Technical University Berlin

Cities around the world face rapid changes in their transportation systems with the advances in ICTs. Recent trends include on-demand and shared mobility modes and automation in public and private transportation systems; these new solutions impact the transport industry, infrastructures management, as well as political agenda. Focusing on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), a new “Smart Mobility” system and real-time network management have been developed as potential solutions to mitigate congestion issues and improve network efficiency.
This course brings a general overview of sustainable and smart transportation in the future smart cities in terms of i) industry trends, business models, technical, and urban design aspects. Based on different European case studies especially in Germany, this program explores innovative methods which Smart cities are currently dealing with as well as future solutions. The course combines theoretical and practical learning materials for transportation modeling and simulation techniques, with a focus on Smart Mobility and ITS solutions and real-world applications. Students review the most well-known traffic simulation models, learn about demand forecasting methods, business, social, and political issues and related analytical techniques. The course examines the concept of smart mobilities and how their business models could grow by analyzing case studies and companies. The course requires students to have basic knowledge of the fundamentals of mathematics and statistics as a prerequisite.

The course explores gaming and virtual and augmented reality. The course discusses topics including what are extended, augmented, virtual, and mixed reality; what tools are used to develop MR applications and how can they be set up; practical deployment of an app on students' devices; introduction to programming for extended reality with Unity (scene setup, interactions); what is User Experience (UX), what is UX design; UX Design and important influencing factors (human/context/system); what is user testing, why is it needed, and what method can be used for testing; and how to perform a usability test and use the gathered result during the development. Students engage in creating use case design, scenarios, prototyping, and developing an app. Students perform a user test and analyze/incorporate the results into a next app version. The course recommends students have programming knowledge and the ability to write and run small programs in the language of their choice (e.g., C#), and basic understanding of mobile builds (Xcode / ADB), as a prerequisite.

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 B2 level according to the CEFR, students further develop their (often subject-specific) vocabulary and command of 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 discuss specific aspects of German culture and society. The B2 level is split into two courses, the B2.1 course covers the first half of the level and the B2.2 course covers the second half of the level.

This cryptography courses consists of the lectures "Public Key Cryptography" and "Cryptography for Security" as well as a practice session. Public Key Cryptography examines common methods in asymmetric encryption, as well as possible attacks in faulty implementation of these methods. Topics include RSA (including signatures), attacks on small public exponent, Wiener attack, primality tests and factorization, El-Gamal, Diffie-Hellman-Key-Exchange, elliptic curves, attacks on the discrete logarithm, and selected methods of Post-Quantum-Cryptography. Cryptography for Security discusses fundamental concepts of encryption as well as their construction and their connections, classical cryptographic problems and how to solve them, formal notions of security, One-Way-Functions, (Pseudo-)Random-Number-Generators, and Pseudo-Random-Functions. Practice sessions alternate between two formats that are both primarily focused on attacks learned in class. In the first, students read encryption code and write a corresponding decryption algorithm. In the second, students prove theorems/attacks' effectiveness and make calculations by hand, often involving topics in ring theory, field theory, and group theory.

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 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.