GAMM2025

Session

S27: Modern Teaching and Didactics in Mathematics and Mechanic

S27

10 Apr 2025, 08:30

Lecture and Conference Centre

Conveners

S27: Modern Teaching and Didactics in Mathematics and Mechanic: S27.01

• Jaan-Willem Simon
• Thorsten Bartel

S27: Modern Teaching and Didactics in Mathematics and Mechanic: S27.02

• Thorsten Bartel
• Jaan-Willem Simon

S27: Modern Teaching and Didactics in Mathematics and Mechanic: S27.03

• Thorsten Bartel
• Christina Völlmecke

S27: Modern Teaching and Didactics in Mathematics and Mechanic: S27.04

• Christina Völlmecke
• Jaan-Willem Simon

332. Room for Improvement – A Blended Learning Concept with Teachers as Tutors and a Digital Exercise Type for Mechanical Equations

Moritz Sattler

10/04/2025, 08:30

In this contribution, we present a blended learning concept designed to maximize the benefits students can gain from their teachers. The approach combines individual study with collaborative learning experiences and tutoring.
Students engage with content independently through a digital learning platform featuring videos and exercises while sitting together with their peers in a...

333. Addressing Common Learning Obstacles in Mechanics through Automated STACK Assignments: An Experience Report

Ulrich Zwiers

10/04/2025, 09:10

In undergraduate engineering education, foundational courses in engineering mechanics pose considerable challenges for students due to the abstract and analytical nature of the subject matter. To enhance learning outcomes and provide immediate, formative feedback, automated STACK assignments incorporating the Meclib library for parameterized graphics have been implemented in Bachelor-level...

335. A concept for STACK-based individual electronic assignments in third semester engineering mechanics

Cornelius Strackeljan

10/04/2025, 09:30

A common challenge in education is that students attend classes to write down what is explained, remaining passive otherwise. Even if every part of the practiced exercises is understood, much more thinking, questioning and understanding arises when actively exercising. It is highly desirable to encourage this on a regular basis during the semester to achieve continuous learning and to prevent...

336. Digital tutorials and examination tools for Structural Analysis – a case study

Carolin Birk

10/04/2025, 09:50

Structural Analysis is a compulsory subject in the B.Sc. Programme Civil Engineering. It conveys fundamental concepts related to the design of structures, such as idealization of real-world structures as well as the calculation of internal forces and deformations due to given loading scenarios. Structural Analysis is typically assessed in a written exam and perceived as “difficult” by the...

337. “Digital Engineering Mechanics” – implementation, opportunities and challenges

Henning Lammen

10/04/2025, 10:10

Mechanics is often regarded as a pure “weeder course” in engineering study programs. The content is generally perceived as extremely difficult, incomprehensible and without any reference to real-life problems. University education often fails to convey the importance and benefits of mechanics for engineering even rudimentarily. In addition, learning objectives are usually only achieved at...

338. GAMEchanics: the open-source Mechanics-themed physical and virtual Escape Room

Christina Völlmecke

10/04/2025, 14:00

Gamification is an innovative approach to promoting motivation. It refers to the use of game principles (e.g. competition and cooperation) and elements (e.g. challenges, points and levels) in non-game contexts. It has proven to be a widespread and powerful technique for driving behaviour. Theoretical studies have shown that gamification potentially appeals to motivational mechanisms (Mora et...

340. Enhancing Chemical Engineering Education: Constructive Alignment and Augmented Reality in Experimental Fluid Mechanics

Nils Kaufhold

10/04/2025, 14:40

As part of a laboratory course in the study program chemical engineering a traditional cookbook based experiment with a didactic concept based on constructive alignment was developed and implemented. The design ensured alignment between learning objectives, teaching-learning activities, and assessments, with the learning objectives covering all levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. The experiment...

342. On possibilities and challenges of GPT-assisted learning environments

Marius Harnisch

10/04/2025, 15:00

Contemporary education must be student-centered and competence-oriented. The focus mustbe on independently tackling and solving problems in line with constructivist learningtheories. This also requires a transition in teaching activities away from the pure transfer ofknowledge towards supporting students in achieving their learning objectives: the well-knownshift from teaching to learning....

