ITIV Student Labs

General information

The ITIV Student Labs are an innovative, holistic approach to provide students at KIT with the necessary skills in information technology and systems engineering in line with the objectives of the Bologna Process and thus optimally prepare them for their future in industry or science. The Student Labs consist of a series of interlinked laboratories that are thematically organized around a single-axis scooter: The Tivseg.

Procedure

The following labs currently exist, which have already been converted to the Tivseg platform and the systematized teaching approach:

Electrotechnical and information technology team practical course: Course 4

In this course, ITIV and IIIT teach the beginnings of microcontroller programming based on pushbuttons, LED control and the analysis of audio signals. The special feature is a very early application phase of the microcontrollers as early as the second semester, which is otherwise only common at universities of applied sciences. This sets the electrical engineering and information technology program at KIT apart from other universities.

In the third semester, students gain an insight into the control of a TivSeg and have to work on an industry-like order in a team of up to three people. They are given the interfaces and certain deadlines, as in industry. The platform familiar from the team internship is used as a basis. At the end, the student is able to carry out advanced microcontroller programming for ADCs and actuators as well as simple project management and can test their control code on the vehicle themselves.

Laboratory circuit design

True to the motto "I can make the hardware better!", students in this lab are encouraged to develop the circuit boards of the TivSeg themselves using predefined interfaces. With a budget limit on expenditure, they have to demonstrate their engineering skills. This lab is intended for the advanced Master's student.

Further conversions

From 2015, further labs were converted to the Tivseg platform. Here were introduced:

Publications

The ITIV Student Labs are innovative and attract a lot of attention in university teaching. Here is a selection of publications:

• T. Beuth, S. Ayhan, T. Zwick
  Introduction of a cross-faculty and cross-semester, early-phase team internship for the electrical engineering and information technology bachelor's degree programs at KIT
  In proceedings of the Teaching-Learning Conference 2013 "movING Forward - Engineering Education from vision to mission", 2013
• T. Beuth, T. Gaedeke, C. Tradowsky, J. E. Becker, A. Klimm, O. Sander
  The Road to "ITIV Labs" - an Integrated Concept for Project-Oriented Systems Engineering Education (Best Paper of the Session Award from the Committee of ICMEI 2014)
  In International Journal of Information and Education Technology, vol. 5, pp. 250-254, 2015
• C. Tradowsky, A. Lauber, S. Werner, T. Beuth, K. D. Mueller-Glaser, E. Sax
  Porter for the ITIV Labs - Objective-Related Engineering Education in an Undergraduate Laboratory
  In Journal of Teaching and Education, 2015