• Exercise in form of "Project based Learning"
  
• Agglomeration, particle size enlargement
• advanced particle size reduction
• Advanced theorie of fluid/particle flows
• CFD-methods for the simulation of disperse fluid/solid flows, Euler/Euler methids, Descrete Particle Modeling
• Treatment of simulation problems with distributed properties, solution of population balances

Schubert, H.; Heidenreich, E.; Liepe, F.; Neeße, T.: Mechanische Verfahrenstechnik. Deutscher Verlag für die Grundstoffindustrie, Leipzig, 1990.

Stieß, M.: Mechanische Verfahrenstechnik I und II. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1992.

• Fluidization
• Agglomeration
• Granulation
• Drying
• Determination of mechanical properties of agglomerats

Schubert, H.; Heidenreich, E.; Liepe, F.; Neeße, T.: Mechanische Verfahrenstechnik. Deutscher Verlag für die Grundstoffindustrie, Leipzig, 1990.

Stieß, M.: Mechanische Verfahrenstechnik I und II. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1992.

• The lecture introduces the behavioral approach to individual decisions in economics.
• We will critically review experimental studies of economic behavior in decisions under uncertainty, intertemporal decisions and formation of beliefs.

• Angner: A Course in Behavioral Economics, McMillan, 3^rd edition, 2020.
• Eeckhoudt/Gollier/Schlesinger: Economic and Financial Decisions under Risk, Princeton University Press, 2005.
• Außerdem werden relevante Forschungspapiere im Lauf der Vorlesung vorgestellt.
• Additionally, relevant research papers will be introduced during the course of the module.

• The lecture introduces the behavioral approach to strategic interactions in economics.
• We will critically review experimental studies of economic behavior in markets, bargaining, auctions and public choice.

• Es gibt kein Lehrbuch auf das sich die Vorlesung stützt. Die relevanten Forschungspapiere werden im Lauf der Vorlesung vorgestellt.
• There is no text book for this lecture. The relevant research papers will be introduced during the course of the module.

The course offers an introduction to the methods and techniques of online experiments used in experimental Economics, Psychology, and Business Administration. The course is targeted at participants with no or limited experience. It pursues the agenda of providing the practical, theoretical and tool knowledge to find a research question, deduce hypotheses and design and run an experiment. Hence, the focus will be on general methodological, design and process issues. The course is not surveying the existing experimental evidence but rather pinpoints towards selected well knowns experiments. We will follow a learning-by-doing approach. We will have a short introduction to data evaluation using non-parametric statistics as well as to relevant software tools (oTree). At the end of this course you will have gained not only the know-how needed to develop and implement an experimental research design online but you have also gained the basic skills required to gather, analyze and interpret experimental data.

Webster, M., & Sell, J. (Eds.). (2014). Laboratory experiments in the social sciences. Elsevier.

Lecture

• Objective and subjective perception for the evaluation of product characteristics
• Effects of material, color, shape and structure to the acceptance of a product
• Aesthetic function of a product
• Case studies, lack of acceptance of a product and possible reason

Seminar

• Identification of non-technical product functions
• Identification of subjective influences for the product development

Project Work

• Topics will be developed in cooperation with the students. Project works will be presented in teams, presented and evaluated

Topics:

• Green Economy
• Business models
• Business strategy
• Green Technologies
• Green Innovation
• Business planning
• Business development
• Green Entrepreneurship

Based on examples and case studies primarily in the field of Green Economy, students learn the basics of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology Management and will be able to develop business models, to evaluate start‐up projects and to describe strategic innovation processes.

Präsentationsfolien, Beispiele und Fallstudien aus der Lehrveranstaltung.

Presentation slides, examples, and case studies from the lecture.

Scientific knowledge grows continuously but also experiences certain alignments over time. For example, early cultures had the believe of a flat earth while latest research has a spherical earth model. Also in social science and business management, from time to time certain concepts that have even been the predominant paradigm are challenged by new observations and models. Consequently, certain controversies emerge and build the base for advancing theory and managerial practice. With this lecture, we put ourselves in the middle of heated debates for informed academics and practitioners of the day after tomorrow.

The lecture targets several controversies in the domain of technology strategy and innovation management. By the classical academic method and the novel problem based learning format of a structured discussion, a given controversy is scrutinized. On selected topics, students will discuss a dispute and gain a thorough understanding. Specifically, based on a brief introduction of a motion, a affirmative constructive as well as a negative constructive is presented by two different student groups. Each presentation is followed by a response of the other group and questions from the class. Topics range from latest theories and concepts for value capture, to the importance of operating within a global marketplace, to cutting edge approaches for innovation stimulation and technology management. Consequently, this lecture deepens the knowledge in technology strategy and innovation management (TIM), enables a critical thinking and thought leadership.

1.       Course notes and materials provided before the lecture

2.       Leiblein/ Ziedonis (2011): Technology Strategy and innovation management. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (optional)

• Goffin, K., Herstatt, C. and Mitchell, R. (2009): Innovationsmanagement: Strategie und effektive Umsetzung von Innovationsprozessen mit dem Pentathlon-Prinzip, München: Finanzbuch Verlag
  
  Weiterführende Literatur
  
• Innovationsmanagement
  Juergen Hauschildt
  
• F + E Management
  Specht, G. / Beckmann, Chr.
  
• Management der frühen Innovationsphasen
  Cornelius Herstatt, Birgit Verworn
  (im TUHH-Intranet auch als E-Book verfügbar)
• Bringing Technology and Innovation Into the Boardroom
  
• weitere Literaturempfehlungen auf Anfrage

• Introduction
• Internationalization of markets
• Measuring internationalization of firms
• Target market strategies
• Market entry strategies
• Timing strategies
• Allocation strategies
• Working in small teams on close-to-reality problems based on presented theories
• Paper writing on developed solution to the given problem/project e.g. market attractiveness analysis; development of market entry strategy for a hypothetical product in a given region

• Bartlett/Ghoshal (2002): Managing Across Borders, The Transnational Solution, 2nd edition, Boston
• Buckley, P.J./Ghauri, P.N. (1998), The Internationalization of the Firm, 2nd edition
• Czinkota, Ronkainen, Moffett, Marinova, Marinov (2009), International Business, Hoboken
• Dunning, J.H. (1993), The Globalization of Business: The Challenge of the 1990s, London
• Ghoshal, S. (1987), Global Strategy: An Organizing Framework, Strategic Management Journal, p. 425-440
• Praveen Parboteeah, K.,Cullen, J.B. (2011) , Strategic International Management, International 5th Edition
• Rugman, A.M./Collinson, S. (2012): International Business, 6th Edition, Essex 2012

Configuration management in complex projects and plans with high development shares, long runtimes and the use of high technology.

Configuration management (KM) is thus becoming increasingly important, especially in public, national and international tenders/projects, as well as in the aerospace and shipbuilding industries, among others. It is a tool of project management.

The essential terms and processes of KM are explained. The common basis is the DIN ISO 10007. KM is classified and delimited to the essential other processes of project management such as systems engineering, scheduling, quality management, risk management, controlling, contract management, etc.. The necessary structures in the products to be developed and manufactured and within the project organization itself are shown. KM supports the interface between the Project Management Office (PMO) and the executing departments, as well as the subcontractors involved. A key discipline of KM is change control, starting from the identification of the need for change to its implementation in planning, design, manufacturing and product. Special attention is given to the involvement of the client, often the public sector client. The classical project phases, acquisition, realization, commissioning and utilization require commonalities as well as different requirements for the respective KM.

The content taught is intended to enable students to work purposefully on new projects from the outset, to drive existing projects forward and to use KM in the process.

Basics I    
Concepts of configuration management
Goals & definitions,
historical development
3x3 of project management, why processes are so important,
Different project phases
Complex projects and project management

Basics II     
Description of the configuration with physical and functional features/properties
Different project phases
Project organization (AG, AN, ARGE and consortia, UAN)
DIN ISO 10007
Complex projects and project management

Delimitations and interfaces to other processes    
Systems Engineering and the V-Model,
scheduling,
quality management,
risk management,
controlling,
Construction contract and contract management

Structures in projects
Product structure, functional, physical and logistic structures,
document structure, work breakdown structure
Organization and Responsibility Matrix

KM Identification
a. Formation of configuration units and product structure
b. Criteria for the formation of baselines
c. Baselines, Master Record Index
d. Scheduled subscription lists

KM Change Control + Change Management
a. Change demand and change effort
b. Changes with and without customer and subcontractor involvement
c. Vertical and horizontal object dependencies
d. Change process
e. Common point of disposal

KM auditing
a. Audits and audit levels
b. Audits with and without customer and subcontractor participation
c. Audits and the V-Model
d. Presentation of project progress based on completed audits
e. Audits and the quality management
f. Planning of audits

KM Accounting 
a. Accounting task & use of data
b. Interface to construction status management
c. Interface to existing databases the product lifecycle management PLM

KM Planning
a. Determination for the acquisition phase
b. Specifications for the realization phase during the acquisition phase
c.  The KM plan for the realization phase

KM Organization and Tools
a. Disposal point / Configuration Control Board

Summary
KM as an interface between project management and order processing.
KM as a success factor in product development and a tool for technical control

• definitions and foundations of strategic management
• strategic planning
• strategic analysis and forecast
• development of strategic options
• strategy evaluaton, implementation and strategic control
  

- Bea, F.X.; Haas, J.: Strategisches Management, 5. Auflage, Stuttgart 2009.
- Dess, G. G.; Lumpkin, G. T.; Eisner, A. B.: Strategic management: Creating competitive advantages, Boston 2010
- Hahn, D.; Taylor, B.: Strategische Unternehmensplanung: Strategische Unternehmensführung, 9. Auflage, Heidelberg 2006.
- Hinterhuber, H.H.: Strategische Unternehmensführung Bd. 1: Strategisches Denken, 7. Aufl., Berlin u. a. 2004
- Hinterhuber, H.H.: Strategische Unternehmensführung Bd. 2: Strategisches Handeln, 7. Aufl., Berlin u. a. 2004
- Hungenberg, H.: Strategisches Management in Unternehmen, 6. Auflage, Wiesbaden 2011
- Johnson, G.; Scholes, K.; Whittington, R.: Strategisches Management. Eine Einführung, 9. Auflage, München 2011
- Macharzina, K.: Unternehmensführung: Das internationale Managementwissen, 7. Auflage, Wiesbaden 2010.
- Porter, M.E.: Competitive strategy, New York 1980 (deutsche Ausgabe: Wettbewerbsstrategie, 10. Aufl., Frankfurt am Main 1999)
- Welge, M. K.; Al-Laham, A.: Strategisches Management, 5. Auflage, Wiesbaden 2008.

Contents

Basics of Marketing

The philosophy and fundamental aims of marketing. Contrasting different marketing fields (e.g. business-to-consumer versus business-to-business marketing). The process of marketing planning, implementation and controlling

Strategic Marketing Planning

How to find profit opportunities? How to develop cooperation, internationalization, timing, differentiation and cost leadership  strategies?

Market-oriented Design of products and services

How can companies get valuable customer input on product design and development? What is a service? How can companies design innovative services supporting the products?

Pricing

What are the underlying determinants of pricing decision? Which pricing strategies should companies choose over the life cycle of products? What are special forms of pricing on business-to-business markets (e.g. competitive bidding, auctions)?

Marketing Communication

What is the role of communication and advertising in business-to-business markets? Why advertise? How can companies manage communication over advertisement, exhibitions and public relations?

Sales and Distribution

How to build customer relationship? What are the major requirements of industrial selling? What is a distribution channel? How to design and manage a channel strategy on business-to-business markets?

Knowledge

Students will gain an introduction and good overview of

• Specific challenges in the marketing of innovative goods and services
• Key strategic areas in strategic marketing planning (cooperation, internationalization, timing)
• Tools for information gathering about future customer needs and requirements
• Fundamental pricing theories and pricing methods
• Main communication instruments
• Marketing channels and main organizational issues in sales management
• Basic approaches for managing customer relationship

Skills

Based on the acquired knowledge students will be able to:

• Design market timing decisions
• Make decisions for marketing-related cooperation and internationalization activities
• Manage the challenges of market-oriented development of new products and services
• Translate customer needs into concepts, prototypes and marketable offers
• Determine the perceived quality of an existing product or service using advanced elicitation and measurement techniques that fit the given situation
• Analyze the pricing alternatives for products and services
• Make strategic sales decisions for products and services (i.e. selection of sales channels)
• Analyze the value of customers and apply customer relationship management tools

Social Competence

The students will be able to

• have fruitful discussions and exchange arguments
• present results in a clear and concise way
• carry out respectful team work

Self-reliance

The students will be able to

• Acquire knowledge independently in the specific context and to map this knowledge on other new complex problem fields.
• Consider proposed business actions in the field of marketing and reflect on them.

Homburg, C., Kuester, S., Krohmer, H. (2009). Marketing Management, McGraw-Hill Education, Berkshire, extracts p. 31-32, p. 38-53, 406-414, 427-431

Bingham, F. G., Gomes, R., Knowles, P. A. (2005). Business Marketing, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 3rd edition, 2004,  p. 106-110

Besanke, D., Dranove, D., Shanley, M., Schaefer, S. (2007), Economics of strategy, Wiley, 3rd edition, 2007, p. 149-155

Hutt, M. D., Speh, T.W. (2010), Business Marketing Management, 10th edition, South Western, Lengage Learning, p. 112-116

• Leadership & its Environment - Führung & Führungsumfeld
• Motivation
• Lead Yourself - Selbstführung
• Leadership Theories & Styles - Führungstheorien und -stile
• Team Leadership - Team & Führung
• Lead Change - Wandel herbeiführen
• Operational Change - Veränderung im Unternehmen umsetzen
• Develop Leadership - Führungsworkshop

Czikszentmihalyi, Mihalyi (2014): Flow im Beruf oder Das Geheimnis des Glücks am Arbeitsplatz,
Klett-Cotta, 1. Auflage

Drucker, Peter F. (1999): Manage Oneself, Harvard Business School, On Managing Yourself, S.13-32

Dweck, Carol (2017): Selbstbild - Wie unser Denken Erfolge oder Niederlagen bewirkt, Piper-Verlag (engl. Original: Mindset - The new psychology of success)

Goleman, Daniel (2000): Leadership that gets results, Harvard Business School, On Managing People, S.1-14

Laloux, Frederic (2015): Reinventing Organizations, Verlag Franz Vahlen

McKee, Annie (2014): A focus on leaders, Pearson Education Ltd., 2. Auflage

Northouse, Peter G. (2019): Leadership - Theory & Practise, Sage Publications, 8. Auflage

The lecture “project management” aims at characterizing typical phases of projects. Important contents are: possible tasks, organization, techniques and tools for initiation, definition, planning, management and finalization of projects. This will also be deepened by exercises within the framework of the event.

The following topics will be covered in the lecture:

• SMART, Work Breakdown Structure, Operationalization, Goals relation matrix
• Metra-Potential Method (MPM), Critical-Path Method (CPM), Program evaluation and review technique (PERT)
• Milestone Analysis, Earned Value Analyis (EVA)
• Progress reporting, Tracing of project goals, deadlines and costs, Project Management Control Loop, Maturity Level Assurance (MLA)
• Risk Management, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Risk Matrix

Project Management Institute (2017): A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) 6. Aufl. Newtown Square, PA, USA: Project Management Institute.

DeMarco, Tom (1997). The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management.

DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (2009). Projektmanagement - Projektmanagementsysteme - Teil 5: Begriffe. (DIN 69901-5)

Frigenti, Enzo and Comninos, Dennis (2002). The Practice of Project Management.

Haberfellner, Reinhard (2015). Systems Engineering: Grundlagen und Anwendung

Harrison, Frederick and Lock, Dennis (2004). Advanced Project Management: A Structured Approach.

Heyworth, Frank (2002). A Guide to Project Management.

ISO - International Organization for Standardization (2012). Guidance on Project Management. (21500:2012(E))

Kerzner, Harold (2013). Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling.

Lock, Dennis (2018). Project Management.

Martinelli, Russ J. and Miloševic, Dragan (2016). Project Management Toolbox: Tools and Techniques for the Practicing Project Manager.

Murch, Richard (2011). Project Management: Best Practices for IT Professionals.

Patzak, Gerold and Rattay, Günter (2009). Projektmanagement: Leitfaden zum Management von Projekten, Projektportfolios, Programmen und projektorientierten Unternehmen.

• Project management in a company
• Project life cycle / Project environment
• Project structuring / Project planning
• Deployment of methods / Team development
• Contract / Risk / Change management
• Multi-project management / Quality management
• Project controlling / Reporting
• Project organization / Project conclusion

• PMBOK-Guide 7th Edition (A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge)

• GPM Kompetenzbasiertes Projektmanagement (PM4)

• Kerzner (2003): Projektmanagement

• Litke (2004): Projektmanagement

• Patzak / Rattay (2004): Projektmanagement

• Schelle / Ottmann / Pfeiffer (2005): ProjektManager

The Seminar teaches the basics of project management, which constitutes the foundations for technical as well as for business projects. It also includes a sideline about process management. The participants will work on the following questions:

• What is a project and what challenges does it imply?
• What methods have been developed to meet those challenges?
• How have this methods evolved over time? What is “state of the art” today?
• What basic skills should project members have?
• What is the difference between project and process? How can the latter be analyzed?

The approaches are not just taught theoretically, but put to use in group work. Through this approach, participants are enabled to work successfully on actual projects - and manage projects later on. As project work is increasingly important in work life, project management is a key skill for job applicants.

Main topics of the seminar include:

• The “magic triangle” of project objectives
• Typical project phases
• Key instruments and methods (project structure plan, RACI, Gantt chart)
• Project organization and steering
• Team communication and collaboration
• The agile approach of Scrum
• Process levels and cascading
• Process improvement

With the knowledge and experience from the seminar, participants should be able to acquire a basic certificate in project management with relatively little additional effort. The certification is available through institutions like GPM.

Participants already start working on their homework paper in the group work. It comprises 5 to 10 pages and a structure plan for the chosen project, which can be done in Excel for example. Ideally, the members of the work groups write their homework paper together. The expected scale of the paper would increase in this case, yet not proportionally with the number of group members (4 participants would be expected to hand in a paper of 15-20 pages).

Hans-D. Litke, Ilonka Kunow; Projektmanagement. 3. Auflage 2015

Georg Patzak, Günter Rattay; Projektmanagement: Projekte, Projektpotfolios, Programme und projektorientierte Unternehmen. 6. Auflage 2014

GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement; Kompetenzbasiertes Projektmanagement (PM3): Handbuch für die Projektarbeit, Qualifizierung und Zertifizierung auf Basis der IPMA Competence Baseline Version 3.0. 6. Auflage, 2014

Tom DeMarco; Der Termin: Ein Roman über Projektmanagement. 2007

Jeff Sutherland, Ken Schwaber; Der Scrum Guide. Der gültige Leitfaden für Scrum: Die Spielregeln. Ständig aktualisiert, kostenloser Download auf http://www.scrumguides.org/

Jurgen Appello; Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders. 2010

• Refreshment:  Basics of Law
• Legal relevance of Engineers cases and actions: Contract Law, Liabilities - also for products, labor law, patent law, companies law

Notwendiger Gesetzestext (in Klausur erlaubt):

Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch 72. Auflage , 2013  , dtv Beck-Texte  5001,  ISBN 978-3-406-65707-8

Empfohlene Gesetzestexte:Arbeitsgesetze 83. Auflage, 2013  dtv Beck-Texte  5006   ISBN 978-3-406-65689-7
Handelsgesetzbuch 54. Auflage, 2013   dtv Beck Texte  5002  ISBN 978-3-406-65083-3
Gesellschaftsrecht, 13. Auflage , 2013  dtv Beck Texte  5585   ISBN 978-3-406-64502-0
Wettbewerbsrecht, Markenrecht und Kartellrecht , 33. Auflage, 2013  dtv Beck Texte    ISBN 978-3-406-65212-7

Empfohlene Literatur: 

Vock, Willi,  Recht der Ingenieure, 1. Auflage 2012, Boorberg Verlag , ISBN-10:3-415-04535-8  --- EAN:9783415045354

Meurer Rechtshandbuch für Architekten und Ingenieure 1…Auflage  -- erscheint  Anfg 2014      Werner Verlag   ISBN 978-3-8041-4342-5
Eisenberg / Gildeggen / Reuter / Willburger  Produkthaftung 2. Auflage - erscheint Anfg 2014    Oldenbourg Verlag - ISBN 978-3-486-71324-4
ENDERS/HETGER, Grundzüge der betrieblichen Rechtsfragen, 4. Auflage, 2008 Richard Boorberg Verlag - ISBN 978-3-415-04005-2
Müssig, Peter,  Wirtschaftsprivatrecht,  15. Auflage, 2012 ,  C.F. Müller   UTB  - ISBN  978-3-81149476-3
Schade, Friedrich, Wirtschaftsprivatrecht,  2. Auflage 2009,  Kohlhammer - ISBN  978-3-17-021087-5 

Risks are inherent in every aspect of business, and the ability of managing risks is one important aspect that differentiates successful business leaders from others. There exist various categories of risk, such as credit, country, market, liquidity, operational, supply chain and reputational. Companies are vulnerable to risks. What makes such risks even more complex and challenging to manage is that the risks are often not within the direct control of the business executive. They can exist outside of the company boundary, and yet the impact to the company can be huge. The awareness and knowledge of how to manage risks in companies, will become increasingly important.

Some of the main topics covered in this lecture include:

• Targets and legal aspects of risk management
• Risks and their impact
• Risk types (classification)
• Risk management and human resource
• Steps of the risk management process and their instruments
• Methods of risk assessment
• Implementation of risk management
• Management of specific risks

This lecture is presented in German language only.

Brühwiler, B., Romeike, F. (2010), Praxisleitfaden Risikomanagement. ISO 31000 und ONR 49000 sicher anwenden, Berlin: Erich Schmidt.

Cottin, C., Döhler, S. (2013), Risikoanalyse. Modellierung, Beurteilung und Management von Risiken mit Praxisbeispielen, 2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Aufl., Wiesbaden: Springer.

Eller, R., Heinrich, M., Perrot, R., Reif, M. (2010), Kompaktwissen Risikomanagement. Nachschlagen, verstehen und erfolgreich umsetzen, Wiesbaden: Gabler.

Fiege, S. (2006), Risikomanagement- und Überwachungssystem nach KonTraG. Prozess, Instrumente, Träger, Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag.

Frame, D. (2003), Managing Risk in organizations. A guide for managers, San Francisco: Wiley.

Götze, U., Henselmann, K., Mikus, B. (2001), Risikomanagement, Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag.

Müller, K. (2010), Handbuch Unternehmenssicherheit. Umfassendes Sicherheits-, Kontinuitäts- und Risikomanagement mit System, 2., neu bearbeitete Auflage, Wiesbaden: Springer.

Rosenkranz, F., Missler-Behr, M. (2005), Unternehmensrisiken erkennen und managen. Einführung in die quantitative Planung, Berlin u.a.: Springer.

Wengert, H., Schittenhelm F. A. (2013), Coporate Risk Mangement, Berlin: Springer.

Mayor Issues in Patent Law:

The seminar covers five mayor issues in german patent law, namely patentatbility, prosecution, ownership and employee inventions, infringement and licensing and other commercila uses.

The lecturer will give an introduction to each issue which will be followed by in-depth inquiry by the participants through group work, presentation of results and moderated discussion.

Global supply chains are networks of buyers and suppliers that often span continents. Mostly, they are not linear chains but rather complex networks of many independent companies. Governments and civil society organizations such as environmental and human rights advocates put increasing pressure on companies operating in global supply chains and demand better sustainability standards. These demands evolve around examples like avoiding hazardous chemicals in textile supply chains, ensuring sustainable fishing or securing human rights in the toys industry. Corporations take different measures from the area of sustainable supply chain management in order to meet these demands. It is the goal of this class to understand and explain these measures. Students will hold group presentations and write a short term paper. Possible topics of the groups: Challenges and opportunities of hydrogen supply chains in the automotive industry - Challenges and opportunities of battery supply chains - Challenges and opportunities for Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the cocoa industry - Challenges and opportunities for Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the area of textile recycling - Challenges and opportunities for sustainable fishing - Blockchain technology as a solution for Sustainable Supply Chain Management - Auditing standard SA8000 as a solution for Sustainable Supply Chain Management 

The Management Consulting lecture teaches students knowledge that is complementary to their technical and business administration studies. They learn the basics of consulting and agent-principal theory and are given an overview of the consulting market. They are also shown how management consulting works and which methodical building blocks (processes) are needed to deal with a client’s concerns and to undertake a consulting process. By means of practical examples students gain an insight into the extensive range of management consultancy services and of functional consulting.

Bamberger, Ingolf (Hrsg.): Strategische Unternehmensberatung: Konzeptionen - Prozesse - Methoden, Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008

Bansbach, Schübel, Brötzel & Partner (Hrsg.): Consulting: Analyse - Konzepte - Gestaltung, Stollfuß Verlag, Bonn 2008

Fink, Dietmar (Hrsg.): Strategische Unternehmensberatung, Vahlens Handbücher, München, Verlag Vahlen, 2009

Heuermann, R./Herrmann, F.: Unternehmensberatung: Anatomie und Perspektiven einer Dienstleistungselite, Fakten und Meinungen für Kunden, Berater und Beobachter der Branche, Verlag Vahlen, München 2003

Kubr, Milan: Management consulting: A guide to the profession, 3. Auflage, Geneva, International Labour Office, 1992

Küting, Karlheinz (Hrsg.): Saarbrücker Handbuch der Betriebswirtschaftlichen Beratung; 4. Aufl., NWB Verlag, Herne 2008

Nagel, Kurt: 200 Strategien, Prinzipien und Systeme für den persönlichen und unternehmerischen Erfolg, 4. Aufl., Landsberg/Lech, mi-Verlag, 1991

Niedereichholz, Christel: Unternehmensberatung: Beratungsmarketing und Auftragsakquisition, Band 1, 2. Aufl., Oldenburg Verlag, 1996

Niedereichholz; Christel: Unternehmensberatung: Auftragsdurchführung und Qualitätssicherung, Band 2, Oldenburg Verlag, 1997

Quiring, Andreas: Rechtshandbuch für Unternehmensberater: Eine praxisorientierte Darstellung der typischen Risiken und der zweckmäßigen Strategien zum Risikomanagement mit Checklisten und Musterverträgen, Vahlen Verlag, München 2005

Schwetje, Gerald: Ihr Weg zur effizienten Unternehmensberatung: Beratungserfolg durch eine qualifizierte Beratungsmethode, NWB Verlag, Herne 2013

Schwetje, Gerald: Wer seine Nachfolge nicht regelt, vermindert seinen Unternehmenswert, in: NWB, Betriebswirtschaftliche Beratung, 03/2011 und: Sparkassen Firmenberatung aktuell, 05/2011

Schwetje, Gerald: Strategie-Assessment mit Hilfe von Arbeitshilfen der NWB-Datenbank - Pragmatischer Beratungsansatz speziell für KMU: NWB, Betriebswirtschaftliche Beratung, 10/2011

Schwetje, Gerald: Strategie-Werkzeugkasten für kleine Unternehmen, Fachbeiträge, Excel-Berechnungsprogramme, Checklisten/Muster und Mandanten-Merkblatt: NWB, Downloadprodukte, 11/2011

Schwetje, Gerald: Die Unternehmensberatung als komplementäres Leistungsangebot der Steuerberatung - Zusätzliches Honorar bei bestehenden Klienten: NWB, Betriebswirtschaftliche Beratung, 02/2012

Schwetje, Gerald: Die Mandanten-Berater-Beziehung: Erfolgsfaktor Beziehungsmanagement, in: NWB Betriebswirtschaftliche Beratung, 08/2012

Schwetje, Gerald: Die Mandanten-Berater-Beziehung: Erfolgsfaktor Vertrauen, in: NWB Betriebswirtschaftliche Beratung, 09/2012

Wohlgemuth, Andre C.: Unternehmensberatung (Management Consulting): Dokumentation zur Vorlesung „Unternehmensberatung“, vdf Hochschulverlag, Zürich 2010

General description of course content and course goals

We negotiaate everday in privat and professional contexts. Leading negotiations successfully has a significant impact on future careers. Yet, we tend to have limited knowledge about the theory and empirical evidence regarding successful negotiating. Many people approach negotiations in a rather intuitive and unplanned way which often results in sub-optimal negotiation outcomes.

