Claudia Eckert (engineer)

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Claudia M. Eckert is an engineering educator specialising in the engineering design process.{{r|te2023}} Educated in Germany, Scotland, and England, she works in England as a professor of design at the Open University.{{r|open}}

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.{{r|open}} After earning a bachelor's degree from the Munich School of Philosophy,{{r|te2023}} and a master's degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland,{{r|open}} in 1990,{{r|x}} she completed a PhD in 1997 at the Open University.{{r|open}} Her dissertation, Intelligent support for knitwear design, was jointly supervised by Helmut Bez, Jeff Johnson, and Nigel Cross.{{r|diss}}

After continuing as a researcher at the Open University{{r|x}} 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.{{r|open}}

References

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{{citation|title=Intelligent support for knitwear design|first=Claudia|last=Eckert|type=Doctoral dissertation|publisher=Open University|year=1997|doi=10.21954/ou.ro.0000d4a4}}

{{citation|url=https://www.open.ac.uk/people/cme8|title=Professor Claudia Eckert|work=OU people profiles|publisher=Open University|access-date=2024-03-09}}

{{citation|url=https://te2023.ait.ac.th/?page_id=1323|title=Keynote Speakers|work=TE 2023|access-date=2024-03-09}}

Author biography from {{citation

| last1 = Brem | first1 = Alexander

| last2 = Kongar | first2 = Elif

| last3 = Eckert | first3 = Claudia

| last4 = Santiago | first4 = Leonardo P.

| last5 = Daim | first5 = Tugrul U.

| date = February 2021

| doi = 10.1109/tem.2020.3006327

| issue = 1

| journal = IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

| pages = 5–10

| publisher = Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

| title = Editorial: Publishing in Peer-Reviewed Journals

| volume = 68}}. 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): {{citation|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37297258000|title=Claudia Eckert|work=IEEE Xplore|publisher=IEEE|date=24 November 2020|access-date=2024-03-09}}

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