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DR. DIETRICH BRANDT
University of Technology, Aachen, Germany
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DIETRICH BRANDT, born 1937, Berlin, Germany, holds a Ph.D. in Physics (University of Mainz, Germany). He taught Physics at several German Universities, at the University of London and at M.I.T. (USA). From 1974 until 1984, he was responsible for establishing the Centre for Research and Development in Higher Education (HDZ), University of Technology (RWTH), Aachen, Germany. After the successful development of this Centre, it was merged in 1984 with the Department of Computer Science in Mechanical Engineering (IMA), within the same University. Since then he has been Deputy Director of the integrated Department HDZ/IMA. Today this Department has got about 30 full-time research staff, 15 technical and administrative support staff and about 80 research students. The external funds of the Department amount to about 5 million EURO per year (industry, Government, German Research Council DFG, and European Commission etc.). Dr. Brandt has been largely responsible for the concepts of these different projects, for organising the research within these projects and the related teaching programmes of the Department. The emphasis of his research and teaching has been on complex human-machine systems in their industrial context: specifically the impact of automation and information systems on society, the natural environment and education.

From 1993 to 1999, he was Chairman of the Committee on Social Impact of Automation within the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). In this role, he was organising and running several International Symposia "Automated Systems based on Human Skill": Berlin 1995, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, 1997, and Aachen, 2000. These Symposia have found wide-spread international recognition.
For many years he has closely cooperated with universities, industry and unions in Germany and all over Europe. He also holds close links of cooperation to universities in the USA, Central and Southern America, Australia, India and Japan. He has been engaged in founding 5 different engineering enterprises in the region of Aachen – with excellent business success.

He is the author of a well-known book on Information Technology and Networks Today (1995). He wrote a comprehensive research report on Human-Centred Approaches to Production in Europe, published by FAST/MONITOR, 1991. He has been guest editor of several issues of the European Journal of Engineering Education, the Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing, and the Journal for Artificial Intelligence and Society. He has published about 50 papers in refereed journals and contributed to about 30 international conferences as an invited speaker, among them IFAC, SEFI, HAAMAHA etc.. He has contributed about 10 chapters to different books on development of technology and organisation and related learning processes in enterprises. He is the co-editor of the Department´s own series of research publications: so far more than 40 books have been published in this series by Augustinus Aachen Publ.. In 2000, he was the author of the MEMORANDUM Information and Communication which was discussed and agreed upon by the participants of the Professional Congress Information and Communi-cation within the World Engineers` Convention, June 19-21, 2000, Hannover, Germany.

He has supervised more than 30 PhD theses, among them: one in Italy (in cooperation with the University of Siena); one in Australia (with the University of Sydney); three in the U.K. (London University and Brunel University).
In 2001, the Association of Engineers Germany VDI awarded him their Medal of Honour.

Selected publications relevant to the project areas
(Research experiences of Dr Brandt of recent years)

Bohnhoff, A.; Brandt, D.;Henning, K.: The Dual Design Approach as Tool for the interdisciplinary Design of Human-Centred Systems. Int. J. of Human Factors in Manufacturing Vol. 2 (1992) Nr. 3, S. 289-301
Sch¡ëfer, H.; Brandt, D.: Human-oriented design of decision support systems for decentralized working groups. In: Ergonomics of Hybrid Automated Systems, Hrsg. P. Br?dner, W. Karwowski. Amsterdam 1992, S. 195-201
Brandt, D., Hartmann, E.: Results and Impact of Technology Assessment-Projects on developing CNC-Systems. 3rd Europ. Congress on Technology Assessment. Copenhagen 4.-7.11.92, S. 232-239
Henning, K.; senhardt, I.; Brandt, D.: Organisational Development with lean management. Int. Congress of Engineering Deans and Industry leaders, Paris 1993, S. 15-21
Brandt, D.: Research strategies for human-centred design of human-machine systems. IFAC World Congress, Sydney 1993, S. 8 / 105-108
Strina, G., S?thoff, M., Grinda, S., Brandt, D.: Automation without organisational development won£¤t do. IFAC World Congress, Sydney 1993, S. 6 / 137-141
Brandt, D.: Interdisciplinary postgraduate and continuous education for control and systems engineers-recent European experiences. 3rd Symposium Advances in Control Education, IFAC, Tokyo 1994, S. 69-72
Tschiersch, I.; Hartmann, E. A.; Kesselmeier, H.; Brandt, D.: Applying object-oriented programming to solving ?rl¨¬ engineering problems-advantages and difficulties. 13th Int. Workshop on ?Informatics and Psychology¨¬, Sch¡ërding, 24.-26.5.1994, Ver?ffentlichung: Amsterdam 1995
Hartmann, E. A.; Fuchs-Frohnhofen, P.; Brandt, D.: Designing CNC-Maschine tools to fit the skilled workers at the individual workplace and in group work. Int. Conference on Integrated Systems Engineering, IFAC; Baden-Baden, 27.-29.9.1994, S. 357 -362
Brandt, D.: Automation in Manufacturing, Control versus Chaos? Invited Plenary Presentation, 4th Int. Conf. on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing and Hybrid Automation 1994, UMIST, Manchester, England, also published in: Advances in Agile Manufacturing. Hrsg. P. Kidd, W. Karwowski, Amsterdam etc 1994, S. 15-20
Tschiersch, I.; Hartmann, E. A.; Kesselmeier, H.; Brandt, D.: Designing Object-Oriented Software in Manufacturing to Match the User£¤s Mental Models, FAIM Conference on Flexible Automation & Intelligent Manufacturing, Stuttgart 28.-30.6.1995 (eingereicht)
Brandt, D.; Imamichi, C.; Mcgregor, H.; Moses, I.; Van der Vorst, R.: Integrating Technical and Non-Technical Issues in Control Education. Control Engineering Practice, IFAC, 4,pp 655-662,1995
Fuchs-Frohnhofen, P.; Hartmann, E. A.; Brandt, D.: Designing Human-Machine Systems to match the user£¤s needs. IFAC-Symposium ?Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Man-Machine-Systems¨¬ M.I.T., Cambridge, (USA), 27.-29.6.1995

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