The purpose of this interactive and problem-based course is to theortically understand the strategies and process of negotiation as practiced in a variety of business-related settings (e.g. negotiations about working conditions, negotiations with customers and suppliers). The course will highlight the components of an effective negotiation (strategy, perparation, execution, evaluation) and offer the students the opportunity to analyze their own behavior in negotiations in order to improve.

The course structure is experiential and problem-based, combining lectures, class discussion, mini-cases and small erxercises, and more comprehensive negotiation practices in longer sessions. Through participation in negotiation exercises, students will have the opportunity to practice their communication and persuasion skills and to experiment with a variety of negotiating strategies and tactics. Students will apply the lessons learned to ongoing, real-world negotiations.

Content:

The students will find answers to the following fundamental questions of negotiation strategies in theory and practice:

• How do negotiations influence everyday life and business processes?
• What are key features of negotiations?
• What are different forms of negotiations? What kinds of negotiation can be distinguished?
• Which theoretical approaches to a theory of negotiation can be distinguished?
• How can game theory be applied to negotiation?
• What makes an effective negotiator?
• Which factors should be considered when planning negotiations?
• What steps must be followed to reach a deal?
• Are there specific negotiation tactics?
• What are the typical barriers to an agreement and how to deal with them?
• What are possible cognitive (mental) errors and how to correct them?

Knowledge

Students know...

• the theory basics of negotiations (e.g. game theory, behavioral theories)
  
• the types and the pros and cons of diffrent negotiation strategies
• the process of negotiation, inlcuding goal formulation, preparation/planning, execution and evaluation 
• about some key issues impacting negotiations (e.g. team building and roles, barriers to reaching a deal, cognitive biases, multi-phase negotiations)

Skills

Students are capable of...

• simultaneously considering multiple factors in negotiation situations and taking reasoned actions when preparing and conducting negotiations.
• Analyzing and handling the key challenges of uncertainty, risk, intercultural differences, and time pressure in realistic negotiation situations.
• assessing the typical barriers to an agreement (e.g. lack of trust), dealing with hardball tactics (e.g. good cop, bad cop; lowball, highball; intimidation), and avoiding cognitive traps (e.g. unchecked emotions, overconfidence).
• reflecting on their decision-making in uncertain negotiation situations and derive actions for future decisions.

Social Competence

Students can...

• provide appropriate feedback and handle feedback on their own performance constructively.
• constructively interact with their team members in role playing in negotiations sessions
• develop joint solutions in mixed teams and present them to others in real-world negotiation situatio
  

  Self-Reliance

  Students are able to...

  • assess possible consequences of their own negotiation behavior
  • define own positions and tasks in the negotiation preparation process.
  • justify and make elaborated decisions in authentic negotiation situations.
  
  
  

R.J. Lewicki / B. Barry / D.M. Saunders: Negotiation. Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill, Boston, 2010.

H. Raiffa: Negotiation analysis. Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass, 2007.

R. Fisher / W. Ury: Getting to yes. Third edition. Penguin, New York, 2011.

M. Voeth / U. Herbst: Verhandlungsmanagement: Planung, Steuerung und Analyse. Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart, 2009.

Different areas of public law; proceedings, jurisdiction of administrative courts with stages of appeal,
members of the courts;
Court levels, organization and legal capacity;
lntroduction to and structure of fundamental rights;
Human dignity: the guiding principle of the constitution;
General right of privacy and freedom of action.

Lying press - there is a revival of the disparaging invective. Journalists use to shoot it down by leading it back to its supposed roots in the NS-propaganda. This is less convincing as several parties and ideologies have used it since the middle of the 19^th century to discredit the media of other parties and ideologies. And it is missing the core of the problem. Critics are reasonably afraid that the choice of “lying press” to the “non-word of the year” 2014 has blocked the question, if there is a justified criticism of information media and journalism - or more precisely of the relationship between journalism and its audience. If this is the case both - journalism and audience - are involved from the perspective of inter actionism.    

Against this background interactive instructions will be given by scholarly literature and practical examples from the German and international media business.

Questions like the following will be discussed:

• Is journalism really a profession? If so - since when?
• What is journalism for? (task and duties, functions, self-images)
• Do the audience and journalists themselves have a reasonable understanding of tasks, functions, practices, problems of journalism?
• What is the current concept of journalistic professionalism? Has it ever been the same?
• From an international perspective: Does journalism in Germany have special shortcomings - if so, how can they be removed?
• What are the economic challenges for journalism from the digital media upheaval?
• In which direction do journalistic professionalism and self-understanding change in the digital media world?

Objective is solid learning about professional tasks, ethics, techniques, endagerments, history and current problems of journalism including science journalism.

Zur Einführung:
Lilienthal, Volker/Neverla, Irene (Hrsg.) (2017): „Lügenpresse“. Anatomie eines politischen Kampfbegriffs. Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch. https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/buch/luegenpresse/978-3-462-31782-4/
Pöttker, Horst (2010): Der Beruf zur Öffentlichkeit. Über Aufgabe, Grundsätze und Perspektiven des Journalismus in der Mediengesellschaft aus der Sicht praktischer Vernunft. In: Publizistik, 55. Jg., H. 2, S. 107-128. https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/der-beruf-zur-oeffentlichkeit/5889108
Weischenberg, S. (2007): Das Jahrhundert des Journalismus ist vorbei. Rekonstruktionen und Prognosen zur Formation gesellschaftlicher Selbstbeobachtung. In: Bartelt-Kircher, G. et al.: Krise der Printmedien - eine Krise des Journalismus? Berlin und New York, de Gruyter Saur, S. 32-60.
https://medien21.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/weischenberg-das-jahrhundert-des-journalismus-ist-vorbei/
Eine ausführliche Literaturliste wird am Anfang des Seminars verteilt.

Weischenberg, S. (2010): Das Jahrhundert des Journalismus ist vorbei. Rekonstruktionen und Prognosen zur Formation gesellschaftlicher Selbstbeobachtung. In: Bartelt-Kircher, Gabriele u.a.: Krise der Printmedien - eine Krise des Journalismus? Berlin und New York: de Gruyter Saur, S. 32-60.

Eine ausführliche Literaturliste wird am Anfang des Seminars verteilt. 

Popular novels and films significantly contribute to the public understanding of science and its representatives. How to define “good” or “bad” science is negotiated in a variety of artistic works. Stereotypes such as the “mad scientist”, which originated in early nineteenth century England, continue to persist. Mary Shelley created the prototype of the obsessive and reckless scientist in Frankenstein - The Modern Prometheus (1818) who conducts his forbidden experiments in a secret lab and crosses ethical boundaries. This masculine stereotype has been followed by further ones such as the noble, adventurous or clumsy scientist, whereas scholars have only recently begun to consider the representation of female science.

First, this seminar is devoted to selected formations of knowledge in relation to literature from classical antiquity to the present. Second, the focus shall rest on the production of persistent stereotypes in various media formats such as novels or films while paying particular attention to the aspect of gender. The overall goal of the seminar is an understanding of science as a cultural practice.  

Requirements for participation: Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein. New York: Norton, 2012. Please pay attention to the exact publication dates.

From Arts & Crafts to modern Design - applied arts focus on the design of all kinds of products. Therefore applied arts allow to come to more thorough conclusions about social, historical, cultural issues.

In the course the impact of social developments on these particular genres are discussed.

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• Theories and methods of project management
• Innovation management
• Agile project management
• Fundamentals of classic and agile methods
• Hybrid use of classic and agile methods  
• Roles, perspectives and stakeholders throughout the project
• Initiating and coordinating complex engineering projects
• Principles of moderation, team management, team leadership, conflict management
• Communication structures: in-house, cross-company
• Public information policy
• Promoting commitment and empowerment
• Sharing experience with specialists and managers from the engineering sector
• Documenting and reflecting on learning experiences

Seminarapparat

Master’s German course in cooperation with IBH e.V. - Master’s German courses at different levels

In the international studies program these are obligatory for non-native speakers of German and for students without a DSH certificate or equivalent TEST-DAF result. Grading after an aptitude test. All other students must sign up for a total of 4 ECTS from the catalog of non-technical supplementary courses.

The seminar wants to show the problems and challenges for the engineers, who built the Hamburger Speicherstadt and their sustainable architectural solutions, which are still of vital importance and the basis for becoming a world cultural heritage.

The course gives an introduction to the development of digitization in a media cultural perspective. In addition to technical aspects, we will focus on the cultural impact of digitization for current media users and the ermergence und development of media subcultures from the late 1970s to the 21st century. On the one hand, we will deal with questions such as: What is digitization? What is culture? What are digital (sub)cultures? In this context, the concept of ‚digital natives‘ and ‚digital immigrants‘, coined by Marc Prensky, will also be discussed. On the other hand, there will be a historical perspective on topics and developments such as the mediatization oft he children’s room in the early 1980s, the hacker scene, video game culture, the demo scene, digital culture in cinema, 8-bit culture, digital aesthetics , net art, post-digitality and ultimately the question of how digital subcultures have become part of the media mainstream at the beginning of the 21st century.

Digitalization is having a major impact on many areas of our lives and the use of digital technologies in art and design has increased rapidly. After all, art is not only subject to constant change, but also constantly adapts to technical conditions. After the photographic art of the mid-19th century and the video art of the 1960s, which already brought about major changes in artistic creation, digital art is becoming increasingly important in the field of media art. The first attempts to use the computer with corresponding graphic software as an artistic medium took place in the 80/90s of the 20th century. Since then, there has been a broad development in the field of digital art, which now encompasses the most diverse digital pictorial phenomena and art genres and is thus intertwined in its objects, theories and practices with digital media in a variety of ways. The seminar gives an overview of the history of digital art and its different genres. These include, for example, photopaintings, where digital manipulation, filtering processes and painting can process the image and transform it over many stages into a completely new form. Also 3-D images, vector graphics, mathematical art and computer art in general. At the same time, the digital development in art is to be illuminated, from the first beginnings on the computer with comparatively simple "digital aids", e.g. in the form of simple image processing programs, to the present sophisticated graphic tools.

In addition, the presentation, dissemination and conservation possibilities of digital art will also be discussed, which can be disseminated very well on the Internet primarily because it can be displayed on a computer screen. The great fascination with digital creative work and the almost inexhaustible possibilities offered by the medium of computers to artists, who will continue to ensure that digital art finds a permanent place alongside traditional media, will also be discussed. Finally, in contrast to the traditional production methods in the field of fine arts and design, there are always new manifestations of digital art, which ultimately give not only the "trained" artist but also the layman far-reaching possibilities for artistic expression. And all this in the spirit of the performance artist Joseph Beuys , who postulated, every human being is capable of creativity, indeed "every human being is an artist".

The seminar will also discuss the question of how digital art can be described as "the" contemporary art, i.e. contemporary art in the age of digital technology. Furthermore, it is of great interest to what extent the perception of art per se has already changed and will continue to change in a digitalized society.

• Basic concepts, opportunities and limits of organisational change 
• Models and methods of organisational design and development
• Strategic orientation and change, and their short-, medium- and long-term consequences for individuals, organisations and society as a whole
• Roles, perspectives and stakeholders in change processes
• Initiating and coordinating change measures in engineering
• Phase models of organisational change (Lewin, Kotter, etc.) 
• Change-oriented information policy and dealing with resistance and uncertainty 
• Promoting commitment and empowerment
• Successfully handling change and transformation: personally, as an employee, as a manager (personal, professional, organisational)
• Company-level and globally (systemic)
• Sharing experience with specialists and managers from the engineering sector
• Documenting and reflecting on learning experiences

The seminar imparts basic journalistic knowledge and skills to convey technical content to a broad public.
Technical topics are increasingly being taken up and discussed not only in specialist and special interest magazines, but also in the public media such as daily newspapers, television, radio and on the Internet.
The participants of the seminar receive skills that can enable them to actively contribute to such discussions.
Technology journalism is a comparatively young branch of professional journalism and includes reporting on topics from the areas of construction and housing, energy and the environment, transport and transportation, trade and industrial production, trade and services, as well as information and communication. The topics of climate and sustainability have recently been added. From these areas, journalistic topics for the final presentations are conceived, researched and implemented in small teams.
The seminar uses digital and analog communication channels in technology journalism. The handling of often very complex subjects and their understandable presentation is trained, the reporting is analyzed, the research is conceived, and typical forms of presentation and linguistic peculiarities are learned. The relationship to science, research and public relations also plays a role here. The seminar is rounded off by an overview of legal and ethical framework conditions.

Newman, Nic: Journalism, Media & Technology - Trends and predictions 2019, Reuters Institute/ University of Oxford Digital News Publications http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/publications/2019/journalism-media-technology-trends-predictions-2019/#executive-summary;
Schümchen, Andreas: Technikjournalismus (Riehe Praktischer Journalismus), 328 S., UVK-Verlag 2008

Capitalism - what’s the definition in Marxian economical theorie? Which are the functions of gold, money, interest?
Focusing on the Marxian basis categories Ware - Gebrauchswert - Tauschwert - Wert - Arbeit - Austauschprozess - Geld - Zirkulation - Arbeitskraft, the subjects of the lecture are the first four chapters of ‘Das Kapital’ vol. 1, accompanied by discussion of neo-classical theory, monetarism etc.

Karl Marx, Das Kapital, Band 1, Berlin 1962ff (=Marx-Engels-Werke [MEW] Bd. 23), S. 1-390
Dieser Text steht text- und seitengenau im Internet zur Verfügung: http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me23/me23_000.htm oder http://www.zeno.org/Philosophie/M/Marx,+Karl/Das+Kapital
David Harvey, Marx‘ Kapital lesen, Hamburg 2017, Seiten 1-214
Begleitend: Harvey selbst hat seine ‚Kapital‘-Seminare (auf Englisch) als Stream veröffentlicht: http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/
Ergänzende Literatur:

Altvater, Elmar (Hg.) (1999): Kapital.doc. Das Kapital (Bd. 1) von Marx in Schaubildern mit Kommentaren. Mit CD-ROM. Münster
Artus, Ingrid u.a. (Hg.) (2014): Marx für SozialwissenschaftlerInnen. Eine Einführung. Wiesbaden
Fülberth, Georg (2008): G Strich. Kleine Geschichte des Kapitalismus. 4., verb. und erw. Aufl. Köln
Krause, Alexandra (2014): Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie - Wachstum als Imperativ kapitalistischen Wirtschaftens. In: Artus (2014) S. 135-160.
Münch, Richard (2008): Soziologische Theorie. Grundlegung durch die Klassiker. Korr. Nachdr. 2008. Frankfurt/Main (Soziologische Theorie, 1).
Nachtwey, Oliver (2014): Arbeit, Lohnarbeit und Industriearbeit. In: Artus (2014) S. 109-134
Söllner, Fritz (2015): Die Geschichte des ökonomischen Denkens. 4. Aufl. Berlin

In the Field of the Nontechnical Complementary Courses students are able to chose foreign language courses. Therefore the Hamburger Volkshochschule offers a special language programm on TUHH campus for TUHH Students. It includes courses in english, chinese, french, japanese, portuguese, russia, swedish, spanisch and german as a foreign language. All lectures impart common language knowledge, english courses although english for technical purposes.

