Staudingerbau
The Group of Plastics Technology of the Department of Mechanical Engineering performs its application-oriented research in the laboratories of the Staudinger Building.
Plastics in all their many facets are of interest to manufacturers, processors, and users, and are of increasing economic importance. The three academic subjects - processing and machinery, application and design, and materials technology - are reflected in the research activities of plastics technology and associated cooperative ventures.
The Arrhenius Building provides space for three of the five groups of the cross-faculty Institutes of Materials Engineering (Metallic and Composite Materials, Electrochemistry and Electroplating, Inorganic-Non-Metallic Materials) as well as the endowed professorship "Plastics Technology" including laboratory and practical equipment.
The Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMTI) of the Department of Computer Science and Automation is housed in this building. The BMTI focuses on research and development of technology-oriented methods and systems for early detection, diagnosis, therapy, and rehabilitation in human diseases.
Important research fields include measurement and simulation technology, ophthalmological technology, medical imaging, and radiology technology.
The Foundation for Technology, Innovation and Research Thuringia (STIFT) funded the building as an application centre and it is now the home of specialized groups of the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, and Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
Today we find, among other things, research laboratories on the subject of "Green Economy" of the Group for Fundamentals of Energy Materials in the Meitner Building. Leaving the building towards "Am Ehrenberg", we reach the Leonardo da Vinci Building, whose identical lecture halls 1 and 2 are equipped with 113 seats each and modern hybrid technology for parallel projections.