Claudia Eckert (engineer)

Not to be confused with Claudia Eckert (computer scientist).

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]

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. ^ a b "Keynote Speakers", TE 2023, retrieved 2024-03-09
  2. ^ a b c d e "Professor Claudia Eckert", OU people profiles, Open University, retrieved 2024-03-09
  3. ^ a b "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