Leveraging Digital Teaching Potential across Courses

Research Topic

Short Title Digitale Lehrpotentiale
Start of Project Q1/2022
Funding TU Munich Center for Study and Teaching, TUM CST
within the framework of the study-related reinforcement of the excellence strategy
Project Partners

Institute of Automation and Information Systems, AIS, TU Munich

Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management, iwb, TU Munich

Chair of Metal Forming and Casting, utg, TU Munich

Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics, fml, TU Munich

Contact Dr.-Ing. T. Lohner; Prof. Dr.-Ing. K. Stahl

Project Description

The connecTUM teaching concept improves networking between teachers, course content as well as students and promotes a culture of innovation in engineering education at the TUM School of Engineering and Design. The focus of the teaching concept is a central urban ropeway installation, which links the bachelor courses and leads the students through the basic studies in the sense of a red line. The interaction of mechanical and electr(on)ic components, sensors, software and control devices allows for a better interdisciplinary teaching of contents of the basic studies in mechanical engineering. The teaching concept was a finalist in the VDMA University Award in 2019 and received the Ernst Otto Fischer Teaching Award in 2021. During the close collaboration between the participating chairs, various projects have already been implemented to the present day, for example a digital twin of a ropeway installation. This very successful collaboration and the knowledge already gained are used as a basis for further enhancing the digital teaching potential across all courses. Within the scope of the project, playful learning elements will be integrated into Moodle in order to promote the students motivation in dealing with the teaching content. The connection of the course contents in the Bachelor's studies in mechanical engineering will become more transparent to the students and lecturers via a common Moodle course as well as a keyword list. A more uniform navigation and reduced orientation times for students will be achieved via a connecTUM corporate design for Moodle courses.