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Course Offer SummerTerm 2025

Courses Business and Management BUM

Business Analytics // FULLY BOOKED

This course aims to provide you with key concepts, state of the art tools and practical applications of data analytics to create informative business reports and data visualization. 
The focus will be laid on:
→ Data Literacy
Business Intelligence
→ BI-Systems
→ Reporting tools
→ Visual Analytics (SAP Analytics Cloud)
→ Visualization basics
→ Storytelling
→ Basic chart types
→ Interactive charts

Dates

22.04.2025    14:00 - 18:00    Online
06.05.2025    14:00 - 18:00    Campus Steyr - DigiSpace

Intercultural Management: Mastering Strategy

In this course, you will analyze recent trends in the hypercompetitive global arena through texts and case studies. You will evaluate cross-cultural management and competitive strategies in the context of global changes, expanding trade, and rapidly growing Asian economies, necessitating new management approaches.

→ The course will concentrate on topics:
→ Culture, cultural differences, and their boundaries
→ Cultural dimensions and Cultural standards
→ Managing Interdependence „Social Responsibilities and Ethics“
→ Intercultural communication, International Negotiation
→ Teamwork with diverse team members
→ Formulating Strategy in Multicultural Environments
→ Sending employees on foreign assignments “Expatriation”
→ Current issues in intercultural management and potential solutions

Dates

19.03.2025    14:00 - 18:05    Campus Steyr
02.04.2025    14:00 - 18:05    Campus Steyr
06.05.2025    14:00 - 18:05    Campus Steyr
16.05.2025    14:00 - 18:05    Campus Steyr
21.05.2025    14:00 - 18:05    Campus Steyr
04.06.2025    14:00 - 18:05    Campus Steyr

SAS Business Analytics Specialist Certification

This course is a self-study course and can be started any time from March on. See detailed information and course description here.

You will attend a student‘s workshop and the e-learning modules SAS Base programming Specialist (2 e-learning modules and 1 certification to pass) as well as SAS Machine Learning (1 e-learning module and 1 certification to pass). The course results in a dedicated, jointly signed certificate and badge (FH OOE and SAS).


The key learning outcomes of the course are:
→ Handling data and business projects
→ Understanding analytics trends, life cycle, and SAS Viya
→ Learning SAS Base Programming for data analysis
→ Mastering data manipulation with SAS DATA steps
→ Using SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning for
analytics tasks
 

Dates:

Infosession    March, 10th / 4 - 5 pm SAS Specialization – why SAS and why this might be a great move for your career path

Meeting Link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjExYTcwN2YtNzZhOS00MjZhLTk5NTUtNjM1ODkyZDdhZjk4%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22f88d4b73-6bb2-4b9a-abc7-eb96e5a6407c%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22cfb3db17-e17e-4a26-84d3-924f8c3aed4e%22%7d

Besprechungs-ID: 345 751 816 444 
Kennung: m6PV7Fx6 
 

International Capital Markets

In this lecture, students will understand the economic mechanisms driving financial markets and their instruments. They will learn methods to discuss, analyze, and solve financial issues for households, investors, corporations, and financial institutions. Graduates will master models for investment decisions and managing portfolio risks, including stocks, bonds, and derivatives.

Dates

25.04.2025    09:00 - 12:15        Campus Steyr
02.05.2025    09:00 - 12:15        Campus Steyr
16.05.2025    09:00 - 12:15        Campus Steyr
23.05.2025    09:00 - 12:15        Campus Steyr
06.06.2025    09:00 - 12:15        Campus Steyr
13.06.2025    09:00 - 12:15        Campus Steyr

Exam:
27.06.2025    09:00 - 10:35        Campus Steyr

Applied Economics

After successfully completing the course, you will understand key economic concepts: microeconomics (markets, welfare, elasticities), macroeconomic data (GDP), economic development factors, the monetary system (money growth, inflation, deflation), and the roles of fiscal and monetary policy.

Topics:
→ Introduction to Macroeconomics 
→ Market Forces and their Efficiency 
→ The Data of Macroeconomics 
→ Economic Growth - Productivity and Public Policy 
→ IS-LM Model 
→ AS-AD Model 
→ Savings, Investment Spending & Financial System 
→ Monetary Policy, Inflation and Deflation 

Dates

Fr. 07.03.2025        10:00    13:15   Campus Steyr
Fr. 28.03.2025        10:00    13:15   Campus Steyr
Sa. 29.03.2025        10:00    13:15  Campus Steyr
Fr. 11.04.2025        10:00    13:15   Campus Steyr
Fr. 02.05.2025        12:00    15:15   Campus Steyr
Fr. 23.05.2025        12:00    15:15   Campus Steyr
Sa. 24.05.2025        10:00    13:15  Campus Steyr
Fr. 06.06.2025        12:00    13:35   Campus Steyr

Cross-Cultural Negotiations (Englisch) // FULLY BOOKED

After successfully completing the course you will be able to understand the basic concepts of business negotiations, the types and reasons for negotiations, and the influence of personality types. You will also understand the importance of body language, intercultural differences in global negotiations, and the impact of megatrends like AI.

→ basic concepts of business negotiations (e.g. Harvard concept, A6 model, process models,...) 
→ types and reasons for business negotiations 
→ influence of personality types on business negotiations 
→ importance of body language as part of business negotiations 
→ importance of intercultural differences for global negotiations 
→ influence of megatrends such as AI on negotiations 
→ application of the gained negotiation knowledge in role plays and case studies.

Dates

18.03.2025    10:30 - 12:55    Campus Steyr
25.03.2025    10:30 - 13:45    Campus Steyr
22.04.2025    10:30 - 13:45    Campus Steyr
29.04.2025     10:30 - 13:45    Campus Steyr

13.05.2025    10:00 - 11:35    online exam
 

This course is currently fully booked.

Financial Accounting Basics: Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements

Upon successful completion of the course, you will understand financial statements, you will be able to interpret key financial documents, you will understand asset and liability concepts, be able to calculate financial ratios, and to use financial information for decision-making.

Main Topics:

→ Introduction to Financial Accounting
→ Balance Sheet
→ Double-Entry Accounting
→ Profit & Loss Statement
→ Other Components of Financial Statements
→ Cash Flow Statement
→ Financial Statement Analysis and Ratios

Dates

05.03.2025    09:00 - 11:15        Campus Steyr
12.03.2025    13:00 - 15:15        Campus Steyr
20.03.2025    13:00 - 17:05        Campus Steyr
26.03.2025    13:00 - 17:05        Campus Steyr
09.04.2025    13:00 - 17:05        Campus Steyr
23.04.2025    13:00 - 16:15        Campus Steyr
07.05.2025    08:00 - 12:05        Campus Steyr

Global B2B Marketing (Englisch) // FULLY BOOKED

After successfully completing the course you will understand the impact of a global environment on B2B marketing. You will be able to adapt B2B marketing instruments to different global market scenarios, and discuss strategic and operative B2B marketing in various socio-political-cultural contexts. You will also be able to conduct global marketing research, adjust marketing strategies interculturally, and develop strategies for global market expansion.

Main Topics

→ Introduction to Global Marketing Issues 
→ Global B2B Marketing Communiations 
→ Global Market Research & Environment  
→ Cross-Cultural Negotiations 

Dates

20.05.2025    10:30 - 12:55    Campus Steyr
27.05.2025    10:30 - 13:45    Campus Steyr
10.06.2025    10:30 - 13:45    Campus Steyr
17.06.2025    10:30 - 13:45    Campus Steyr
24.06.2025    10:00 - 11:35    online Exam

This course is currently fully booked.

Global Startup development

This course enables you to create or work on your own Business Idea. It helps you to plan product market launch, developing a Business Model, writing a Business Plan and doing a perfect Pitch. In a Nutshell: to become your own entrepreneur.

Contents:

→ Entrepreneurship and Startup Business 
→ How to get a Business Idea 
→ Trends and Motives 
→ From Idea to Market and Prototyping 
→ Value Proposition Model and Business Development 
Business Planning 
→ How to do your perfect Pitch 

Dates

08.05.2025    13:30 - 17:00    Campus Linz
15.05.2025    13:30 - 17:00    Campus Linz
22.05.2025    13:30 - 17:00    Campus Linz
29.05.2025    13:30 - 17:00    Campus Linz
05.06.2025    13:30 - 17:00    Campus Linz
12.06.2025    13:30 - 17:00    Campus Linz

Courses General GEN

AI-Enhanced Presentation Design

This course aims to provide you with key concepts, state of the art tools and practical applications of presentation to create appealing business presentations.

→  Design fundamentals for business presentations
→  Basics of visual composition and arranging information in a visually appealing way.
→  Using media and diagrams to enhance audience engagement.
→  AI powered text-to-picture generation (Adobe Firefly)
→  Introduction to text-to-picture tools and features.
→  Exercises on generating images
→  Refining generated images to ameliorate their appeal and relevance to presentation contents

Dates

08.04.2025    14:00 - 18:00    Online
29.04.2025    14:00 - 18:00    Campus Steyr

Sustainable development goals-YOUR FUTURE LAB

Upon completion of this course, students are able to…:

→  Understand the fundamentals of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations (U.N.)
→  Implement sustainable strategies that contributes to increasing brand value
→  Develop marketing strategies in frame of SDGs
→  Understand what makes a city smart and sustainable
→  Develop Smart City implementation in a region/city of their choice
→  Understand mobility challenges and implement ideas, solution concepts in their group work
→  Effectively communicate and transmit the knowledge of the SDGs to enable stakeholders to make a difference

This course is part of the master degree program Digital Business Management (DBM.ma).

Dates:

10.05.2025    08:00    - 16:15        Campus Steyr
23.05.2025    13:50    - 19:35        Campus Steyr
07.06.2025    08:00    - 14:35        Campus Steyr

Courses Social Skills SOC

Applied Psychology (Englisch) // FULLY BOOKED

This course is already fully booked.

This course is designed to provide an overview of applied psychology basics to prepare yourself for behavioral sciences, leadership, change management and human resources management activities. Furthermore, a brief overview on industrial sociology is given.

