---
_id: '64786'
author:
- first_name: Laura
  full_name: Müller, Laura
  id: '44605'
  last_name: Müller
- first_name: Niclas
  full_name: Meihöfener, Niclas
  id: '38611'
  last_name: Meihöfener
- first_name: Johannes Gabriel
  full_name: Siemoneit, Johannes Gabriel
  id: '98462'
  last_name: Siemoneit
  orcid: 0000-0002-2543-2331
- first_name: Iryna
  full_name: Mozgova, Iryna
  id: '95903'
  last_name: Mozgova
citation:
  ama: 'Müller L, Meihöfener N, Siemoneit JG, Mozgova I. Introduction of electronic
    lab notebooks in engineering education - opportunities for a cultural change.
    In: <i>Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (EESD2025)</i>. ; 2025.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.71779/776">https://doi.org/10.71779/776</a>'
  apa: Müller, L., Meihöfener, N., Siemoneit, J. G., &#38; Mozgova, I. (2025). Introduction
    of electronic lab notebooks in engineering education - opportunities for a cultural
    change. <i>Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (EESD2025)</i>. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.71779/776">https://doi.org/10.71779/776</a>
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Müller_Meihöfener_Siemoneit_Mozgova_2025, title={Introduction
    of electronic lab notebooks in engineering education - opportunities for a cultural
    change}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.71779/776">https://doi.org/10.71779/776</a>},
    booktitle={Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (EESD2025)}, author={Müller,
    Laura and Meihöfener, Niclas and Siemoneit, Johannes Gabriel and Mozgova, Iryna},
    year={2025} }'
  chicago: Müller, Laura, Niclas Meihöfener, Johannes Gabriel Siemoneit, and Iryna
    Mozgova. “Introduction of Electronic Lab Notebooks in Engineering Education -
    Opportunities for a Cultural Change.” In <i>Engineering Education for Sustainable
    Development (EESD2025)</i>, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.71779/776">https://doi.org/10.71779/776</a>.
  ieee: 'L. Müller, N. Meihöfener, J. G. Siemoneit, and I. Mozgova, “Introduction
    of electronic lab notebooks in engineering education - opportunities for a cultural
    change,” 2025, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.71779/776">https://doi.org/10.71779/776</a>.'
  mla: Müller, Laura, et al. “Introduction of Electronic Lab Notebooks in Engineering
    Education - Opportunities for a Cultural Change.” <i>Engineering Education for
    Sustainable Development (EESD2025)</i>, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.71779/776">https://doi.org/10.71779/776</a>.
  short: 'L. Müller, N. Meihöfener, J.G. Siemoneit, I. Mozgova, in: Engineering Education
    for Sustainable Development (EESD2025), 2025.'
date_created: 2026-02-27T14:24:40Z
date_updated: 2026-02-27T14:27:09Z
department:
- _id: '741'
doi: https://doi.org/10.71779/776
language:
- iso: eng
publication: Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (EESD2025)
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Introduction of electronic lab notebooks in engineering education - opportunities
  for a cultural change
type: conference
user_id: '44605'
year: '2025'
...
---
_id: '57182'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'Generative design suggestions and topology optimizations can help to reduce
    iterative process loops between calculation and design departments during product
    development processes. However, precise topology optimizations are computationally
    intensive, while generative designs benefit from swift suggestions to address
    design problems efficiently. Using artificial neural networks (ANN) can address
    this contrast of pre-defined aims by predicting topology-optimized designs, thereby
    combining both advantageous features. However, a challenge in Mass Customization
    is, that ANN are usually trained on specific geometries, making transfer to other
    applications impractical or requiring the creation of new datasets, which is economically
    unfeasible. Authors have already demonstrated a solution in other publications:
    dividing a geometry into geometric primitives like cuboids to perform abstraction.
    An ANN can then be trained to recognize optimized cuboids, which can be assembled
    back into a complete geometry, comparable to the finite element methods, which
    divide geometries of parts in finite elements enable mechanical property calculation.
