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Planned Chaos in Electrical Engineering Education

  • This paper presents the idea to intentionally introduce planned chaos into electrical engineering lectures and lab courses to improve students’ learning success. The reason to present this idea are several personal experiences in daily teaching. If students experience some uncertainty in their study program, it is seen that they have higher challenges and therefore higher learning success in managing uncertain situations. In these ways, students acquire methodical and social competences to deal with uncertainty and achieve productive results in an unstable working environment. If, however, the chaos is too large, students are over-strained with the situation, distracted from the actual learning targets and consequently learning results will be worse, drop-out rates will increase and they will be frustrated. The beneficial level of uncertainty depends on the student culture, academic progress and personality characteristics. The competence to deal with complex situations is essential for later professional life where unexpected circumstances occur regularly. Introducing planned chaos into lectures and lab courses has not to be confused with a missing didactic concept and is no justification for a bad preparation. Planned chaos is a demanding concept for professors to find the right implementation for an optimized learning outcome. These described findings are experienced from practical work and student evaluations.

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Author:Thomas FuhrmannORCiDGND, Michael NiemetzORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.4995/head20.2020.10989
ISBN:9788490488119
Parent Title (English):6th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'20): 02.06.2020 - 05.06.2020, Valencia
Publisher:Universitat Politècnica de València
Document Type:conference proceeding (article)
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2020
Release Date:2022/02/07
Tag:Active Learning; Electrical engineering education; Planned Chaos
Institutes:Fakultät Elektro- und Informationstechnik
Fakultät Elektro- und Informationstechnik / Labor Datenkommunikation
Fakultät Elektro- und Informationstechnik / Labor Optische Übertragungssysteme
research focus:Lebenswissenschaften und Ethik
Licence (German):Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International