„Words can build bridges or create rafts“ - this is also true for the scientific and business world. For example, how do I react if I get attacked in a professional debate by an opponent or by a colleague in my team, or if a fight arises during the planning of a project? In a challenging situation, what will help me to communicate respectfully and with appreciation? How can I express criticism or irritation honestly, directly and without reproach? 

Nonviolent Communication is a concept developped by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D., intended to help create an appreciative attitude towards oneself and others, and to live by it. Nonviolent Communication opens paths to express oneself in a mindful and responsible way, so that a bridge can be built even in challenging situations of conflict. Effective and satisfactory cooperation is only possible with well functioning communication between all parties involved, otherwise things will become difficult and inefficient.

By working with their own examples and anticipating questions that might arise in their future professional lives, the students of Engineering Sciences will be able to reflect their own communicative behavior and learn ways of cooperation and conjoint solution finding. This course will impart the essential competencies of communication necesary for that.

• Rosenberg, Marshall.  (2001) Gewaltfreie Kommunikation. Eine Sprache des Lebens. Junfermann
• Rosenberg, Marshall B. und Seils, Gabriele. (15. Auflage 2012) Konflikte lösen durch Gewaltfreie Kommunikation. Ein Gespräch mit Gabriele Seils. Herder Taschenbuch
• Larsson, Liv. (2013) 42 Schlüsselunterscheidungen in der GFK. Für ein tieferes Verständnis der Gewaltfreien Kommunikation. Junfermann
• De Haen, Nayoma V. und Torsten Hardieß. (2015) 30 Minuten Gewaltfreie Kommunikation. Gabal
• Connor, Jane M. und Killian, Dian, Drs. (2014) Verbindung herstellen - Trennendes überbrücken. Mit jedermann, jederzeit und überall eine gemeinsame Ebene finden. Praktische GFK für den Alltag. Junfermann
• Dietz, Angela. (2015) Macht ohne Machtwort. Verantwortung übernehmen, Potenziale entfalten. Business Village
• Miyashiro, Marie R. (2013) Der Faktor Empathie. Ein Wettbewerbsvorteil für Teams und Organisationen. Junfermann
• Brüggemeier, Beate. (2010) Wertschätzende Kommunikation im Business. Wer sich öffnet, kommt weiter. Wie Sie die GFK im Berufsalltag nutzen. Junfermann
• Heim, Vera und Lindemann, Gabriele. (2016) Beziehungskompetenz im Beruf. Brücken bauen mit Empathie und Gewaltfreier Kommunikation. Haufe Taschen Guide
  

English:

• Rosenberg, Marshall B., Ph.D. (3^rd Edition 2015) Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. Create your Life, your Relationships, and your World in Harmony with your Values. Puddledancer Press
• Connor, Jane, Ph.D. and Killian, Dian, Ph.D. (2^nd edition 2012) Connecting Across Differences: Finding Common Ground with Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime. Puddledancer Press
• Miyashiro, Marie R. (2011) The Empathy Factor. Your Competitive Advantage for Personal, Team and Business Success. Puddledancer Press
• Roele, Hugo and Rich-Tolsma, Matthew, Drs. (2015) The Book of Needs. A Structural Model for Listening. Kommunikasie.nl
• Kashtan, Miki. (2014) Reweaving our Human Fabric. Working Together to Create a Nonviolent Future. Fearless Heart Publications

This course covers theory and practice of being a student teaching assistant in small-group instructional settings at TUHH.  As part of the seminar, the participants have the opportunity to reflect on their work, e. g. through mutual observation and discussion.

For prior knowledge / the event requirements:

This event requires basic first work / collaboration experiences in the academic work structures of a higher education institution, which Master's students have acquired as part of the qualification for the Bachelor's degree at a university.

These presumed work experiences include specific self-study experiences at a college.

These are picked up, reflected, expanded and further developed both theoretically and practically with regard to learning from and in groups and later guiding this learning process.

Furthermore, experiences with different types of learning / group types of higher education, which are part of a degree program acquired during the bachelor's program, are assumed, taken up, reflected on, expanded and further developed here in the master's program.

The course also requires basic knowledge of presenting scholarly work results obtained by Master's students with a Bachelor's degree.

In the course, this experience with and in representation in a group situation will be expanded and further developed in the direction of students' involvement with their own role as well as their design in face-to-face interaction as well as in group processes, learning and leadership situations, as masters graduates Graduate unlike bachelor graduates professionally stronger in a moderating role and with the guidance of humans because with the guidance in subject matters are demanded.

According to the later professional role, the work of the seminar promotes and enables graduate students significantly more than graduates' qualifications for independent work and learning, transferring what they have learned to new areas, contributing, involving discussion and contributing their own examples and interests.

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As young professionals with technical background you may often tend to focus on communicating numbers and statistics in your presentations. However, facts are only one aspect of convincing others. Often, your personality, personal experience, cultural background and emotions are more important. You have to convince as a person in order to get your content across.

In this workshop you will learn how to increase and express your cultural competence. You will apply cultural knowledge and images in order to positively influence communicative situations. You will learn how to add character and interest to your talks, papers and publications by referring to your own and European Cultural background. You will find out the basics of communicating professionally and convincingly by showing personality and by referring to your own cultural knowledge. You will get hands-on experience both in preparing and in conducting such communicative situations. This course is not focussing on delivering new knowledge about European culture but helps you using existing knowledge or such that you can gain e.g. in other Humanities courses.

Content

• How to enrich the personal character of your presentations by referring to European and your own culture.
• How to properly arrange content and structure.
• How to use PowerPoint for visualization (you will use computers in an NIT room).
• How to be well-prepared and convincing when delivering your thoughts to your audience.

Literaturhinweise werden zu Beginn des Seminars bekanntgegeben.

Literature will be announced at the beginning of the seminar.

The subject of the course is the deepening of the intercultural dimension of international management in relation to fundamental challenges, the importance of culture in team work and leadership of large multinational companies. In addition, culture-awareness trainings are discussed and carried out.

Rothlauf, J (2014): A Global View on Intercultural Management - Challenges in a Globalized World, De Gruyter Oldenbourg Verlag, 360 p

Join multidisciplinary and international teams at the ECIU University and solve mini challenges linked to the SDG11 - Sustainable cities and communities, provided by business and societal partners across Europe. Participation in mini challenges will allow you to make a real impact in the community, city, or region by solving real-time local, national, and global challenges with a new way of learning - the challenge-based learning.

General procedure of a challenge:

1. The mini challenge is provided by a city, region or business stakeholder and is entered on the ECIU University Challenge platform (challenges.eciu.org).
2. You register to the mini challenge you find relevant on the platform.
3. An international and interdisciplinary team is formed from registered participants from all ECIU partner universities and a team facilitator from the host university is assigned.
4. You work with the team on the mini challenge, engage, investigate, and propose non-technical solutions using the challenge-based learning methodology (https://eciu.tuhh.de/challenge-based-learning/).
5. During the process, you can select relevant micro-modules from ECIU member universities that help you gain additional knowledge or skills that are relevant to solve the mini challenge.
6. Finally, teams deliver their outputs - which may include services, products, research questions, start-ups and spin-offs.

By working in multi-disciplinary and/or international teams, you will build up inter-cultural competences and increase your network of expertise by developing problem-solving and team-work skills.

TUHH is major part of the ECIU University leading institution related to the Challenge-based learning. All ECIU challenges will constantly be updated at the challenge platform: challenges.eciu.org

“Mini challenges” are challenges in the ECIU University that are supposed to be done within 1-4 weeks. Focus is to define your actual challenge, find suitable solution(s) and to implement them. https://eciu.tuhh.de/cbl-in-more-detail/

This course is aimed at Master students from member universities of the ECIU network (www.eciu.org). The course requires an independent approach to work, the willingness to learn independently about new non-technical topics and research methods, and the motivation to learn and actively participate in an international/disciplinary team.

ECIU UNIVERSITY 2030, CONNECTS U FOR LIFE

https://www.eciu.org/news/eciu-university-2030-connects-u-for-life

TOWARDS A EUROPEAN MICRO-CREDENTIALS INITIATIVE

https://www.eciu.org/news/towards-a-european-micro-credentials-initiative

Join multidisciplinary and international teams at the ECIU University and solve nano challenges linked to the SDG11 - Sustainable cities and communities, provided by business and societal partners across Europe. Participation in nano challenges will allow you to make a real impact in the community, city, or region by solving real-time local, national, and global challenges with a new way of learning - the challenge-based learning.

General procedure of a challenge:

1. The nano challenge is provided by a city, region or business stakeholder and is entered on the ECIU University Challenge platform (challenges.eciu.org).
2. You register to the nano challenge you find relevant on the platform.
3. An international and interdisciplinary team is formed from registered participants from all ECIU partner universities and a team facilitator from the host university is assigned.
4. You work with the team on the nano challenge, engage, investigate, and propose non-technical solutions using the challenge-based learning methodology (https://eciu.tuhh.de/challenge-based-learning/).
5. During the process, you can select relevant micro-modules from ECIU member universities that help you gain additional knowledge or skills that are relevant to solve the nano challenge.
6. Finally, teams deliver their outputs - which may include services, products, research questions, start-ups and spin-offs.

By working in multi-disciplinary and/or international teams, you will build up inter-cultural competences and increase your network of expertise by developing problem-solving and team-work skills.

TUHH is major part of the ECIU University leading institution related to the Challenge-based learning. All ECIU challenges will constantly be updated at the challenge platform: challenges.eciu.org

“Nano challenges” are the smallest unit of challenges in the ECIU University and are supposed to be done within 1-2 days. Focus is to define your actual challenge, find suitable solution(s) and create ideas for further steps. https://eciu.tuhh.de/cbl-in-more-detail/

This course is aimed at Master students from member universities of the ECIU network (www.eciu.org). The course requires an independent approach to work, the willingness to learn independently about new non-technical topics and research methods, and the motivation to learn and actively participate in an international/disciplinary team.

ECIU UNIVERSITY 2030, CONNECTS U FOR LIFE

https://www.eciu.org/news/eciu-university-2030-connects-u-for-life

TOWARDS A EUROPEAN MICRO-CREDENTIALS INITIATIVE

https://www.eciu.org/news/towards-a-european-micro-credentials-initiative

Join multidisciplinary and international teams at the ECIU University and solve standard challenges linked to the SDG11 - Sustainable cities and communities, provided by business and societal partners across Europe. Participation in standard challenges will allow you to make a real impact in the community, city, or region by solving real-time local, national, and global challenges with a new way of learning - the challenge-based learning.

General procedure of a challenge:

1. The standard challenge is provided by a city, region or business stakeholder and is entered on the ECIU University Challenge platform (challenges.eciu.org).
2. You register to the standard challenge you find relevant on the platform.
3. An international and interdisciplinary team is formed from registered participants from all ECIU partner universities and a team facilitator from the host university is assigned.
4. You work with the team on the standard challenge, engage, investigate, and propose non-technical solutions using the challenge-based learning methodology (https://eciu.tuhh.de/challenge-based-learning/).
5. During the process, you can select relevant micro-modules from ECIU member universities that help you gain additional knowledge or skills that are relevant to solve the standard challenge.
6. Finally, teams deliver their outputs - which may include services, products, research questions, start-ups and spin-offs.

By working in multi-disciplinary and/or international teams, you will build up inter-cultural competences and increase your network of expertise by developing problem-solving and team-work skills.

TUHH is major part of the ECIU University leading institution related to the Challenge-based learning. All ECIU challenges will constantly be updated at the challenge platform: challenges.eciu.org

“Standard challenges” are challenges in the ECIU University that are supposed to be done within 3-6 months. Focus is to define your actual challenge, find suitable solution(s) and to implement as well as evaluate and publish them. https://eciu.tuhh.de/cbl-in-more-detail/

This course is aimed at Master students from member universities of the ECIU network (www.eciu.org). The course requires an independent approach to work, the willingness to learn independently about new non-technical topics and research methods, and the motivation to learn and actively participate in an international/disciplinary team.

ECIU UNIVERSITY 2030, CONNECTS U FOR LIFE

https://www.eciu.org/news/eciu-university-2030-connects-u-for-life

TOWARDS A EUROPEAN MICRO-CREDENTIALS INITIATIVE

https://www.eciu.org/news/towards-a-european-micro-credentials-initiative

This course is for master students. In this seminar, we will explore different theories, models and methods from the fields of communication, psychology and cultural theory.

The participants will work on theoretical content and do group presentations. They will also use examples from their own experiences to apply models and methods in practical exercises.

The way we communicate shapes the way we experience our relationships, in the business world as well as in our private lives. We spend an overwhelming amount of time in group situations. This makes it worthwhile to explore how communication works within the group context and how, within these different groups, different cultures of communication develop. This particularly applies in highly specialized fields, such as engineering.

Our ability to flexibly and successfully move from one context to another helps us along in building successful careers and allows us to feel positive about our private lives.

However, this is not always simple. For example:

            If we are part of a context in which many conflicts arise

            If we have to switch between different contexts frequently

            Or if, on the one hand, complicated facts and data are our main focus but on the other hand, we have to communicate them to people who are not familiar with the subject. Maybe we even have to win their attention in order to help along our causes.

Oftentimes, this leads to misunderstandings. There also might be a lack of openness or willingness to embrace conflict. This might make it difficult for us to reach our goals. To be able to reflect on the way we communicate, to identify patterns of communication and the ability to actively build positive relationships through communication are useful skills to help overcome those obstacles..

