Curriculum Vitae

Dr Károly Fock
Associate Professor

PARTICULARS

Assigment: associate professor
Scientific grade:Ph.D.
Room: I.B.327.
Phone: office:(36-1)463-2072
home(36-1) 258-5734
Fax: office:(36-1)463-2204
home(36-1) 258-3861
Email:fock@iit.bme.hu
Birth: Rákoshegy, 24th Dec. 1940.
Family status: married, Gábor(1966), Balázs(1975)
Home adress: H-1174 Budapest
Árpádfejedelem u. 16.
Hungary

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1964-1971 Assistant Professor, Dept. Process Control, T.U.B.
1971-1972 Visiting Scientist at Technical University Karlsruhe, Department of
Process Control, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
1972-1982 Senior Lecturer, Dept. Process Control, T.U.B.
1982- Associate Professor, Dept. Process Control, T.U.B.

EDUCATION

1959-1964 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, T.U.B. Hungary
1964 Electrical Engineering Degree, T.U.B. Hungary
1982 Candidate of Engineering Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Candidate of Engineering Science is a scientific degree, awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Science, widely acknowledged as equivalent to Ph.D.)

LANGUAGES

Hungarian, German, Russian, English

ACTIVITIES OF EDUCATION

- Lectures for graduate and postgraduate students on Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics:
“Measurement of Technical Process” (Hungarian)
“Process instrumentation” (Hungarian and English)
“Design of Process instrumentation” (Hungarian and English)
“Measurement” (German)
“Robotics” (English)

on Faculty of Chemistry
“Bases of Measurement” (Hungarian)
- Supervisor of different dissertations and diplomworks
- Development of technical equipments for practical actives of students

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS:

Over thirthy years of teaching, research, indrustrial and consulting experience with emphasis on measurement of nonelectrical quantities, process instrumentation and process control. Author and co-author of over 40 technical papers and/or presentations.

DETAILS OF EXPERIENCE

Research
Modelling of magnetomechanical interactions in ferromagnetic materials, research of function-principle of magnetoelastic tranducers, modelling of vortex-shadding flow-meters, systems-analogy.

Development
Development of bearing-pressure equipment in electric power generation, development and application of magnetoelastic load cell in adaptive control loops of tool-machines, development of a new type of inductive flow-meters for flow-rate measurement in open channels of wastewater.

Consulting
Process Control of pump stations of wastewater, calibration methods of acceleration-measurement, measuring systems for scientific investigation of dynamical property of steam turbines, calibration systems in development of pumps and turbines.

Management
Project director of several projects founded by major industrial customers and by government agencies, e.g. OMFB Responsible for project planning and direction on the field of process control. Supervised graduate theses and undergraduate projects.

HONORS

Outstanding Teaching Award, Minister of Education and Culture 1978
Kruspér István Medal, Scientific Society of Measurement and Control, 1986

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

- Worked with lectures of Department of Process Control, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University Karlsruhe
- Worked with the Sowiet Academy of Sciences on a project in Leningrad,
Sowietunion
- Worked with Professor A. Lenk Department of Technical Acoustic , Faculty of
Electrical Engineering, Technical University Dresden, Germany
- Presented papers at several conferences in Europa
- Worked with company Knorr Bremse Electronic LTD Wheel Flat Measurement

CAREER CONNECTIONS

Dr. Fock has been very active in electrical measurement of nonelectrical quantities. His qualifications are summarised in several points:
• Project Director of the pressure-measurement in a combined bearing of the steam-turbines of reactions-type
• Project Director of the cutting-force measurement in lathes working by adaptive controllers
• Project Director of the flow-rate measurement by inductive flow-meters in open channels of wastewater
• Participated in development of gas-density balance for gas chromatographs
• Project Director of development of data acquisition systems and process control of pumps-stations for wastewater
• Organised the business industry training seminars „Workshops of Sensors”
• Member of the Scientific Society of Measurement and Automation
• Member of the Hungarian Committee and Technical Committee „Pressure Measurement” of IMEKO
• He was invited participate in Paper Committee of Conference „Sensor’95 and „Sensor’97” Nürnberg, Germany
• He has worked out several subjects on the field of process instrumentation in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Budapest
• Supervised graduate and postgraduate theses and undergraduate projects (vortex shadding flow-meter, inductive flow-meter, magnetoelastic load cells, pyroelectric sensors for temperature measurement, intelligent sensors, etc.)
• Principal Investigator for the talk about the development of intelligent sensors for the Hungarian Technical development Committee (OMFM)