About Claudia Eckert
Claudia Eckert was an engineer.
Claudia M. Eckert is an engineering educator specialising in the engineering design process. Educated in Germany, Scotland, and England, she works in England as a professor of design at the Open University.
Education and career Eckert was a student of mathematics at LMU Munich in Germany, and a student of philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy, a small Jesuit school in Munich. After earning a bachelor's degree from the Munich School of Philosophy, and a master's degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, in 1990, she completed a PhD in 1997 at the Open University. Her dissertation, Intelligent support for knitwear design, was jointly supervised by Helmut Bez, Jeff Johnson, and Nigel Cross.
After continuing as a researcher at the Open University 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.
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