Portrait of Professor Urbas
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Leon Urbas was appointed Chair of Process Control Systems at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in 2006 and has headed the Process Systems Engineering Group at the Institute of Environmental and Process Engineering since 2015. He was born in Munich in 1965.
Without systems process engineering... a cell phone would cost 10,000 instead of 500 euros, we wouldn't have healthy and affordable food and my favorite beer would never taste the same!
Being a professor... means having the freedom and responsibility to think about the future without losing sight of practical applications. I could never work alone in an ivory tower!
The ideal student... is curious and makes me think.
In the future... we go down to the basement where our own 3D-printed mini-factory produces various simple products from everyday waste; our regenerative decentralized power plants produce energy in abundance. We download the blueprints for systems and spare parts from the Internet and quickly print the complex components ourselves at the 3D printing center in the neighborhood. Miniaturization, the availability of computing power wherever it is needed and an Internet of Services, Things and People based on 5G, for example, enable us to develop innovative technologies and new business processes at an unprecedented speed.
If I could study again... I would study Information Systems Engineering at TU Dresden - the hottest degree program here at the moment!
Excellence... is the product of wanting, being able and doing!