• Knoblauch, H. (1995). Kommunikationskultur: Die kommunikative Konstruktion kultureller Kontexte (Materiale Soziologie, Band 5). de Gruyter.
• Geert Hofstede, Geert Jan Hofstede, Michael Minkov. (2010). Cultures and Organizations - Software Of The Mind:Intercultural Cooperation and Its Importance for Survival. McGraw-Hill Education.
• Bay, Rolf H. (2006) Erfolgreiche Gespräche durch aktives Zuhören. Ehningen. Expert-Verlag.
• Cohn, Ruth (1975). Von der Psychoanalyse zur Themenzentrierten Interaktion. Stuttgart. Klett - Cotta
• Fengler, Jörg (1998) Feedback geben. Weinheim. Beltz.
• Lumma, Klaus (2006). Die Teamfibel oder das Einmaleins der Team- & Gruppenqualifizierung im sozialen und betrieblichen Bereich. Windmühle.
• Spies, Stefan. (2010). Der  Gedanke lenkt den Körper: Körpersprache - Erfolgsstrathegien eines Regisseurs. Hoffmann und Campe.

The seminar LITERATURE AND CULTURE investigates what culture is, especially what characterises epistemic cultures.

Culture is to be understood as the creative response to a given situation and the capacity to integrate inputs and influences, therefore as an ongoing process of permanent readjustment and learning, and by no means as a fixed identity in terms of an “essence”.

There is a growing awareness that Europe cannot lay claim to possess the ultimate standards of knowledge.

A topography of our contemporary world is to be sketched by highlighting its historical and cultural premises.

For more information please refer to the German description and the StudIP.

Je nach Thematik des Semesters wird eine spezifische
Literatur-Liste erstellt.

cf. StudIP

The world wide walkover of the internet dramatically changed the perception of classical media like newspapers, magazines and even TV. In this seminar the reasons of and the consequences for the dramatic changes regarding our information habits will be analyzed and discussed. Has the media expert Neil Postman been right, when he one said, that we all one day will be „overnewsed but underinformed“?

Keeping a close eye on the real challenges of journalism, the seminar will discuss the standards of ethics in politics and media.

Wird im Seminar genannt

Scientists and engineers neither just strive for truths and scientific laws, nor are they working in a space far from politics.  Science and engineering have contributed to what we now call the Anthropocene, the first time in the history of mankind when essential cycles of the earth system, e.g. carbon cycle, climate system, are heavily influenced or even shattered. Furthermore, Peak oil is indicating the end of cheap fossil energy thus triggering the search for alternatives such as biomass.

Systems of knowledge, science and technology in the OECD countries have since roughly 30 years increasingly become divided. On the one hand new technologies such as modern biotechnology, IT or nanotechnology are developing rapidly, bringing about many innovations for industry, agriculture, and consumers. On the other hand scientific studies from earth, environmental, climate change, agricultural and social sciences deliver increasingly robust evidence on more or less severe impacts on society, environment, global equity, and economy resulting from innovations during the last 50 years. Technological innovation thus is no longer an uncontested concept. And many protest movements demonstrate that the introduction of new or the enlargement of existing technologies (e.g. airports, railway stations, highways, high-voltage power lines surveillance) isn’t at all a matter of course.

It is important to bear in mind the fact that all processes of technological innovation are made by humans, individually and collectively. Industrial, social, and political organizations as actors from the local to global level of communication, deliberation, and decision making interact in diverse arenas, struggling to promote their respective corporate and/or political agenda. So innovations are as well a problem of technology as a problem of politics. Innovation and technology policies aren’t the same in all countries. We can observe conceptual and practical variations.

Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro Agenda 21 constitutes a normative umbrella, indicating Sustainable Development (SD) as core cluster of earth politics on all levels from local to global. Meanwhile other documents such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) have complemented the SD agenda. SD can be interpreted as operationalization of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 by the General Assembly of the United Nations and since amended many times. 

Engineers and scientists as professionals can’t avoid to become confronted with many non-technical and non-disciplinary items, challenges, and dilemmas. So they have to choose between alternative options for action, as individuals and as members of organizations or employees. Therefore the seminar will address core elements of the complex interrelations between science, society and politics. Reflections on experiences of participants - e.g. from other countries as Germany - during the seminar are very welcome.

The goals of the seminar include:

• Raising awareness and increasing knowledge about the political implications of scientific work and institutions;
• Improving the understanding of different concepts and designs of innovation and technology policies;
• Increasing knowledge about the status and perspectives of sustainable development as framework concept for technological and scientific progress;
• Understanding core elements of recent arguments, conflicts, and crises on technological innovations, e.g. geo-engineering or bio-economy;
• Improving the understanding of scientists’ responsibility for impacts of their professional activities;
• Embedding individual professional responsibility in social and political contexts.

The seminar will deal with current problems from areas such as innovation policy, energy, food systems, and raw materials. Issues will include the future of energy, food security and electronics. Historical issues will also be addressed.

The seminar will start with a profound overarching introduction. Issues will be introduced by a short presentation and a Q & A session, followed by group work on selected problems. All participants will have to prepare a presentation during the weekend seminar. The seminar will use inter alia interactive tools of teaching such as focus groups, simulations and presentations by students. Regular and active participation is required at all stages.

Scientists often like to believe that their work is non-political. Within this seminar we want to demonstrate how deeply both are interconnected and converged. Not only, scientific guidance is often needed to take a political decision but also scientific outcomes are a sub-ject to political interpretation. Also, politics are significantly influencing scientific progress by framing research agendas and by funding decisions.

Wird im Seminar genannt

Scientists often like to believe that their work is non-political. Within this seminar we want to demonstrate how deeply both are interconnected and converged. Not only, scientific guidance is often needed to take a political decision but also scientific outcomes are a sub-ject to political interpretation. Also, politics are significantly influencing scientific progress by framing research agendas and by funding decisions.

During this seminar we would like to show the different range of influences - scientific, economic, social, environmental, ethical/normative, security-related - affecting decision-making on science and politics. Using case studies on current debates on food security, public health, nuclear energy and terrorism to discuss the interrelation between science and politics illuminating the role of various actors in this process, such as:

• Governments,

• International organizations,

• Scientific associations,

• Industry,

• Civil society, and

• Individual scientists.

The guiding questions will be:

• How does and should science influence politics?

• How does and should politics influence science?

In order to take responsibility for the consequences of scientific work, engineers and scientists increasingly need to acknowledge the political dimension of their work and their role in the political process. We will address this political dimension of scientific work by discussing:

• Biographies and motivations of famous scientists,

• Individual responsibility of scientists for the implications of their work, and

• The role of codes of conduct as guidelines for responsible behaviour.

The goals of the seminar include:

• Raising awareness and increasing knowledge about the political dimensions of scientific work,

• Providing guidelines for evaluating political implications of scientific research,

• Improving the understanding of scientists’ and engineers’ responsibility for the results of their professional activities,

• Taking decisions at the institutional, national and international level about rules and regulations concerning scientific conduct, and

• Choosing arguments and defending positions in situations of conflicting interests.

The seminar will use current issues, such as dilemmas in the life sciences or bio fuels to demonstrate the problematic relationship between science and politics. The seminar, however, does not focus on providing in-depth knowledge of these current issues. We strongly discourage students that have participated in an “Ethics for Engineers” seminar to take this course, because the contents of the two seminars overlap.

Issues will be introduced by short presentations and a Q&A session, followed by group work on selected problems. All participants will have to prepare a presentation. Those requiring a graded certificate (“Schein”) additionally have to write a 3-4 page paper on selected issues. The seminar will use interactive tools of teaching such as role playing and simulations. Group work and active participation is expected at all stages of the seminar.

will be announced in lecture

wird im Seminar bekannt gegeben

The group project: TUHH goes Circular addresses environmental challenges and studies non-technical aspects that support the circular economy and environmental initiatives. Topics are to be chosen matching the general scope of environmental challenges, i.e. the challenges of rising resource consumption and waste production. In a practical group task, students will gain experience in the research, design and execution of a sustainability action plan. Important aspects of action plan should be supported by scientific evidence and improved upon based on constructive feedback. In addition, students will be introduced to the importance of high-quality science communication for ecologically and socially sustainable development.

Wird im Seminar bekannt gegeben

Will be announced in lecture.

Desolate landscapes, destruction, violence - these are usually our first associations when we think of dystopias. But it is not that obvious. At first we often see an almost utopian-looking world without disease, without hunger, without poverty, in which many of our current problems have been solved. But the idyll is illusory and has its price.

What does this price look like? The seminar will focus on films in which technical progress and the development of artificial intelligence have opened up almost unlimited possibilities for people - to improve their living conditions, but also to gain complete control over them.

Who carries out this control? Is an individual life still possible? What about democratic structures? Do these films show us our future? How much freedom do we want to give up for a life that seems safe and carefree at first sight? And: Why are there no more social utopias? These questions, among others, will be focused in the discussion.

Wird im Seminar bekannt gegeben.

This seminar is intended to enable and promote social engagement for refugees and migrants and the social learning that goes along with it.

The term "social commitment for refugees" means active cooperation and participation in projects, initiatives or organizations that aim at supporting refugees/migrants in Germany. The recognition of activities within the framework of projects, initiatives or organizations with anti-democratic objectives is excluded.

The goal is "social learning within the framework of social commitment": On the one hand, this includes the acquisition or deepening of competencies on the part of the students through their commitment in the above-mentioned area; on the other hand, it includes the support/promotion/learning of the refugees/migrants through the competencies of the students.

In this course, students independently look for social projects in the above-mentioned sense and commit themselves for at least 50 hours. Previous social commitment in the above-mentioned area can be taken into account.

In this course, students engage in social projects for at least 50h. Previous social commitment in this field can be taken into account. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to exchange information with other students from the Social Learning seminars on their voluntary activities.

The participants will be closely accompanied and advised by the course instructor, especially in the search and selection of a suitable activity. Compulsory 20h of present teaching including consultation enable the students to reflect on the learning situation on site as well as their own competences in a reflection work / written elaboration

Obligatory 10 h of presence teaching including consulting time enable students to reflect the learning situation on site and their own competence in a structured and successful way, either accompanying or following their involvement in a reflection work / written elaboration  to be able to identify and evaluate their own learning process.

In addition, the participants are given the opportunity to specifically exchange information with other students from the Master's programs about their social activities.

Wird im Seminar bekannt gegeben.

Will be announced in lecture.

This seminar is intended promote social engagement in the field of ecological, economic and social sustainability and the accompanying social learning. "Social Engagement for Sustainability" means active cooperation and participation in projects, initiatives or organisations which aim to preserve or improve living conditions and environment for present and future generations, e.g. conservation of resources, nature protection or strengthening fair trade. Activities in projects, initiatives or organisations with anti-democratic objectives and in political parties are not accepted. In this course, students are volunteering in social projects for at least 32 hours. Previous social engagement in this field can be considered. In addition, participants are given the opportunity to exchange information with other students from the Social Learning seminars on their voluntary service. The participants will be closely accompanied and advised by the instructor, especially during the search and selection of a suitable activity. Obligatory 28 hours of presence teaching including counselling time enable students to critically reflect on their commitment. The focus is on the effects in society.

This seminar is intended to promote social engagement in the field of natural- and technical history and the associated social learning.

"Social commitment to preservation of historical cultural assets" means the active participation in projects, initiatives or organizations whose aim is to preserve natural-, social- and technological historical cultural assets. Possible contacts are natural history- and technology museums as well as monument protection foundations, which look after historic buildings, ships and port facilities or underground buildings. Activities in projects, initiatives or organisations with anti-democratic objectives and in political parties are not accepted.

In this course, students engage in social projects for at least 42h. Previous social commitment in this field can be taken into account. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to exchange information with other students from the Social Learning seminars on their voluntary activities.

The participants will be closely accompanied and advised by the course instructor, especially in the search and selection of a suitable activity. Compulsory 18h of present teaching including consultation enable the students to reflect on the learning situation on site as well as their own competences in a reflection work / written elaboration.

The world wide walkover of the internet dramatically changed the perception of classical media like newspapers, magazines and even TV. In this seminar the reasons of and the consequences for the dramatic changes regarding our information habits will be analyzed and discussed:

Taking a close look at the Middle East the political impact of the new media´s triumphal procession will be assessed and evaluated. How come that Twitter and Facebook on one hand facilitated the so called Arabic  Spring and caused hope for the rise of democracy in the region, while on the other hand the revolutionaries failed so dramatically - at least for now.

Keeping a close  eye on both fields, the Media and the Middle East, the seminar will discuss the standards of ethics in politics and journalism.

Wird im Seminar angegeben und besprochen.

Will be announced in the lecture.

More than half world’s population live in cities. The UN estimates that by 2030 the figure will rise to 5 billion people. Cities are booming and „Urbanity“ is en vogue. But what is „Urbanity“? The specifics take on a tangible form when looking at the connections between people, buildings, materials, history and current affairs. This assemblage interlaces - at times invisibly - with technology. This seminar intensifies the view of properties, characteristics and qualities of cities. Various methods and perspectives of urban research from Social Science, Geography, Material Culture Studies, Art History and Cultural Anthropology will be presented.

Wird im Seminar bekannt gegeben.

Over the centuries, the philosophy is lined up as a discipline that provides complex and universal answers to contemporary history and circumstances. Often, she could design utopias that have led the way for political upheaval. While all scientific disciplines are subject to an increasing differentiation, the philosophy in the second half of the 20th century has lost its claim to universality. But what then are the topics of the philosophy of the 20th and 21st century and what impact have philosophical theories for processes of change?

We will provide an overview of Western philosophies of the 20th and 21st century. and take a critical look at the self-understanding of philosophy.

Gerhardt Schweppenhäuser: Kritische Theorie, Stuttgart 2010

Postmoderne und Dekonstruktion, Texte französischer Philosophen der Gegenwart, hrsg. von Peter Engelmann, Reclam UB 8668

Thomas Rentsch: Philosophie des 20. Jhdts. Von Husserl bis Derrida, München 2014

Geschichte der Philosophie in Text und Darstellung, Bd. 8=20 Jhdt.

