Alfred Fettweis

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Alfred Leo Maria Fettweis (born November 27, 1926 in Eupen , Belgium ; † August 20, 2015 in Bochum ) was a German-Belgian engineer and communications engineer. He is considered the inventor of the wave digital filter .

Life

Alfred Fettweis, second of three children of the Germans Paul Fettweis and Helene geb. Hermanns, was deployed as an anti-aircraft helper in Aachen in 1942. From his military service, Fettweis volunteered for a special course in high-frequency technology beginning in October 1943 at the Daaden military training area ( Stegskopf camp ), and from November 1944 he served at Stade Air Base , and later at Jagel Air Base near Schleswig as an equipment attendant. In January 1945 he was sent to Halle for advanced training and, when the front approached, withdrew to Lübeck via Berlin. There he was taken prisoner by the British, with Eutin until September 1945 , then in Vilvoorde , released in November 1945. He studied electrical engineering from 1946 to 1951 at the Belgian Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Leuven as well as Columbia University and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in New York . After graduating as civil engineer , he worked from 1951 to 1963 as a development engineer at ITT Corporation in Antwerp and from 1954 to 1956 in the USA . In 1963 he received his doctorate from UCL as Docteur en sciences appliquées .

In 1963 he was appointed professor for theoretical electrical engineering at the Dutch Technical University of Eindhoven . In 1967 he was appointed full professor of communications technology at the Ruhr University in Bochum to a chair that he rebuilt. He was one of the founding fathers of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the RUB. In 1992 he retired.

In 1975 he was appointed a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . He was also a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in New York, a member of the Academia Europaea in London (1991), the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg (1992), the German Academy of Engineering Sciences in Munich (1997 Convention, 2002 acatech, 2008 DATW). He was a member of the Catholic guild Alfred Delp in the Cartell Rupert Mayer .

His teaching and research focus was circuit theory , system theory , digital signal processing , wave digital filters , numerical integration of partial differential equations and the relationships between communications engineering and basic questions of physics .

His son is the communications engineer Gerhard Fettweis .

honors and awards

  • Prix ​​'Acta Technica Belgica', Belgium (1962–63)
  • 1975: IEEE Fellow
  • Prix ​​1980 de la Fondation Montefiore, Liège, Belgium (1980)
  • IEEE : Darlington Prize Paper Award, USA (1980)
  • VDE- Ehrenring, Germany (1984)
  • Cettnial Medal, USA (1984)
  • Honorary doctorate Teknologie Doctor hc of the University of Linköping , Sweden (1986)
  • Honorary doctorate Docteur Honoris Causa of the Faculté polytechnique de Mons , Belgium (1986)
  • Honorary doctorate Doctor honoris causa from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , Belgium (1986)
  • IEEE: Technical Achievement Award, USA (1988)
  • Karl Küpfmüller Prize of the Information Technology Society in the VDE (1988)
  • Peter-Johns Prize, International Journal of Numerical Modeling, Great Britain (1993)
  • Honorary doctorate Doctor honoris causa from the Technical and Economic University of Budapest , Hungary (1995)
  • Visiting Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame , Indiana, USA (1994–1996)
  • IEEE: Golden Jubilee Award (1999)
  • Third Millennium Medal, USA (2000)
  • IEEE: Van Valkenburg Award (2001)
  • IEEE: Vitold Belevitch Award (2003)
  • Honorary doctorate Doctor honoris causa from the Technical University of Poznan , Poland (2004)
  • Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Prize, USA (2008)
  • Honorary doctorate Dr.-Ing. Eh from the University of Paderborn , Germany (2011)

literature

  • Fritz Bourseaux: The Boursault family in Belgium and Germany, their descendants and their time: Life pictures of a family in the Romano-Germanic cultural area. Degener G. Gessner 1972, p. 312
  • Who's who in science in Europe, Longman 1991, p. 64
  • The International Who's Who 2004, Europa Publications 2003, p. 530.
  • Tobias Noll : Obituary for Alfred Fettweis at the meeting of the class for engineering and economics on November 5, 2015. In: Yearbook North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences (2018), pp. 134-136.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From analog filter circuits to modern IT security. High distinction for the father of wave digital filters. US institute awards Kirchhoff Prize to Emeritus in Bochum , Ruhr University Bochum Press info 152, May 19, 2008
  2. ^ Friedrich Janssen, Hans-Joachim Menzel, Karl Neumann: Wir Stegskopfer. The radio measuring units Prinz Eugen - Tegetthoff 1943 - 1945 . Self-published by Hans-Joachim Menzel, Murr 1989. P. 11 ff., 319.
  3. ↑ 6. Honorary doctorate for Alfred Fettweis , RUB press release 234, number 234 - Bochum, July 21, 2011
  4. ↑ Communications systems, fluid dynamics, and some fundamentals in physics , TU Dresden , Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, April 21, 2011
  5. ↑ https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/fellowsDirectory.html# , accessed on February 21, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Fettweis, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fettweis, Alfred Leo Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and communications engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Eupen
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 2015
Place of death Bochum