Peter Scharle

Background

Scharle, Peter was born on August 25, 1940 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of Kristof Scharle and Margit Bors.

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering, Technology University Building and Transport, Budapest, 1963. Degree in Engineering and Mathematics, Technology University Budapest, 1970. Doctor in Geotechnical Engineering, Technology University Budapest, 1972.

Habilitation in civil engineering, Technology University Budapest, 1997. Candidate of Technology Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1977.

Career

Structural engineer Designing Institute for Roads and Rails UVATERV, Budapest, 1964-1971. Research fellow Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1971-1974. Head department Hungarian Institute for Building Science, 1974-1984.

Head division Ministry of Building, 1985-1990. General director Ministry of Transport, 1990-1994, deputy secretary state, 1994-1997, chief advisor to the minister, 1997-1998. University professor Széchenyi Istvan College, Györ, Hungary, since 1998, Technology University Budapest, since 1998.

Titular professor Pollack Mihaly Technology College, Pécs, Hungary, since 1989, vice-rector, Szecheny, Istvan University, Gyor, Hungary, 2002-2005.

Achievements

• Peter Scharle has been listed as a noteworthy engineering educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Founding member Hungarian Academy Engineers, Budapest, 1989. Vice chairman board Hungarian Chamber Engineers, Budapest, 2005^ chair European Conference Ministers Transport Committee of Deputies, Paris, 1996. President Hungarian Pax Romana, Budapest, 2004.

Member International Society Soil Mechanics and Geomech. Engineering (technical committee on granular materials 1988, chairman Hungarian national committee 2000-2005), Association for European Transports (member council 1998-1999), New York Academy of Sciences.

Connections

Married Erzsebet Tegzes, August 8, 1964 (deceased December 2006). Children: Andras, Monika (Scharle) Gibson, Agota.

Father:

Kristof Scharle

Mother:

Margit Bors

Spouse:

Erzsebet Tegzes

child:

Andras Scharle

child:

Monika Scharle (Scharle) Gibson

child:

Agota Scharle