From 2022 onwards: Lecture “Creative and Sustainable Product, Service and Process Engineering” at Vienna University of Technology, Austria. The subject has been initiated and designed by me.
From 2022: Affiliated with SRH Fernhochschule – The Mobile University. Various guest lectures and talks.
From 2021: Various lectures about “Sustainable and Creative Product Development” at Hochschule Furtwangen University (HFU), Germany.
2008 – 2022: Lecture “Creativity Engineering” at the Vienna University of Technology (VUT), Austria. The subject was initiated by me and Jutta.
2014 – 2016: Lecturing “Engineering Design” at Duale Hochschule Baden Württemberg (DHBW).
Summer Schools
Summer School on Innovative and Sustainable Transportation in Germany 2023, Germany
The Summer School on Innovative and Sustainable Transportation in Germany was held together with FH Münster with extensive excursions and company visits in Bremen (Mercedes Benz factory), Hamburg (Airbus company), Berlin and Münster. The excursion was accompanied with lectures spinning around sustainability, city structures and innovation – all in the context of mobility and mobility technologies.
Summer School on Creativity Engineering 2018, Bogotá, Colombia
The Summer School on Creativity Engineering 2018 was held at La Sabana University, Bogotá, Colombia from 04-09. June 2018. With students from Colombia, Guatemala and Peru, the summer school was indeed an international event. The lectures were accompanied by a guest lecture in Design Thinking, given by Claudia Umanzor Zelaya, research professor at the Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of La Sabana University. All participating students developed project ideas strongly related to Bogotá and Colombia.
The project works were published in a book named “Exercising Creativity 2018 – Bogotá calling”. You can get it here (external link to Amazon).
Summer School on Creativity Engineering 2014, Vienna, Austria
The Summer School on Creativity Engineering 2014 was held in Vienna, Austria from 07.-25. July 2014. It was organized by INNES Vienna; the course was held at the facilities of INNES Vienna. With an amazing mix of international participants – ranging from students to young professionals – a three week intensive course was realized. Many new and creative ideas were developed and were further developed and sharpened to fit a business plan for idea implementation. The participants were coached by lecturers from academia and industry.
Lecturers 2014:
- Dr. Hesamedin Ostad-Ahmad-Ghorabi, Ferchau Engineering GmbH & Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Dr. Daniel Collado-Ruiz, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
- Mag. Jutta Jerlich, Cisco Systems
Summer School on Creativity Engineering 2012, Vienna, Austria
The Summer School on Creativity Engineering 2012 was held in Vienna, Austria from 02.-20. July 2012. The summer school took place at the Vienna University of Technology. Participants were from China, Iran, USA, Uruguay, Columbia, Belgium, Russia, Germany, Slovenia and Egypt – a fantastic cultural mix as a basis for great ideas and projects developed during the course.
Lecturers were from the automotive industry in Germany, the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia in Spain, Nagoya City University in Japan and the Washington State University in USA.
Participants formed multicultural and interdisciplinary teams to develop their creative ideas and prepare them for implementation.
Lecturers 2012:
- Dr. Hesamedin Ostad-Ahmad-Ghorabi, Magna Steyr Engineering Germany & Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Dr. Daniel Collado-Ruiz, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
- Dr. Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University, USA
- Mag. Jutta Jerlich, Nagoya City University, Japan
The projects along with some editorial chapters were published in a book entitled:
- Exercising Creativity 2012 (click to download book as .pdf file)
Summer School on Creativity Engineering 2011, Vienna, Austria
The Summer School on Creativity Engineering 2011 was held in Vienna, Austria from 04.-22. July 2011 and was hosted by the Vienna University of Technology. With participants from Brazil, China, Greece, Guatemala, Iran, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia and… Austria and lecturers from Austria and Spain, this course was indeed multinational.
Participants with different background were getting together to learn and experience a new impression of creativity. The course contained two weeks of lectures, along with workshops, company visits and guest lecturers from industry and academia. In the third week, participants worked in groups on an idea in order to prepare it for professional presentation. The preparation of the ideas contained a clear goal and scope definition, a small business plan, a SWOT analysis and a powerful presentation of the idea.
The projects along with some editorial chapters were published in a book entitled:
- Exercising Creativity 2011 (click to download the book in pdf format).