Klaus-Peter Schulze (engineer)

Klaus-Peter Schulze (2019)

Klaus-Peter Schulze (born December 7, 1939 in Garz (Havelberg) ) is a German engineer and professor of systems theory and process analysis .

Career

Klaus-Peter Schulze was born as the second son of the upholsterer and saddler Otto Schulze (1906–1988) and his wife Margarete Schulze, b. Schultz (1912–1997) was born in Garz an der Havel in what was then the Havelberg district. From the age of four he lived with foster parents, his father's older brother, the upholsterer and saddler Wilhelm Schulze (1894–1966) and his wife Eliese Schulze, née. Ruthz (1896–1976) in Baben , what was then the Osterburg district (Altmark) . From 1946 to 1954 attendance at the elementary school in Baben, from 1954 at the middle school in the neighboring town of Goldbeck (Altmark) and then at the high school in the district town of Osterburg .

Leipzig, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 132 , former headquarters of the University of Civil Engineering, since 1977 of TH Leipzig, since 1992 HTWK headquarters ( Geutebrück-Bau)

After graduating from high school in 1958, he completed a practical year at the Bau-Union Leipzig as a construction worker and construction machinist in the Böhlen chemical plant (Saxony) in the south of Leipzig as a prerequisite for starting a building degree . This was followed by studies at the Leipzig University of Civil Engineering from 1959 to 1965 , which later became the Technical University of Leipzig . In 1965 he acquired the academic degree of Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.) In the field of civil engineering (responsible university lecturers: Rector Otto-Heinrich Ledderboge ; head of department Unger ).

KP Schulze has been married to the economics graduate Isolde Schulze (* 1950), b. Reimann, married. The couple had two daughters from their first marriages, the lawyer Ulrike-Andrea Tillig (* 1969), b. Schulze, and Franciska Pippig (1984–2011).

Professional activity and scientific development

In the construction industry in Magdeburg and Berlin

After completing his studies (1965), KP Schulze worked as a research assistant and later as a specialist group leader in the testing and development center for roads in Magdeburg , here in the construction and measurement technology specialist group . This test and development center had a second location in Berlin with the technical focus on model statics for bridge constructions, soil mechanics and business issues. In Magdeburg, KP Schulze dealt with general structural engineering problems, including material testing of building materials, the metrological preparation and automation of test processes as well as special metrological and control engineering problems from the construction industry. The subject matter was both the perfecting of routine tests and the development of completely new calculation and investigation methods.

Through technical contacts between the department head Professor Nikolaus Ewers and the institute director for measurement, control and regulation technology Heinrich Wilhelmi at the Technical University "Otto von Guericke" Magdeburg, KP Schulze received the special offer of a partial course in measurement technology with a total of four semesters, as Partial distance learning, individually defined in the cut. This part of the course included not only measurement technology, but also courses related to the field of control engineering. In many cases, the newly acquired specialist knowledge could be used directly for current research projects at the test and development center and for corresponding publications. At the same time, this resulted in a topical topic for a doctoral thesis in the field of testing bituminous building materials under constant load by applying system-theoretical methods.

Due to technical reorientation in the two locations of the test and development center in Magdeburg and Berlin, there was a change from Magdeburg to the Berlin location (later the Berlin Transport Institute ) to the measurement technology specialist group in the Neuenhagen branch on the outskirts of Berlin. KP Schulze dealt there with problems of soil mechanics and the dimensioning of concrete slabs under dynamic loads with inhomogeneous subsurface conditions. Since metrological problems also played a major role here, he continued his partial studies at the TH Magdeburg from Berlin.

During this time, there was a general interest on the part of the construction industry to take advantage of measurement and automation processes, such as B. the regulation of the optimal water-cement-factor (W / C-factor) in concrete mixers in the form of an extreme value regulation. In keeping with this trend, KP Schulze received the offer from the Technical Cybernetics and Electrical Engineering Section (founding director: Heinz Töpfer ) of the TH Magdeburg, which was newly founded in 1968 , to convert his special qualification, which he had begun as a partial course, into a full course leading to a Dipl.-Ing. for control engineering. This was combined with an attractive job offer in the relevant section with the opportunity to do a doctorate. The move to Magdeburg at the end of 1970, again with a different objective, finally took place in agreement with the previous office in the expectation of becoming effective at some point in the border area between construction and automation technology.

