Teaching

This summer term, a selected group of students from different bachelor and master degree programs like Business Administration, Management and Industrial Engineering had again the opportunity to interact with and learn from the former CEO of the Siemens AG – Prof. Dr. Heinrich v. Pierer. Intentional...

On June 27, Dr. Johannes Söllner, Managing Director at Geis Holding GmbH + Co. KG, held an interesting guest lecture on innovations in logistics. In his guest lecture, Dr. Söllner first presented technological innovations such as data collection and identification systems, automatic and autonomou...

On June 27th, the Chair of Industrial Management had the privilege to welcome Dr. Benjamin Bhattacharya-Ghosh from Daimler’s innovation lab – the so-called Lab1886. Benjamin shared valuable insights on how the Lab1886 operates to develop radical innovations. He highlighted that the goal of Daimle...

On 26th June, as part of the Chair’s lecture “BWL für Ingenieure”, Dr. Daniel Teichmann, founder and CEO of Hydrogenious Technologies GmbH, shared very interesting insights on how to manage a high-tech start-up. As a spin-off of the FAU, Hydrogenious Technologies offers safe and efficient hydroge...

On June 19th, Dr. Sebastian Engel, Head of Research and Pre-Incubation at ZOLLHOF and alumnus of the Chair of Prof. Voigt, showed our students how established firms can learn to work like startups and adopt an entrepreneurial culture. He and his colleague Judit Klein (Senior Manager Startup Incubati...

This afternoon Prof. Voigt welcomed Prof. Russwurm, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Voith and former member of the Managing Board at Siemens AG, at our School of Business and Economics. As part of a series of guest lectures in the context of our "Industrial Management" lecture, Prof. Russwur...

Once again, our chair had the pleasant task of giving a series of lectures on "Technology and Innovation Management" for the elite master‘s programme "Advanced Materials and Processes" (MAP) at the Faculty of Engineering. Prof. Voigt and his research assistants, Nina Kuhnt and Marc Rücker, were impr...

From 5th to 7th of June the HERMES Network held its annual meeting in Innsbruck, Austria, hosted by the University of Innsbruck. HERMES (“Higher Education and Research in Management of European Universities”) is a strategic alliance comprising of 26 leading educational institutions in 15 countrie...

On June 5th, the Chair of Industrial Management had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Daniel Kiel, Innovation Specialist at Schaeffler and Almunus of the Chair of Prof. Voigt, for a guest lecture on the topic of innovation management at Schaeffler. Schaeffler, founded in Herzogenaurach near Nuremberg, is ...

As part of the speaker series on digitalization, Prof. Voigt and the Chair of Industrial Management had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Dieter Kempf, President of the Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e. V. (BDI), within the lecture “Industrial Management” at FAU. Prof. Kempf held a captivating le...