TUM President Wolfgang A. Herrmann with Bavarian Minister President Markus Söder. (Photo: U. Benz / TUM)
Miniaturization, high-performance drives and materials, additive manufacturing processes and Artificial Intelligence are converging in the new challenges of the aviation and astronautics sector, with geodesy as an umbrella function. The result is a number of impending disruptions which will change society: Travel with flying taxis, extremely precise measurement of climate changes and flocks of satellites that provide gap-free Internet connections. New business models with new value chains point towards fundamentally different economic structures. Over several decades TUM has built extensive expertise in the fields of aviation, aerospace and geodesy. The quality of this expertise is reflected in the current "Global Ranking of Academic Subjects" (Shanghai Ranking), where TUM is ranked 24th worldwide in the area "Aerospace Engineering". The new department will now consolidate this expertise and strengthen the synergies among these disciplines. "Only those who understand the world as a whole can move the world as a whole," summarizes President Herrmann.
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