Teaching

From 3rd to 14th of July, Prof. Voigt was repeatedly invited to teach "Technology and Innovation Management" at the International Summer School 2017 at UIBE in Beijing. More than 80 professors from renowned universities across the globe were invited for this two-week summer school program. The presi...

The Chair of Industrial Management had the pleasure to welcome Mr. Bruno Götz, Head of Patents and Norms at TÜV Rheinland Consulting, for a guest lecture on the topic “How to protect innovations”. Mr. Götz showed different possibilities for organizations to protect intellectual property rights and i...

In the course of our lecture series on Industry 4.0, Mr. James Brickell, Team Leader and Manufacturing Engineer at Bosch, hold a guest lecture. He talked about the perspective of Bosch on the topic Industry 4.0 and showed very interesting application examples such as 3D printing, which are already i...

The Chair of Industrial Management welcomed Felix Schaffelhofer, Head of Strategy Development at Teambank, for a guest lecture on the topic “Innovation in the banking sector”. Mr. Schaffelhofer and his colleague Daniela Leistner outlined today’s challenges for banks in a volatile business environmen...

The Chair of Industrial Management had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Eva Mitterreiter (Method-Development and Training at Bosch) and Dr. Uwe Kirschner, Vice President Business Model Innovation at Bosch, for a guest lecture on the topic “Business Model Innovation @ Bosch”. In 2016, Dr. Eva Mitterreiter...

The Chair welcomed Jost Bendel, who is Vice President Service for Factory Automation at Siemens AG, for a guest lecture on Industry 4.0. Mr. Bendel talked about the importance of Industry 4.0 for a big player like Siemens and gave fascinating insights into Siemens’ production processes. After his sp...

In our lecture series on Industry 4.0, Prof. Voigt welcomed Prof. Dr. Alexander Pflaum, who is Director of Fraunhofer SCS and Professor at the University of Bamberg. Prof. Pflaum talked about the way towards a platform economy in times of digitization and Industry 4.0. Thereby, he gave some very int...

As part of the course “BWL für Ingenieure”, Dr.-Ing. Daniel Teichmann, founder and CEO of Hydrogenious Technologies, held a motivating guest lecture entitled “Aus der Forschung in die Firma – Ausgründung der Hydrogenious Technologies GmbH aus der FAU”. As a spin-off of the FAU, Hydrogenious Technolo...

In a ceremony on 25th of June 2017, the graduates of the 2nd class of the Siemens MBA Program 2015-2017 received their MBA diplomas from Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger, President of the FAU, Dr. Ralf P. Thomas, CFO of Siemens AG and Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt, Director of Executive Education. The thir...

On June 21th 2017, this semester’s final presentations of the seminar with former Siemens CEO Prof. Dr. Heinrich v. Pierer of the Chair of Industrial Management took place. The students examined different Corporate Venture Initiatives of companies, such as Siemens, Allianz, Bertelsmann and MIG. I...