Klaus Henning (cyberneticist)

Klaus Henning (* 1945 ) is a German cyberneticist and information scientist. Until 2009 he held the chair of information management in mechanical engineering and headed the center for learning and knowledge management at RWTH Aachen University .

Career

Klaus Henning studied electrical engineering and political science. He did his doctorate on human-machine systems. His habilitation thesis dealt with entropy in systems theory . In 1985, Klaus Henning took over the chair of cybernetic methods at RWTH Aachen University, which was renamed the Chair of Computer Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1994 and the Chair of Information Management in Mechanical Engineering in 2008. At the same time he took over the management of today's center for learning and knowledge management, the former university didactic center, the RWTH Aachen . From 2004 to 2008 he was dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University.

Klaus Henning is a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Enterprise Cybernetics (IfU) eV at RWTH Aachen University. He was chairman of the supervisory board of Xenium AG in Munich and chairman of the board of the ABWF in Berlin and was also a member of the university council of Saarland University .

Focus of work

• IT systems in the automotive sector Software (re) engineering of large IT systems
• Corporate cybernetics and change management
• Systemic communication and organizational development ;
• participatory learning processes
• Learning networks and skills development

Publications

• The art of the small solution. Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86774-382-2 .
• Smart and digital - How artificial intelligence is changing our lives Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-662-59520-6 .
• 250 specialist articles, 20 monographs, approx. 30 publications as editor

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Henning in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

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