At the TH "Otto von Guericke" Magdeburg

Campus Magdeburg, traditional seat of the Institute for Control / Automation Technology (in the background the faculty building "Electrical Engineering and Information Technology")

Selected details about his work at the Technical University "Otto von Guericke" Magdeburg:

• Research assistant since December 1970 at the chair of Heinz Töpfer , who was founding director of the technical cybernetics and electrical engineering section from 1968 to 1972 and then head of the control engineering and process control department. From the spring of 1979 senior research assistant (after H. Töpfer was reappointed in 1978 to succeed Heinrich Kindler at the TU Dresden at the chair of his Magdeburg successor Ulrich Korn );
• Research and teaching primarily in the areas of process analysis and systems theory;
• 1971 Completion of his distance learning control engineering at the TH Magdeburg with a diploma thesis on extreme and adaptive control;
• 1975 Promotion to Doctor Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) With the thesis "Contribution to adaptation in multivariable control systems"
• 1977 Facultas Docendi acquired as a teaching qualification for the field of control engineering within the framework of a corresponding procedure, whereby he has completed a specialist lecture and a specialist lecture as well as a university education qualification course as a prerequisite;
• 1979 Habilitation with the thesis "Contribution to the application of the principle of adaptation and the design according to sensitivity in multi-variable controls"
• In his more than 10 years at the TH Magdeburg (late 1970 to early 1981), as a result of several years of investigations in the field of the design and implementation of time-variable systems - especially taking into account processes with unpredictable parameters - numerous specialist publications were created. This includes journal articles, contributions to national and international conferences and special editions.

This research work also formed a practical basis for the later book publication "Design of Adaptive Systems - A Representation for Engineers", together with Klaus-Jürgen Rehberg from the Academy of Sciences in Dresden. It is a textbook-like monograph that has received very positive feedback in specialist journals. As the lead author, KP Schulze has understood how to systematically process this demanding subject area and present it in book form for the first time. This is why it was translated into Russian, which was published in Moscow in 1992 .

At the TH and HTWK Leipzig

Leipzig, Wächterstrasse 13, former building of the TH Leipzig for the two sections of automation systems and electrical energy systems, today Wiener-Bau : Faculty building of the HTWK Leipzig

With effect from February 1981, the Minister for Higher Education and Technical Education, Hans-Joachim Böhme, appointed KP Schulze as a university lecturer for process analysis at the Technical University of Leipzig (equivalent to C3 professor ). In the automation systems section of the TH Leipzig (director: Werner Richter ), in the scientific field of "control engineering and system theory" (head of department: Herbert Ehrlich ) he was responsible for the subject areas of "analysis and modeling of processes", "analysis of complex systems" and "Design of Adaptive Systems". Finally, there was a first contact with the building industry through the course "Basics of Automation Technology" for the civil engineering course. At a later time, the offer was expanded specifically to "Analysis and design of the automation of mechanical systems". This inevitably resulted in occupation with the research area mechatronics , which was very intensively pursued at the time , so that KP Schulze offered the lecture “Mechatronic Systems - Basics” for the first time at the TH Leipzig for the automation technology as well as for mechanical engineering.

His main research areas were:

• Adaptive systems with the two main directions:
  • Realization of simple algorithms with microcomputer controllers on the basis of a draft that has been well engineered for the user,
  • Design of high-performance, sophisticated algorithms with a view to meeting particularly high quality requirements.
• Process analysis / modeling:
  • Special identification processes that can be used particularly advantageously in time-variant processes (real-time processes, e.g. for adaptive systems),
  • Since the beginning of the training in the construction automation specialization (1985), the modeling of plants and machine systems in the construction industry has also increased.
• Contract research with industry; Problems related to the application of results from the main research directions were dealt with:
  • Theoretical and experimental investigations on partial processes of a tub unit in a factory for glass silk production (Glasseidenwerk Oschatz),
  • Modeling of building processes in the context of a complex topic "Computer-integrated building" (since 1988).

