Academics
Faculty      Courses

Courses

Syllabi are for course approval and reference only. Students will receive up-to-date syllabi when their courses begin.

After completing Intensive German and The Social Nature of Technology, engineering and science students will enroll in three technical elective courses taught in English and continue to take German.

Students also participate in field trips to research institutions, technical museums, and companies to gain insight into the history, the present, and the future of engineering technologies. All courses are taught in English.

Required Courses

Students enroll in the following two courses. (Students who have studied German previously can enroll in a four-credit language class at the advanced beginner to intermediate levels, according to placement test results.) Each course carries four credits.

CAS LG 113 Intensive Beginning German
Part I: Eight-week intensive German course for beginners or according to placement test results. Introduction to grammar, vocabulary, and structure of German, emphasizing the basic communication skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Part II: Continuation of the study and practice of speaking, writing, listening, and reading German. Includes conversational dialogues, reading of short texts, grammar sessions, and compositions. Meets two hours a week for the remainder of the semester. 4 cr. Syllabus

CAS SO 315: The Social Nature of Technology
The course provides insights in the historical, cultural and social dimensions of technological development in Germany. It combines excursions to relevant facilities of the production, use and exposition of technological innovations with lectures and seminars on the relations between technology, innovations and industrialization in Germany. The course will be organized on the basis of excursions and seminars prepared by the students and lectures given by the instructor or guest lecturers. During the project part of the course, students are to prepare a dossier reflecting their experiences and insights gained during the excursion. Students´ work will be used as a basis for the lectures/seminars in the seminar part of the course. Syllabus

Part I: Field trips to designated museums, companies, and research institutions (once a week for six weeks).

Part II: Examines technology as a fundamental element of German society. The course includes lectures and seminars on the relation of science, technology, and society.

Elective Courses

Students choose three of the following technical courses taught in English:

CAS MA 226 Differential Equations
Prerequisite: CAS MA 225 or MA 230.
First-order linear and separable equations. Second-order equations and first-order systems. Linear equations and linearization. Numerical and qualitative analysis. Laplace transforms. Applications and modeling of real phenomena throughout. (Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS MA 231.) 4 cr. either semester. Syllabus

CAS PY 313 Waves and Modern Physics
Prerequisites: CAS PY 211 General Physics, CAS PY 212 General Physics, and CAS MA 124 Calculus II, or equivalents.
Focuses on waves and physical optics, relativistic mechanics, experimental foundations of quantum mechanics, atomic structure, physics of molecules and solids, atomic nuclei, and elementary particles. Taught in English. Freiesleben. 4 cr. Syllabus

ENG EK 307 Electric Circuit Theory
Prerequisites: ENG EK 125 Introduction to Engineering Computation; corequisite: CAS MA 226 Differential Equations, or equivalent. Introduction to electric circuit analysis and design; voltage, current, and power, element I-V curves, circuit laws and theorems; energy storage; frequency domain, frequency response, transient response, sinusoidal steady state and transfer functions; and operational amplifiers, design. Includes lab. Taught in English. Schwarz. 4 cr. Syllabus

ENG BE 209 Principles of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology
Prereq: high school biology and at least one semester of college chemistry. For biomedical engineers. Principles of cell and molecular biology and biochemistry emphasizing biomolecules, the flow of genetic information, cell structure and function, and cell regulation. Three hours lecture, three hours lab. 4 cr. 2nd semester. Course Syllabus      Lab Syllabus

CAS MA 242 Linear Algebra (Offered on an enrollment basis)
Corequisite: CAS MA 122 Calculus for the Life Sciences, CAS MA 124 Calculus II, CAS MA 127 Calculus: A Review, or CAS MA 129 Honors Calculus. Matrix algebra, solution of linear systems, determinants, Gaussian elimination, fundamental theory, row-echelon form. Vector spaces, bases, norms. Computer methods. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, canonical decomposition. Applications to differential and difference equation problems. (Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS MA 142 or ENG EK 102.) Antje Noack. 4 cr. either sem. Syllabus

ENG ME 304 Thermodynamics
Prereq: CAS PY 211; coreq: CAS MA 225.
Macroscopic treatment of the fundamental concepts of thermodynamic systems. Zeroth, first, and second laws; properties of simple compressible substances; entropy; energy availability; ideal gas mixtures and psychrometrics; and thermodynamic cyles. Application to engines, refrigeration systems, and energy conversion. Includes lab. 4 cr. either semester. Syllabus

Back to top

Faculty

Dr. Paula Antje Noack: studied mathematics at the Techinische Universität Dresden. Dr. Noack has worked at the TUD's Institute of Numerical Mathematics, and since 2004 she has worked and taught at the Institute of Scientific Computing. She has studied dynamical systems and chaos theory, as well as numerical analysis and optimal control for partial differential equestions. Dr. Noack teaches Linear Algebra for the Engineering Program.

Prof. Dr. Peter E. Dieter: PhD., Biology, Albert Ludwigs University, Frieberg, Germany. Having served as a research fellow in biochemistry at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and in cell biology at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Dr. Dieter is a member of the medical faculty at Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, and professor of biochemistry, Dean of Student Affairs, and Program Director of the Dresden-Harvard Education Alliance at TUD.

Prof. Dr. Hartwig Freiesleben: PhD, Nuclear Physics. Dr. Freiesleben is a professor of nuclear physics at the TUD.

Prof. Dr. Jost Halfmann PhD.: studied Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt/Main, earned his PhD in 1976, and his second PhD in 1981. Since November 1993 he has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Technology in Dresden. Halfmann was a Guest Professor in Winter Semester 1994/95 at the Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien), and in Spring Semester 2000 at the University of California, Berkeley and at the European College in Florenz (1996).

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schwarz: MSc, PhD, Dr.-Ing. habil. A professor of electrical engineering at the TUD, Dr. Schwarz has taught electrical field theory; signal, system and control theory; and signal processing at the TUD, and at the Engineering College in Mittweida/Germany. He is active in research of nonlinear dynamic circuits and systems.

Back to top