During an intensive weekly workshop it enables students to further deepen their knowledge of an issue addressed in the project studios and/ or conduct excursions to places and sites addressed in their design project.

Intensive seminar week: excursion, exercises, experiment, research, writing, visualising, modelling, presenting, case study, peer feedback

Professional competence

• Execute complex defined and self-defined projects of research, development or investigation and identify and implement relevant outcomes.
• Communicate and articulate ideas and information fluently in English language and work comprehensively in visual, oral and written forms.
• Make formal presentations about specialist topics to informed audiences.
• Exercise autonomy and initiative in carrying out set project briefs and self-directed programmes of study.
• Demonstrate ability to manage time and physical resources in relation to set project briefs and self-directed programmes of study as an individual and a group member.
• Show confidence in analysing case studies and the ability to infer principles and motivations.

Methodological competence

• Apply a variety of design- and research methods and visualization and production techniques
• Have knowledge of scientific or artistic methods within an interdisciplinary context

Social competence

• Explain competently, discuss and critique own work through oral presentations, writing or visual communication
• Lead a team and assume responsibility
• Demonstrate the ability to work with other students for assignments, exercises, experiments, presentations etc

Personal competence

• Gain confidence in own role, and the persuasive and accountable manner in which it is expected to be performed.

Presentation, portfolio, participation, minimum 75% mandatory presence

During an intensive weekly workshop it enables students to further deepen their knowledge of an issue addressed in the project studios and/ or conduct excursions to places and sites addressed in their design project.

Intensive seminar week: excursion, exercises, experiment, research, writing, visualising, modelling, presenting, case study, peer feedback

Professional competence

• Execute complex defined and self-defined projects of research, development or investigation and identify and implement relevant outcomes.
• Communicate and articulate ideas and information fluently in English language and work comprehensively in visual, oral and written forms.
• Make formal presentations about specialist topics to informed audiences.
• Exercise autonomy and initiative in carrying out set project briefs and self-directed programmes of study.
• Demonstrate ability to manage time and physical resources in relation to set project briefs and self-directed programmes of study as an individual and a group member.
• Show confidence in analysing case studies and the ability to infer principles and motivations.

Methodological competence

• Apply a variety of design- and research methods and visualization and production techniques
• Have knowledge of scientific or artistic methods within an interdisciplinary context

Social competence

• Explain competently, discuss and critique own work through oral presentations, writing or visual communication
• Lead a team and assume responsibility
• Demonstrate the ability to work with other students for assignments, exercises, experiments, presentations etc

Personal competence

• Gain confidence in own role, and the persuasive and accountable manner in which it is expected to be performed.

Presentation, portfolio, participation, minimum 75% mandatory presence

Our educational journey will be done in cooperation with Prof. Jan Mendling, WU Vienna - University of Economics and Business. We will attend lectures at the brand new campus of WU Vienna, the biggest university for social and economic sciences in Europe. Furthermore, company visits and social activities are part of this journey. The trip lasts from Sunday - Thursday (including travel).

This module is accredited as elective subject (i.e. it counts as 3 out of 12 ECTS in the elective subjects basket).

Activities
Besides a lecture at the new campus of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien) by Univ. Prof. Dr. Jan Mendling, we plan the following activities:

• visit of the „Österreichische Post“ (Federal Mail) logistical center
• visit of the Viennese brewery: Ottakringer Brauerei AG
• introduction to typical Austrian cuisine

Schedule
Date: 18th April until 22th April (travelling on 18th April and 22th April)

Preliminary Agenda (need to be confirmed)
Tuesday: 18:00: get-together in the Hotel lobby, sightseeing-walk, dinner.
Wednesday: lectures at WU Wien, dinner in Schweizerhaus (Prater Vienna)
Thursday: lectures (half day) and short exam (see below for details), dinner at "Heurigen"
Friday: Österreichische Post (Austrian Federal Mail) and brewery visit.
Saturday: individual departure

Regulations require an examination in an elective subject. The exam will be conducted in the form of an exercise with relation to the lecture. You will be able to consult in groups and use all material (open book). Grading will be pass/not passed
There will be sufficient time to discover the city individually.

Accommodation
Students who took part in the last years, always recommended the following places to stay:

• Hotel Kummer at Mariahilferstrasse: http://www.gerstner-hotels.at/hotel-kummer/index.html (classic Vienna hotel with attractive pricing scheme, especially when sharing a room)

• Wombats City Hostel – THE LOUNGE at Mariahilferstrasse: http://www.wombats-hostels.com/vienna/the-lounge/

• Motel One Prater – this is near the WU Wien Campus, where lectures will take place, and close to Schweizerhaus: http://www.motel-one.com/en/hotels/vienna/wien-prater/

Cost & Registration
Please register until end of February for the study trip.

