Imre
Horváth (1954) received M.Sc. in mechanical engineering (1978) and in
engineering education (1980) from the Technical University of Budapest. He was
working for the Hungarian Shipyards and Crane Factory between 1978 and 1984. He
has had various faculty positions at the Technical University of Budapest
between 1985 and 1997. He earned a dr. univ. title (1987) and a Ph.D. title
(1994) from the TU Budapest, and a C.D.Sc. title from the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (1993). Since 1997 he is a full professor of Computer Aided Design and
Engineering at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of the Delft
University of Technology. From 1st January 2005 he is Director of Research of
the Faculty.
He is author of three books (available in Hungarian), translated 2
books, and wrote 11 excerpts of books. He was guest editor of 6 special issues
of various journals (e.g., CAD, JED, JCISE, CiI) and editor of 8 conference
proceedings. He has written 33 journal papers and 67 refereed conference papers
as first author, and co-authored more than 170 journal papers and conference
papers. He received 4 best paper awards (e.g., from ASME, ICED). He initiated
and is the general chairman of the Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering
(TMCE) International Symposiums over 12 years. He is co-editor-in-chief of the
Journal Computer Aided Design since 2004, and member of the Editorial Advisory
Board of Journal of Engineering Design since 1998. He is member of the
Executive Committee of the CIE Division of the ASME, and program chair for the
2005 CIE Conference. He has been reviewer for several international journals
and conferences. His primary research interests are in philosophical and
theoretical aspects of design research, computer support of conceptual design, new
system interfaces, vague discrete modelling of shape families,
multi-physics-based behavioural simulation, free-form boundary prototyping, and
formalisation and structuring of design knowledge. As educator he is currently
interested in computer application in conceptual design, integrating research
into design education, and teleconferencing-based active learning.
Contact: Prof.
Dr. Imre Horváth
Section
of Computer Aided Design Engineering
Department
of Design Engineering
Faculty
of Industrial Design Engineering
Delft
University of Technology
Mail address: Landbergstraat
15, 2628 CE Delft, The Netherlands
Phone : 00
31 15 278 3520, Voice-mail : 00 31 15 278 3034
Fax: 00
31 15 278 1839
E-mail: i.horvath@io.tudelft.nl
Web: http://www.io.tudelft.nl/research/cade/