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CURRICULUM VITAE
(last update 2003)
Prof. Dr. DAN - EUGEN ULMET
1. PERSONAL DATA
Office adress: Prof. Dr. Dan - Eugen Ulmet
University of Applied Sciences Esslingen
Kanalstr. 33, D-73728 Esslingen, Germany
Phone/ Fax : +49 - (0)711- 397 3412
email:
Private adress: Staufenstr. 6, D-73728 Ostfildern, Germany
Phone/ Fax : +49 - (0)711- 45 53 23
Mobile:+49 - (0)173 - 3129707
Date of birth: 2 August 1957
Place of birth: Bucharest / Romania
Citizenship: German
Marital Status: unmarried
Immigration: to Germany, 16 September 1988 (legal).
2. ACADEMIC DEGREES AND HONOURS
Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat) : 1990, in Mathematics, grade: „magna cum laudae“,
University of Stuttgart, thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. K.
Kirchgaessner, title of dissertation: „Nonlinear
Electrical Networks - Singularities and Periodic
Solutions“.
International Award: 1982, 1st AWARD at the „1982 Mathematics
Competition for Junior Researchers of Balcan Countries“
M. S. (Diploma) : 1980, in Mathematics, grade: with honours, University of Timisoara/ Romania, title of thesis: „The Geometrical Theory of Nonlinear Electrical Networks“
3. PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
June 1994 - now : Professor of Mathematics and CAGD at the
Fachhochschule Esslingen - Hochschule fuer Technik.
09/1993 - 06/1994: Associate Professor of Mathematics at the
Fachhochschule Esslingen.
06/1991 - 07/1993: System Analyst and Programmer in the NURBS
Group of the CAD/CAM Development Department
within the Passenger Car Division of the Mercedes -
Benz Company.
02/1989 - 06/1991: Research Fellow and Teaching Assistent at the
Mathematical Institute A of the University of Stuttgart.
09/1981 - 09/1988: Teaching and Consulting Mathematician at the
Mechanical Company Mirsa (fulltime) and at the
Universities of Sibiu and Timisoara (parttime) in
Romania.
4. EDUCATION
02/1989 - 02/1990: Ph. D. studies at the Mathematical Institute A of the
University of Stuttgart under the guidance of Prof. Dr.
Klaus Kirchgaessner.
09/1976 - 09/1981: M.S. studies at the Mathematics Department of the
University of Timisoara/ Romania.
09/1964 - 09/1976: Elementary school and highschool in Sibiu/ Romania.
5. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (USA)
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA)
AMS - American Mathematical Society (USA)
StZ - Steinbeis Technology Transfer Center (Germany)
6. CURRENT RESEARCH
6.1. Research Interests:
Differential topology, geometry and equations
CAGD (Computer Aided Geometric Design).
NURBS (Non Uniform Rational B- Splines).
Geodesic offsets on freeform surfaces.
Reflection lines on freeform surfaces.
3D Visualization with the OPEN INVENTOR graphics package.
Intuitive methods for visualization in engineering education.
MATLAB in engineering education.
Synergy effects in the mathematical education of engineering students.
Edutainment
Industrial Mathematics
6.2. Joint Research Projects:
Design of a data interface between SYRKO NURBS and OPEN INVENTOR models, with the Daimler - Benz Company.
3D visualization with the OPEN INVENTOR graphics package,
with external partners from the Daimler - Benz Company and the University of Stuttgart.
Reflection lines on freeform surfaces with Prof. Dr. Binh Pham,
director of the Research Centre in Intelligent Tele - imaging of the University of Ballarat, Australia.
Synergy effects in the mathematical education of engineering students, supported by a series of 7 grants by the state Baden - Wuerttemberg/ Germany.
6.3. Hardware and Software used:
6 SGI UNIX workstation - a donation of the Daimler - Benz Company.
Hewlett- Packard UNIX workstations.
Windows personal computers.
The CAD/CAM system SYRKO - a donation of the Daimler - Benz Company.
The OPEN INVENTOR graphics toolkit - partially supported by the SGI and the TGS companies by special discounts.
Programming: MATLAB, Fortran, C/C++
7. CONSULTING
Technology transfer and consulting projects as a member of the
„Steinbeis Technology Transfer Center for Technical Consulting“
in Esslingen, with the following companies:
The Mercedes - Benz Company:
Project: Design of a Interface between Mercedes Benz data sets and
OPEN INVENTOR nurbs.
