Claudia Eckert (engineer)

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Claudia M. Eckert is an engineering educator specialising in the engineering design process. [1] Educated in Germany, Scotland, and England, she works in England as a professor of design at the Open University. [2]

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Education and career

Eckert was a student of mathematics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany, and a student of philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy, a small Jesuit school in Munich. [2] After earning a bachelor's degree from the Munich School of Philosophy, [1] and a master's degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, [2] in 1990, [3] she completed a PhD in 1997 at the Open University. [2] Her dissertation, Intelligent support for knitwear design, was jointly supervised by Helmut Bez, Jeff Johnson, and Nigel Cross. [4]

After continuing as a researcher at the Open University [3] and then working for approximately ten years at the University of Cambridge, in the university's Engineering Design Centre, she became a senior lecturer at the Open University in 2008. She was promoted to professor in 2013. [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Professor Claudia Eckert", OU people profiles, Open University, retrieved 2024-03-09
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  4. Eckert, Claudia (1997), Intelligent support for knitwear design (Doctoral dissertation), Open University, doi:10.21954/ou.ro.0000d4a4