The cost for entry fees in Ottakringer Brewery are 6,- EUR which we will collect during the trip. All other costs have to be covered individually.

Travel
Travelling to Vienna should be organized individually. We can recommend the Austrian Federal Railways (www.oebb.at) leaving e.g. from Feldkirch or Zurich.

Some tips for booking a train ticket:

• There is always a limited amount of cheaper tickets -dedicated to specific trains - available (called Sparschiene).
• If you want to buy a regular ticket, you will be asked whether you have a ÖBB Vorteilscard (50 % discount). All people under 26 years can buy a Vorteilscard < 26 at low cost.

Flights go from Altenrhein-St.Gallen (Peoples Airline) and Zürich (AUA, Swiss) to Wien-Schwechat (VIE).

Arriving by car is possible, the P+R Ottakring might be the best solution then (U3 connects you with the city).

We will use public transportation during the trip. Tickets are available at all vending machines of "Wiener Linien".

Short description
This course generalizes the concepts of simple linear regression discussed in Business Statistics I to the case of multiple linear regression.

Topics

• Classical linear model assumptions
• Parameter estimation in multiple linear regression
• Model diagnostics
• Inference in multiple linear regression
• Model specification techniques
• Model selection techniques
• Introduction to the software package R

Learning objectives

• Students explain the classical linear model assumptions, run multiple linear regressions, check the diagnostics plots and interpret the results correctly.
• Students apply inference procedures in multiple linear regression models and compare the advantages and disadvantages of different inference procedures.
• Students apply specification techniques to improve the quality of models and interpret such models correctly.
• Students apply selection techniques to choose appropriate models.

Methods

• The e-learning platform Moodle will be used throughout the course for the dissemination of course material and discussions.
• Students are usually asked in advance to read corresponding parts of the lecture notes or of the textbook in order to prepare for the upcoming lectures.
• In the interactive lectures, statistical concepts will be introduced and motivated by discussing examples in detail. Assignments are offered to train these skills.
• During office hours, individual problems may be discussed with the lecturer.
• In order to analyse realistic data, the software package R will be used.

Recommended previous knowledge
Business Statistics I

Compulsory reading

• Wooldridge, J.M. (2013). Introductory Econometrics. (International Student Edition, 5th edition). Mason: South Western Cengage Learning.

Further reading

• Montgomery, D.C., Peck, A.E. & Vining, G.G. (2012). Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis. (5th edition). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• Faraway, J.J. (2014). Linear Models with R. (2nd edition). Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC.

In this course we discuss some statistical methods that can help to take decisions in business using data. After reviewing the basic concepts of ''Testing and Estimating'', usually known from an introductory course on probability theory and statistics in any bachelor program, we introduce and discuss some aspects of ''Multiple Linear Regression Analysis'', which can be regarded as one of the practically most relevant statistical techniques.

Topics:

• graphical and numerical characterizations of random variables and their distributions
• framework and basic applications of testing hypotheses and estimating parameters
• ordinary least squares method and its properties
• parameter estimation in multiple linear regression
• classical linear model assumptions and model diagnostics
• inference in multiple linear regression
• model specification techniques
• model selection techniques
• introduction to the software package R

Students are usually asked in advance to read corresponding parts of the textbook (Wooldridge, 2009) in order to prepare for the upcoming lectures. In the interactive lectures, we then introduce the statistical concepts and motivate them by discussing examples in detail. Assignments are then offered to train these skills. During the office hours, individual problems may finally be discussed with the lecturer. In order to analyze realistic data, the software package R will be used.

The same teaching methods will be used in the two different lecture series ''Testing and Estimating'' and ''Multiple Linear Regression Analysis''.

The e-learning platform Moodle will be used throughout the course for the dissemination of course material and discussions.

• Die Veranstaltungsreihe untersucht die Definition, die Bedeutung und die Ereignisse der Architektur in den unterschiedlichen Epochen und Kulturen.
• Von der Industriellen Revolution bis zum XX. Jhd. werden Beispiele historisch kontextualisiert, thematisiert und gleichzeitig als "durchgehend gültige" Beispiele und Werkzeuge in den Händen entwerfender Architekten verstanden.
• Architektur kann nicht ausserhalb eines gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Systems gedacht werden. Die Rolle der Architektur innerhalb dieses Systems gilt es zu vermitteln und zu hinterfragen. Die Geschichten und Theorien sind keine reinen Daten oder Abstraktionen, sie bewegen sich zwischen absoluten Positionen und relativen Verhältnissen.

