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Andor Frigyes

Date of birth:
1922.02.25.
Place of birth:
Budapest
Date of death:
1992.02.02.
Education, professional qualification:
  • Mechanical Engineer - BME - 1950.
    • Academic degree:
    Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences - 1974

    Between 1950 and 1959, he was an assistant professor and later an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Machines and Electrical Machines, Faculty of Electrical Engineering (VIK), Budapest University of Technology (BME). From 1959, he was an associate professor at the Department of Automation, and from 1963, a university professor.

    Between 1964 and 1988, he was the head of the Department of Process Control at the BME VIK, which he organized. Between 1978 and 1982, he was the deputy dean of the VIK, and then its dean until 1967. Between 1978 and 1982, he was the vice-rector of BME.

    He worked on automation, theoretical problems of magnetic amplifiers, and research on control systems. He achieved significant results in the field of process control: he developed a new Fourier transform method and introduced new, so-called ramp-up functions, which enabled simpler modeling of linear dynamic systems. He also developed an electromechanical universal controller and a speed control system.
    He played a significant role in the development of the Hungarian Control Engineering Standard Draft and in the organization of BME's automation and control engineering education.

    He played a pioneering role in the introduction of computer science education at the university by purchasing and ensuring the operating conditions of ODRA computers. The first computer of BME, ODRA1013, operated in the Department of Process Control, which he led. Through the Computer Science Group of the BME Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the BME Central Maintenance Group, which were closely related to his department, he also had a personal part in the work going on there and in the hardware/software developments ensuring the more efficient operation of the ODRA computers.

    He defended his MTA candidate's thesis in 1955. He received his MTA doctorate in 1974.

    From 1952 he was the editor-in-chief of the journal Elektrotechnika; in the same year he was a founding member of the Main Committee on Automation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the board of the Hungarian Electrotechnical Association (MEE) and the Scientific Association for Measurement and Automation (MATE) (he was also the secretary-general, president, and co-president of the latter). From 1957 he was a member of the Hungarian National Committee of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).

    His awards: Order for Socialist Labor (1956), Gold Degree of the Order of Labor Merit (1966).

    See also
    • career history (with publications)

    • Frigyes, A., Tihanyi, K.: Research of Direct Digital Control Loops by Hybrid Simulation, Periodica Polytechnica Electrical Engineering, 20(3), pp. 245-254, 1976.

    • Langer, L., Frigyes, A.: Fast Methods of Frequency Analysis Applied in Process Identification and Control, Periodica Polytechnica Electrical Engineering, 20(3), pp. 297-311, 1976.

    And what else is important
    • He was a member of the so-called “Shark Club”. They attended university together and prepared for exams together from their second year; they remained good friends afterwards – even beyond the grave: Iván Bach (1927-2006), Jolán Boros Jánosné Déri (1921-2009), Sándor Csibi (1927-2003), Géza Freud (1922-1979), Andor Frigyes (1922-1992), Károly Karsai (1926-2004), György Tevan (1927-2009?) and Róbert Tuschák (1927-2018).
    Created: 2020.01.11. 16:09
    Last modified: 2025.06.26. 21:58
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