Author: Joachim Schlosser
-
Delay emails in Outlook for 3 minutes and never be annoyed again about premature sending
—
How often do you get an email, and then one more, handing you the attachment, or correcting a date or re-phrasing a sentence? This can be fixed on the sender side, by delaying the send process and thus get a small time buffer in Outlook. Emails with Outlook and Exchange are still default in business…
-
The one question for job interviews
—
in EffectivityI do like job interviews, as they are a wonderful opportunity to directly exchange with applicants and learn from each other, in order to see whether and how person, role and company might fit together. If I succeed in taking this decision, of course depends from the conversation. And for the most part, I meanwhile…
-
Functional Safety and Systems Engineering – Munich Open Space
—
in TechnologyFunctional Safety and Systems Engineering are two important topics in the development of mechatronic systems. At times seen as difficult and process-intensive, both topics are really not so hard to grasp at all. Last weekend the conference Munich Open Space offered a wonderful exchange. In this article, find 7 insights into functional safety and 10…
-
Shaping the future: I’m open for new adventures
—
in TechnologyExciting times. Society in change, and technologically we live in a highly fascinating time. Me too, am in change. After a wonderful decade at MathWorks it is time to move on. I am looking for a new professional challenge.
-
15 Tips for Health on Business Travel
—
in EffectivityYou are travelling on business, to a congress, conference, meeting? Short trips job-wise? These days in one place, next day in another? You want—you must—stay healthy during the business trips? In the past you regularly fells sick during or after a journey with a cold or some other infect? Then this post is for you.…
-
Brainstorming is Broken – 18 Better Methods for Ideas and Activation
—
Everybody knows these meetings: Dear team, today we will solve problem X. For this, we will start with a brainstorming. Who’s got an idea? You all have been in that brainstorming meeting. Me too. And I confess: I have run such meetings. You too? It does not work.
-
Calculating Easter in MATLAB
—
in TechnologyEvery year, Easter Sunday lies in a different week. But which one? The answer is as simple as profound: Determine “the Sunday following the paschal full moon, the full moon.” This can be calculated thanks to Carl Friedrich Gauß. My means of calculation is MATLAB, therefore here the calculation of Easter Sunday according to the…
-
Visual Silence in Presentations
—
When you are presenting to an audience, you also want to make them think, don’t you? How do you aim to facilitate that with seventy words on a single PowerPoint slide? Your presentation slides probably are too crammed. What you may need is visual silence.
-
Accelerating the Pace of Engineering Education with Simulation and Hardware
—
in TechnologyRecently I had the opportunity to speak for MathWorks at the World Engineering Education Forum 2014 in Dubai. This post provides the abstract, the slides and video of the presentation.
-
The State of Engineering Education – SEFI Conference 2014
—
in TechnologyEngineering Education is a key driver for Europe’s ability to sustain as a place for innovation and development. To make progress on this matter, the ”European Society for Engineering Education“ (SEFI) has an annual conference bringing together professors and teachers and enablers from all over the world. When did you last attend to a conference…
