Engineering Basics
Courses
Learning Outcome
After the successful participation in the course Electrical Engineering Fundamentals the students are able to:
- analyse electrical circuits and using measuring instruments and sensors
- apply principles of energy conversion (mechanical / electrical)
Content
- Fundamental elements in electric circuits
- Basic loads
- DC and AC circuit analysis
- Power electronics (DC/DC and DC/AC topologies)
- Energy conversion
- Rotating machines
- Laboratories: measurements (with instruments and sensors), exercises
Details
- Lecturer: Dirk Dahlhaus
- Teaching method: lecture, labs, project work in groups
- SWS: 3
- Credit points: 3
- Examination: assignments; written exam
Learning Outcome
After the successful participation in the course Control Systems the students are able to:
- understand the specific terms and problems of control theory
- analyse simple linear control systems
Content
- Fundamental definitions in control circuits
- Signal flow charts
- Basic elements of block diagram models
- Simulation of systems using MATLAB
- Linear system overlay techniques
- Step response
- Feedback performance, stability of linear feedback control systems
- Frequency response of control circuits
- Industrial PID controllers
Details
- Lecturer: Jan Eilbrecht, Martin Jilg
- Teaching method: lecture, group discussions
- SWS: 2
- Credit points: 2
- Examination: assignments; written exam
Learning Outcome
After the successful participation in the course Technical Mechanics the students are able to:
- calculate flow of forces in static systems
- solve simple dynamic issues (e.g. problems between turbines and ground).
Content
- Fundamental definitions in technical mechanics
- Flow of forces in static systems
- Simple dynamic problems e.g. between turbines and ground
Details
- Lecturer: Ammar Abid
- Teaching method: lecture
- SWS: 2
- Credit points: 2
- Examination: assignments; written exam
Learning Outcome
After the successful participation in the course Engineering Mathematics the students are able to:
- understand functions and their differentiation and integration
- describe systems based on linear and non-linear operators (deterministic and stochastic)
- analyse system design and simulation using numerical methods.
Content
- Fundamentals of linear algebra, basics in probability and statistics
- Functions and its differentiation and integration
- Functions of more than one variable
- System description based on linear / non-linear operators (deterministic and stochastic)
- System design and simulation using numerical methods
- Calculus:
- single variable calculus (differentiation, integration)
- multi-variable calculus (partial differentiation, multiple integration)
Details
- Lecturer: Nour Mansour
- Teaching method: lecture
- SWS: 3
- Credit points: 3
- Examination: assignments; written exam