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# Prof. Dr. Marian Benner-Wickner

Professor of B.Eng. Industrial Engineering & Management

## Brief Profile

The head of the Industrial Engineering & Management and Industry 4.0 online study programmes, and a contributing member of several well-known computer science organisations: the Wikimedia Foundation, the CPS.HUB NRW and the Society for Computer Science.

## Research Areas

Prof. Dr. Benner-Wickner is a professor of Computer Engineering at IU University of Applied Sciences, having joined our teaching staff in 2018. He also serves as the head of the Industrial Engineering & Management and Industry 4.0 online study programmes. His courses cover topics such as software engineering and gender neutral e-learning.

Marian Benner-Wickner has worked in the software industry for many years, among other things as an IT specialist trainer at CampusLab GmbH and as a software developer at the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Technology.

He obtained a PhD in Software Engineering from the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2016, where he was also in charge of the “Agenda-Driven Case Management” research cluster.

Prof. Dr. Benner-Wickner is a contributing member of several well-known computer science organisations: the Wikimedia Foundation, the CPS.HUB NRW and the Society for Computer Science. His academic works have been published in leading journals, covering issues such as ambient-assisted living solutions and smart home technologies, and the protection of minors in the digital sector.

Selected publications:

- Wilhelm Koop, Tobias Brückmann, Marian Benner-Wickner, Markus Kleinschmidt and Volker Gruhn: Situation-Based E-Learning in Software Engineering, 2018 International Conference on Software Engineering ICSE, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018.

- Tobias Brückmann, Volker Gruhn, Wilhelm Koop, Julius Ollesch, Lukas Pradel, Florian Wessling and Marian Benner-Wickner: Codeless Engineering of Service Mashups - An Experience Report, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2017, Honolulu, HI, USA, June 25-30, 2017.

- Marian Benner-Wickner, Matthias Book and Volker Gruhn: Adapting Case Management Techniques to Achieve Software Process Flexibility, in: Managing Software Process Evolution - How to handle process change?, Springer Verlag, 2015.