MEP 2025 - UIE Intensive Course for PhD Students on 

Design Optimization and Identification Methods for Induction Heating

Institute of Electrotechnology (ETP), Leibniz Universität Hannover
Hannover, September 10 - 15, 2025

Introduction

The aim of the course is to bring together up to 15 PhD students from European Universities and PhD students from the host institution to take part at intensive course on “Design Optimization and Identification Methods for Induction Heating” and to work together in theoretical and experimental work as well as in mathematical methods and numerical simulation. The students will participate in lectures, discuss their own scientific topics and existing problems under the guidance of well-experienced supervisors, in order to take profit for their research studies.

The 5-days programme of the Intensive Course for PhD students gives the general guidelines, whereas the participants themselves could also develop the details of the contents. As a result of this process, the created working groups have to carry out small projects and to present the received results finally.

The project-oriented teaching and learning is the basic idea of this kind of intensive course, where the PhD students are in the centre of the activities. Not only passive listening but also active participation in the work is expected.

About the Host Institution

The research and development activities of the Institute of Electrotechnology are focused on the electromagnetic processing of materials in particular induction heating and melting processes. The description, calculation and optimisation of non-linear electrothermal systems are in the centre of the activities. Many of the projects are performed in close cooperation with industrial partners and other research institutes. The activities reach from application oriented pure research to industrial development projects.

The existing technical equipment includes experimental installations, laboratories and high performance computer systems.