Eveline Gottzein (30 September 1931 – 24 December 2023) was a German engineer and honorary professor of

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at the

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Early life and education

After graduating from high school (1949), Gottzein trained as an electrical engineer, then later enrolled at the

Technical University of Dresden TU Dresden (for german: Technische Universität Dresden, abbreviated as TUD and often wrongly translated as "Dresden University of Technology") is a public research university, the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, th ...

(1952–1957), before finally enrolling at Technical University of Darmstadt (1957–1962).

Career

During her studies, she also worked at the Bölkow KG company in

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, and by 1963 had become head of a department. In 1983 Gottzein gained her doctorate at the Technical University of Munich to

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on "The Magnetic Wheel as an autonomous functional unit of modular support and guidance systems for magnetic tracks". In 1989 she became a lecturer at the

in "Regulatory Problems in Space", and became an

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in 1996. She was also an honorary professor of the Technical University of Munich. Gottzein specialised in control technology, especially orbital control of satellites, and control systems for guidance systems for high-speed magnetic tracks. She was a scientific advisor to Airbus in the development of a GPS receiver for commercial space applications. She is listed as an inventor on multiple patents. She led the Control and Simulation Department of the Space Division of Astrium. Gottzein is the first, and so far only, woman to be awarded the Werner von Siemens Ring, one of the highest awards for technical sciences in Germany. Gottzein died on 24 December 2023, at the age of 92.

Awards

* 1993 Werner von Siemens Ring * 1996 Bavarian Order of Merit * 1998

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* 2000

Great Cross of Merit The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...

* 2007 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fellow * 2008

International Federation of Automatic Control The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), founded in September 1957, is a multinational federation of 49 national member organizations (NMO), each one representing the engineering and scientific societies concerned with automatic c ...

Fellow * 2011 Distinguished Affiliated Professor Technical University of Munich

References

Other sources

* Martin Morlock: Verschiebung. Der Spiegel, 17 January 1966, p89

External links

Eveline Gottzein at University of Stuttgart
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