Kövesi, János PhD

Positionprofessor emeritus
SubdepartmentQuality management and business statistics
Room numberQA315
E-mail
Phone+36 1 463-2820
Publications

Subjects

  • Quality and Reliability
  • Reliability of Products and Processes
  • Quantitative Methods of Management
  • Quality Management
  • Business Economics

Research fields

  • Optimization of technological reliability
  • Analysis of the management background of quality and reliability
  • Total Quality Management and Total Productive Maintenance

Significant Fellowships and Honors

  • Pro Juventute Universitatis, Budapest University of Technology and Economic, 2016
  • Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic, Officer's Cross, 2005
  • United States of America, Great-Britain, Germany

Scientific and professional community activities

  • Head of the Department of Management and Corporate Economics (1994 - 2017);
  • Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences (1998 - 2004 and 2008 - 2015);
  • Vice Rector of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (2004 - 2008);
  • Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian edition of Harvard Business Review (1998 - 2011);
  • Member of the European Organization for Quality
  • Member of the editorial board of Budapest Management Review;
  • Member of the editorial board of Quality and Reliability Review;

Languages

  • German (C1)
  • Russian (B1)

Education

  • Dr. habil, 1998, Budapest University of Technology
  • Eur. Ing., 1992, FEANI
  • PhD , 1990, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Dr. techn., 1984, Budapest University of Technology
  • MSc in Reliability Engineering, 1983, Budapest University of Technology
  • MSc in Chemical Engineering, 1976, Budapest University of Technology