Mess- und Regelungstechnik (MRT)

Lecture conductor:  Professor Rudibert King  (updated March 25, 2012)

The overview of the course content can be found somewhere on the FG Mess - & Regelungstechnik
(there used to be a course content sheet, it is no longer available now)

(Professor Wozny asked Professor King personally to stop signing credit recognition forms, because Professor Wozny doesn't like it and saw too much of those forms going around for this class.  I'm sorry.  You could still try, though, Professor King is very helpful.)
If you have studied the topics for control systems (most of mechanical students) such as (not limited to):
- Controller (P, I, and D) implementation, analysis and prediction using Bode diagram, root-locus, state-space, unit-step response, impulse response, Nyquist diagram, complex domain, ... etc.
- Controller approximation and stability prediction (cut-off frequency, over-shoot, dead time...)
- Solve problems in applications of pressure, temperature, reaction, flow, electric systems, ... etc.

Visit Professor King and bring all the past study materials that you can find and your transcript from before and have him fill out the Antrag auf Anerkennung form (form) for Prüfungsamt registration.  Make sure all the parts are filled in:

Prozess- und Anlagendynamik (PAD)

Lecture conductor:  Günter Wozny  (updated March 25, 2012)

The Übung of the course is conducted by someone in the department.  The Übung used to be model-based, but after they decided to use a very inconvenient and slow (like snail) system called "MOSAIC," the amount of time and effort have increased.  If you can avoid using MOSAIC, avoid it, it is a very incomplete, incapable system.  (Although I don't think you could avoid it, but if you have the chance to, do!)

Energy Economics (Energiewirtschaft)

The English Lecture (this post isn't valid for the German version of the lecture)

The English lecture conductor:  Georg Erdmann

ATTENTION:  If you have studied similar topics before that covered these topics (listed below) from your previous studies, you should bring some proofs to Professor Erdmann, have him fill out the Antrag auf Anerkennung form (form) for Prüfungsamt registration, so you could get your course recognized by PEESE program and have this course requirement exempted.
- Energy balance
- Markets for fossil fuels
- Electricity markets including generation from renewable sources
- Markets for renewable energy
- Markets for energy efficiency technologies
- Use of modelling tools to evaluate innovations and state-regulation measures
- Impacts on energy demand
- Innovation processes
- Evaluation of energy systems

Fundamentals of Optimization (Prozessoptimierung)

The English Lecture (isn't necessarily valid for the German lecture)

English Lecture conductor:  Dr. Harvey Arellano-Garcia  (updated March 7, 2011)

This lecture is typically taught by Dr. Harvey Arellano-Garcia.  The Übung of the course is optimizing using a MatLab toolbox called TOMLAB.  The problem of the Übung is that the computer lab in KWT (the 3rd floor) is way too small and probably lack of funding to have more computers.  So a lot of times, the Übung would be too crowded and you can't do much.  I recommend you to get the gist of the idea and understand the idea behind the problems, then do the optimization on your own.