Reclam UB 9918

Geschichte der Philosophie in Text und Darstellung, Bd. 9= Gegenwart

Reclam UB 18267

The course is aimed at Master students who are planning to write their thesis, want to pursue their PhD or intend to present their research results at conferences and in journals. The course is structured on different levels: 1. searching, 2. presenting with words, slides and pictures and 3. practical appliance. The course refers to the work environment at university as well as in research groups and enterprises. In the course of the seminar, the participants become acquainted with various methods and theories on the subject. Furthermore, the methods and theories will be put into practice, reflected upon and discussed as part of the seminar.

Ascheron, Klaus: Die Kunst des wissenschaftlichen Präsentierens und Publizierens. Ein Praxisleitfaden für junge Wissenschaftler. München 2007.

Der Autor, Naturwissenschaftler, erklärt aufgrund seiner langjährigen und internationalen Erfahrung worauf es beim wissenschaftlichen Präsentieren (und Schreiben) ankommt. Aus seinem ganzheitlichen Ansatz heraus gibt er klare und hilfreiche Tipps für ein erfolgreiches und korrektes Darstellen im wissenschaftlichen Kontext.

Eufinger, Günther: Dokumente perfekt gestalten. München 2007.

Der Autor geht in dem kompakten Band auf die Schlüsselkompetenzen für erfolgreiches Präsentieren ein, die er aufgrund langjähriger praktischer Erfahrungen definiert. Darunter wird die Power-Point-Präsentation eingehend behandelt, wobei das in den weiteren Kapiteln dargestellte Basiswissen auch für PPP anzuwenden ist.

Feuerbacher, Bernd: Professionell Präsentieren in den Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften. Weinheim 2009.

Ansprechender, klar strukturierter Band, der auf die Unterschiede zwischen mündlichem Vortrag und schriftlichen Ausdruck eingeht sowie zusätzlich den Schwerpunkt auf die Power-Point-Präsentation legt. Wie im Titel angegeben zwar mit Betonung der Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften, aber in der Beschreibung rhetorischen Auftretens allgemeingültig formuliert.

Hug, Theo (Hrsg.): Wie kommt Wissenschaft zu Wissen, Band 1: Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten. Hohengehren 2001.

Weitreichende Einführung, die bereits in den späteren Praxisbereich übergreift. Intensive Behandlung der internetbezogenen Arbeit.

Kremer, Bruno P.: Vom Referat bis zur Abschlussarbeit. Naturwissenschaftliche Texte perfekt produzieren, präsentieren und publizieren. 5. Aufl. 2018. Berlin, Heidelberg (Imprint: Springer Spektrum).

Der Autor schreibt mit langjähriger Erfahrung. Der Band, wie im Titel formuliert auf die Naturwissenschaften zugeschnitten, informiert umfassend, ist sehr gut gegliedert und verständlich geschrieben, sozusagen eine Werkstattanleitung, praxisnah und ermunternd.

Prexl, Lydia: Mit digitalen Quellen arbeiten: richtig zitieren aus Datenbanken, E-Books, YouTube & Co. 3., aktualisierte und überarbeitete Auflage, Paderborn, Stuttgart 2019 (UTB) https://elibrary.utb.de/doi/book/10.36198/9783838550725 (Lizenzpflichtig)

Die Autorin schildert in kleinen Schritten das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten mit Betonung des digitalen Anteils wie E-Books, E-Journals, Social-Media-Einträgen, Datenbanken und anderen elektronische Quellen. Vor allem bei der Frage nach der Verwendbarkeit und Zitierfähigkeit gibt dieser Ratgeber Lösungen ebenso wie zur Vermeidung von Plagiaten, sowie der bibliographischen Angabe, auch bei Unvollständigkeit.

Pöhm, Matthias: Präsentieren Sie noch oder faszinieren Sie schon? Der Irrtum PowerPoint. 6. Aufl. Heidelberg 2009.

Als Coach und Moderator bietet der Autor Tipps zur erfolgreichen Präsentation, die - wie er provokant im Titel formuliert - ohne PowerPoint auskommen soll, denn er setzt auf die Emotion als Kommunikationsmittel. Damit wird deutlich, dass er sich mehr im verkaufsorientierten als im wissenschaftlichen Bereich ansiedelt.

Pukas, Dietrich: Lernmanagement. Einführung in Lern- und Arbeitstechniken. 3. aktual. Aufl. Rinteln 2008.

Übersichtliches und umfassendes Kompendium zu den zahlreichen Fragen des Lernens und wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens. Zunächst wirtschaftswissenschaftlich orientiert, was auch durch die Struktur sowie die Tabellen und Diagramme deutlich wird, hat der Band durchaus allgemeine Gültigkeit. Darüber hinaus werden praxisorientierte Hinweise gegeben.

Reynolds, Garr: Zen oder die Kunst der Präsentation. München u.a. 2010.

Der Autor kommt aus dem Designbereich und bietet somit Stilmittel zur Gestaltung der PPP an. Wie im Titel angedeutet sind für ihn die Mittel der Konzentration auf das Wesentliche, der Ruhe und Einfachheit von entscheidender Bedeutung.

Rost, Friedrich: Lern- und Arbeitstechniken für das Studium. 8., überarb. u. aktual. Aufl. Wiesbaden 2018.

Ausführliche Vermittlung von Arbeitstechniken der Stoffermittlung, der Stoffverarbeitung, der Stoffsammlung, des informativen Schreibens, des Sprechens und Redens mit Berücksichtigung der computergestützten Arbeit und einem Anhang zu Ausdruck und Grammatik der deutschen Sprache.

Sesink, Werner: Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten: inklusive E-Learning, Web-Recherche, digitale Präsentation u.a. 9., vollständ. überarb. u. aktual. Aufl. München 2014.

Arbeitshilfe mit Betonung auf der Computer-Verwendung. Erklärung des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens und der Vorarbeiten wie Literatursuche und persönlicher Materialsammlung. Beschreibung des Abfassens einer schriftlichen Arbeit, auch Protokoll, Thesenpapier und Klausur. Ausführliche Behandlung der computergestützten Arbeit, vor allem auch des Textformatierens und der Textverarbeitung in der Studienpraxis.

Spoun, Sascha und Dominik B. Domnik: Erfolgreich studieren. Ein Handbuch für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftler. München u.a. 2005.

Pearson-Studium. Handlicher Band, der Selbstorganisation als Erfolg versprechende Grundlage für das Studium sowie Techniken des Recherchierens, Lesens und Darstellens beschreibt. Durch die Konzentration auf das Wesentliche wird der Intensität und Kürze des Bachelor- und Masterstudiums Rechnung getragen und ein Leitfaden für die Bewältigung des workloads gegeben.

Theisen, Manuel R.: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten. Technik, Methodik, Form. 17., aktual. u. bearb. Aufl. München 2017.

Zielgerichtete Beschreibung des Arbeitsprozesses von der Planung bis zum Druck und der Präsentation. Alle Stufen werden ausführlich, detailliert und in sinnvoller Reihenfolge beschrieben, wobei einzelne Kapitel auch für sich genommen werden können. Klar, übersichtlich, grundlegend. Der Autor ist in der Betriebswirtschaftslehre beheimatet.

Wolpert, Lewis: Unglaubliche Wissenschaft. Frankfurt a. M. 2004.

Der Autor, Naturwissenschaftler, vermittelt aufgrund seiner lebenslang gewonnenen Erfahrung den Weg zur wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnis durch Aufzeigen der grundlegenden Frageprinzipien und des wissenschaftlichen, sprich nachvollziehbaren und beweisfähigen Denkens. Der Band ist in der Reihe „Die Andere Bibliothek“ erschienen, mit der Herausgeber Hans Magnus Enzensberger ein Kompendium der Welt- und Wissensliteratur eigener Prägung schafft. Der Band regt zum unkonventionellen Denken an.

• Interfaces in MPF (boundary layers, surfactants)
• Hydrodynamics & pressure drop in Film Flows
• Hydrodynamics & pressure drop in Gas-Liquid Pipe Flows
• Hydrodynamics & pressure drop in Bubbly Flows
• Mass Transfer in Film Flows
• Mass Transfer in Gas-Liquid Pipe Flows
• Mass Transfer in Bubbly Flows
• Reactive mass Transfer in Multiphase Flows
• Film Flow: Application Trickle Bed Reactors
• Pipe Flow: Application Turbular Reactors
• Bubbly Flow: Application Bubble Column Reactors

Brauer, H.: Grundlagen der Einphasen- und Mehrphasenströmungen. Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau, Frankfurt (M), 1971.
Clift, R.; Grace, J.R.; Weber, M.E.: Bubbles, Drops and Particles, Academic Press, New York, 1978.
Fan, L.-S.; Tsuchiya, K.: Bubble Wake Dynamics in Liquids and Liquid-Solid Suspensions, Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Chemical Engineering, Boston, USA, 1990.
Hewitt, G.F.; Delhaye, J.M.; Zuber, N. (Ed.): Multiphase Science and Technology. Hemisphere Publishing Corp, Vol. 1/1982 bis Vol. 6/1992.
Kolev, N.I.: Multiphase flow dynamics. Springer, Vol. 1 and 2, 2002.
Levy, S.: Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems. Verlag John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1999.
Crowe, C.T.: Multiphase Flows with Droplets and Particles. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla, 1998.

In this Problem-Based Learning unit the students have to design a multiphase reactor for a fast chemical reaction concerning optimal hydrodynamic conditions of the multiphase flow. 

The four students in each team have to:

• collect and discuss material properties and equations for design from the literature,
• calculate the optimal hydrodynamic design,
• check the plausibility of the results critically,
• write an exposé with the results.

This exposé will be used as basis for the discussion within the oral group examen of each team.

• Introduction - Transport Processes in Chemical Engineering
• Molecular Heat- and Mass Transfer: Applications of Fourier's and Fick's Law
• Convective Heat and Mass Transfer: Applications in Process Engineering
• Unsteady State Transport Processes: Cooling & Drying
• Transport at fluidic Interfaces: Two Film, Penetration, Surface Renewal
• Transport Laws & Balance Equations  with turbulence, sinks and sources
• Experimental Determination of Transport Coefficients
• Design and Scale Up of Reactors for Heat- and Mass Transfer
• Reactive Mass Transfer 
  
• Processes with Phase Changes – Evaporization and Condensation 
• Radiative Heat Transfer - Fundamentals
• Radiative Heat Transfer - Solar Energy
  

1. Baehr, Stephan: Heat and Mass Transfer, Wiley 2002.
2. Bird, Stewart, Lightfood: Transport Phenomena, Springer, 2000.
3. John H. Lienhard: A Heat Transfer Textbook,  Phlogiston Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2008.
4. Myers: Analytical Methods in Conduction Heat Transfer, McGraw-Hill, 1971.
5. Incropera, De Witt: Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, Wiley, 2002.
6. Beek, Muttzall: Transport Phenomena, Wiley, 1983.
7. Crank: The Mathematics of Diffusion, Oxford, 1995. 
8. Madhusudana: Thermal Contact Conductance, Springer, 1996.
9. Treybal: Mass-Transfer-Operation, McGraw-Hill, 1987.

   
   
   

   
   

1. Process optimization
   Application areas
   Formulation of constrained optimization
   Solving strategy
   Classes of optimization tasks
   
2. Process control
   Typical control functions of equipment and apparatus in process engineering
   Structures of control systems
   Plantwide control
3. Process Modeling
   Process models (steady state and dynamic behaviour)
   Degrees of freedom
   Examples from industrial practice
4. Process simulation
   Structured approach
   Numerical methods
   Flowsheeting
   Solution methods
   Examples for experimental validation in industrial practice
   Application of flowsheet simulation
5. Plant design and construction
   Introduction
   Industrial project implementation
   Project execution: Applied aspects in industrial use
   critical path method

Literatur (Planung und Bau von Produktionsanlagen): 

G. Barnecker, Planung und Bau verfahrenstechnischer Anlagen, Springer Verlag, 2001

F.P. Helmus, Anlagenplanung, Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim, 2003

E. Klapp, Apparate- und Anlagentechnik, Springer -Verlag,  Berlin, 1980

P. Rinza, Projektmanagement: Planung, Überwachung und Steuerung von technischen

und nichttechnischen Vorhaben, Düsseldorf,VDI-Verlag, 1994

K. Sattler, W. Kasper, Verfahrentechnische Anlagen, Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim, 2000

G.H. Vogel, Verfahrensentwicklung, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2002

K.H. Weber, Inbetriebnahme verfahrenstechnischer Anlagen, VDI Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1996

E. Wegener, Montagegerechte Anlagenplanung, Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim, 2003

1. Brauer, H.: Grundlagen der Einphasen- und Mehrphasenströmungen. Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau, Frankfurt (M), 1971.
2. Brauer, H.; Mewes, D.: Stoffaustausch einschließlich chemischer Reaktion. Frankfurt: Sauerländer 1972.
3. Crowe, C. T.: Engineering fluid mechanics. Wiley, New York, 2009.
4. Durst, F.: Strömungsmechanik: Einführung in die Theorie der Strömungen von Fluiden. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.
5. Fox, R.W.; et al.: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics. J. Wiley & Sons, 1994.
6. Herwig, H.: Strömungsmechanik: Eine Einführung in die Physik und die mathematische Modellierung von Strömungen. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2006.
7. Herwig, H.: Strömungsmechanik: Einführung in die Physik von technischen Strömungen: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2008.
8. Kuhlmann, H.C.:  Strömungsmechanik. München, Pearson Studium, 2007
9. Oertl, H.: Strömungsmechanik: Grundlagen, Grundgleichungen, Lösungsmethoden, Softwarebeispiele. Vieweg+ Teubner / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2009.
10. Schade, H.; Kunz, E.: Strömungslehre. Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 2007.
11. Truckenbrodt, E.: Fluidmechanik 1: Grundlagen und elementare Strömungsvorgänge dichtebeständiger Fluide. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.
12. Schlichting, H. : Grenzschicht-Theorie. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
13. van Dyke, M.: An Album of Fluid Motion. The Parabolic Press, Stanford California, 1882.  
14. White, F.: Fluid Mechanics, Mcgraw-Hill, ISBN-10: 0071311211, ISBN-13: 978-0071311212, 2011.
    

