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]

References

  1. 1 2 "Keynote Speakers", TE 2023, retrieved 2024-03-09
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Professor Claudia Eckert", OU people profiles, Open University, retrieved 2024-03-09
  3. 1 2 Author biography from Brem, Alexander; Kongar, Elif; Eckert, Claudia; Santiago, Leonardo P.; Daim, Tugrul U. (February 2021), "Editorial: Publishing in Peer-Reviewed Journals", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 68 (1), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): 5–10, doi:10.1109/tem.2020.3006327 . The same text can be viewed at IEEE Xplore, which however displays a photograph and publication listing combining her work with that of Claudia Eckert (computer scientist): "Claudia Eckert", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, 24 November 2020, retrieved 2024-03-09
  4. ↑ Eckert, Claudia (1997), Intelligent support for knitwear design (Doctoral dissertation), Open University, doi:10.21954/ou.ro.0000d4a4
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