    This publication aims to illustrate the steps of the approach in which the complete
    geometry of a part is segmented into these primitives, and the benefits obtained.
    Various methods will be explored, including automated workflows on modern low-code
    platforms, to enable generalized use.'
author:
- first_name: Manuel
  full_name: Ott, Manuel
  id: '44204'
  last_name: Ott
- first_name: Niclas
  full_name: Meihöfener, Niclas
  id: '38611'
  last_name: Meihöfener
- first_name: Iryna
  full_name: Mozgova, Iryna
  id: '95903'
  last_name: Mozgova
citation:
  ama: 'Ott M, Meihöfener N, Mozgova I. An approach to use generic data sets for neural
    networks in product designs through geometric abstraction via primitives. In:
    Anisic Z, Forza C, eds. <i>Proceedings of the 11. Conference on Mass Customization
    and Personalization (MCP)</i>. Faculty of Technical Science, Department of Industrial
    Engineering and Management ; 2024.'
  apa: Ott, M., Meihöfener, N., &#38; Mozgova, I. (2024). An approach to use generic
    data sets for neural networks in product designs through geometric abstraction
    via primitives. In Z. Anisic &#38; C. Forza (Eds.), <i>Proceedings of the 11.
    Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization (MCP)</i>. Faculty of Technical
    Science, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management .
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Ott_Meihöfener_Mozgova_2024, place={Novi Sad, Serbia}, title={An
    approach to use generic data sets for neural networks in product designs through
    geometric abstraction via primitives}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 11. Conference
    on Mass Customization and Personalization (MCP)}, publisher={Faculty of Technical
    Science, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management }, author={Ott, Manuel
    and Meihöfener, Niclas and Mozgova, Iryna}, editor={Anisic, Zoran  and Forza,
    Cipriano}, year={2024} }'
  chicago: 'Ott, Manuel, Niclas Meihöfener, and Iryna Mozgova. “An Approach to Use
    Generic Data Sets for Neural Networks in Product Designs through Geometric Abstraction
    via Primitives.” In <i>Proceedings of the 11. Conference on Mass Customization
    and Personalization (MCP)</i>, edited by Zoran  Anisic and Cipriano Forza. Novi
    Sad, Serbia: Faculty of Technical Science, Department of Industrial Engineering
    and Management , 2024.'
  ieee: M. Ott, N. Meihöfener, and I. Mozgova, “An approach to use generic data sets
    for neural networks in product designs through geometric abstraction via primitives,”
    in <i>Proceedings of the 11. Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization
    (MCP)</i>, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2024.
  mla: Ott, Manuel, et al. “An Approach to Use Generic Data Sets for Neural Networks
    in Product Designs through Geometric Abstraction via Primitives.” <i>Proceedings
    of the 11. Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization (MCP)</i>, edited
    by Zoran  Anisic and Cipriano Forza, Faculty of Technical Science, Department
    of Industrial Engineering and Management , 2024.
  short: 'M. Ott, N. Meihöfener, I. Mozgova, in: Z. Anisic, C. Forza (Eds.), Proceedings
    of the 11. Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization (MCP), Faculty
    of Technical Science, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management , Novi
    Sad, Serbia, 2024.'
conference:
  end_date: 2024-09-27
  location: Novi Sad, Serbia
  name: 11. Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization (MCP)
  start_date: 2024-09-24
date_created: 2024-11-18T10:20:34Z
date_updated: 2024-11-28T06:45:13Z
department:
- _id: '741'
- _id: '144'
editor:
- first_name: 'Zoran '
  full_name: 'Anisic, Zoran '
  last_name: Anisic
- first_name: Cipriano
  full_name: Forza, Cipriano
  last_name: Forza
language:
- iso: eng
place: Novi Sad, Serbia
publication: Proceedings of the 11. Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization
  (MCP)
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - 978-86-6022-686-2
publication_status: published
publisher: 'Faculty of Technical Science, Department of Industrial Engineering and
  Management '
status: public
title: An approach to use generic data sets for neural networks in product designs
  through geometric abstraction via primitives
type: conference
user_id: '44204'
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '46957'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Modern companies often face various challenges in concept development of products
    or systems. Design engineers prepare initial concepts as 3D models. These are
    then simulated by computational engineers. If requirements are not met, this necessitates
    an iterative process that runs between the design and computation departments
    until a valid concept is created. Design methods such as topology optimization
    are often used here. The upcoming result is then attempted to be adapted to certain
    manufacturing processes. These iteration loops can sometimes take a very long
    time, since the model construction and structural optimization generate large
    computational efforts. The present work shows on an example a methodical approach,
    which represents a first proof of concept, to solving this problem, including
    a description of methods and techniques, as well as possible problems in a detailed
    analysis concerning training data for neural networks and their abstraction capabilities.
