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Learning Outcomes and Competences:

Further development of problem-solving skills, strategy development, advancement of subject-specific knowledge and its application in real industry-related tasks, increased independence, development of judgement abilities, developing and applying techniques for problem-solving strategy, analysing and writing scientific texts. Advancement of subject knowledge to generate application-related technical knowledge; ability to realise test setups, development with due consideration of scientific aspects.

Under the supervision of the lecturer and potentially under the instruction of a tutor, students work in small groups on a scientific or engineering project chosen from the areas of physics, electrical engineering or software engineering that can be implemented with the available resources (time frame, facilities and equipment).

Content:
As the final outcome, the students develop a functioning circuit, build a device or conduct an experiment. Students are responsible for theoretical preparation, practical implementation and documentation of circuits/protocols and evaluations of experiments.
Students will acquire any missing knowledge by studying relevant literature during the semester or from the lecturer if necessary.
The results of the project must be presented. Different presentation forms can be chosen following discussion with the lecturer.

The students carry out subsequent research and development work. On the basis of the previously developed device or experiment, students apply scientific methods to systematically look for new findings or practically implement the first concrete application. The available resources (time frame, facilities and equipment) must be taken into account.

First, the project groups have to devise a theoretical or applied research question.  On this basis, a concept must be developed and documented in a requirements specification. The requirements specification is then submitted to the supervisor and discussed. On the basis of the devised concept, the students conduct experiments or further develop the implementations, analysing their findings with a theoretical or applied research approach. The results must be presented as a research poster or research paper or as a documented system or acceptance test to provide functional verification. In addition, the students must give a final presentation.

This module provides students with a basic knowledge of LaTeX. A key focus is the application of LaTeX to create texts with mathematical formulas and implement algorithmic methods of numeric mathematics. They also use the Scientific Notebook tool. Students learn how to independently create texts with LaTeX.