The Porsche Company:
Project: Case Study for the Design of a Reflection Lines Visualisation
Tool (consulting).
8. TEACHING
8.1. Current and previous courses:
Mathematics for Engineering Students.
CAGD for Engineering Students.
Engineering Problem Solving with MATLAB.
Freeform Surface Design with SYRKO (user training courses at the
Dailer - Benz Company).
Functional Analysis, Analytic and Affine Geometry, Calculus (advanced problem solving, as teaching assistent at the Universities of Stuttgart, Timisoara and Sibiu/ Romania)
8.2. Project or Thesis Supervision:
CAGD: 10-15 engineering students per semester at the graduate level.
9. INVITED TALKS
TheBosch Company, Melbourne, March 2003 -
Global Methods in European Industrial Mathematics.
Arizona State University, Tempe, January 1999 - Geodesic offsets.
The Boeing Company, Seattle Bellevue, August 1998 -
Open Inventor Implementations of Spline Surfaces and a Surface
Interrogation Tool.
The Research Center Karlsruhe/ Germany, 1996 -
Basic Elements of CAD/CAM Development with Splines.
The 24th Colloquium on Geometry and Topology at the University
of Timisoara/ Romania, 1994 -
Geodesic Offsets of Spline Curves on Spline Surfaces - an Industrial
Perspective.
Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach/ Germany, 1991 -
Nonlinear Electrical Circuits. Singularities and Periodic Solutions.
University of Rome „La Sapienza“, 1991 -
Averaging and Invariant Manifolds in Nonlinear Electrical Systems.
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 1990 -
Nonlinear Electrical Networks.
The University of Utrecht/ Holland, 1990 -
Nonlinear Electrical Networks. Singularities and Periodic Solutions.
The 7th Congress of Balkan Mathematicians, Athens/ Greece, 1983 -
The Geometrical Theory of Nonlinear Electrical Circuits.
10. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Reflection Curves. New Computation and Rendering Techniques - accepted for publication in the Int. J. for Mathematics and the Mathematical Sciences, 2003.
Basic Elements of CAD/CAM Development with Splines - An Introduction, (in German), in Wissenschaftliche Berichte FZKA 5765, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe/ Germany, 47 - 65 (May 1996).
Geodesic Offsets of Spline Curves on Spline Surfaces - An Industrial Perspective, in Proc. nat. Colloq. on Geometry and Topology, Timisoara/Romania, 1996, 263 - 274.
Existence and Stability of Periodic Solutions in Weakly Non - Linear
Electrical Circuits via Averaging and Functional Analytical Methods,
in International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, Vol. 20,
431 - 447 (1992), Wiley - Interscience, New York.
Nonlinear Electrical Networks. Singularities and Periodic Solutions, (in German), Ph D Thesis, University Stuttgart/ Germany,1990.
The Regularization of Electrical Networks, in Proc. nat. Colloq. on Geometry and Topology, Busteni/Romania, 1983, 409 - 419. Mathematical Reviews, Review Nr. 85e:58122.
The Geometrical Theory of Nonlinear Electrical Networks, (in Romanian), in Monografii Matematice 17, Timisoara/Romania,1982. Reviewed in Springer Zentralblatt fuer Mathematik, Rewiew Nr. 549.94031.
A Problem Book on Probability Theory (in Romanian), with Gh. Constantin, S. Birauas, D. Mihet, I. Mos,V. Negru, Timisoara University Press/ Romanian, 1981.
11. INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
CAD/CAM research and development projects in the NURBS team of the SYRKO development department of the Mercedes - Benz Company:
3D distance surface - surface.
Applications of 1) for distance measurements and 'collision control'
between parts of the car body during the assembly process.
Approximation of arbitrary NURBS surfaces by bicubical B- Spline surfaces.
Application of 3) for the development of a data exchange interface
between the ACIS solid modeller and the SYRKO surface generator module.
Smooth extensions of trimmed NURBS surfaces over curves, stringers or trimming Curves.
Intersection - free prolongation of CONS to the boundary of a
trimmed NURBS surface.
Geodesic offsets of CONS on trimmed NURBS surfaces.
12. WHAT ELSE ?
Spoken languages: Romanian, German, English (all excellent)
French, Italian, Spanish ( sufficient - average).
Hobbies: Nature, sports (tennis, soccer, skiing, basketball),
literature, music.