Auf dem "Regional Leader Summit", einem Treffen der internationalen Partnerregionen Bayerns, konnten den Regierungschefs und Ministern die Ergebnisse des gemeinsamen Projektes "TIM - Telematics International Mission" vorgestellt werden.

Pablo Baier successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Simulator for Minimally Invasive Vascular Interventions: Hardware and Software".

The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) selected Prof. Schilling to receive the 2018 Distinguished Service Award for his "outstanding contribution to astronautics and advancement of the Federation".

Professor Dusan Stipanovich, Informatiker an der University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, und regelmäßiger Gastforscher an der Universität Würzburg hat den Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel-Award der Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung erhalten.

The Bavarian Minister of Science and Education Dr. Spaenle approved 2 new elite study programs in science and technology among them our proposal "Satellite Technology"

Dorit Borrmann successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Multi-modal 3D mapping - Combining 3D point clouds with thermal and color information".

During the faculty celebrations on 1.7.2017, Dr. Stephan Busch received for his dissertation the faculty's award for the best thesis in the past academic year.

Doris Aschenbrenner successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Human Robot Interaction Concepts for Human Supervisory Control and Telemaintenance Applications in an Industry 4.0 Enviroment".

The highly reputed Bessel-Award of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation received this year Prof. Dr. Dusan Stipanovich for joined research on cooperating robots and satellites in Würzburg.