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The courses offered in the Faculty of Production and Engineering at Innovation Campus Lemgo include subject-specific language courses in technical English for the degree programs in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Virtual Product Development, and Energy Technology, as well as courses in business English for the degree programs in Innovative Production Systems, Digital Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Wood Technology.

The teaching export to the Kreativ Campus Detmold includes seminars in construction-related English for students of Architecture and Interior Architecture at the Detmold School of Design. Key information on foreign language teaching at (TH) OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts (e.g., language certificates, preparatory courses, advanced courses, or certificate courses in English and other languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, etc.) can be found in the additional foreign language offerings.

Additional foreign language courses

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Production and Technology Department

Technical English (Mechanical Engineering)
Technical English (Mechatronics for winter semester 2025/26, see Dr. Siegbert Klee, FB5)
Technical English (Future Energies / Energy Technology / Virtual Product Development)
Business English (Innovative Production Systems)
Business English (Industrial Engineering)
Business English (Digitalization Engineering)
Business English (Wood Technology)
Lecture notes are provided for all degree programs at the beginning of the semester in ILIAS

Detmold School of Design

Module description: Technical English for Construction I
Module description Advanced Construction English I (KM)
KM module certificate

Start of course Summer semester 2026
Construction English I
Monday, April 20, at 5:15 p.m. in room 4.106

Advanced Construction English I (cumulative module)
Monday, April 20, at 8:00 p.m. in room 4.106

Contact

Dr. (USA) Andrea Koßlowski-Klee (Kw)

Tel. (05261) 702-5242
E-mail: andrea.kosslowski-klee(at)th-owl.de

Room: 1.176
Office hours: after classes
and by appointment

When sending an email inquiry, please include your phone number if possible and identify yourself by your faculty and degree program so that I can respond to your email inquiry promptly.

Curriculum vitae

1988	State examination in English and French (secondary levels I and II) Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster
1989	Master of Arts in German Studies Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
1989	William Penn Fellowship for doctoral studies in German language and literature, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
1990	The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies (The Wharton School of Business), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Lecturer in German Language and Culture (for students with dual degrees in MBA and MA in International Studies) Official language examiner for German as a foreign language (since 1992) Director of the Lauder summer semester Abroad (1993-96)
1990	Adolf D. Klarmann Prize for Excellence in German and Austrian Literature, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
1994-1995	Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA University lecturer for German language and literature Coordinator for language teaching
1995	Doctor of Philosophy in German Studies, summa cum laude University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
1996	Faculty of Civil Engineering, Lippe University of Applied Sciences, Detmold Assistant to the Dean for Internationalization in the Faculty of Civil Engineering, specializing in project management for the internationally oriented Industrial Engineering and Construction degree program
1997	Faculty of Civil Engineering, Lippe University of Applied Sciences, Detmold Teaching and research assistant, in particular project manager and representative for cooperation with US universities, additionally lecturer
2000	Faculty of Civil Engineering, Lippe and Höxter University of Applied Sciences, Detmold Lecturer for special responsibilities in the field of foreign languages, in particular foreign language lecturer for business English, construction English, German as a foreign language, French Departmental representative for US cooperation (University of Florida and University of New Orleans)
Since	Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, (TH ) OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lemgo Lecturer for special responsibilities in the field of foreign languages, in particular lecturer for technical English (mechanical engineering, Mechatronics, future energies), construction English, business English, German as a foreign language, and French Representative of the (TH) OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts for the coordination of foreign language teaching
From 2026	Faculty of Production and Engineering (newly established) (TH) OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts Continued as senior teacher in university service (as an employee) with the section of foreign languages, in particular technical English and business English now with extended responsibility for all four degree programs of the former Faculty of Production Engineering and Wood Technology, continuation of the export of Construction English for Architecture and Interior Architecture to the Detmold School of Design Coordinator of the ZA Foreign Languages

Memberships

ACTFL American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

MLA Modern Languages Association

ELTA-Rhine English Language Teachers' Association

FMF Professional Association for Modern Foreign Languages

TESOL Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

AKS Working Group of Language Centers

Publications

Editor and bilingual introductory essay, Fereshteh Sholevar-Herrmann. Walking With the Moon. Concourse Bilingual Poetry Series. Concourse Press: Philadelphia, 1997 (bilingual publication, 160 pages).

Together with Ralf Holland. "International Degree Program in Industrial Engineering and Construction: Degree Program at the Lippe University of Applied Sciences, Detmold Department." Information for the Counseling and Placement Services of the Federal Employment Agency Nuremberg (ibv) No. 23 of June 4, 1997, pp. 1713-18.

International

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uta Pottgiesser will now take over as ISAP program coordinator, overseeing the cooperation between (TH) OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the University of Florida.

The official ISAP page of the (TH) OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts can be found here.

DAAD - ISAP Program (Integrated Study Abroad Program)

International Office of (TH) OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts

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