Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
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founding 1966
place Karlsruhe
state Baden-Württemberg
country Germany
dean Fernando Puente León
Students approx. 1,700
Professors 32 (2019)
Website www.etit.kit.edu

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology is one of 11 faculties at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . It emerged in 1966 from the electrical engineering department of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, which was founded in 1894.

history

Beginnings

With Ferdinand Braun's appointment to the physics chair in 1883, the transition from the conventional electricity theory to electrical engineering took place at the Grand Ducal Technical University of Karlsruhe . The electrical engineering course designed by Braun in 1883 was introduced as part of the mechanical engineering course in the winter semester 1885/86. A year later, in November 1886, Heinrich Hertz , who had been professor of physics at the university since 1885 , succeeded in transmitting electromagnetic waves from a transmitter to a receiver in the lecture hall . In doing so, he experimentally proved their existence and paved the way for wireless communication. Ferdinand Braun went then to the task of making the electromagnetic radiation communicatively used and developed in 1897, named after him cathode ray tube . When Hertz left the university in 1889, Otto Lehmann , who had discovered liquid crystals a year earlier , took over the teaching position for physics and electrical engineering. As electrical engineering became increasingly important with industrial development, an electrical engineering chair was founded in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 1894. For this purpose, Professor Engelbert Arnold was appointed as the first , who implemented the new institute building and built the electrotechnical laboratory from 1899 to 1904.

post war period

After operations at the university stalled during the two world wars, in 1966 the electrical engineering department of the mechanical engineering faculty became an independent faculty - the electrical engineering faculty. As information technology became more and more important over the course of time - particularly shaped at the faculty by Professor Karl Steinbuch , who is considered the founder of computer science - the name of the faculty was finally adapted to its actual subject orientation.

Study and teaching

The faculty offers a consecutive Bachelor's and Master's degree in electrical engineering and information technology. This first provides a solid theoretical foundation (Karlsruhe model), then the students can choose one of the following study models:

Research priorities

Information and communication technology

Materials science and technology

Electric power systems and drive technology

  • Environmentally friendly distributed energy generation and transmission
  • Virtual power plants
  • Power electronics for highly dynamic adaptive drive and energy transmission systems

Information and automation technology

  • Modeling, simulation, regulation and control of distributed, discrete-event and hybrid systems
  • Operational optimization of complex technical processes (fuel cells, automotive technology)
  • Increase in system reliability through model-based sensors and actuators
  • Early error detection and reconfiguration in the event of an error
  • Design of multisensory systems for the air and Space travel
  • System integration of fault-tolerant satellite navigation systems ( GPS , Galileo )

Institutes

  • Institute for Theoretical Electrical Engineering and System Optimization (ITE)
  • Institute for Industrial Information Technology (IIIT)
  • Institute for Regulation and Control Systems (IRS)
  • Institute for Materials in Electrical Engineering (IAM-WET)
  • Institute for Biomedical Technology (IBT)
  • Electrotechnical Institute (ETI)
  • Institute for Electrical Energy Systems and High Voltage Technology (IEH)
  • Institute for High Frequency Technology and Electronics (IHE)
  • Institute for Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ)
  • Institute for Telecommunications (CEL)
  • Institute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV)
  • Institute for Micro- and Nanoelectronic Systems (IMS)
  • Light Technology Institute (LTI)
  • Institute for High Power Pulse and Microwave Technology (IHM)
  • Institute for Technical Physics (ITEP)
  • Institute for Microstructure Technology (IMT)
  • Institute for Process Data Processing and Electronics (IPE)

Professors

  • Tabea Arndt, Superconducting Magnet Technology
  • Jürgen Becker, Embedded Electronic Systems
  • Michael Braun, Electrical Drives and Power Electronics
  • Martin Doppelbauer, Hybrid Electric Vehicles
  • Olaf Dössel , Biomedical Technology
  • Marc Eichhorn, Optronics
  • Michael Heizmann, Mechatronic Measuring Systems
  • Marc Hiller, Power Electronic Systems
  • Sören Hohmann, regulation and control systems
  • Bernhard Holzapfel, superconducting materials
  • John Jelonnek, high power pulse and microwave technology
  • Christian Koos, photonics and nanotechnology
  • Thomas Leibfried, electrical energy systems
  • Uli Lemmer, optoelectronics
  • Alberto Moreira, photonics and communication
  • Georg Müller, high-performance pulse technology
  • Werner Nahm, Biomedical Technology
  • Cornelius Neumann, Automobile & General Lighting Technology
  • Mathias Noe, superconductivity and cryogenics
  • Ivan Perić, Detector Technology and ASIC Design
  • Michael Powalla, thin film photovoltaics
  • Fernando Puente León, Industrial Information Technology
  • Sebastian Randel, Photonic Communication Technology
  • Bryce Richards, Nanophotonics for Energy
  • Eric Sax, Electronic Systems Engineering & Management
  • Laurent Schmalen, Communication Systems
  • Michael Siegel, micro- and nanoelectronics, quantum sensors
  • Wilhelm Stork, microsystem technology and optics
  • Ahmed Cagri Ulusoy, High Speed ​​Integrated Circuits
  • Marc Weber, process data processing and electronics
  • Marwan Younis, radar systems for space travel
  • Thomas Zwick, high frequency technology and electronics

Personalities and alumni

students

Professors / researchers

Web links

literature

  • Klaus-Peter Hoepke: "History of the Fridericiana: Stations in the history of the University of Karlsruhe (TH) from its foundation in 1825 to the year 2000". Universitätsverlag, Karlsruhe 2007. ISBN 978-3-86644-138-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albrecht Fölsing: Heinrich Hertz . Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1997. ISBN 3-455-11212-9 , p. 275
  2. ^ Frank (IMS) Ruhnau: KIT - ETIT - List of Professors. June 8, 2019, accessed on January 24, 2020 (German).