Prof. Dr. Michael E. Auer
Michael E. Auer (M’99–SM’07) is a Vice-Rector and a Professor of electrical engineering with the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria, and a Professor of microelectronics with the University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria. He has authored or coauthored over 190 publications and a leading member of numerous national and international organizations in the field of online technologies. His current research interests include technology-enhanced learning and remote working environments especially in engineering.
Dr. Auer is the Founder and the Chair of the Annual International IEEE EDUCON, ICL, and REV conferences, and the Chair or a member of the Program Committees of several international conferences and workshops. He works as an Evaluator and the Coordinator of European Union funded research projects and a member in expert groups of the European Commission as well as the U.S. National Science Foundation. He has been the Founding President and the CEO of the International Association of Online Engineering since 2006, a nongovernmental organization that promotes the vision of new engineering working environments worldwide. In 2009, he was appointed as an Advisory Board Member of the European Learning Industry Group. He is one of the Founders and the Secretary General of the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC). GOLC is the result of an initiative started in 2009 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to coordinate the work on educational online laboratories worldwide. From 2010 to 2016, he served as the President of the International Society of Engineering Education. During the World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF2015), he was elected as the President of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies from 2016 to 2018.
