TY - CHAP A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Schomaker, Rahel M. T1 - Soziale Innovation als Treiber für eine menschenwürdige Gesellschaft T2 - Globale Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung Y1 - 2025 SN - 9783662683279 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68327-9_5-1 SN - 2731-9849 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Springer Nature CY - Berlin, Heidelberg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Mohya, Ahmed ED - Heijne, Katrina T1 - Tinkering, Tools and Techniques – Creativity in German Engineering Education T2 - AIJR Proceedings: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Creativity in Innovation N2 - Purpose – Engineers are expected to be the creative problem solvers and innovative tinkerers of a company. This article examines to what extent German tertiary education lives up to this expectation. The analysis of German module descriptions in engineering shows that there are no courses dedicated to creativity and that creativity and its techniques are mentioned only sparsely in the modules of the engineering curriculum. Surveys amongst our students show that they are usually familiar with techniques which are based on generating alternatives such as brainstorming and morphological box, but lack knowledge about techniques based on challenging assumptions such as forced connection. They tend to favour discursive techniques over intuitive ones and techniques which use generation of alternatives as an idea-generating principle. A combination of creativity techniques seems to be most conducive to creative output in our course. Finally, we present some first findings on creative sessions in remote work with the help of virtual whiteboards, which have gained in importance since the pandemic. Methodology – Firstly, we present an document analysis of the modules of Bachelor and Master programs of mechanical engineering at German universities and universities of applied sciences. Secondly, we present results from surveys in our Master course in “Innovation and Technology Management” where we gathered data from students over several years and performed an external evaluation of the output using Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT). These results include which creativity techniques the students know prior to the course and which they prefer as well as which techniques seem to be conducive to engineering creativity. Furthermore we surveyed their experiences with creative sessions as remote work. Conclusion – Overall, the article shows the importance to teach prospective engineers the basics in creativity. Students should have the opportunity to acquire knowledge about and apply different creativity techniques, as different techniques have different strengths and weaknesses and, thus, different areas of fruitful application. They should also have the chance to try out different modes such as in-person sessions and virtual sessions, as some of the future work will most likely shift online. Furthermore, a combination of different creativity techniques makes it more likely that engineers break through their usual systematic-analytic way of thinking and helps them to think outside the box to find creative solutions for the pressing problems of our time. KW - Ingenieurstudium KW - Kreativität Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-51142 SN - 2582-3922 SP - 11 EP - 18 PB - AIJR Publisher ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Deckert, Carsten T1 - Sustainable Logistics T2 - Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management Y1 - 2023 SN - 9783031259838 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25984-5_131 SP - 3562 EP - 3566 PB - Springer Nature CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Deckert, Carsten T1 - Supply Chain T2 - Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management Y1 - 2023 SN - 9783031259838 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25984-5_132 SP - 3212 EP - 3214 PB - Springer Nature CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Mohya, Ahmed T1 - Teaching Sustainable Logistics As A Project-Based Learning Course T2 - European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), 11-14 September 2023, TUDublin, Ireland N2 - Sustainable logistics combines the task of the 6R of logistics (right product, right place, right time, right condition, right cost) with social and environmental sustainability, especially low emissions and low resource consumption. This means that a problem that is already challenging, namely planning, executing, and controlling logistical processes, gets even more complex and requires aspects of systems thinking to incorporate environmental and social impacts. Classical approaches of teaching, e.g. lectures with presentations and short exercises on closed problems, do not do justice to the complexity and intricacies of the topic sustainability. In such a context, projectbased learning (PBL) where students do group work on open-ended problems with real-world complexity seems to be a more adequate means to teach the subject. The paper describes a PBL course in which students worked on projects to conceptualize micro-depots for parcel delivery in different areas of Düsseldorf. A micro-depot is a temporary storage location in a city from which parcels can be delivered by cargo bikes. The aim was to locate the micro-depot, design the delivery routes, check the feasibility, and calculate the reduction of greenhouse gases and other emissions. The course was taught in cooperation with a partner from the courier, express, and parcel delivery industry. The paper describes the experiences with the course and gives recommendations for a successful implementation of PBL in courses on sustainability. KW - Ingenieurstudium KW - Nachhaltigkeit KW - Logistik Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-51182 PB - TU Dublin CY - Dublin ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Kretschmar, Dominik A1 - Plagge, Christoph T1 - Auf einen gemeinsamen Nenner gebracht? – Reporting der Treibhausgas-Emissionen der Logistikunternehmen in Deutschland T3 - Working Papers in Industrial Engineering - 6 KW - Logistik KW - Nachhaltigkeit KW - Treibhausgasemissionen Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-43130 SN - 2627-8375 CY - Düsseldorf ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Mohya, Ahmed T1 - Self-directed versus guided learning – searching for the sweet spot with lesson activities in Moodle T2 - SEFI 50th Annual conference of The European Society for Engineering Education. "Towards a new future in engineering education, new scenarios that european alliances of tech universities open up." N2 - In times of a pandemic many university courses have to be taught in an online learning format to respect the requirements of social distancing. Online learning takes place between the poles of self-direction by the student and guidance by the lecturer. In this paper a first-semester course in industrial economics for engineers, which was taught in the self-directed learning format of flipped classroom, was enhanced