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]
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]