Technical University Berlin

The course discusses topics including existing definitions of risk versus uncertainty and different probability concepts; history of existing probability concepts; ideas of man (Homo oeconomicus vs. Homo heuristicus); models of decision making under risk and uncertainty; analysis and design or decision processes and support; principles of risk communication and perception; and intervention under risk and uncertainty (“nudging” vs. “boosting”).

This course teaches the concepts of the behavior, structure, problems, modeling, materials and the forms of failure of lightweight structures. Students analyze lightweight structures, understand designs, and predict behavior responses of certain structures. The course utilizes several examples relating to aircraft structures to teach the concepts.

This course covers the fundamentals of generative computer graphics: homogeneous coordinates, rendering pipeline, and global illumination. Topics include input and output devices, transformations, raster algorithms, visibility, color, local illumination, global illumination, and textures.

This course is the second of two fluid mechanics courses that are taught concurrently in a single semester. Students take Fluid Mechanics I and then either Fluid Mechanics II (Higher Flow Level) or Fluid Mechanics II (Technique and Examples). The course discusses topics including hydrostatics, kinematics of fluids, streamline theory of inviscid fluids, momentum and angular momentum, movement of compressible fluids, Navier-Stokes equation of motion and its applications, vortices and boundary layer flows, turbulent flows, pipe flows, flow around bodies, and similarity laws of 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 offers a study of the fundamentals of aircraft aerodynamics. Topics include lift and drag, and aerodynamics of the wing and the tail units. The course examines theoretical, numerical, and experimental methods in aerodynamics. The course consists of lectures, and exercises in which theoretical and experimental exercises are reviewed. Students participate in an excursion to the wind tunnel on Technical University's campus. Students are required to have completed a fluid mechanics course as a prerequisite.

This course covers geometric basics of sensor orientation and object reconstruction, including homogeneous coordinates, projectivity and perspective, modelling of image formation, inner and outer orientation, orientation of uncalibrated and calibrated cameras, spatial resection, least-squares adjustment, orientation of the image pair, relative and absolute orientation, spatial triangulation, multi-view geometry, bundle block adjustment, image digitalization, and radiometric basics.