The FD-Tech working group is responsible for various research and teaching projects. The members of the working group regularly take part in internal RPTU project calls, such as RPTUinteract, RPTUjunior and LehrePlus. In addition, third-party funded projects are acquired. Below you will find an overview of new projects and plans as well as an overview of current and completed projects.
Also within the framework of RPTUjunior and since 2026 FirstSteps calls, the FD-Tech working group has also successfully acquired projects:
- 2026: Experience technology: Pneumatics, manufacturing processes, environmental measuring stations and AR experiments as a vacation offer (responsible: Michael Becker, Jonas Gilbert, Stefan Hornig & Pia Schäfer)
- 2025: Technology in and around the makerspace. Pneumatics, PLC and environmental measuring stations as a vacation offer (responsible: Michael Becker, Jonas Gilbert & Pia Schäfer)
- 2024:
- Set up, program and evaluate (environmental) sensors (responsible: Michael Becker)
- Learning and understanding Industry 4.0 applications with the Learning Factory 4.0 (responsible: Jonas Gilbert)
- Pneumatic, practical, gripping: Workshop for smart problem solvers! (responsible: Pia Schäfer)
- 2023:
- Image recognition using machine learning in electrotechnical systems (responsible: Johannes Bayer)
- Research-based learning in data-driven environmental projects (responsible: Sergey Mukhametov)
As part of the LehrePluscall, the AG FD-Tech was repeatedly able to acquire project funding:
- 2024: Hacking School (responsible: Jonas Gilbert)
- 2023: Effective learning in pneumatics - the potential of explanatory videos in fault diagnosis (responsible: Andrea Faath-Becker and Pia Schäfer)
As part of the various RPTUinterActcalls, several projects of the FD-Tech working group were approved.
- Third round of calls (2024-2026):
- Transfer-promoting university teaching - a cross-location blended learning offer - LehrTransfer (responsible: Pia Schäfer)
- Thinking ahead - Interdisciplinary discourse on the relationship between science and AI (responsible: Leo van Waveren)
- Second call for proposals (2023-2025):
- Feedback in scientific and technical experiments (responsible: Pia Schäfer)
- Quantum Skills@RPTU: Cooperation with the Individual Quantum Systems working group (responsible: Leo van Waveren)
- ViRaL: Networking within RPTU extracurricular learning venues (responsible: Leo van Waveren)
Two new projects in the working group (start October 2023 and February 2024) are financed by own funds
- Video analysis for teaching professionalization and network building - VAL.NET (responsible: Andrea Faath-Becker)
- Virtualization Industry 4.0 Learning Factory - VI4L (responsible: Jonas Gilbert)
The MINT-ProNeD project was launched in April 2023. The aim of this project is to develop professional networks to promote adaptive, process-related, digital-supported innovations in STEM teacher education. The working group is developing and implementing corresponding concepts in two networks:
- Network 1: Adaptive teacher training (responsible: Pia Schäfer)
- Network 2: Teaching development (responsible: Jonas Gilbert)
- Network 3: Future Innovation Hub (responsible: Michael Becker)