Under Professor Schüssele’s leadership, the CME program was recognized in 2008 by the DAAD and “Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft” as one of the best international master’s programs in Germany. They awarded it the title “TOP 10 International Master’s Degree Courses made in Germany”. Professor Schüssele will continue to lead
the school towards continued and further internationalization as the director of the Graduate School and the International Center (INT).
Taking over from Prof. Schüssele as the new director of the CME program is Dr. Axel Sikora. In September 2011 he was appointed professor to the Chair for Embedded Systems and Communications Electronics at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences.
Dr.-Ing. Axel Sikora
Before coming to Offenburg, Dr. Sikora spent 12 years in Lörrach working as a professor and study program director at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, and at various activities in the telecommunications and semiconductor industries.
He has gained extensive international experience through his activities as the contact for a Japanese semiconductor company, exchange programs with European, Asian, and African universities, and European R&D projects (6th and 7th Framework Programmes, Artemis).
Dr. Sikora looks forward to the challenges of his new position: "CME was the first international master’s course in Offenburg and has special significance to me. Also, I am excited by the opportunity to work with students from around the world and thereby get to know their cultures. Dr. Schüssele has collegially prepared this transfer and I look forward to working with him and INT colleagues, and to many contacts, lectures, projects and activities with the students."
International Center
Graduate School Welcomes New CME Director
Professor Dr. Lothar Schüssele, director of the international master’s program “Communication and Media Engineering” since its inception in 1998, has turned over leadership of the program to Professor Dr. Axel Sikora.