Karl Heinz Fasol

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Karl Heinz Fasol (born January 29, 1927 in Vienna ) is an Austrian mechanical engineer and professor of control engineering . He is also one of the pioneers in control technology .

Career

Karl Heinz Fasol was born in Vienna in 1927 . Here he attended an elementary school and a high school from 1933 to 1943.

Immediately afterwards he was deployed as an anti-aircraft helper, then called up for the Wehrmacht and taken prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1945. After the end of the war he initially worked in industry for a year.

In 1946 he began studying mechanical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology , which he completed in 1951 with the academic degree of Diplom-Ingenieur . He belonged to the first post-war generation, from which well-known scientists and professors later emerged. Due to his outstanding achievements, he was offered a position as a research assistant after graduation.

Karl Heinz Fasol started his career in 1951 at the Vienna University of Technology. Also in 1955 took place its graduation to the Dr. techn. After his time as an assistant, he initially continued to work as a senior assistant and in 1966 acquired his habilitation as well as his teaching qualification venia legendi for the field of control engineering in mechanical engineering . Following his habilitation, he was appointed as a university lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology.

Professor of control engineering and control technology

In 1969 he was appointed professor at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Here he founded the chair for measurement and control technology and took care of its rapid establishment with regard to the specific teaching and, step by step, the associated research for the profile mechanical engineering. In doing so, he also increasingly integrated the field of control technology - initiated by the practical tasks in mechanical engineering . This later consequently led to the name being changed to the Chair for Control Systems and Control Technology . Thus, Fasol became one of the pioneers of control technology in the German-speaking area, which still includes Günther Schmidt in Munich , Siegfried Pilz in Dresden (later Ilmenau ) and Hans-Joachim Zander in Dresden.

In 1973 and 1974, Fasol served as dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and was also appointed as a member of the academic senate . He then worked as Vice Dean until 1975 . This was followed by his chairmanship of the diploma examination committee of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, which he held until 1978.

From 1987 to 1995 he served as the principal's representative for the partnership with Texas A&M University , College Station, Texas. He was in charge of the academic and student exchange. During this time he was a member of the Graduate Faculty, Texas A&M University from 1989 to 1992.

Fasol continued to develop the field he represented, so that he finally established the "Institute for Automation Technology" at the RUB. He turned down an offer he received from Graz University of Technology in 1972. He also turned down a call to the Vienna University of Technology to establish a chair for control engineering in mechanical engineering. This call was then given to Peter Jörgl , assoc. Professor at the Arizona State University , previously a long-term founding employee at the chair of Fasol in Bochum.

On March 1, 1992, Fasol retired , but due to the lack of a successor, he was entrusted with the continuation of all courses and the management of the chair for another 5 years until the end of the winter semester 1996/97.

Visiting professorships and guest lectures

  • From 1969 to 1975, Fasol was also a permanent visiting professor at the Vienna University of Technology to hold the control engineering lectures at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
  • Laval University of Quebec (visiting professor 1975)
  • University of Southampton (visiting professor 1976)
  • Cairo University (visiting professor 1983)
  • TU Sofia (visiting professor 1990).

Fasol has also given many guest lectures at German universities as well as at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , Berlin (1979, 1981, 1984). His numerous lectures abroad have taken him to Trondheim, Ottawa, Israel, the USA, Tokyo, Mexico City, Linz and Lisbon.

Research and development as well as industrial projects

As part of his research, Fasol supervised 54 dissertations and 3 habilitation procedures. With his chair, he worked on over 10 DFG projects, including an international project together with TECHNION, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa and a sub-project in the DFG Collaborative Research Center 117. An industrial project was launched in 1996 with Daimler-Chrysler Airbus –1998 edited, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMFT).

With his chair, Fasol provided project, consulting and transfer services to industry, which at the same time provided impetus for his practice-oriented teaching and ensured application-oriented goals for his further research projects:

  • TAL, Transalpin Pipeline and AWP, Adria Wien Pipeline
  • DEMAG , Duisburg: many projects for offshore drilling platforms and compressor stations
  • GHH, Sterkrade: numerous projects for compressor stations
  • GASUNIE, Groningen: Simulation study and control concepts for a natural gas compressor station
  • BP Chemicals in Scotland
  • ESSO, Cologne; VOEST, Linz / Donau: Hardware and software development of a turbine controller, etc.
  • ABB, Mannheim; several EVUs in Austria and Switzerland: Control engineering studies for hydropower plants
  • SULZER, Zurich
  • VEW, Dortmund
  • SAT Vienna
  • Since 1988 there has been close cooperation in numerous sub-projects with DASA-AIRBUS and Daimler-Chrysler AIRBUS in Hamburg. His last projects related to the control and monitoring of the oxygen and gray water systems for the A340 aircraft and the A380 wide-body aircraft . Two of the employees involved in this then took up their positions in senior positions at Airbus in Hamburg.

