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Industry 4.0 demands new skill-intensive jobs, which mostly affects engineers? the driving force of innovation. However, it turns out that EU is not all well prepared to face that challenge. The situation varies ? countries like AT and DE have already introduced WBL (=Work based Learning) at tertiary level to produce industry-ready engineers while others suffer a high level of youth unemployment due to skills mismatch caused often by industry-irrelevant traditional academic education. Within e.g. the regions of Ga...

This paper is an analysis of 521 students who were successful applicants for the dual/cooperative study program Production Technology and Organisation (PTO) at the University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum in Graz/Austria. Due to the Bologna Process, the program had to change its organisational structure from an 8-semester diploma program to 6-semester Bachelor + 4-semester Master program. There were 289 successful applicants for the diploma program and until write the year here 232 for the PTO bachelor. FH Joann...

Learning cycles in experiential education show a striking similarity to the PDCA (plan-do-check-act)-cycle in corporate problem solving as stated by David Kolb already in 1974. A cooperative/dual system involving multiple rotations with the same company offers an attractive framework to enhance corporate innovation processes by integrating the enterprises with the education of students. From the beginning in 2002 the cooperative/dual study programme Production Technology and Organization (PTO) at the University of...