• Differential equations for momentum-, heat and mass transfer   
• Examples for simplifications of the Navier-Stokes Equations 
• Unsteady momentum transfer
  
• Free shear layer, turbulence and free jets
  
• Flow around particles - Solids Process Engineering
  
• Coupling of momentum and heat transfer - Thermal Process Engineering
  
• Rheology – Bioprocess Engineering
• Coupling of momentum- and mass transfer – Reactive mixing, Chemical Process Engineering 
• Flow threw porous structures - heterogeneous catalysis
  
• Pumps and turbines - Energy- and Environmental Process Engineering 
• Wind- and Wave-Turbines - Renewable Energy
• Introduction into Computational Fluid Dynamics
  
  

1. Brauer, H.: Grundlagen der Einphasen- und Mehrphasenströmungen. Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau, Frankfurt (M), 1971.
2. Brauer, H.; Mewes, D.: Stoffaustausch einschließlich chemischer Reaktion. Frankfurt: Sauerländer 1972.
3. Crowe, C. T.: Engineering fluid mechanics. Wiley, New York, 2009.
4. Durst, F.: Strömungsmechanik: Einführung in die Theorie der Strömungen von Fluiden. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.
5. Fox, R.W.; et al.: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics. J. Wiley & Sons, 1994.
6. Herwig, H.: Strömungsmechanik: Eine Einführung in die Physik und die mathematische Modellierung von Strömungen. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2006.
7. Herwig, H.: Strömungsmechanik: Einführung in die Physik von technischen Strömungen: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2008.
8. Kuhlmann, H.C.:  Strömungsmechanik. München, Pearson Studium, 2007
9. Oertl, H.: Strömungsmechanik: Grundlagen, Grundgleichungen, Lösungsmethoden, Softwarebeispiele. Vieweg+ Teubner / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2009.
10. Schade, H.; Kunz, E.: Strömungslehre. Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 2007.
11. Truckenbrodt, E.: Fluidmechanik 1: Grundlagen und elementare Strömungsvorgänge dichtebeständiger Fluide. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.
12. Schlichting, H. : Grenzschicht-Theorie. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
13. van Dyke, M.: An Album of Fluid Motion. The Parabolic Press, Stanford California, 1882.  

1. Real reactors (residence time distribution E(t), F(t)-curve, measurement of E(t) or F(t), residence time distribution of ideal reactors, modeling of real reactors, segregated flow model, tanks in series model, dispersion model, compartment models)

2. Heterogeneous catalysis (what is a catalyst, operation principle of a catalyst, volcano plot, homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, biocatalysis, physisorption and chemisorption, turn-over frequency (TOF), Sabatier's principle, Bronstedt-Evans-Polyani-relationship, Adsorption isotherms of single and multi-component systems, kinetic models of heterogeneous catalytic reactions, Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetics, Eley-Rideal kinetics, power law rate equations, kinetic measurements on heterogeneously catalyzed reactions in the laboratory , microkinetic modeling, catalyst characterization)

3. Diffusion in heterogeneous catalysis (diffusion regimes, Knudsen-diffusion, molecular diffusion, surface diffusion, single-file diffusion, reference systems, Stefan-Maxwell-Equations, Fick's law, pore effectiveness factor, impact of diffusion limitations in heterogeneous catalysis, Damköhler-relation, mass- and energy balance of heterogeneous catalytic reactors)

4. Laboratory measurements in heterogeneous catalysis (temperature, pressure, concentration, mass flow controllers, laboratory reactors, experimental design)

1. Vorlesungsfolien R. Horn

2. Skript zur Vorlesung F. Keil

3. M. Baerns, A. Behr, A. Brehm, J. Gmehling, H. Hofmann, U. Onken, A. Renken, Technische Chemie, Wiley-VCH

4. G. Emig, E. Klemm, Technische Chemie, Springer

5. A. Behr, D. W. Agar, J. Jörissen, Einführung in die Technische Chemie 

6. E. Müller-Erlwein, Chemische Reaktionstechnik 2012, 2. Auflage, Teubner Verlag

7. J. Hagen, Chemiereaktoren: Auslegung und Simulation, 2004, Wiley-VCH

8. H. S. Fogler, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Prentice Hall B

9. H. S. Fogler, Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Prentice Hall

10. O. Levenspiel, Chemical Reaction Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 1998 

11. L. D. Schmidt, The Engineering of Chemical Reactions, Oxford Univ. Press, 2009

12. J. B. Butt, Reaction Kinetics and Reactor Design, 2000, Marcel Dekker

13. R. Aris, Elementary Chemical Reactor Analysis, Dover Pubn. Inc., 2000

14. M. E. Davis, R. J. Davis, Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering, McGraw Hill 15. G. F. Froment, K. B. Bischoff, J. De Wilde, Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design, John Wiley & Sons, 2010                                                        

16. A. Jess, P. Wasserscheid, Chemical Technology  An Integrated Textbook, WILEY-VCH

17. C. G. Hill, An Introduction to Chemical Engineering Kinetics & Reactor Design, John Wiley & Sons

1. Real reactors (residence time distribution E(t), F(t)-curve, measurement of E(t) or F(t), residence time distribution of ideal reactors, modeling of real reactors, segregated flow model, tanks in series model, dispersion model, compartment models)

2. Heterogeneous catalysis (what is a catalyst, operation principle of a catalyst, volcano plot, homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, biocatalysis, physisorption and chemisorption, turn-over frequency (TOF), Sabatier's principle, Bronstedt-Evans-Polyani-relationship, Adsorption isotherms of single and multi-component systems, kinetic models of heterogeneous catalytic reactions, Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetics, Eley-Rideal kinetics, power law rate equations, kinetic measurements on heterogeneously catalyzed reactions in the laboratory , microkinetic modeling, catalyst characterization)

3. Diffusion in heterogeneous catalysis (diffusion regimes, Knudsen-diffusion, molecular diffusion, surface diffusion, single-file diffusion, reference systems, Stefan-Maxwell-Equations, Fick's law, pore effectiveness factor, impact of diffusion limitations in heterogeneous catalysis, Damköhler-relation, mass- and energy balance of heterogeneous catalytic reactors)

4. Laboratory measurements in heterogeneous catalysis (temperature, pressure, concentration, mass flow controllers, laboratory reactors, experimental design)

1. Vorlesungsfolien R. Horn

2. Skript zur Vorlesung F. Keil

3. M. Baerns, A. Behr, A. Brehm, J. Gmehling, H. Hofmann, U. Onken, A. Renken, Technische Chemie, Wiley-VCH

4. G. Emig, E. Klemm, Technische Chemie, Springer

5. A. Behr, D. W. Agar, J. Jörissen, Einführung in die Technische Chemie 

6. E. Müller-Erlwein, Chemische Reaktionstechnik 2012, 2. Auflage, Teubner Verlag

7. J. Hagen, Chemiereaktoren: Auslegung und Simulation, 2004, Wiley-VCH

8. H. S. Fogler, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Prentice Hall B

9. H. S. Fogler, Essentials of Chemical Reaction Engineering, Prentice Hall

10. O. Levenspiel, Chemical Reaction Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 1998 

11. L. D. Schmidt, The Engineering of Chemical Reactions, Oxford Univ. Press, 2009

12. J. B. Butt, Reaction Kinetics and Reactor Design, 2000, Marcel Dekker

13. R. Aris, Elementary Chemical Reactor Analysis, Dover Pubn. Inc., 2000

14. M. E. Davis, R. J. Davis, Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering, McGraw Hill 15. G. F. Froment, K. B. Bischoff, J. De Wilde, Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design, John Wiley & Sons, 2010                                                        

16. A. Jess, P. Wasserscheid, Chemical Technology  An Integrated Textbook, WILEY-VCH

17. C. G. Hill, An Introduction to Chemical Engineering Kinetics & Reactor Design, John Wiley & Sons

Execution and evaluation of several experiments in chemical reaction engineering.

* Calculation of error propagation and error analysis
* Steady state Wicke-Kallenbach measurements of diffusivities in a catalyst pellet
* Interaction of reaction and diffusion in a catalyst particle, dissociation of methanol on zinc oxide
* Mass transfer in gas/liquid system
* Stability of a CSTR (hydrolysis of acetic anhydride)

Skript zur Vorlesung, als Buch in der TU-Bibliothek

Praktikumsskript

Levenspiel, O.: Chemical reaction engineering; John Wiley & Sons, New York, 3. Ed., 1999 VTM 309(LB)

Smith, J. M.: Chemical Engineering Kinetics, McGraw Hill, New York, 1981.

Hill, C.: Chemical Engineering Kinetics & Reactor Design, John Wiley, New York, 1977.

Fogler, H. S. : Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering , Prentice Hall, 2006

M. Baerns, A. Behr, A. Brehm, J. Gmehling, H. Hofmann, U. Onken, A. Renken: Technische Chemie, VCH , 2006

G. F. Froment, K. B. Bischoff: Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design, Wiley, 1990

Design of bioreactors and peripheries:

• reactor types and geometry
• materials and surface treatment
• agitation system design
• insertion of stirrer
• sealings
• fittings and valves
• peripherals
• materials
• standardization
• demonstration in laboratory and pilot plant

Sterile operation:

• theory of sterilisation processes
• different sterilisation methods
• sterilisation of reactor and probes
• industrial sterile test, automated sterilisation
• introduction of biological material
• autoclaves
• continuous sterilisation of fluids
• deep bed filters, tangential flow filters
• demonstration and practice in pilot plant

Instrumentation and control:

• temperature control and heat exchange 
• dissolved oxygen control and mass transfer 
• aeration and mixing 
• used gassing units and gassing strategies
• control of agitation and power input 
• pH and reactor volume, foaming, membrane gassing

Bioreactor selection and scale-up:

• selection criteria
• scale-up and scale-down
• reactors for mammalian cell culture

Integrated biosystem:

• interactions and integration of microorganisms, bioreactor and downstream processing
• Miniplant technologies 

Team work with presentation:

• Operation mode of selected bioprocesses (e.g. fundamentals of batch, fed-batch and continuous cultivation)

• Storhas, Winfried, Bioreaktoren und periphere Einrichtungen, Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1994
• Chmiel, Horst, Bioprozeßtechnik; Springer 2011
• Krahe, Martin, Biochemical Engineering, Ullmann‘s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
• Pauline M. Doran, Bioprocess Engineering Principles, Second Edition, Academic Press, 2013
• Other lecture materials to be distributed  

Introduction to Biosystems Engineering (Exercise)

Experimental basis and methods for biosystems analysis

• Introduction to genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics
• More detailed treatment of metabolomics
• Determination of in-vivo kinetics
• Techniques for rapid sampling
• Quenching and extraction
• Analytical methods for determination of metabolite concentrations

Analysis, modelling and simulation of biological networks

• Metabolic flux analysis
• Introduction
• Isotope labelling
• Elementary flux modes
• Mechanistic and structural network models
• Regulatory networks
• Systems analysis
• Structural network analysis
• Linear and non-linear dynamic systems
• Sensitivity analysis (metabolic control analysis)

Modelling and simulation for bioprocess engineering

• Modelling of bioreactors
• Dynamic behaviour of bioprocesses 

Selected projects for biosystems engineering

• Miniaturisation of bioreaction systems
• Miniplant technology for the integration of biosynthesis and downstream processin
• Technical and economic overall assessment of bioproduction processes

E. Klipp et al. Systems Biology in Practice, Wiley-VCH, 2006

R. Dohrn: Miniplant-Technik, Wiley-VCH, 2006

G.N. Stephanopoulos et. al.: Metabolic Engineering, Academic Press, 1998

I.J. Dunn et. al.: Biological Reaction Engineering, Wiley-VCH, 2003

Lecture materials to be distributed

Introduction to Biosystems Engineering

Experimental basis and methods for biosystems analysis

• Introduction to genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics
• More detailed treatment of metabolomics
• Determination of in-vivo kinetics
• Techniques for rapid sampling
• Quenching and extraction
• Analytical methods for determination of metabolite concentrations

Analysis, modelling and simulation of biological networks

• Metabolic flux analysis
• Introduction
• Isotope labelling
• Elementary flux modes
• Mechanistic and structural network models
• Regulatory networks
• Systems analysis
• Structural network analysis
• Linear and non-linear dynamic systems
• Sensitivity analysis (metabolic control analysis)

Modelling and simulation for bioprocess engineering

• Modelling of bioreactors
• Dynamic behaviour of bioprocesses 

Selected projects for biosystems engineering

• Miniaturisation of bioreaction systems
• Miniplant technology for the integration of biosynthesis and downstream processin
• Technical and economic overall assessment of bioproduction processes

E. Klipp et al. Systems Biology in Practice, Wiley-VCH, 2006

R. Dohrn: Miniplant-Technik, Wiley-VCH, 2006

G.N. Stephanopoulos et. al.: Metabolic Engineering, Academic Press, 1998

I.J. Dunn et. al.: Biological Reaction Engineering, Wiley-VCH, 2003

Lecture materials to be distributed

In the Process Design Project the students have to design in teams an energy or process engineering plant by calculating and designing single plant components. The calculation of costs as well as the process safety is another important aspect of this course. Furthermore the approval procedures have to be taken into account.

1. Introduction to electrochemical energy conversion
2. Function and structure of electrolyte
3. Low-temperature fuel cell
   • Types
   • Thermodynamics of the PEM fuel cell
   • Cooling and humidification strategy
4. High-temperature fuel cell
   • The MCFC
   • The SOFC
   • Integration Strategies and partial reforming
5. Fuels
   • Supply of fuel
   • Reforming of natural gas and biogas
   • Reforming of liquid hydrocarbons
6. Energetic Integration and control of fuel cell systems

• Hamann, C.; Vielstich, W.: Elektrochemie 3. Aufl.; Weinheim: Wiley - VCH, 2003

• Basic concepts and tradable products in energy markets
• Primary energy markets
• Electricity Markets
• European Emissions Trading Scheme
• Influence of renewable energy
• Real options
• Risk management

Within the exercise the various tasks are actively discussed and applied to various cases of application.

