The degree of doctor is for graduates of Universities of Applied Sciences still the exception, so that Dr. Alexander Ebel his chief Prof. Dr. Michael Bongards, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, were particularly glad about this certificate.
The mentoring of the doctorate work occurred externally through Prof. Dr. Sean McLoone of the Irish élite University of Maynooth in Ireland. Ebels doctoral thesis was integrated into the research activity of the Gummersbach research group GECO►C and dealt with the "use of CI components for the modelling, process control and optimization of sewage-technical arrangements". Aim was to develop programmes which can estimate predictions with the help of given data, as for example rain- or sewage-data, to the optimum control of Wastewater Treatment Plants. Thanks to the works of Dr. Ebel essential innovations could be introduced for the control systems which caused a system optimization. Alexander Ebel is the second postgraduate from the active working group of Prof. Dr. Bongards. In October, 2008 his colleague Dr. Tanya Hilmer already did a doctorate at the Dutch university of Heerlen.