with lesson activities in the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle as a means of guided learning with student-content interaction. The paper describes the design and the evaluation of the lesson activities. For the evaluation a student survey to gather the opinions and self-assessments of the students was conducted, and statistical data from Moodle on the performance of the students were collected. The results of the student survey show an overall positive evaluation of the lesson activities by the students who participated in the lesson activities. Furthermore, the results of the statistical data about the students’ performance show a relation between participation in the lesson activities and exam success. As a caveat, however, the results also show that the majority of the students chose not to participate in the lesson activities. KW - Selbstgesteuertes Lernen KW - Kooperatives Lernen KW - Moodle KW - Ingenieurstudium Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-51759 SN - 978-84-123222-6-2 SP - 234 EP - 242 PB - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya CY - Barcelona ER - TY - INPR A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Schomaker, Rahel A1 - Albiez, Philipp T1 - Social Capital and National Innovativeness – The Influence of Trust and Tolerance on the National Capacity to Innovate T2 - Qeios N2 - While national innovativeness is of pivotal relevance for economic development, so far, relatively little attention has been paid to the social drivers of innovativeness. Thus, the role of social norms and values as drivers of innovativeness is somewhat blurry. Tackling this gap, the article at hand reflects the concepts of social capital, trust, and tolerance, before a model of social capital and innovativeness is developed and tested empirically, followed by the presentation and discussion of the results and a brief conclusion. KW - Innovationsfähigkeit KW - Norm (Ethik) KW - Wert KW - Soziales Kapital KW - Vertrauen KW - Toleranz Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.32388/646CQI SN - 2632-3834 PB - Qeios ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stodick, Klaus A1 - Deckert, Carsten ED - Sucky, Eric ED - Kolke, Reinhard ED - Biethahn, Niels ED - Werner, Jan ED - Vogelsang, Michael T1 - Sustainable Parcel Delivery in Urban Areas with Micro Depots T2 - Mobility in a Globalised World 2018 KW - city logistics KW - sustainability KW - CEP services KW - micro depots Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:473-opus4-548276 SN - 978-3863096625 SP - 233 EP - 244 PB - University of Bamberg Press CY - Bamberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Schomaker, Rahel M. A1 - Remmler, Julian T1 - Kollektivismus, Familismus und ­Nepotismus: Der Einfluss der Intensität von Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen auf die nationale Innovationfähigkeit JF - Der Betriebswirt Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3790/dbw.2024.1461504 SN - 2628-7846 VL - 65 IS - 2 SP - 93 EP - 106 PB - Duncker & Humblot ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Schomaker, Rahel M. A1 - Moyda, Mohamed ED - Niemann, Jörg ED - Deckert, Carsten T1 - IP or not IP: Einfluss des Schutzes geistiger Eigentumsrechte auf die nationale Innovationsfähigkeit T3 - Working Papers in Industrial Engineering - 8 KW - Geistiges Eigentum KW - Urheberrecht KW - Innovationsfähigkeit Y1 - 2025 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-57135 SN - 2627-8375 PB - Hochschule Düsseldorf CY - Düsseldorf ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Söhnitz, Stefanie ED - Kangaslampi, R. ED - Langie, G. ED - Järvinen, H.-M. ED - Nagy, B. T1 - Words Don't Come Easy to Me – Teaching Academic Writing to Engineering Students in the Age Of AI T2 - SEFI 53rd Annual Conference (SEFI 2025), Tampere, Finland, 15-18 September 2025 N2 - The competence of academic writing is currently still a central requirement for obtaining an academic degree. However, in teaching academic writing, lecturers have to deal with the two challenges of decreasing reading competence in young people and increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in reading and writing assignments. In engineering in particular, literacy understood as reading and writing competence is essential - whether for understanding complex tasks, analysing case studies or dealing with technical documents such as the product requirements document. Against this background, it is crucial to develop strategies and discuss modern approaches to specifically promote students' reading and writing skills and thus create an essential basis for successful scientific work and problem-solving. This workshop aims to stimulate an interactive exchange and develop practical solutions in the three core areas strengthening reading competence, developing academic writing skills, and substituting for reading and writing assessments. KW - Literacy KW - Reading Competence KW - Writing Competence KW - Academic Writing KW - Critical Thinking Y1 - 2025 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-58627 SN - 978-2-87352-029-8 PB - SEFI CY - Tampere ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deckert, Carsten T1 - Review of: "Liberalism Caused the Great Enrichment" Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-51193 PB - Qeios Ltd ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Leutenecker-Twelsiek, Bastian T1 - Von Schere und Papier zu Rapid Prototyping JF - Ideen- und Innovationsmanagement Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.37307/j.2198-3151.2025.03.04 SN - 2198-3151 VL - 51 IS - 3 SP - 90 EP - 94 PB - Erich Schmidt Verlag ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Sürgit, Hasan T1 - Soziale Innovation in Non-Profit- Organisationen JF - Ideen- und Innovationsmanagement Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.37307/j.2198-3151.2022.03.05 SN - 2198-3151 IS - 3 PB - Erich Schmidt Verlag ER - TY - INPR A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Schomaker, Rahel M. A1 - Grasmik, Jeanna T1 - Universalism and Innovation: The Influence of Impartiality and Inclusiveness on National Innovativeness T2 - Queios N2 - The innovative capacity of a country is a key factor in its economic development. While classical approaches primarily emphasize technological and economic aspects, cultural and moral influences are increasingly coming into focus in research. In particular, the treatment of out-groups and the intensity of in-group preferences play a crucial role, as expressed in the societal contrast between social cohesion and individual freedom. A central aspect of this debate is the moral dimension, particularly the tension between universalism, relativism, and particularism. This study examines the impact of universalism on a country's innovativeness by situating the concept within cultural theory and analyzing it empirically. The findings provide new insights into the relationship between cultural values and innovation potential with regard to moral capital in a society. Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.32388/KNI4FN PB - Qeios Ltd ER -