Prof. (em.) Dr.- Ing. Michael F. Jischa

Vita

Born in Hamburg in1937 as the son of the pianist Hedwig, née Krollmann, and the first violinist Herbert Jischa of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Father killed in action in Russia in 1942, bombed out in Hamburg in 1943. Grew up in Niendorf/Baltic Sea, attended the Ostseegymnasium Timmendorfer Strand until his secondary school leaving certificate in 1954. Apprenticeship as a motor vehicle mechanic, then from 1958 to 1961 studied aircraft and motor vehicle construction at the Hamburg School of Engineering and obtained his subject-specific university entrance qualification. Worked for six months as a design engineer at Hamburg Aircraft Construction (later Airbus).

1961 to 1965 Studied mechanical engineering at the TH Karlsruhe and was awarded the Redtenbacher Prize. Doctoral student at the Institute of Turbomachinery and Fluid Mechanics in the group of Prof. Alfred Walz, who accepted an appointment to the newly established Institute of Supersonic Technology at the TU Berlin in 1967. Moved to Berlin, where he obtained his doctorate in 1968 and his habilitation in fluid mechanics in 1971.

1971 Transfer to the Chair of Heat and Mass Transfer (Prof. Karl Stephan) at the Institute of Thermofluid Dynamics at the Ruhr University Bochum, where the Chairs of Fluid Mechanics (Prof. Klaus Gersten) and Thermodynamics (Prof. Hans Dieter Baehr) had previously been occupied.

1973 Appointment as adjunct professor.

1974 H4 Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the UGH Essen, now the University of Duisburg-Essen.

1981 C4 Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the Institute of Technical Mechanics at Clausthal University of Technology.

2002 Early retirement on request, as I wanted to devote more time to the topics of society and technology.

Memberships

German Society Club of Rome (DGCoR), Hamburg: Member since 1988, President from 1998 to 2006, Honorary President since 2006

German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU), Osnabrück: Jury of the German Environmental Award from 1999 to 2003

Hanns-Lilje-Stiftung der Hannoverschen Landeskirche: Member of the Board of Trustees from 2000 to 2008

University of Lüneburg: Evaluation committee and appointment committees

Karlsruhe Research Center (FZK), later KIT: Member of the "Sustainability and Technology" advisory board from 2002 to 2009

European Academy for Research into the Consequences of Scientific and Technological Developments, Advisory Board, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler

Clausthaler Umwelttechnik-Institut GmbH: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board from 2002 to 2007, previously Chairman of the University Advisory Board

Association of German Engineers (VDI), Düsseldorf: Representative of the "Society and Technology" division, then member of the "Technology Assessment" and "People and Technology" committees until 2008

Energy Research Center of Lower Saxony (EFZN), Goslar: Member of the Board of Trustees from 2008 to 2016

oikos Clausthal e. V. (students for sustainable economics and management), Clausthal-Zellerfeld: Member of the Advisory Board from 2005 to 2013

Hahnenklee Foundation "Culture in the Church", Goslar-Hahnenklee: Member of the Board of Trustees since 2004

Supervised dissertations on the subject of fluid mechanics at the U-GH Essen and the TU Clausthal

Gampert, Bernhard (1977): The influence of the gas-surface interaction on the flow resistance; Habilitation thesis UGH Essen

Homann, Klaus (1978): A dissipation integral method with transport equation; Diss. UGH Essen

Rieke, Heinz B. (1981) Determination of heat transfer in turbulent pipe flow using transport equations; Diss. UGH Essen

Härtnagel, Reinhard (1981): An improved dissipation integral method for the calculation of turbulent compressible boundary layers; Diss. UGH Essen

Hackler, Lothar (1984): Calculation of turbulent gas/solid flow in a vertical pipe with a two-phase continuum theory; Diss. TU Clausthal

Hölling, Thomas (1987): Turbulent momentum and heat exchange of a gas/solid flow in a vertical pipe according to a two-phase continuum theory; Diss. TU Clausthal

Menter, Florian (1989): Numerical investigation of the frictional flow field around a rotational ellipsoid; Diss. TU Clausthal

Rosemann, Henning (1989): Influence of the geometry of multiple hot-wire probes on the measurement results in turbulent flows; Diss. TU Clausthal

Holst, Hartmut (1990): Method for the determination of three-dimensional wind tunnel interferences and wall adaptations using measured wall pressures; Diss. TU Clausthal

Kehr, Michael (1991): On the drag behavior of particles and particle swarms; Diss. TU Clausthal

Supervised dissertations in the field of technology assessment/systems engineering at the TU Clausthal

Ludwig, Bjørn (1995): Methods for modeling in technology assessment; Diss. TU Clausthal, CUTEC series no. 18