343. Innovative Fluid Mechanics Education through Augmented Reality and Interactive Learning

Alexander S. Behr

10/04/2025, 15:20

Visualizing complex phenomena in fluid mechanics has long been a challenge in education. Traditional experimental approaches often focus on macroscopic effects, such as lift forces, while smaller-scale interactions remain theoretical and difficult for students to grasp. This limitation hinders the connection between theoretical knowledge and practical applications, particularly in illustrating...

344. Programming-enhanced mechanics - an innovative teaching approach for AI Engineering Education

Hanna Westphal

10/04/2025, 15:40

This paper presents a new education concept for the course “Mechanics 1”, which was specially developed for the new Bachelor's degree program “AI Engineering - Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Science”. The Bachelor's degree program is the first German-speaking degree program that provides an integrated education in artificial intelligence, engineering science, and computer science. The...

345. Mechanics in teaching - theoretically sound basis and application-oriented fascination for engineering students

Detlef Kuhl

10/04/2025, 16:30

One of the challenging tasks in the sustainability transformation of the world is the qualification of engineering students, who should and can creatively change existing technology in their subsequent careers and thus shape it sustainable. Never before has the classical education in mechanics, with the modeling of technical systems, the confident and at the same time critical model...

346. Didactic comments on some of the most fundamental mathematical concepts used in teaching university-level mathematics courses

Roland Gunesch

10/04/2025, 17:10

There are several fundamental mathematical concepts, including some very simple definitions and some fairly straightforward theorems, which occur in many different contexts in university-level mathematics courses, even though it is not always easy for students to recognize these mathematical concepts and to notice how they occur in different courses.

One such concept is the product rule for...

347. How to activate and engage students in the basic mechanics lecture. – A case study

Jaan-Willem Simon

10/04/2025, 17:30

Mechanics is one of the fundamental pillars of successful engineering studies, because a sound mechanical understanding of the behavior of materials and structures is essential for the constructive and design classes that build on it. Therefore, the teaching of basic mechanics in the first semesters of engineering studies plays a decisive role.

Although engineering and the demands placed on...

348. Self-Assessment to improve mechanical design understanding

Timo Roth

10/04/2025, 17:50

One of the core skills of a mechanical engineer is solving technical problems. This requires not only comprehensive fundamental knowledge but also, in particular, methodical and heuristic competencies. Spatial thinking and design comprehension play a key supporting role in this process. The ability to solve technical problems through design, in other words, to create innovatively, is taught...

350. Platform for structured self-directed learning in fluid mechanics

Michael-David Fischer

11/04/2025, 08:30

The course Fluid Mechanics 1 at TU Dortmund, offered in the third semester of the Bachelor’s programs in Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, covers key topics such as hydrostatic, Bernoullis principle, and integral momentum theory. The Chemical Engineering students have to absolve Fluid Mechanics 2 with the boundary layer theory, Navier-Stokes equations, similarity mechanics, and turbulence....

351. On methods to motivate students to self-organized learning and to enable them to acquire future skills

Thorsten Bartel

11/04/2025, 09:10

The growing discrepancy between the rapidly changing requirements for competencies in engineering and the rigid structures at universities is causing ever-increasing frustration, longer study times, high dropout rates, and, last but not least, dwindling enrollment figures. The challenges of overcoming these discrepancies seem insurmountable. In this lecture, we would like to discuss measures,...

352. Bring your own smartphone: Student activation in mechanics using the sandwich principle and collective smartphone experiments

Patrick Kurzeja

11/04/2025, 09:30

The sandwich principle [1] was applied to a basic mechanics class in the sense of alternating individual and collective learning phases. This principle was implemented using two smartphone experiments [2] during the lecture: one experiment for static friction and one for the acceleration of tubes with different wall thicknesses. With the aim for a more learner-centered lecture, the individual...

353. Mathematical Modelling in Action: CAMMP’s Educational Activities

Katharina Bata

11/04/2025, 09:50

Mathematical modelling plays a role not only in mathematics itself but especially in application fields such as physics, computer science, and engineering. CAMMP (Computational And Mathematical Modelling Program, www.cammp.online) is a project which has aim to show secondary students and teachers the relevance of mathematical modelling for their daily life. Therefore, the project conducts...