Career
He is the head of the Center of Competence (CoC) Online Laboratories at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences. In June 2006 Michael Auer was elected as President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE). Under his guidance international teams developed a Joint European Master Study Program Remote Engineering (European Union project MARE) and a Joint European Bachelor Study Program Information Technology (European Union project BIT2010).
He is editor-in-chief of the International Journals of Online Engineering (iJOE), Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) and Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM).
He also acts as an associated editor for Middle and Eastern Europe of the European Journal of Open and Distance Learning (EURODL). Auer received his Ing. degree (1971) and his Doctor of Philosophy degree (1975) with a thesis on "Design and Analysis of ECL Circuits" from Dresden University of Technology.
From 1974-1991 he was an assistant professor at the faculties Electrical Engineering and Informatics of this University. From 1991-1995 he was with F+O Electronic Systems GmbH, Heidelberg (Head of software department).
His research was related to high-speed digital circuits (ECL), real time and network programming, embedded systems, systemand network administration of heterogeneous networks, telelearning/teleteaching, remote working environments.
In 1995 Michael Auer was appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering of the School of Electronics at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria and has also a teaching position at the University of Klagenfurt. He works as a visiting professor at the Universities of Amman (Jordan), Braşov, (Romania) and Patras, (Greece).
