Name: Grote
First
name:
Karl – Heinrich
Born: July 17, 1953
Degree
Institution
Year
Area
Dipl.-Ing. Technical University Berlin 1979 Mechanical Engineering
Master of Science in Engineering
Dr. - Ing. Technical University Berlin 1984 Mechanical Engineering
Doctor of Engineering
Topic of Dissertation: Research of the Characteristics of Multiple Bolted Joints
Editor of the DUBBEL, Handbook for
Mechanical Engineers since 1996. (Now in its 20. Edition, over 1
Million copies of the DUBBEL have been sold).
Editor of the DUBBEL Interaktiv
(interactive, electronic CD-Rom of the Print DUBBEL), now in its 2.
Version.
1979 to 1984: Assistant Professor at the
Technical University, Berlin, Germany
1984/85/86: Visiting Professor at the California State University, Long Beach, USA Department of Mechanical Engineering.
1986 to October 1989: Chief for Engineering Design at the "Ingenieurgesellschaft für Aggregatetechnik und Verkehrsfahrzeuge IAV mbH", Berlin. (Engineering Group for Automotive and Process Technology, Berlin)
1987 to 1990: Chief Engineer at the Technical University, Berlin, Department of Mechanical Engineering.
since 1990: Tenured (since 1995) Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering/ Engineering Design at the California State University, Long Beach, USA.
June 1993 to July 1994: Sabbatical: Research activity at the Technical University Berlin, Germany. Department of Mechanical Engineering
since June 1995: Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Design at the Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
since 1997: Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Experimental Factory, Magdeburg, Germany. (www.exfa.de). The Experimental Factory is an Off-Spring of the University Magdeburg and is funded by the German National Science Foundation (NSF) and the European Union with more than 15 Million US-Dollars (or 15 Million Euro).
October 1998 to October 2001: Vice -
President for Academic Affairs of the Otto-von-Guericke-University,
Magdeburg. The support for the college of Engineering was increased and
the number of engineering students grew significantly.
October 2002 to September 2004: Visiting Professor
of Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology,
(Caltech), Pasadena, USA
since April 2005: Dean, College of Mechanical Engineering at the
Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Member of Pi Tau Sigma - National Honorary Mechanical Engineering Society.
Recipient of the Ring of Honor (Young Engineers Award) from the German Professional Engineering Society (VDI) on May 03,1993
Recipient of the "TRW Engineering Distinguished Faculty Award" at CSULB on May 26, 1993.
Since 1996 several research projects as principal investigator with a total funding of more than 2.5 Million Deutsche Mark (approximately 1.3 Million US-Dollars) and equipment valued at more than 1 million US-Dollars have been successfully finished or are still under way.
Principal recipient of the European Union and State of Lower-Saxony grant for building the Experimental Factory, Magdeburg in the amount of more than 10 Million Euro (approximately 10 Million US Dollars).
Principal recipient of a 3 Million grant for research equipment for the Experimental Factory, Magdeburg.
Principle investigator at the
Experimental Factory in Magdeburg, Germany, overseeing 10 externally
funded research projects.
Principal Advisor of many Master Thesis’
and 23 Dissertations, 7 Dissertations as Co-Advisor.
Since 1990 I have taught the classes:
Engineering Design Graphics
Introduction to Manufacturing Technologies
Kinematics and Dynamics of Mechanisms
Rapid Product Development
Analysis and Design of Machine Components
Design of Mechanical Engineering Systems (Senior Design Class)
Undergraduate classes:
Engineering Design and Computation of Machine Elements
Graduate classes:
Product Development I and II
Current Aspects of State of the Art Product Development
Plastics as Engineering Material
See Web-Site: imk.uni-magdeburg.de/lkt
Visiting lecturer at MIT - Summer
Session Program, July 1988 and July 1989
Workshop leader at NSF-ASEE Workshop on
“Creative and Structured Design Methodology” at the University of
Nebraska - Lincoln, July 1989.
Yearly one-week seminars (Engineering Design Practices) at the company PT United Tractors, Jakarta, Indonesia from 1991 to 1998.
Presentation “University Education in Engineering in Germany and the USA” at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dahran, Saudi-Arabia, invited by GTZ (November 1999).
Presentation “Rapid Systematic Product Development” at the First Saudi Technical Conference and Exhibition (STCEX) in November 2000 in Riyhad, Saudi - Arabia.
Seminars on Engineering Design and Product Development at the Zhejiang University, PR-China, 1997 and 1999.
Seminars on Engineering Design and Product Development, invited by the Department of Mechanical Engineering (Precision Engineering Laboratory) of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan (1999) and repeated invitation with seminar on Engineering Education in Germany in March 2000.