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The 12th International Conference on Physics Teaching in Engineering Education (PTEE 2024) took place from 15th to 17th of May, 2024 at TH Rosenheim. This “Program and Abstracts” contains the conference time schedule as well as the abstracts and video links of the 3 keynotes and the abstracts of the 46 contributions. The contributions cover actual themes in teaching engineers at universities and universities of applied sciences. Among others they are related to: SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning), influence of the pandemic on teaching, artificial intelligence in learning and teaching including learning analytics, and innovative concepts for lectures and labs in physics and engineering subjects.
A "hybrid" team-based physics course was developed and rolled out at the Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, Germany, with the intention to provide more flexibility in space and time for the students. Data on the correlation between type of participation and learning success showed, that participation in person together with the performance in other STEM related courses are the main predictors for learning success. Interestingly, it had no influence on the learning success of the non-participating students whether they participated remotely or not at all. Thus, the biggest challenge for the lecture of the future, which offers more flexibility in space and time, is the "activation" of students who participate remotely.
A written exam in measurement technologies usually includes problems for operational amplifier circuits, error propagation, signal analysis and analog to digital conversion. During corona, teaching changed from presence lectures to remote lectures and examination formats changed, too. Instead of a written exam, student project exams were proposed. The projects included a computer aided temperature measurement with operational amplifier circuits, a calibration procedure, error propagation and a written report. The student project exams were successful and the students’ feedback was so positive that the student project exams are going to be continued.
In Tampere UAS the physics and mathematics education will be organized in a new way. The new model increases flexibility for students to choose a learning method suitable for them. The new model also offers some strong support for those students that are at the greatest risk to underperform or drop out their studies. The flexibility includes a possibility for an asynchronous online implementation in every physics and mathematics course. The stronger support means some extra workshop lessons for those who are in danger of dropping out. These workshop lessons concentrate on the very basics of the subject matter.
This paper delves into the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on learning and teaching engineering physics, focusing on the use of AI chatbots. The study explores various issues encountered by educators when students utilize AI to solve physics problems, highlighting potential pitfalls and opportunities. Through testing AI chatbots' capabilities in physics learning, the paper evaluates their effectiveness in providing accurate and insightful responses. Results indicate that while AI, especially ChatGPT 4, shows promise in aiding students' understanding of physics concepts, there are limitations and challenges to consider, such as over-reliance on technology and the potential for AI to produce misleading solutions. The implications and discussions underscore the need for a balanced approach in integrating AI into education, emphasizing authentic understanding over merely obtaining correct answers. Using AI in creating teaching materials is not evaluated here.
This paper describes the transformation of engineering physics education through activating teaching methods for better learning outcomes and the redesign of learning spaces to support these pedagogical approaches. The transformation of a traditional physics laboratory into a versatile group work and multipurpose space known as the “STEM-Center,” at Tampere University of Applied Sciences is presented. The transformation was inspired by active pedagogical methods such as "Peer Instruction," "PDEODE," and the "SCALE-UP" method and its associated spaces. After the transformation, the space remains suitable for physics laboratory work. Across all courses, it encourages students to be active participants rather than passive listeners, which in turn improves learning outcomes. Most students express high satisfaction with the pedagogical methods and the learning environment as well as a preference for these engaging and activating methods over traditional lecture-based teaching, highlighting an enhanced learning experience and a stronger sense of ownership over their learning.
The Quantum Mechanics Venue is a learning teaching laboratory for high school students at TU Dortmund University. In this context the lab is continuously used and developed by university students. The lab itself focusses on conducting key experiments in quantum mechanics and the visualization of quantum mechanical effects. By exploiting the contradiction between classical expectation and experimental observation, cognitive dissonances are stimulated and later resolved, which leads to an increased learning outcome. Conducting existing experiments is, however, in some cases hindered by a complicated alignment, which does not aid the quantum mechanical understanding. The desired learning outcome can thus not be achieved in all cases.
In order to address these challenges and to allow for a future remote use of the laboratory, three pilot experiments were transformed into cross reality labs. This allows to decouple the students’ learning experience from the location of the lab. This paper provides an overview over the digitized experiments and gives an outlook on the future of the learning teaching laboratory.
The lecture Basic Principles in Physics is a compulsory subject in the education of primary school teachers at TU Dortmund University and actively attended by 100 to 150 students. Previously the lecture was held as a classic lecture utilizing mainly power point slides and experimental demonstrations. For the winter term 23/24 the lecture format was shifted towards a more interactive format, aiming at specific physics problems to be solved as part of the lecture. In order to free up the necessary time in the lecture itself , the conveyance of knowledge was shifted to the students’ preparation for the individual lectures, by providing texts and videos, which were aided by a short quiz. The lectures as well as the preparation were accessed over the entire semester. This paper provides an overview over the results obtained from the assessments and the final exams, as well as the lessons learned.
Lithography is the workhorse for the global semiconductor industry. At the Applied Physics department of our institute, we have developed course-based projects in which we train physics students lithography skills that are valuable for a career in Europe’s growing semiconductor industry. In this article, I will present the lithography facility at our institute, where students develop lithography processes for the fabrication of microstructures. I will show two examples of lithography projects that provided students the opportunity to grow towards competent, skillful lithographers. I will stress that universities of applied sciences in Europe need microtechnology facilities and competence centres that are embedded in Europe’s semiconductor ecosystem to power the workforce for its industry growth.
Physics lectures for engineering students are often given in a canonical order and using a traditional lecture format which might not always be the best choice. In this article we present a restructured curriculum that focuses on the understanding of oscillations and waves and enriches lectures with hands-on experiments and tutorials.