Blockunterricht mit Fachstudio (Vorlesung )
Diskurs, Exzerpieren, Fallstudie, Film, Foto, Impulsreferat, Lesen, Recherche, Reflexion, Schreiben, Video, Visualisierung, Vortrag

Die Studierenden…

Fachkompetenz

• verfügen über grundlegende Kenntnisse aus der Architekturgeschichte und setzen Architekturtheorie in Verhältnis zur Architekturgeschichte.
• Sie verstehen die Architekturgeschichte als System von Zusammenhängen (Stile, -ismen und ihre Auslöser).
• können anhand von Beispielen die wichtigsten architektonischen Grundsätze einer Epoche nennen und beschreiben und sie in einen gesamtheitlichen, geschichtlichen Zusammenhang stellen.
• kennen architekturrelevante Beispiele und können sie kritisch lesen.

Sozialkompetenz

• sind befähigt in Gruppen zu recherchieren, vertiefen und präsentieren.
• Sie erkennen und verbalisieren Zusammenhänge und/oder Differenzen, Tendenzen, Grundhaltungen und gestaltungstheoretisch relevante Kriterien.

Selbstkompetenz

• sind befähigt einen kritischen Text zu strukturieren und zu verfassen und die gewonnen Kenntnisse mithilfe von Fachliteratur selbstständig zu vertiefen.
• sind befähigt aus dem vorgegebenen Material Zusammenhänge und/oder Differenzen, Tendenzen, Grundhaltungen, gestaltungstheoretisch relevante Kriterien zu erkennen und zu verbalisieren.
• verstehen Architektur als Teil eines kulturhistorischen Prozesses, der von jeder Epoche und Generation neu interpretiert und gestaltet wird.
• Sie situieren das eigene Schaffen im kulturellen und politischen Kontext.

Positiv bestandene Studieneingangsphase

Übungen, Schriftliche Hausarbeit
Anwesenheitspflicht: min. 75% verpflichtend

• Die Veranstaltungsreihe untersucht die Definitionen und die Bedeutungen der Architektur. Grundthemen werden hinterfragt und als "durchgehend gültige" Werkzeuge in den Händen entwerfender Architekten verstanden.
• Die Geschichten und Theorien sind keine reinen Daten oder Abstraktionen, sie bewegen sich zwischen absoluten Positionen und relativen Verhältnissen. Das Modul dient der anwendungsorientierten Horizonterweiterung durch Vermittlung und Aneignung von Wissen.

Blockunterricht mit Fachstudio (Vorlesung )
Diskurs, Exzerpieren, Fallstudie, Film, Foto, Lesen, Recherche, Reflexion, Schreiben, Video, Visualisierung, Vortrag

Die Studierenden…

Fachkompetenz:

• verfügen über grundlegende Kenntnisse aus der Architekturgeschichte
• können anhand von Beispielen die wichtigsten architektonischen Themen beschreiben, hinterfragen und sie in einen gesamtheitlichen Zusammenhang stellen.
• kennen architekturrelevante Beispiele und können sie kritisch lesen.

Sozialkompetenz

• sind befähigt in Gruppen zu recherchieren, vertiefen und präsentieren.

Selbstkompetenz:

• sind befähigt einen kritischen Text zu strukturieren und zu verfassen.
• verstehen Architektur als Teil eines kulturhistorischen Prozesses, der von jeder Epoche und Generation neu interpretiert und gestaltet wird.

Schriftliche Hausarbeit
Anwesenheitspflicht: min. 75% verpflichtend

In Modul Analoge Gestaltung II wird das räumliche Zeichnen und Skizzieren für Architekten vertieft. Im Vordergrund steht dabei die Auseinandersetzung mit Darstellender Geometrie und Perspektiven. Anhand von Übungen und Skizzenbuch werden diese unterschiedlichen Abbildungstechniken für das Darstellen von Räumen intensiviert.

Fachstudio mit Blockunterricht (Vorlesung und Übung)
In Form von begleitenden Zeichen- und Skizzierübungen, Reflexion, Recherche

Die Studierenden …
Fachkompetenz

• beherrschen komplexere Geometrien und Perspektivformen.
• kommunizieren eigene kreative Arbeiten mittels analoger Gestaltungstechniken.

