Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) Engineering Faculty, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department hosted Prof. Dr. Joachim Holtz who has 6 awards in the field of power electronics, 17 article awards, 7 published books, is the owner of 33 patents and has worked in various positions in the Industrial Electronics Society (IES) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) which is based in the United States of America. Prof. Dr. Holtz got together with the EMU Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department students and academic staff members within the scope of the seminar.

A life-long member of the IEEE in the University of Wuppertal, Germany, Prof. Dr. Holtz gave a seminar on “Predictive Control: When to Use and When Not?”.  During the highly participated event, Prof. Dr. Holtz emphasized that the notion of predictive control emerged back in the 1980s and has become a very popular method in the last twenty years.

Explaining the idea behind the predictive control, Prof. Dr. Holtz touched on the advantages of this control technique and the situations created by use at low and high power levels. Moreover, Prof. Dr. Holtz explained how the maximum base output voltage can be achieved. At the end of the presentation, Prof. Dr. Holtz mentioned that the predictive control is suitable for medium and high voltage power converters rather than low voltage power converters.

EMU vice Rector for Academic Affairs Prof. Dr. Hasan Demirel, Engineering Faculty Dean Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Özkaramanlı, Head of the Electrical and Electronic Department Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rasime Uyguroğlu and many academic staff members attended the event. At the end of the seminar, Prof. Dr. Demirel presented a plaque and a traditional Cypriot souvenir to Prof. Dr. Holtz for his contributions. The event ended with a question-answer session where the questions asked by the students were answered.