Hans A Eschenauer
Hans A Eschenauer was born in 1930. After finishing high school, he was first trained as machine fitter and then decided to study Theoretical Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. After graduating as Dipl-Ing (MSc) in 1957, he worked in different development departments of industrial companies. In 1963 he became scientific assistant at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he received his Doctor of Engineering (Dr-Ing) degree in the field of Mechanics in 1968. After further industrial employment with Krupp Industries as Head of the Antenna Structures and Advanced Technologies Department in Duisburg, he was appointed Full Professor for Mechanics at the University of Siegen in 1975, where he gave courses on Mechanics and Applied Mechanics with special emphasis on fundamentals, plates, shells, and structural optimization. His main research activities were in the fields of Multiobjective, Multilevel, Topology, and Multidisciplinary Structural and System Optimization. In...