    It is evident that additional research work needs to be conducted for further
    utilization in order to address all arising questions.
author:
- first_name: Manuel
  full_name: Ott, Manuel
  id: '44204'
  last_name: Ott
- first_name: Niclas
  full_name: Meihöfener, Niclas
  id: '38611'
  last_name: Meihöfener
- first_name: Iryna
  full_name: Mozgova, Iryna
  id: '95903'
  last_name: Mozgova
citation:
  ama: 'Ott M, Meihöfener N, Mozgova I. Methodical Approach to Reducing Design Time
    by using Neural Networks in Early Stages of Concept Development. In: Ott M, ed.
    <i>Proceedings of the 34rd Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium
    2023</i>. ; 2023.'
  apa: Ott, M., Meihöfener, N., &#38; Mozgova, I. (2023). Methodical Approach to Reducing
    Design Time by using Neural Networks in Early Stages of Concept Development. In
    M. Ott (Ed.), <i>Proceedings of the 34rd Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication
    Symposium 2023</i>.
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Ott_Meihöfener_Mozgova_2023, place={Austin, Texas, United
    States}, title={Methodical Approach to Reducing Design Time by using Neural Networks
    in Early Stages of Concept Development}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 34rd Annual
    International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium 2023}, author={Ott, Manuel
    and Meihöfener, Niclas and Mozgova, Iryna}, editor={Ott, Manuel}, year={2023}
    }'
  chicago: Ott, Manuel, Niclas Meihöfener, and Iryna Mozgova. “Methodical Approach
    to Reducing Design Time by Using Neural Networks in Early Stages of Concept Development.”
    In <i>Proceedings of the 34rd Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication
    Symposium 2023</i>, edited by Manuel Ott. Austin, Texas, United States, 2023.
  ieee: M. Ott, N. Meihöfener, and I. Mozgova, “Methodical Approach to Reducing Design
    Time by using Neural Networks in Early Stages of Concept Development,” in <i>Proceedings
    of the 34rd Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium 2023</i>,
    Austin, Texas, United States, 2023.
  mla: Ott, Manuel, et al. “Methodical Approach to Reducing Design Time by Using Neural
    Networks in Early Stages of Concept Development.” <i>Proceedings of the 34rd Annual
    International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium 2023</i>, edited by Manuel
    Ott, 2023.
  short: 'M. Ott, N. Meihöfener, I. Mozgova, in: M. Ott (Ed.), Proceedings of the
    34rd Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium 2023, Austin, Texas,
    United States, 2023.'
conference:
  end_date: 2023-08-16
  location: Austin, Texas, United States
  name: Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium 2023
  start_date: 2023-08-14
date_created: 2023-09-11T12:12:50Z
date_updated: 2023-09-18T06:12:51Z
department:
- _id: '741'
- _id: '144'
editor:
- first_name: Manuel
  full_name: Ott, Manuel
  last_name: Ott
language:
- iso: eng
place: Austin, Texas, United States
publication: Proceedings of the 34rd Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication
  Symposium 2023
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Methodical Approach to Reducing Design Time by using Neural Networks in Early
  Stages of Concept Development
type: conference
user_id: '44204'
year: '2023'
...
