New director at the ZHAW
The University of Applied Sciences Council has appointed Dirk Wilhelm as the new Director of the School of Engineering (SoE) at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). The graduate physicist and mechanical engineer succeeds Martina Hirayama.
Dirk Wilhelm is the new director of the School of Engineering (SoE) department at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). Wilhelm graduated in physics from the University of Göttingen in 1994 and earned his doctorate in mechanical and process engineering from ETH Zurich in 2000.
In 2007, Dirk Wilhelm also completed his Executive Master in Business Administration at the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) in Chur. From 2001 to 2003, Dirk Wilhelm worked for Alstom as a development engineer in gas turbine development. He then headed a development department at Bruker Biospin in Fällanden until 2013.
In 2013, Dirk Wilhelm joined the ZHAW and took over as Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics, Physics, Systems and Operations at the ZHAW School of Engineering.
Dirk Wilhelm will take up the position as head of department on 1 May 2019, having led the ZHAW School of Engineering (SoE) department ad interim since September 2018. He succeeds Martina Hirayama, who has been appointed as the new State Secretary of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
The School of Engineering, based in Winterthur, is one of eight departments at the ZHAW. The department has 2211 students and 660 employees.
