienenfahrzeug-Technik» beendet, der vierte startet im September 2026

Der in Zusammenarbeit mit der Schweizer Bahnbranche durchgeführte und schweizweit einmalige CAS hat sich als Weiterbildung für Ingenieure:innen aus der Bahnbranche erfolgreich etabliert. Im Februar 2026 werden die Teilnehmenden des nunmehr bereits…

13.02.26

NEW PUBLICATION by Michael Hofmann in Materials & Design

NEW PUBLICATION: Melt pool geometry and process windows in PBF of 316L: Comprehensive single-source dataset and statistical modeling

16.01.26

Visit by the Slovak Embassy Delegation

On 13 January 2026, a delegation from the Slovak Embassy and the Education Directorate visited the School of Engineering.

01.12.25

Winner of to the SAMG Best Student Thesis Award 2025

"Congratulations to the SAMG Best Student Thesis Award 2025! The ZHAW Mechanical Engineering student Gianluca Schmid received the 3rd price at the SAMG Best Student Thesis Award 2025 of the Swissmem Additive Manufacturing Group for his Bachelor…

04.11.25

Winner of an SNSF Spark Grant!

We are very happy to share that Jeremy Genter has been awarded an SNSF Spark Grant! 🎉

29.09.25

Winner of the IIW Kenneth Easterling Best Paper Award 2025

Congratulations to the ZHAW Team for winning the IIW Kenneth Easterling Best Paper Award 2025

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…