Tulbure, Ildiko (1997): State description and dynamics of environmentally relevant systems; Diss. TU Clausthal, CUTEC Series No. 25

Kensy, Petra (1998): Environmental management systems in service companies; Diss. TU Clausthal, CUTEC Series No. 35

Volkmar, Henning (1998): Quantification of sustainable motorized mobility; Diss. TU Clausthal, CUTEC Series No. 33

Nigge, Karl-Michael (2000): Life Cycle Assessment of Natural Gas Vehicles; Diss. TU Clausthal, Publication series of the European Academy for Research into the Consequences of Scientific and Technical Developments, Volume 6; Springer, Berlin

Ludwig, Bjørn (2000): Management komplexer Systeme; Habilitationsschrift TU Clausthal, Edition Sigma, VDI Gruppe, Berlin

Decker, Josef (2000): Nachhaltigkeit im Verkehrsbereich durch netzgestützte kooperative Planungs- und Entscheidungsunterstützung; Diss. TU Clausthal, CUTEC series no. 50

Poppe, Holger (2001): Indicator-based environmental assessment for the control of product development in the automotive industry; Diss. TU Clausthal, CUTEC Series No. 53

Tulbure, Ildiko (2002): Integrative modeling for the description of transformation processes; Habilitation thesis TU Clausthal, Fortschritt-Berichte VDI

Berg, Christian (2004): Vernetzung als Syndrom - Risiken und Chancen von Vernetzungsprozessen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung; Diss. TU Clausthal, Campus Research, Frankfurt am Main

Gottschick, Manuel (2004): Partizipative Stoffstromanalyse für Unternehmenskooperationen dargestellt am Beispiel der Altautoverwertung; Diss. TU Clausthal, Fortschritt-Berichte VDI

Pleuß, Peter Olav (2006): Konzept zur Internetnutzung bei der Technologiefrüherkennung; Diss. TU Clausthal; Series Future Technologies, VDI Technology Center, Düsseldorf

Gries, Frank (2009) Evaluation of the fuel efficiency of jet-powered business aircraft; Diss. TU Clausthal

Papers in bold have been published by external publishers.

Reorientation at the TU Clausthal

In the winter semester 1991/92 I gave an evening lecture in the Studium Generale "The Challenge of the Future" in the Audimax. The TUC had around 3000 students at the time. The Audimax had 300 seats and the audience sat on the steps. In addition to students, relatives and colleagues, there were listeners from the region. The timing could not have been better, as the "UNCED"(United Nations Conference on Environment and Development), the "Rio Conference on Environment and Development", took place in June 1992.

The lecture resulted in the 1993 book "The Challenge of the Future - Technological progress and ecological perspectives". Requests from students for further lectures of this type led to the development of the lecture notes "technology assessment" and "Dynamic systems in nature, technology and society". At the same time, the series designed by Prof. Edmund Brandt (University of Lüneburg) "Studies in Environmental Sciences" series conceived by Prof. Edmund Brandt (University of Lüneburg), four volumes were published by Springer-Verlag: "Economics", "Law", "Social Sciences" and "Natural Sciences". The outstanding fifth volume "Engineering Sciences" a little later (Springer 2004). It became the official book for theYear of Technology 2004 of the VDI. The book "The Challenge of the Future" (1993) was published as an expanded 2nd edition with a new subtitle "The Challenge of the Future - Technical Progress and Globalization" (Spektrum/Elsevier 2005) and later as a paperback version (Springer Spektrum 2014).

Since 1992, these activities have led to me lecturing exclusively on topics such as sustainability andtechnology assessment and society and technology hold. This applies equally to the publications since 1992.all of the dissertations and habilitations I have supervised have since been dedicated to these topics. New memberships were the result. The turnaround is described in chapter 34 of my latest book "Dynamics in nature and technology - understanding and shaping change" (oekom 2018) describes it.

In 1992, in collaboration with the then student pastor Klaus Wachlin, I founded the working group "Forum Clausthal" as an institution of the Academic Senate, which I headed until 2002 (when I retired). Every semester, Studium Generale events of various kinds were held in the Audimax with the support of colleagues. The events are published in a series "Forum Clausthal" series. I advocate continuing the idea of "Clausthal Forum" in a streamlined form with one public evening lecture per semester.

The shortest justification for my reorientation is described in the legendary book "The Limits to Growth" (Meadows et al. 1972), the first report to the Club of Rome. I have been associated with the German Club of Rome Society since 1988.

Publications 1968 to 1985 on the subject of thermofluid dynamics

Publications 1968 to 1985 on the subject of thermofluid dynamics (here)

Publications since 1992 on the topics of society and technology as well as sustainability and technology assessment

Publications since 1992 on the topics of society and technology as well as sustainability and technology assessment (here)

Lectures since 1992

Lectures since 1992 (here)