This course provides knowledge in the field of:

→ Psychology 
→ Limits of Performance 
→ Development and performance of Groups 
→ Communication and Applied Linguistics 
→ Conflict Management & Conflict Escalation 
→ Industrial Sociology 
→ Group Dynamics  

Dates
28.02.2025    08:00    - 12:00        Campus Steyr
17.03.2025    13:00    - 17:55        Campus Steyr
15.05.2025    10:30    - 14:30        Campus Steyr

This course is already fully booked.

Courses Informatics INF

Einführung Quantum Computing

This course is currently fully booked.

In this course we discuss the following:

quantum states, superposition, entanglement, quantum gates (quantum operations), quantum measurements, quantum computing, problems that can be solved more efficiently by quantum computers, potential applications to real-world problems, state-of-the-art of quantum computers, quantum key distribution, quantum communication.

Throughout the course you will do exercises on a real quantum computer. Don‘t worry, the exercises will be simple - even if you haven‘t programmed before - , but will help you get a feeling as what quantum computing is. Exercises are optional. 
 

Dates

03.03.2025    18:00 - 21:00    Online
10.03.2025    18:00 - 21:00    Online
17.03.2025    18:00 - 21:00    Online
24.03.2025    18:00 - 21:00    Online
31.03.2025    18:00 - 21:00    Online
07.04.2025    18:00 - 21:00    Online
28.04.2025    18:00 - 21:00    Online

This course is currently fully booked.
 

Courses Technics TEC

Battery Technology

You will have an understanding of how electrochemical, electrical, mechanical and thermal storage systems work. You will get to know how to operate a storage system and their integration into comprehensive energy systems.

This course focusses on several types of batteries:
Basics of energy conversion, capacitor batteries, lithium ion batteries, traction and storage batteries (lead, nickel, sodium), high-energy batteries, redox flow batteries

You will learn about the application range of the different battery technologies, system integration, legal framework, funding for battery technologies.

This course is part of the master degree programs AET.ma and SES.ma

Dates*
20.03.2025    09:50 - 13:20    Campus Wels
26.03.2025    09:50 - 13:20    Campus Wels
09.04.2025    09:50 - 13:20    Campus Wels
30.04.2025    09:50 - 13:20    Campus Wels
07.05.2025    09:50 - 13:20    Campus Wels
14.05.2025    09:50 - 13:20    Campus Wels
26.06.2025    08:00 - 13:20    Excursion

*might be subject to alterations
 

Formula Student Project

In this course you will gain detailed knowledge of the development, construction, design and manufacture of vehicles and you can implement this in the „Formula Student“ project. You will get to know methods for independently organizing a team and learn how to evaluate the development using business methods of cost accounting.

Main focus:
→ Conception,
→ Design,
→ Development and
→ Construction of a FSAE racing car

The teams of the international Formula Student event series will participate in a global engineering competition along with teams from other universities.

Dates
Meetings every Wednesday at Campus Wels 4 - 5.30 pm starting from March 5th 2025.

Hydrogen Technology

This course aims to give an understanding of how electrochemical, electrical, mechanical and thermal sto    rage systems work. You know the operation of storage     systems and their integration into comprehensive energy systems. You will learn to master the methodsfor dimensioning storage systems, taking into account generation and energy demand.

Following topics will be part of the course:
Available energy resources, chemical fundamentals, hydrogen production, areas of application of hydrogen, hydrogen infrastructure and technology, safety aspects, fundamentals of the fuel cell, areas of application of the fuel cell

This course is part of the master degree programs AET.ma and SES.ma.
 

Dates*

24.04.2025    13:30        23.05.2025    10:40
25.04.2025    11:30        12.06.2025    08:55
15.05.2025    14:25        13.06.2025    14:05
16.05.2025    08:50        26.06.2025    16:15
22.05.2025    13:30        27.06.2025    08:00

*might be subject to alterations

Deep Learning for Engineers

After successfully completing the course, you will have an overview of machine learning in technical applications. You will be able to manage data and deep learning network models in Python, understand the neural networks engine, design, train, and optimize a deep neural network, and apply transfer learning to common networks.

→ Categories of Machine-Learning: Examples of application in smart energy and manufacturing systems
→ Data preprocessing in Python
→ Basics of Neural Networks (NN)
→ Building, Training and Evaluating NNs
→ Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)
→ CNN Case Studies and Application Notes
→ Optimization,
→ Transfer Learning
→ Object Detection
 

Dates

18.03.2025    16:15 - 18:50    Campus Wels
25.03.2025    16:15 - 18:50    Campus Wels
01.04.2025    16:15 - 18:50    Campus Wels
08.04.2025    16:15 - 18:50    Campus Wels
22.04.2025    16:15 - 18:50    Campus Wels
29.04.2025    16:15 - 18:50    Campus Wels
06.05.2025    16:15 - 18:50    Campus Wels
13.05.2025    16:15 - 18:50    Campus Wels
20.05.2025    16:15 - 18:50    Campus Wels
27.05.2025    16:15 - 18:50    Campus Wels