Methodenkompetenz

• setzen Freihandskizzen/-zeichnungen im Konzeptions-, Entwurfs- und Planungsprozess effizient ein.

Sozialkompetenz

• kultivieren eine gemeinsame Atelieratmosphäre.

Selbstkompetenz

• erfassen und setzen Aufgabenstellungen selbstständig um.

Positiv bestandene Studieneingangsphase

Übungen, Skizzenbuch, Kurzpräsentationen,
Recherchearbeiten sowie der Mitarbeit im Unterricht

Short description
The course covers the fundamentals of supply chain management, so it focuses on coordination problems related to the provision of products and services and the flow of goods.

Topics

• Demand forecasting
• Process flow analysis
• Service process management
• Inventory management
• Location planning
• Production planning
• Scheduling
• Network management

Learning objectives

• Students will know about the main concepts, theories, and methods in supply chain management.
• In a business game, students will recognize and analyze typical coordination problems along the supply chain.
• In exercises, students will use analytical methods like linear programming, dynamic programming, regression analysis, and exponential smoothing, and state-of-the-art algorithms and heuristics like Silver-Meal and Branch-and-Bound.
• In case studies, students will use these methods to identify business problems, generate solutions, and compare their solutions in terms of quality and accuracy.

Methods

• The module involves interactive lectures with exercises to integrate theoretical knowledge and practical skills.
• Case studies are used to show how the course contents are related.
• A business game is used to illustrate typical coordination problems along the supply chain.
• The e-learning platform Moodle will be used throughout the course for the dissemination of course material and discussions.

Entry requirements

• Students are expected to have basic knowledge and skills in operations management.

Compulsory reading

• Chopra, S., & Meindl, P. (2012). Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation (5th edition). Pearson: Edinburgh Gate et al.

This course looks at a wide range of philosophical topics that deal with human relations to the world from an ethical perspective. Those relations concern here in particular: the environment, art, political authority, and culture. Hence, topics touch on mainly:
- Environmental ethics (What are the moral status and value of environment? Do we have obligations to preserve nature? If yes, how are those obligations to be formulated? What are the principles of and arguments for sustainability?)
- Aesthetics (What is art? What is a work of art? What is an aesthetic experience? Can/should art be evaluated through moral standards?)
- Political Ethics (What is a state? What are the philosophical justifications for the state? What makes states legitimate? What is democracy? How to justify citizen's duties to obey and state's right to coerce?)
- Ethics of Culture (What is culture? How does culture participate in the individual's identity? Is the individual determined throughout by culture? Are values relative or universal? What is intercultural dialogue?)
Our focus will be on cornerstone philosophical theories and insights that are useful for understanding not only our relations to the world, but also our obligations and responsibility. To achieve that we'll engage with great philosophers and assess their arguments against the background of topical and concrete questions that we are confronted with in our daily lives.
Challenging reading materials will help access deep philosophical insights that are needed to understand complex moral and socio-political issues.

NB:
This course is meant to bring forth the relevance of a philosophical thinking in matters that concern our everyday practical lives. By investigating the foundations of the above-mentioned issues, we'll be better equipped to understand the world around us and formulate personal, clear and well-articulated answers and opinions about matters that concern us all.

Lectures, written examination

Participants will be able to:

• Describe and familiarize with traditional and contemporary philosophical theories, particularly their ethical aspects.
• Understand how philosophical insights and theories may be applied to real-life situations and how they can be helpful to tackle them.
• Identify the connections between theoretical reflections and practical applications.
• Formulate personal and well-articulated positions and develop a critical thinking about moral and socio-political issues.

Assessment tasks:
Written examination (100%): Essay exam (2500 - 3000 words, specific criteria will follow, choice of topics will be announced on the 15.12.2016 (sign in till 12.12.2016) to submit electronically via moodle.

Sign in for the lecture series and the examination, separately.

Passed / Failed

• Course based on continuous assessment, details see under "assessment".
• Written examination about lecture and the additional lecture as an exam essay.
• The examination date of this irregular lecture: 15.12.2016 till 19.1.2017

> Sign in till 12.12.2016
> Topic will be announced 15.12.2016
> Hand in your essay electronically till 19.1.2017, 24:00

• There will be one repeat testing date - if requested - in summer semester 2017.

Cross-faculty elective subject:
Notice the special Multi-stage allocation process.