Project
CADdrive
CADdrive is a web-based, collaborative product design platform for schools and universities, lowering the learning curve for CAD and team engineering.
PublicationAug 11, 2025
First experiences from using CADdrive with digital LEGO for product design and systems engineering education
Due to rising product and system complexities, design and engineering have become a team effort that requires well planned and synchronized activities to achieve a high degree of process efficiency and effectiveness. Inspiring high school children to pursue a carreer in this field and preparing undergraduate as well as graduate students for what they will face in practice remains a challenge for societies and institutions worldwide. To overcome this situation, in this paper we present our experience from conducting two courses for Master students and one workshop for high school children based on an online collaboration platform and the digital LEGO framework. We provide insights into the organization of the different formats, the various backgrounds and profiles of their participants, the work results produced by the individual teams, as well as the participants’ learning experience.
PublicationJan 1, 2024
Digital twin and digital thread within the product lifecycle management
This research explores Digital Twins (DT) and Digital Threads (DTH) in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for Industry 4.0, resolving data loss and audit complexity. In today's VUCA-defined age, accelerated by rapid digital transformation, the manufacturing sector requires seamless data flow across the product lifecycle. This paper highlights the growing potential of Industry 4.0, addressing practical guidelines for digital twin prototypes and continuous quality audits.
PostFeb 13, 2009
Entrepreneurship Lab Screenshots.
This term I participated in the lab for Entrepreneurship and New Media. The students were split into groups and assigned to an industry partner. Then, a softwar...
PublicationSep 23, 2007
SciPort: An Adaptable Scientific Data Integration Platform for Collaborative Scientific Research
Scientific data are posing new challenges to data management due to the large volume, complexity and heterogeneity of the data. Meanwhile, scientific collaboration becomes increasingly important, which relies on integrating and sharing data from distributed institutions. In this demo, we present SciPort, a Web-based platform on supporting scientific data management and integration based on peer-to-peer architectures, where researchers can easily collect, publish, and share their complex scientific data across multi-institutions. SciPort provides a general metadata based data model to capture the context description of experiments and link experiment data into comprehensive metadata documents, and supports a hierarchical organization of the overall data space for data browsing. SciPort takes two alternative "peer"-to-"peer" (or peer-database-to-peer-database) based approaches to integrate scientific data: pure peer-to-peer architecture and central server based peer-to-peer architecture. The later provides a virtual view of all published data from multiple local sites and supports complex queries with XQuery. The system provides a unified framework for adaptable architectures and customizable schemas, and supplies comprehensive tool set to manage and share scientific data. SciPort was first prototyped in Siemens Corporate Research, and now becomes a mature product and has been successfully used in both biomedical research and clinical trials for scientific research communities.
ServiceOct 8, 2026
Software Engineering
Engineering resilient, maintainable software systems through domain-driven architecture, contract-first API design, clean code construction, and automated CI/CD pipelines.