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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Digital Teaching and Learning Projects in Engineering Education at Technische Universität Berlin

Presented at Technical Session 12: Teaching and Learning

With more than 33,000 students primarily in engineering and architecture, mathematics and natural sciences, the university (name) is one of the largest technical universities in Germany. The teaching staff comprises only about 350 full-time professors, about 30 junior professors, few full-time and part-time lecturers, but nearly 2,700 scientific research and teaching assistants.

This leads to challenges in its engineering education – particularly in the highly frequented STEM-courses during the freshman year. Current challenges for teaching and learning are caused by recent structural and curricular changes of the undergraduate and graduate programs. This contradicts with partly traditional learning environments, in particular big classes with 1,000 or more students in introductory STEM-lectures. Therefore, the quality of teaching with large student numbers is one of the top priorities of the university (name). An university-wide study reform program aims to improve study conditions and to foster the quality of teaching and learning.

Therefore, a series of teaching projects focussing on digital teaching is currently funded at our university in the framework of a special project line. Digitalization not only drives Industry 4.0, but is also excessively integrated within educational processes. The new technological opportunities allow individuals to study more flexible, realise different multifaceted content for complex topics and to provide and get individual feedback on the learning process.

This paper provides information, progress and first results on different teaching projects, which are integrated within different courses at our university.

In this paper we present several projects of an initiative for innovation and improvement in teaching at our university. This initiative is financed by the German Higher Education Pact 2020. With these and other projects, innovation is brought specifically to courses and areas, where improved teaching methods are desired, for example to reduce the failure rates or lack of motivation of the students, in large courses and graduation programs with high failure rates.
First, a selection of the teaching projects, their approaches and first results on these projects is presented. Afterwards commonalities and differences are being discussed with an outlook on subsequent steps. This publication is based on research funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the project number 01PL 17024.

Authors
  1. Mr. Florian Schmidt TU Berlin [biography]

    Florian Schmidt is a research associate at the chair Complex and Distributed IT-Systems from the TU Berlin, Germany.
    He finished his M. Sc. Computer Science at TU Berlin in 2015 and his B. Sc. Computer Science at the Leibniz Universität Hannover in 2012. His main research focus is anomaly detection algorithms for high-frequent data streams.
    More details: http://www.user.tu-berlin.de/flohannes/florianschmidt

  2. Dr. Franz-Josef Schmitt Technische Universität Berlin [biography]

    Dr. Schmitt is research assistant at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, TU Berlin. He finished his doctoral thesis in physics in 2011. Dr. Schmitt holds a series of scientific awards, the Chorafas award for extraordinary scientific results (2009), the Stifterverband Fellowship for excellence in teaching (2015) and the award for excellent teaching at TU Berlin (2018). 80 research papers, 2 patents, 1 book and 200 partially invited talks on international conferences summarize his results in photosynthesis research, environmental spectroscopy, and didactic research.
    Dr. Schmitt educates students for more than 16 years. From 2002-2005 he was tutor in the project laboratory of physics, from 2005-2010 he supervised the advanced internships in physics, especially optics, 2011-2018 he was teaching mathematics for chemists, supervised the practical courses in physical chemistry and is currently head of the project laboratory in chemistry (OPLChem) and the tuproject "iGEM-Synthetic biology" since 2015.
    He was coordinating editor of DeGruyter open access journal “optofluidics and biological materials”. He is chairman of the extended academic senate of TU Berlin. Since July 2018 Schmitt is head of public relations of the recently approved Cluster of Excellence “Unifying Systems in Catalysis”.

  3. Ms. Laura Boeger TU Berlin
  4. Arno Wilhelm-Weidner Orcid 16x16http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2604-3327 Technische Universitaet Berlin
  5. Dr. Nicole Torjus [biography]

    Dr. Nicole Torjus is project coordinator of the subproject tu wimi plus at the Technische Universitaet Berlin.

    Curriculum Vitae: Study of Psychology at the Free University of Berlin. Several years of teaching experience as a research assistant and freelance lecturer with a focus on economic and organizational psychology and doctoral studies in the topic of leadership at the FU Berlin. Certified trainer for self-management, leadership, communication as well as coach with a focus on health and stress management.

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