The results of his research activities have been published in many specialist articles, research reports and lectures at national and international conferences. In addition, he was responsible for preparing numerous scientific conferences and thus contributed significantly to the success of these scientific events. He was chairman of the preparatory commission of three International Scientific Conferences (IWK) "Plant Automation" in 1983, 1986 and 1990 at the TH Leipzig.

During the renewal process of the time of reunification (since 1989) and after the reunification of Germany , KP Schulze was committed to maintaining and reforming the scientific engineering education in Leipzig. This applies to his work as a member of the board of the VDI district association in Leipzig and the Saxony Chamber of Engineers as well as the connections he made to the “Adaptive Systems” technical committee of the VDI / VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA). In the same way, he worked for the German University Association (DHV), whose press spokesman for the state group of Saxony he was.

During this very dynamic time in terms of university policy, KP Schulze played an active role in shaping the future development of the university, particularly as Vice-Rector for Education at the TH Leipzig (1990/91). He developed various initiatives to reorganize his university and the higher education system in Saxony. Above all, his personal contributions to shaping the university landscape in Saxony and to the efficient integration of the TH Leipzig into future university structures should also be mentioned here. This was done in connection with specific suggestions and statements to the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art (SMWK) and to the structural commission of the Free State of Saxony. In doing so, KP Schulze succeeded in involving key industrial bodies such as the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) in Leipzig, the Saxony Chamber of Engineers and companies newly settled in the Leipzig area in this conceptual work.

In 1992 KP Schulze was appointed professor for systems theory and process analysis at the University of Technology, Economics and Culture (HTWK) Leipzig, Institute for Measurement, Control and Regulation Technology . The HTWK Leipzig, founded in 1992 as a legally independent institution (founding rector: Klaus Steinbock ), can de facto be regarded as the successor to the TH Leipzig with slightly restricted rights. The closure of five of the eight existing technical universities in Saxony at that time was primarily due to financial policy reasons, after all universities and colleges had passed into state responsibility with reunification. The TH Leipzig was closed over a period from 1992 to 1996 in order to be able to complete all university courses on site as planned. This meant that TH degree courses had to be supervised parallel to HTWK degree courses in the existing local conditions. During this time, the habilitation professor KP Schulze was increasingly deployed in order to be able to properly carry out and complete diploma procedures and ongoing doctorates.

In this not so easy transition period, flexibility and dedication were the main requirements in research and teaching. The technical focus of KP Schulze could essentially be retained and later even expanded. At the end of the 1980s, the increasingly interdisciplinary concept of “building automation”, which began during training and which had already produced a first class of graduates in the early 1990s, was “put on hold” for the time being. At the time, the construction industry was primarily concerned with other problems.

The design of mechatronic systems has attracted greater interest in the period that followed. In addition, there were also specialist areas that were assessed as potential fields of application for adaptive and robust systems. These include B. robotics , the analysis and modeling of biotechnological processes , the use of hydrogen technology as well as selected topics from the field of renewable energies in connection with systems theoretical approaches.

Following a request from Pearson Education Deutschland GmbH , KP Schulze has agreed to take over the technical support for the translation of the textbook "Modern Control Systems" by Richard C. Dorf and Robert H. Bishop (10th revised edition) from American into German . This was understandable because the content of the book also corresponded to his professional interests. The German translation "Modern Regulatory Systems" (1168 pages) was published in 2006.

In recognition of his services to the university, KP Schulze received the Jacob Leupold Medal as the highest award of the HTWK by resolution of the Senate in October 2008 . In addition to his achievements in research and teaching, his successful work as long-term chairman of the friends' association of the HTWK Leipzig (successor to Siegfried Altmann ) was appropriately recognized. This task was taken over in 2019 by the long-standing Vice Rector for Research and temporarily acting Rector of the HTWK Markus Krabbes .

