Study insights

Interactive, creative learning methods

Part-time degree programs especially require new learning methods, away from pure lecturing and towards a joint learning experience with strong ties to one's own profession. Examples include:

• Simulation games to gain experience with process problems and solutions
• Quantitative process analysis made ​​easy through multiple regression in the design of experiments
• Development of individual process performance dashboards
• Transfer of process and quality engineering skills to one's own profession through My Processes exercise aiming at enabling people to directly apply new content to their everyday working life
• E-learning: Everybody learns differently. Through the targeted use of e-learning resources, different types of learners can be accommodated. Examples of e-learning resources used are whiteboards, digital flashcards and virtual classrooms.
• Application
  Business planning game: Interrelating operational processes can be experienced by students through a planning game. The game's objective is to, in several rounds, make a company successful. That way, business decisions' consequences become apparent immediately.

Business planning game

Experiencing how operational processes come together through a planning game for students. The game's objective is to, in several rounds, make a company successful. The game is useful for students as it makes consequences of business decisions become apparent immediately.

Current developments explained by experts

• Special event: PQM – Dialog
• Special event: ERP – JIT
• Practical skills transfer through industry projects
• Practical experience through excursions
• Meet the CIO presentation by Frank Emerson, Chief Information Officer of the company Xcerra
• Guest professorship by Patrick Stoll, PhD
• Workshop on the implementation of the ERP system SAP BUSINESS ONE

Lean Production und Lean Office at Steelcase

Excursion: Six Sigma and Lean Management at B/S/H

New impressions through educational trips

During a one-week trip abroad, course content is complemented through lectures at host universities, company visits and discussions with experts as well as through cultural experiences. Students can choose from a selection of destinations. So far, students have taken trips to, among others:

• Montreal: Concordia University
• Barcelona: La Salle University
• St. Petersburg: International Management Institute St. Petersburg (IMISP)
• Dublin: Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT)
• Tallinn: Tallinn Technical University (TTU)
• Warsaw: Leon Kozminski University