Fasol worked as a reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the VW Foundation .

Fasol led the organization of several conferences and was also a member of international program committees of numerous international congresses and symposia, including the 2nd IFAC symposium "Discrete Systems" in 1977 in Dresden, chaired by Hans-Joachim Zander . Very close relationships have also developed between Fasol and its employees and Zander since the 1970s, which were expressed in mutual working visits and participation in conferences in Dresden and Bochum.

Fasol also carried out independent research and publications on the history of technology , in particular on his field of control engineering , then on the life and work of Hermann Schmidt as the first professor of control engineering in the German-speaking area at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg, as well as on Ludwig Boltzmann's environment with the world-famous scientist James Clerk Maxwell , Ernst Mach and Wilhelm Ostwald .

In total, in addition to 12 specialist books, more than 120 scientific publications in specialist journals and conference papers have resulted from the work of Fasol, some of which he produced together with his employees.

Fasol was awarded the Ruhr University's innovation prize, together with the industrial company GHH Sterkrade.

Memberships

Private

Fasol is married to Ilse-Maria Fasol-Boltzmann . His wife is the granddaughter of the most famous Austrian physicist and philosopher Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906). She is also the academic administrator of her grandfather's estate as well as the editor of writings and memorial volumes.

Publications (selection)

  • with Ferdinand Schulz: water jet pumps for pumping liquids. Springer Verlag, Vienna 1958.
  • The frequency characteristics. An introduction to the basics of the frequency characteristic method and its applications in control engineering. Springer Verlag, Vienna / New York 1968.
  • with Werner Hübl and Peter Shimon Vingron: Static pneumatic logic systems - description and comparison. 2nd Edition. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz, 1972, ISBN 3-408-53502-7 .
  • with Peter Shimon Vingron: Synthesis of industrial controls - combinational circuits, memory circuits, asynchronous sequential circuits. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-486-34641-5 .
  • as publisher: industrial control technology. Springer Verlag, Vienna 1979.
  • Binary control technology. Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York / London / Paris / Tokyo 1988, ISBN 3-540-50026-X .
  • with K. Diekmann Hrsg .: Simulation in control engineering. Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York / London / Paris / Tokyo 1990, ISBN 3-540-52942-X .
  • Control engineering from the beginning until today (farewell lecture). Series of publications by the Chair of Regulation Systems and Control Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Volume 42. Ruhr University, Bochum 1994.
  • Hermann Schmidt , natural scientist and philosopher - pioneer of general control loop theory in Germany. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 49, No. 3, 2001, pp. 138-144.
  • Maxwell and Boltzmann (Chapter 3) and Mach, Ostwald and Boltzmann (Chapter 4). In: Ilse Maria Fasol-Boltzmann, Gerhard Ludwig Fasol (ed.): Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) - On the hundredth anniversary of death. Springer Verlag, Vienna / New York 2006, ISBN 3-211-33140-9 .

literature

  • KH Fasol, R. Lauber, F. Mesch, H. Rake , M. Thoma and H. Töpfer : Great Names and the Early Days of Control in Germany. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 54, No. 9, 2006, pp. 462-472.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IFAC Symposium Discrete Systems . Dresden, 14. - 19.III.1977. Sponsored by the International Federation of Automatic Control, organized by the Scientific and Technical Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (WGMA) in the Chamber of Technology , Chairman: H.-J. Pikeperch . Publishing house KDT / WGMA, Berlin 1977.
  2. ↑ Werner Kriesel ; Hans Rohr; Andreas Koch: History and future of measurement and automation technology. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, pp. 2-3, ISBN 3-18-150047-X .
  3. ↑ Ilse-Maria Fasol-Boltzmann; Gerhard Ludwig Fasol (ed.): Foreword in: Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) - On the hundredth anniversary of death. Springer Verlag, Vienna; New York 2006, ISBN 3-211-33140-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Fasol, Karl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mechanical engineer and professor for control engineering
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna