Prof. Dr. Dreher (born 1965) successfully finished his apprenticeship as a motorcar engineer, followed by teacher training studies for vocational education in the subject of mechanical engineering.
After completion of his Doctor of Philosophy, he worked as a vocational education teacher in the area of car repair for 12 years, and parallelly as an associate professor for the TVET-Teacher-Training at the Universities of Hamburg, Hamburg/Harburg and Flensburg.
In 2008, he followed a call to the University of Wuppertal (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) to take over the newly founded position as Chair of Technical Vocational Didactics.
Prof. Dr. Dreher’s main research work is as follows:
- Content and knowledge-based methoeds for a modern TT-TVET (Teacher Training for Technical and Vocational Education and Training),
- The use of vocational instruments for work-process-analysis in the automotive-services sector,
- The use of multimedia-based learning systems in the voacational on-the-job and advanced training (specifically: simulation media and web 2.0 applications)
Prof. Dr. Dreher is the research manager of IGIP (Internationale Gesellschaft für Ingenieurspädagogik) and co-editor of the journal MINT – Beiträge zur Hochschulbildung in Technikwissenschaften und Informatik.