Panel SKI35
Getting the Skill Set for Digital Transformation
Date Thursday, Dec 6 Time – RoomKing
More than ever, students need to be able to count on a relevant curriculum, a digital and physical space for learning and graduate competences that prepare them for market requirements. These Panellists will share how, in collaboration with multiple stakeholders, their study programmes are able to offer all this - and more.
Jonas Wernz (ne Gallenkämper)
Secretary of the advisory council for engineering education, VDI German Association of German Engineers, Germany
Engineering Education and the Digital Transformation: How Should Study Programmes Develop?
Dr. Jonas Gallenkämper has been secretary of the Advisory Board for Engineering Education at VDI since May 2017. There, he advocates a modernization of the study courses, a higher flexibility and up-to-date digitalization in the curriculum.
Since mid-2018, he has also been a member of the working group on work, education and training of Platform Industry 4.0 of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
During his doctorate in mathematics, he was project manager of the cooperation project "Good Start in Engineering Study" of the University of Applied Sciences Aachen and RWTH Aachen University. Mr. Gallenkämper also taught and researched at the RWTH Aachen University and the German University of Technology in Oman.
Moderator
Ellen Houmøller
Senior Lecturer, Lillebaelt Academy, University of Applied Science, Denmark
Ellen Houmøller is an Associated Professor at Lillebaelt Academy, University of Applied Science in Odense, Denmark.
She has a long experience within HR from both private and public organizations. She is also an experienced teacher and lecturer.
She has published articles about Adult Education and Lifelong Learning.
She teaches in Project Management, Leadership and Communication and Marketing at the BA in Digital Concept Development.
She has a MA in Modern Culture and Communication and a MA in Adult Education and Lifelong learning.
Her focus right now is on Transfer of knowledge from education to workinglife – and how PBL (Problem Based Learning) can be a helpful pedagogical method here.
She is currently part in an EU-project (EduEnvi) that shall develop a study on MA-level in Entrepreneur ship and Waste-management for universities in Russia and Kazhakstan, where different pedagogical methods are used in order to increase the students ability to critical and creative thinking.
Linked’in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellenhoumoeller/