Thomas Fuhrmann

• Prof. Dr.-Ing.
• Professor at Regensburg University of Applied Sciences

A lab course for digital electronics is developed and implemented in the second semester of a bachelor of engineering study program. This lab course runs parallel to a lecture about the basics of digital electronics. The goal of this lab course is that students should acquire the competence to develop digital circuits, no matter which design techni...

This article describes a contactless fiber-optic position sensor. It comprises a Polymer Optical Fiber that is grinded to form a D-shaped cross-section with an exposed fiber core. This sensor has two photodiodes at both fiber ends to measure the emitted light intensity. Light is coupled using a red LED at the side face into the exposed core of the...

ChatGPT is currently one of the most advanced general chatbots. This development leads to diverse challenges in higher education, like new forms of teaching and learning, additional exam methods, new possibilities for plagiarism, and many more topics. On the other side with the development of advanced AI tools, pure knowledge will be less and less...

The world is changing rapidly, mainly due to the digitalization of all areas of living. A huge amount of information is accessible via the Internet, and since it is no longer possible for individual humans to keep track of it, artificial intelligence (AI) is analyzing this data. In this rapidly changing world, students have to be educated for a suc...

Dieser Bericht entstand im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung „Forschungsmethoden und Seminar (FMS)“ im Sommersemester 2022 auf Initiative der Studierenden des Masterstudiengangs „Elektro- und Informationstechnik (MEI)“. Diese Lehrveranstaltung hat das Ziel, systematisch an das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten, speziell die Wissenschaftskommunikation, heranzuf...

Vorwort Dieser Bericht entstand im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung "Forschungs-methoden und Seminar (FMS)" im Wintersemester 2021/22 auf Initiative der Studierenden des Masterstudiengangs "Elektro-und Informations-technik (MEI)". Diese Lehrveranstaltung hat das Ziel, systematisch an das wissenschaft-liche Arbeiten, speziell die Wissenschaftskommunikat...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the course Communication Systems was transferred from presence to a virtual lecture. No hands-on lab experiments were possible. Therefore, a GNU Radio practical part was integrated into the lecture. A tutorial was written to guide students through the first steps with GNU Radio to decrease initial problems and increase...

This article describes the transition of an existing lecture “Communication Systems” from a conventional presence format to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The process of transformation and the evolution of the lecture during the virtual semester are characterized. The changed exam format from presence to virtual format with the expe...

The Exoplanet Imaging Data Challenge is a community-wide effort meant to offer a platform for a fair and common comparison of image processing methods designed for exoplanet direct detection. For this purpose, it gathers on a dedicated repository (Zenodo), data from several high-contrast ground-based instruments worldwide in which we injected synth...

The Exoplanet Imaging Data Challenge is a community-wide effort meant to offer a platform for a fair and common comparison of image processing methods designed for exoplanet direct detection. For this purpose, it gathers on a dedicated repository (Zenodo), data from several high-contrast ground-based instruments worldwide in which we injected synth...

Der Hochschulcampus wird in seinen vielfältigen Aspekten bezüglich seiner Bedeutung als Lernumgebung betrachtet. Es werden die Herausforderungen der Hochschulen in Bezug auf das sich verändernde Lernverhalten von Studierenden, den Anforderungen im Berufsleben und der schnell fortschreitenden Digitalisierung anhand von Literaturstellen gezeigt. Mit...

Jesus gave many statements in the Gospels where He told about His view on God and the afterlife. On the other hand, numerous Near-Death Experiences are documented, and Greyson developed a scale that measures the depth of a Near-Death Experience. When analysing the Gospels before Jesus‟ resurrection and comparing them with Greyson‟ s scale, matches...

This paper presents the idea to intentionally introduce planned chaos into electrical engineering lectures and lab courses to improve students’ learning success. The reason to present this idea are several personal experiences in daily teaching. If students experience some uncertainty in their study program, it is seen that they have higher challen...

An amateur radio lecture was developed and is conducted within the general education program of the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg. This course enables the students to participate in a variety of activities within the university. Different learning formats for communication engineering are carried out in combination with an amateur...

The paper at hand describes how a regional university of applied sciences tried to internationalize its learning and teaching environment. It describes the challenges encountered, the managerial approach taken, illustrates the implemented initiatives, and how effective they turned out. The results might be relevant to faculty staff in managerial po...

This Research Work in Progress Paper evaluates students’ motivation sources and shows the high impact that work of professors has on students’ motivation. Common goal of most professors is to help students acquiring knowledge and competencies that are relevant for their further life. From the beginning of Universities’ history, lectures are usually...

The OTH Regensburg has a broad variety of study programs in technical, business, social and health sciences. Up to now, there is no integral connection in the bachelor curricula between business and technical faculties except for some small subjects. The scope of this project is to develop a new course specialization, which connects engineering and...

Der Freistaat Bayern finanziert seit einigen Jahren ein Hochschulprogramm zur Förderung von internationalen Gastprofessorinnen und Gastprofessoren an seinen Hochschulen. Mit diesen Finanzmitteln fördert die OTH Regensburg unter anderem internationale Gastvorlesungen. In der Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik wurde seit 2015 eine Zusammenstellung in...

Die Transdisziplinarität ist als wichtiger Innovationsmotor in aller Munde, entstehen doch an den Schnittstellen und in den Zwischenräumen der etablierten Wissenschaften neue Ideen und damit die zukünftige Wertschöpfung unserer Industrie. Wir alle wurden in der Welt von gestern sozialisiert, für die meisten Tätigkeiten in der Industrie war tiefes u...

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the OTH Regensburg developed and implemented a compact freshmen seminar for the afternoon of the first day of study. The intention of this seminar is to help the freshmen during their transition between school and study without losing lecture time in the first semester. The concept...

During recent years, there has been a trend to replace traditional lab courses by project-based learning activities. However, there is currently little scientific evidence for educational improvements through such changes. Some years ago, a lab course on electrical measurements in our bachelor “Electrical Engineering and Information Technology” was...

Mobility changes from fossil to renewable energy powered vehicles. Due to high battery weight and costs, only a few applications are currently possible. In this paper, battery weight and amortization times for different means of transport are predicted. It is the goal of this article to analyse, which vehicles are suitable for battery powered elect...

With the availability of cost effective embedded Linux solutions and the increasing complexity of embedded devices because of growing calculation power and communication demand, Linux is getting increasingly interesting as an operating system for the design of embedded control solutions. This is the case for almost all technical applications in ele...

During a student project a stratosphere balloon was developed and launched. This project included the definition of the balloon parameters and the scientific instruments for performing atmospheric measurements, the development of all mechanical and electronic parts, the administration of the project as well as the management tasks related to the ba...

In technical study programs on the bachelor level the focus is mainly directed on the scientific education in theory and practice. Publication is usually started during the PhD phase when students write their first scientific papers. During the last years some very successful projects were made at the university of applied sciences Regensburg to mo...

In most of their projects, engineering students work on purely technical topics without tying these to economic or marketing aspects. This type of work does not reflect economic reality where innovation results out of team work among specialists with different academical backgrounds. Reacting to this, our university has introduced a new concept for...

In modern engineer education curricula integrated lab courses are an essential part. Besides the standard lab courses with single experiments in the last years many new practical education types are evolving. In this paper a review on the current state of teaching technology is given and the pros and cons in the view of the author are highlighted....

In this paper the course digital engineering is described which is held in the second and third semester of our bachelor program Electrical Engineering. In the second semester a theoretical lecture gives an introduction to digital logic and circuits. In the third semester the students have to carry out a project over the whole semester within a pro...

Project Based Learning (PBL) has become a popular method for lab courses to teach practical topics. Most of the student projects are tailored in their complexity and need a defined time for a student team within one semester. With this defined and often reduced complexity of the projects the practical relevance is doubtful. In this here shown appro...

Within the curriculum of the Bachelor Electrical Engineering there are obligatory lab experiments for electrical measurement. In this lab ready-made standard experiments with defined results are carried out by students. As an alternative to these standard experiments individual development projects for interested students are offered. In one series...

In this paper an algorithm for fast wavelength calibration of Optical Spectrum Analyzers (OSAs) using low power reference gas spectra is proposed. In existing OSAs a reference spectrum with low noise for precise detection of the reference extreme values is needed. To generate this spectrum costly hardware with high optical power is necessary. With...

A new fast correlation algorithm for calibrating the wavelength of Optical Spectrum Analyzers (OSAs) was introduced in [1]. The minima of acetylene gas spectra were measured and correlated with saved theoretical data [2]. So it is possible to find the correct wavelength calibration data using a noisy reference spectrum. First tests showed good algo...