Occupation Professor, Years active 1992 - present | Spouse(s) Dr. Brigitte Eschler Name Eckehard Specht | |
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Born April 20, 1952 (age 72) ( 1952-04-20 ) | ||
GMTN 2011: The Street of Science and the lack of engineers
Eckehard Specht is a professor in Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. He belongs to Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics (ISUT) department. His specializations are Combustion technology, heat and mass transfer, chemical process engineering, global warming, and ceramic materials.
Contents
- GMTN 2011 The Street of Science and the lack of engineers
- Background
- Research Interest
- Nominated Member of the Industrial Associations
- PhD Post Doc Guidance
- References
He has obtained his PhD in Heat transfer from TU Clausthal. After that, he did the habilitation in the same university. He moved to OVG university, Magdeburg.
Background
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eckehard Specht studied Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Clausthal and was then Scientific Research Fellow at the Institute for Energy Engineering at the TU Clausthal (1977-1993). After his Ph.D. about the coal combustion (1984) and Habilitation in the field of high temperature process equipment (1993), he is professor from October 1, 1993 for thermodynamics and combustion at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics.
He is an appointed member of nine committees, including, the research community industrial furnaces of the Association of German Engineering Federation (VDMA), the Technical Commission of the German Ceramic Thermal Engineering Society (DKG) and the Committee of thermal processing technology by the German Iron and Steel Institute (VDEH). During his university career he was involved with a member of the Senate and Council of TU Clausthal (1983-1988), a member of the Senate of the University of Magdeburg (1994-2000) and since 1994 he is the Dean of teaching for the Faculty of Process and Systems Engineering of the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg.
On March of 14, 2003 he was awarded the Ludwig Mond Prize from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, England.
Research Interest
Intensive cooling of metals
Dynamic simulation of heat treatment processes in industrial furnaces, for example,
Optimization of combustion chambers
Measurement of thermophysical material properties to 1600oC
Nominated Member of the Industrial Associations
PhD & Post Doc. Guidance
He consistently maintains more than 15 PhD students. More than 20 students finished their research study successfully. In general, he likes to work with foreign students.