Karácson Sándor professzor életpályája. Áttekintés 80. születésnapja alkalmából

Abstract

Karácson Sándor is professor emeritus of the Department of Building Construction at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He may look back on more than half a century of teaching activity. He was born in 1924, he received his degree in Architecture in 1948 and in the same year he became assistant lecturer of what was then called Department of Structural Construction. He wrote his university doctoral dissertation in 1962, then his candidate's thesis in 1974. He was appointed Doctor of Technical Science in 1989. A look upon his scientific career reveals that his progress in the university hierarchy was uninterrupted. He rose to the rank of university professor in 1978 and served as the head of the Department of Building Construction in the following 12 years. Between 1975 and 1981 he was deputy dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering responsible for matters of education. The achievements of his scientific activity have been summarised in 3 books, 7 lecture notes and more than 100 publications. He is still playing an important and complex role in the life of his profession. During the 56 years of his teaching career he taught and trained generations of civil engineers through his personality. In recognition of his activities he received the BUTE Memorial Medallion in 1992 and he was presented the Apáczai Csere János award in 1996.