Dieter Senk

Dieter Georg Senk (born January 6, 1957 in Wolfenbüttel ) is a German iron and steel engineer and university professor .

Life

Senk studied metallurgy at the Technical University of Clausthal and graduated in 1981. He then worked for Thyssen Niederrhein AG in Oberhausen . In 1985 he was with his dissertation solidification structure and macro segregation in continuously cast wire grades and how they are influenced by a hard secondary cooling of the Technical University of Clausthal doctorate . He switched to Thyssen Stahl AG in Duisburg and Dortmund . Most recently, he was in charge of process engineering and pilot production and was responsible for the development of near-net-shape casting processes .

In 2001, Senk was appointed as a university professor to the chair for metallurgy of iron and steel at the Institute for Metallurgy at RWTH Aachen University. His research and teaching activities focus on raw materials and processes for iron and steel production and the solidification processes in ingot and continuous casting . He is honorary doctor of the Technical University of Ostrava and Honorary Professor of the University of Science and Technology Beijing and the Anhui University of Technology (ahut) in Ma'anshan . He also took part in the RWTH Aachen Children's University.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Senk in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.iehk.rwth-aachen.de

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Dieter Senk 60 years . In: steel and iron . tape 137 , no. 1 , 2017, p. 6 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} RWTH Professor Dieter Georg Senk honored by two universities (accessed on January 27, 2017).
3. ↑ Children's University: What is made from boiled steel (accessed on January 27, 2017).