1. Introduction to the deep geothermal use
2. Geological Basics I
3. Geological Basics II
4. Geology and thermal aspects
5. Rock Physical Aspects
6. Geochemical aspects
7. Exploration of deep geothermal reservoirs
   
8. Drilling technologies, piping and expansion
   
9. Borehole Geophysics
   
10. Underground system characterization and reservoir engineering
    
11. Microbiology and Upper-day system components
    
12. Adapted investment concepts, cost and environmental aspect

• Dipippo, R.: Geothermal Power Plants: Principles, Applications, Case Studies and Environmental Impact. Butterworth Heinemann; 3rd revised edition. (29. Mai 2012)
• www.geo-energy.org
• Edenhofer et al. (eds): Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation; Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• Kaltschmitt et al. (eds): Erneuerbare Energien: Systemtechnik, Wirtschaftlichkeit, Umweltaspekte. Springer, 5. Aufl. 2013.
• Kaltschmitt et al. (eds): Energie aus Erdwärme. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag; Auflage: 1999 (3. September 2001)
• Huenges, E. (ed.): Geothermal Energy Systems: Exploration, Development, and Utilization. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; Auflage: 1. Auflage (19. April 2010)

•Regional planning and decentralised systems

•Overview on innovative approaches

•In depth knowledge on advanced wastewater treatment options for different situations, for end-of-pipe and reuse

•Mathematical Modelling of Nitrogen Removal

•Exercises with calculations and design

Henze, Mogens:
Wastewater Treatment: Biological and Chemical Processes, Springer 2002, 430 pages

George Tchobanoglous, Franklin L. Burton, H. David Stensel:
Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse, Metcalf & Eddy
McGraw-Hill, 2004 - 1819 pages

Survey on advanced wastewater treatment

reuse of reclaimed municipal wastewater

Precipitation

Flocculation

Depth filtration

Membrane Processes

Activated carbon adsorption

Ozonation

"Advanced Oxidation Processes"

Disinfection

Metcalf & Eddy, Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse, McGraw-Hill, Boston 2003

Wassertechnologie, H.H. Hahn, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1987

Membranverfahren: Grundlagen der Modul- und Anlagenauslegung, T. Melin und R. Rautenbach, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2007

Trinkwasserdesinfektion: Grundlagen, Verfahren, Anlagen, Geräte, Mikrobiologie, Chlorung, Ozonung, UV-Bestrahlung, Membranfiltration, Qualitätssicherung, W. Roeske, Oldenbourg-Verlag, München 2006

Aggregate organic compounds (sum parameters)

Industrial wastewater

Processes for industrial wastewater treatment

Precipitation

Flocculation

Activated carbon adsorption

Recalcitrant organic compounds

Metcalf & Eddy, Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse, McGraw-Hill, Boston 2003

Wassertechnologie, H.H. Hahn, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1987

Membranverfahren: Grundlagen der Modul- und Anlagenauslegung, T. Melin und R. Rautenbach, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2007

Trinkwasserdesinfektion: Grundlagen, Verfahren, Anlagen, Geräte, Mikrobiologie, Chlorung, Ozonung, UV-Bestrahlung, Membranfiltration, Qualitätssicherung, W. Roeske, Oldenbourg-Verlag, München 2006

1. Basic laws and certification standards
2. Basics for calculations of pressurized vessels
3. Stress hypothesis
4. Selection of materials and fabrication processes
5. vessels with thin walls
6. vessels with thick walls
7. Safety installations
8. Safety analysis
   
   Applications:
   
   - subsea technology (manned and unmanned vessels)
   - steam vessels
   - heat exchangers
   - LPG, LEG transport vessels
   

1.      Introduction: Overview, achieving high pressure, range of parameters.

2.       Influence of pressure on properties of fluids: P,v,T-behaviour, enthalpy, internal energy,     entropy, heat capacity, viscosity, thermal conductivity, diffusion coefficients, interfacial tension.

3.      Influence of pressure on heterogeneous equilibria: Phenomenology of phase equilibria

4.      Overview on calculation methods for (high pressure) phase equilibria).
Influence of pressure on transport processes, heat and mass transfer.

5.      Separation processes at elevated pressures: Absorption, adsorption (pressure swing adsorption), distillation (distillation of air), condensation (liquefaction of gases)

6.      Supercritical fluids as solvents: Gas extraction, cleaning, solvents in reacting systems, dyeing, impregnation, particle formation (formulation)

7.      Reactions at elevated pressures. Influence of elevated pressure on biochemical systems: Resistance against pressure

Part III :  Industrial production

8.      Reaction : Haber-Bosch-process, methanol-synthesis, polymerizations; Hydrations, pyrolysis, hydrocracking; Wet air oxidation, supercritical water oxidation (SCWO)

9.      Separation : Linde Process, De-Caffeination, Petrol and Bio-Refinery

10.  Industrial High Pressure Applications in Biofuel and Biodiesel Production

11.  Sterilization and Enzyme Catalysis

12.  Solids handling in high pressure processes, feeding and removal of solids, transport within the reactor.

13.   Supercritical fluids for materials processing.

14.  Cost Engineering

After a successful completion of this module, the student should be able to

-         understand of the influences of pressure on properties of compounds, phase equilibria, and production processes.

-         Apply high pressure approches in the complex process design tasks

-         Estimate Efficiency of high pressure alternatives with respect to investment and operational costs

1.  Presence  (28 h)

2. Oral presentation of original scientific article (15 min) with written summary

3. Written examination and Case study 

    ( 2+3 : 32 h Workload)

60 hours total

Literatur:

Script: High Pressure Chemical Engineering.
G. Brunner: Gas Extraction. An Introduction to Fundamentals of Supercritical Fluids and the Application to Separation Processes. Steinkopff, Darmstadt, Springer, New York, 1994.

• Introduction/Overview on Properties of Supercritical Fluids (SCF)and their Application in Gas Extraction Processes
• Solubility of Compounds in Supercritical Fluids and Phase Equilibrium with SCF
• Extraction from Solid Substrates: Fundamentals, Hydrodynamics and Mass Transfer
• Extraction from Solid Substrates: Applications and Processes (including Supercritical Water)
• Countercurrent Multistage Extraction: Fundamentals and Methods, Hydrodynamics and Mass Transfer
• Countercurrent Multistage Extraction: Applications and Processes
• Solvent Cycle, Methods for Precipitation
• Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC): Fundamentals and Application
• Simulated Moving Bed Chromatography (SMB)
• Membrane Separation of Gases at High Pressures
• Separation by Reactions in Supercritical Fluids (Enzymes)

G. Brunner: Gas Extraction. An Introduction to Fundamentals of Supercritical Fluids and the Application to Separation Processes. Steinkopff, Darmstadt, Springer, New York, 1994.

• Participants Workshop: Design of the most attractive productive Town
• Keynote lecture and video
• The limits of Urbanization / Green Cities
• The tragedy of the Rural: Soil degradation, agro chemical toxification, migration to cities
• Global Ecovillage Network: Upsides and Downsides around the World
• Visit of an Ecovillage
• Participants Workshop: Resources for thriving rural areas, Short presentations by participants, video competion
• TUHH Rural Development Toolbox
  
• Integrated New Town Development
• Participants workshop: Design of New Towns: Northern, Arid and Tropical cases
• Outreach: Participants campaign
• City with the Rural: Resilience, quality of live and productive biodiversity
  
  

• Ralf Otterpohl 2013: Gründer-Gruppen als Lebensentwurf: "Synergistische Wertschöpfung in erweiterten Kleinstadt- und Dorfstrukturen", in „Regionales Zukunftsmanagement Band 7: Existenzgründung unter regionalökonomischer Perspektive, Pabst Publisher, Lengerich
• http://youtu.be/9hmkgn0nBgk (Miracle Water Village, India, Integrated Rainwater Harvesting, Water Efficiency, Reforestation and Sanitation)
• TEDx New Town Ralf Otterpohl: http://youtu.be/_M0J2u9BrbU

• Keynote lecture and video
• Water & Soil: Water availability as a consequence of healthy soils
• Water and it’s utilization, Integrated Urban Water Management
• Water & Energy, lecture and panel discussion pro and con for a specific big dam project
• Rainwater Harvesting on Catchment level, Holistic Planned Grazing, Multi-Use-Reforestation
• Sanitation and Reuse of water, nutrients and soil conditioners, Conventional and Innovative Approaches
  
• Why are there excreta in water? Public Health, Awareness Campaigns
  
• Rehearsal session, Q&A
  

• Montgomery, David R. 2007: Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, University of California Press
• Liu, John D.: http://eempc.org/hope-in-a-changing_climate/ (Integrated regeneration of the Loess Plateau, China, and sites in Ethiopia and Rwanda)
• http://youtu.be/9hmkgn0nBgk (Miracle Water Village, India, Integrated Rainwater Harvesting, Water Efficiency, Reforestation and Sanitation)

Butler, M (2004) Animal Cell Culture Technology - The basics, 2^nd ed. Oxford University Press

Ozturk SS, Hu WS (eds) (2006) Cell Culture Technology For Pharmaceutical and Cell-Based Therapies. Taylor & Francis Group, New York

Eibl, R.; D. Eibl; R. Pörtner; G. Catapano and P. Czermak: Cell and Tissue Reaction Engineering, Springer (2008). ISBN 978-3-540-68175-5

Pörtner R (ed) (2013) Animal Cell Biotechnology - Methods and Protocols. Humana Press

Butler, M (2004) Animal Cell Culture Technology - The basics, 2^nd ed. Oxford University Press

Ozturk SS, Hu WS (eds) (2006) Cell Culture Technology For Pharmaceutical and Cell-Based Therapies. Taylor & Francis Group, New York

Eibl, R.; D. Eibl; R. Pörtner; G. Catapano and P. Czermak: Cell and Tissue Reaction Engineering, Springer (2008). ISBN 978-3-540-68175-5

Pörtner R (ed) (2013) Animal Cell Biotechnology - Methods and Protocols. Humana Press

Lecture and PBL

- Methods in genetics / molecular cloning

- Industrial relevance of microbes and their biocatalysts

- Biotransformation at extreme conditions

- Genomics

- Protein engineering techniques

- Synthetic biology

Relevante Literatur wird im Kurs zur Verfügung gestellt.

Grundwissen in Molekularbiologie, Genetik, Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie erforderlich.

Lehrbuch: Brock - Mikrobiologie / Microbiology (Madigan et al.)

• History of microbiology and biotechnology
• Enzymes
• Molecular biology
• Fermentation
• Downstream Processing
  
• Industrial microbiological processes
• Technical enzyme application
• Biological Waste Water treatment 

Microbiology,  2013, Madigan, M., Martinko, J. M., Stahl, D. A., Clark, D. P. (eds.), formerly „Brock“, Pearson

Industrielle Mikrobiologie, 2012, Sahm, H., Antranikian, G., Stahmann, K.-P., Takors, R. (eds.) Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo. 

Angewandte Mikrobiologie, 2005, Antranikian, G. (ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo.

Numerical methods for Initial Value Problems

• single step methods
• multistep methods
• stiff problems
• differential algebraic equations (DAE) of index 1

Numerical methods for Boundary Value Problems

• multiple shooting method
• difference methods
• variational methods
  

• E. Hairer, S. Noersett, G. Wanner: Solving Ordinary Differential Equations I: Nonstiff Problems
• E. Hairer, G. Wanner: Solving Ordinary Differential Equations II: Stiff and Differential-Algebraic Problems
  

Bioeconomy is the production, utilization and conservation of biological resources, including related knowledge, science, technology, and innovation, to provide information products, processes, and services across all economic sectors aiming towards a sustainable biobased technology. In this course the significance of various topics including the production and processing of biomass, economics, logistic as well as management will be discussed. Technologies aiming at the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value-added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products (textiles, bioplastics, chemicals, pharmaceuticals) and bioenergy will be presented. Biological tools including microorganisms and enzymes will be introduced. This approach with a focus on chemical and process engineering will provide a smooth transition from crude oil-based industry to Sustainable Circular Bioeconomy taking into consideration the environmental issues. This sustainable use of renewable resources for industrial purposes will ensure environmental protection and a long-term balance of social and economic gains.

- Micro kinetics, formal kinetics, molecularity, reaction order, integrated rate laws

- Complex reactions, reversible reactions, consecutive reactions, parallel reactions, approximation methods: steady-state, pseudo-first order, numerical solution of rate equations , example : Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction

- Experimental methods of kinetics, integral approach, differential approach, initial rate method, method of half-life, relaxation methods

- Collision theory, Maxwell velocity distribution, collision numbers, line of centers model

- Transition state theory, partition functions of atoms and molecules, examples, calculating reaction equilibria on the basis of molecular data only, heats of reaction, calculating rates of reaction by means of statistical thermodynamics

- Kinetics of heterogeneous reactions, peculiarities of heterogeneous reactions, mean-field approximation, Langmuir adsorption isotherm, reaction mechanisms, Langmuir-Hinshelwood Mechanism, Eley-Rideal Mechanism, steady-state approximation, quasi-equilibrium approximation, most abundant reaction intermediate (MARI), reaction order, apparent activation energy, example: CO oxidation, transition state theory of surface reactions, Sabatier´s principle, sticking coefficient, parameter fitting

- Explosions, cold flames

J. I. Steinfeld, J. S. Francisco, W. L . Hase: Chemical Kinetics & Dynamics, Prentice Hall

K. J. Laidler: Chemical Kinetics, Harper & Row Publishers

R. K. Masel. Chemical Kinetics & Catalysis , Wiley

I. Chorkendorff,, J. W. Niemantsverdriet: Concepts of modern Catalysis and Kinetics, Wiley

• Basic values for optical systems and lighting technology
• Spectrum, black-bodies, color-perception
• Light-Sources und their characterization
• Photometrics
• Ray-Optics
• Matrix-Optics
• Stops, Pupils and Windows
• Light-field Technology
• Introduction to Wave-Optics
• Introduction to Holography

Introduction into polymer reaction engineering, free and controlled radical polymerization, coordination polymerization of olefins, ionic “living” polymerization, step polymerization (polyaddition, polycondensation), copolymerization, emulsion polymerization, specific challenges of the industrial implementation of polymerization reactions (viscosity increase, heat removal, scale-up, reactor safety, modelling of polymerization reactions and reactors), key competitive factors in polymer industry in Germany, EU and worldwide.

W. Keim: Kunststoffe - Synthese, Herstellungsverfahren, Apparaturen, 1. Auflage, Wiley-VCH, 2006

T. Meyer, J. Keurentjes: Handbook of Polymer Reaction Engineering, 2 Vol., 1. Ed., Wiley-VCH, 2005

A. Echte: Handbuch der technischen Polymerchemie, 1. Auflage, VCH-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1993

G. Odian: Principles of Polymerization, 4. Ed., Wiley-Interscience, 2004