Prof. Dr. Daniel Pittich

Office:

Technical University of Munich
Marsstraße 20–22 (rear building)
80335 München
Room 429, 4th floor
Phone: +49 89 289-24225
E-Mail: daniel.pittich@tum.de
Office hours: By prior appointment

Career

My professional, academic and scientific career is fundamentally formed by the German vocational training and educational system. After successfully graduating from grammar school (Gesamtschule in Obersberg, Germany (1992–1998)), I trained as a carpenter at the joinery Röhner (1998–2001). After completing my dual vocational training, I attended Ferdinand-Braun-Schule, an academic vocational secondary school specializing in technology and technical engineering in Fulda (2002–2005). After this, I obtained my Bachelor of Science’s Degree in Technical Education majoring in wood technology (2005–2008) as well as my degree of Master of Education for Vocational Schools (2008-2010) at Leibniz University Hannover majoring in wood technology and mathematics. After my studies, I took a position as research assistant within the department of technical education at Technical University Darmstadt (2010–2013). Since my successfully obtained doctorate in 2013, I functioned as head research assistant and postdoctoral researcher in technical education (2014–2015). In October 2015, I was appointed to and worked at the Junior Professorship of Technical Education at University of Siegen.

Since November 1, 2018, I am head at the Assistant Professorship of Technical Education at TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology.

Research interests

  • Modeling and diagnostics of competences at different levels
  • Evidence-based conception and implementation of teaching and learning in technical education
  • Developments in and of digitalization and Industry 4.0
  • Educational utilization of learning factories in the field of production technology
  • Approaches and concepts of competence orientation within curricular implementation processes
  • Teacher education in a vocational and technical context

Selection of publications

  • Pittich, D. (2018): Didaktik technischer Berufe – Band 1: Theorie und Grundlagen, Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag.
  • Pittich, D., Tenberg, R., Lensing, K. (2018). Learning Factories for complex competence acquisition. (Re)Thinking Higher Engineering Education. Special Issue of European Journal of Engineering Education. (In Druck)
  • Pittich D. (2018): Kompetenz als Zielperspektive technischer Bildung. In: Zinn, B., Tenberg, R. Pittich, (Hrsg.): Technikdidaktik: Eine Bestandsaufnahme. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag. S. 101-114.
  • Pittich, D. (2013). Diagnostik fachlich-methodischer Kompetenzen. Stuttgart: IRB Verlag.

Further information

A complete list of Prof. Pittich’s publications, lectures as well as his CV, you can find here.