Membership and cooperation
Institute for Design and Precision Engineering
The Engineering Design Group is member of IMGK on TU Ilmenau.

Institute for Micro- and Nanotechnologies
The Engineering Design Group is member of IMN MacroNano® on TU Ilmenau.
Institute for Media and Communication Science
The Engineering Design Group is member of Institute for Media and Communication Science.
Competence Centre Virtual Reality
The Engineering Design Group is founding member of KVR . The head of the department is the scientific coordinator of KVR.
The Design Society
The head of the Department of Engineering Design is founding member of the internationa Design Society, which in 2001 followed the informal international network Workshop-Design-Konstruktion (WDK). A well-known activity of WDK and now the Design Society is the organisation of the series of International Conferences on Engineering Design (ICED). At present, Prof. Weber is member of the Board of Management of the Design Society.
Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Produktentwicklung
The head of the Department of Engineering Design is member of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Produktentwicklung - WiGeP.
Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI), Fachbeirat Produktentwicklung und Mechatronik
Since 1994 Professor Weber is member of the "product development and systems council” (formerly “engineering design council”) of the VDI-society development, design and marketing (VDI-EKV). Thus, there is continuous partcicpation in guideline projects (e.g. VDI 2218 "Feature-Technology", VDI 2209 "3D-Product Modelling") and organisation of VDI-conferences.