Technical University Berlin

This course for foreign students is designed to improve students’ language skills and vocabulary. Areas of focus include grammar, conversation, writing exercises, and listening and reading exercises. In addition, excursions are planned to introduce students to German culture. Students work with cultural and historical topics on an academic level and broaden their intercultural knowledge. They are introduced to independent learning methods and familiarize themselves with typical learning situations at German universities. In this class at the A1 level according to the CEFR, students learn basic vocabulary and grammatical structures as well as corresponding competencies in university-specific situations. The class takes intercultural and methodological aspects of foreign language learning into consideration, and students are introduced to German culture and society. The A1 level is split into two courses, the A1.1 course covers the first half of the level and the A1.2 course covers the second half of the level.

The course is the first of two fluid mechanics courses that are taught concurrently in a single semester. Students take Fluid Mechanics I and then either Fluid Mechanics II (Technique and Examples) or II (Higher Flow Level). This course discusses the fundamental concepts of fluid mechanics including hydrostatic and kinematic behavior of fluids, differential and integral laws of conservation, laminar and turbulent flow, and the theory behind fluid dynamics. The course consists of two hour lectures which review the course concepts, and two hour seminars in which students solve problems.

This course covers mathematics relating to differential equations. Topics include ordinary differential equations, systems of differential equations, Laplace transformations and applications, partial differential equations separable solutions, plane waves solutions, Bessel's Equation, Legendre's equation, dynamic systems and boundary eigenvalue problems. Techniques for solving differential equations are used in the context of application to fields of engineering.