In October 2013, KP Schulze, as a founding member, received the first highest award from the Chamber of Engineers Saxony - the Wackerbarth Medal - for his long-term commitment to the engineering profession, together with another committed founding member and together with the TU Dresden as a Saxon excellence university and "engineering forge" great tradition.

In addition to his professional work, KP Schulze has always viewed targeted university policy work as a permanent task and permanent obligation - and he continues to practice this up to the present day.

Memberships and honors (selection)

• since June 1990 member of the Scientific Council of the TH Leipzig
• since July 1990 member of the council of the automation department of the TH Leipzig
• since October 1990 member of the Association of German Engineers (VDI), district association Leipzig, participation in working committees
• Member of the “Adaptive Systems” working group of the VDI / VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA), Düsseldorf and Frankfurt a. M. (Chairman: Heinz Unbehauen , Ruhr University Bochum)
• Member of the German University Association (DHV)
• Member of the Chamber of Engineers of the Free State of Saxony
• Participation in the VDI / VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA), Committee 6.22 "Industrial Applications of Complex and Adaptive Controls"
• Member of the board of trustees "Förderpreis des VDI Bezirksverein Leipzig" and chairman of the jury
• since November 1990 member of the board of the Saxony Chamber of Engineers, chairman of the commission for public relations
• 2008 Jacob-Leupold-Medal , highest award of the HTWK Leipzig
• 2013 Wackerbarth Medal , the highest award from the Chamber of Engineers in Saxony, awarded for the first time.

Publications (selection)

• Investigation of lean concrete with non-destructive testing methods. Die Strasse 7 (1967) H. 2, pp. 65-69.
• Experience in the non-destructive testing of white mastic asphalt. Die Strasse 7 (1967) H. 3, pp. 116-118.
• The planning of road and square pavements made of cement concrete for special cases of load. Die Strasse 9 (1969) H. 4, pp. 183-192 (part 1); Die Strasse 9 (1969) H. 5, pp. 239-246 (part 2).
• Contribution to parameter adaptation in multivariable control. Dissertation, Technical University of Magdeburg, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Magdeburg 1975.
• Klaus-Peter Schulze, E. Martin: Adaptive Systems - Definition and Classification. measure, control, regulate (msr), Berlin 19 (1976) H. 12, pp. 429-430.
• Draft of parameter adaptive regulations. Council for Mutual Economic Aid (Comecon), meeting at the Academy of Sciences of the CSSR, proceedings, Prague 1976.
• Design of multivariable controls for processes with unpredictable parameter changes. 21st International Scientific Colloquium of the TH Ilmenau, lecture series "Control of Complicated Systems - Methods and Applications", conference proceedings, Ilmenau 1976.
• Parameter adaptation in multi-variable control. measure, control, regulate (msr), Berlin 21 (1978) H. 8, pp. 441-445.
• Contribution to the application of the principle of adaptation and the design according to the 'sensitivity' in multivariable regulations. Habilitation thesis (Dissertation B), Magdeburg University of Technology 1979.
• Classification, overview and development tendencies of self-tuning regulations. Scientific journal of the TH Leipzig 7 (1983) H. 5, pp. 285-292.
• Microcomputer programs for the design of adaptive controllers and observers. 9th Leipzig Automation Colloquium (LAK): "Use of microcomputers for analysis, design and simulation of control systems" (LAK series in cooperation with the Chamber of Technology, headed by Werner Kriesel ). Conference material, Leipzig 1986.
• Design of robust adaptive systems without a comparison model. 5th Scientific Conference "Plant Automation", 20. – 22. May 1986 in Leipzig. Scientific reports of the TH Leipzig 1986, no. 4, pp. 18-20.
• Real-time identification of time-variant systems with detector algorithms. Symposium “Automation”, Dresden February 3 to 5, 1988, Volume 2, pp. 69–74.
• Klaus-Peter Schulze, Klaus-Jürgen Rehberg: Design of adaptive systems. A representation for engineers. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-341-00293-3 .
• Co-author in: Wissensspeicher process computing technology. Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1989. Leadership of the collective of authors: Dietrich Balzer and J. Hesse.
• New directions of development in the field of adaptation systems. Scientific seminar of the Faculty of Automation and Computing at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute (KPI), Kiev 23 May 1989, seminar documents.
• Realization of simple adaptation algorithms with microcomputer controllers. 6th International Scientific Conference "Plant Automation", Leipzig 22.-24. May 1990. Scientific reports of the TH Leipzig 1990, no. 3, pp. 115–116.
• Co-author in: Knowledge-based systems in automation technology , ed. by Dietrich Balzer . Hanser Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-446-16310-2 .
• Klaus-Peter Schulze, Klaus-Jürgen Rehberg: Design of adaptive systems (Russian); Inženernyj analiz adaptivnych sistem. Per. S nemeckogo ZM Bačmanovoj ... pod red. AS Bondarevskogo. Naučnoe izd. Mir, Moskva 1992, ISBN 5-03-002118-3 .
• Klaus-Peter Schulze (technical support for the translation from the American): Richard C. Dorf & Robert H. Bishop: Modern regulation systems. (Modern Control Systems, 10th revised edition). Pearson Education Deutschland GmbH, 2006, 1168 pages.

literature

• Ulrich Korn , Ulrich Jumar : PI multivariable controller - practical design, robustness, application. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich; Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-486-21720-8 .
• Werner Kriesel , Hans Rohr, Andreas Koch: History and future of measurement and automation technology. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-18-150047-X .
• Günter Stein et al .: Control engineering with CADCS. In the! SWITCH ON series with teaching material and a simple design process on CD-ROM. Specialized book published by Carl Hanser Verlag, Leipzig / Munich 1998, ISBN 3-446-19169-0 .
• Karl Heinz Fasol ; Rudolf Lauber; Franz Mesch ; Heinrich Rake ; Manfred Thoma ; Heinz Töpfer : Great Names and the Early Days of Control in Germany. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 54, No. 9, 2006, pp. 462-472.
• Wolfgang Weller : Automation technology at a glance. Beuth Verlag, Berlin; Vienna; Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-410-16760-0 and as an e-book.
• HTWK Leipzig EIT / MSR - Institute for Measurement, Control and Regulation Engineering Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. K.-P. Schulze ›People
• Peter Neumann : Automation technology at the Magdeburg alma mater. In: Mechanical and plant engineering in the Magdeburg region at the beginning of the 21st century. Future based on tradition. Delta-D publishing house, Axel Kühling, Magdeburg 2014, pp. 215-219, ISBN 978-3-935831-51-2 .
• Peter Neumann (Hrsg.): Magdeburg's automation technology in transition - from industrial to research location. Authors: Christian Diedrich , Rolf Höltge, Ulrich Jumar , Achim Kienle , Reinhold Krampitz, Günter Müller, Peter Neumann, Konrad Pusch, Helga Rokosch, Barbara Schmidt, Ulrich Schmucker, Gerhard Unger, Günter Wolf. Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg ; Institute for Automation and Communication Magdeburg (ifak), Magdeburg 2018, production: Grafisches Centrum Cuno GmbH & Co. KG, Calbe (Saale), ISBN 978-3-944722-75-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus-Peter Schulze: Contribution to parameter adaptation in multivariable regulations. Dissertation, Technical University, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Magdeburg 1975. (Reviewers: Heinz Töpfer and Ulrich Korn from the TH Magdeburg; E. Martin , Head of Department at the Academy of Sciences , Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processes in Dresden)
2. ↑ Klaus-Peter Schulze: Contribution to the application of the principle of adaptation and the design according to the 'sensitivity' in multivariable regulations. Habilitation thesis (dissertation B), Technical University, Magdeburg 1979. (Reviewers: Heinz Töpfer , TU Dresden ; Wolfgang Weller , Humboldt University of Berlin and Ulrich Korn , TH Magdeburg).
3. ↑ Klaus-Peter Schulze and others: Application possibilities of adaptive processes in the automation of special technological processes in the manufacture of glass silk. measure, control, regulate (msr), Berlin 27 (1984) H. 2, pp. 50-51.