General Remarks

This is the evaluation for the courses Digital Engineering [w3] and Electrical Engineering [w3] at the faculty of Electrical Engineering at the HTWG Konstanz. Courses are offered at two fixed dates per week, lecture and lab, 90 minutes each. Attendance is possible from a university classroom or from home office. A compulsory attendance is not possible by legal regulations except for explicit on-site laboratories if scheduled as such in the study plan. The faculty Electrical Engineering and Information Technology does not apply admission tests for examinations in general so that all students of a semester and branch of study are eligible examination candidates by definition. Students' attendance discipline or work performance is usually not measured by the faculty. The examination office of the university builds the examination lists for all registered students of a branch of study. Examiners are asked by the faculty to examine unlisted students. The examining board of the faculty will decide on the correctness of the attendance later.

All of my courses make use of the inverted classroom teaching method so that students' preparation becomes mandatory to attend the weekly appointments. The examinations are carried out in digital form so that no prints and no travel is required. Attendance is possible from the university campus or from home offices. A monitoring of students during the examination is performed by camera and/or microphone in alignment with the legal regulations. Students are allowed to use the entire course material during the examinations. The online-examinations are as such barrier-free.

The quality management is based on an attendance documentation. Attendance rates are correlated to examination results to investigate input-output performance. The numbers presented below might appear inconsistent because of "unknown" or de-registered students. "Unknown" students are individuals that seemingly exist only on paper (indicated "NV" in the diagrams below). While listed on the official examinations lists they never appear in lectures, exercises, labs or examinations nor do they register on course pages or respond to contacting. De-registered students are individuals that officially cancel their examination attendance between the finalization of the examination lists and the date of examination.

There is in general some uncertainty in the presence statistics because some students might don't want their presence to be tracked and therefore attend in groups from the university campus.

Course Evaluation Summer Term 2025

1. Digital Engineering [w3] - Summary

The course content is structured in modules delivered by scripts, exercises with sample solutions, lecture videos (MP4) and simulation models. Meeting notes are distributed as PDF files to support individual time management and learning speeds.

The minimum rate of points to pass the examination is 42%, i.e. 25 out of 60 points. Grades higher than 4 do not pass the examination.

Examination	Sample Solution	Comment
[pdf]	[pdf]	Online-Examination

Distribution Of Points

Digital Engineering - Overview Of Grades (1 - Best Grade, 4 - Minimimum Grade to Pass)

Digital Engineering - Simulated Pass Rate

The simulated examination pass rate is based on a simulated variation of the minimum rate to pass. The curves give a footprint of the collective knowledge of a course. This makes the collective students knowledge comparable over semesters. Example (green solid line): if 50% (30 out of 60 points) would have been the minimum rate of points to pass, 71% of students would have passed in the summer term 2022 (corona semester).

Digital Engineering	Enrolled	Examined	Attn Rate	Passed	Pass Rate
1st attempt	32	24	75%	15	63%
2nd attempt	5	4	80%	0	0%
3rd attempt	1	1	100%	1	100%
Total	38	29	76%	16	55%

1.1.1 Technical Branch - Bachelor Electrical Engineering (EIB) - Regular Examination

Technical Branch - Digital Engineering (EIB) - Regular Examination

Exam EIB (1st Semester)	Enrolled	Examined	Attn Rate	Passed	Pass Rate
1st attempt	-	-	-%	-	-%
2nd attempt	-	-	-%	-	-%
3rd attempt	-	-	-%	-	-%
Total	-	-	-%	-	-%

1.1.2 Technical Branch - Bachelor Electrical Engineering (EIB) - Assessment Examination

Students in the first semester are eligible candidates for an assessment examination per examination regulations.

Exam EIB (1st Semester)	Enrolled	Examined	Attn Rate	Passed	Pass Rate
1st attempt	-	-	-%	-	-%
2nd attempt	-	-	-%	-	-%
3rd attempt	-	-	-%	-	-%
Total	-	-	-%	-	-%

1.2 Economic Branch - Bachelor Industrial International (IWI) - Regular Examination

Digital Engineering (IWI)

Exam IWI (2nd Semester)	Enrolled	Examined	Attn Rate	Passed	Pass Rate
1st attempt	20	18	90%	10	56%
2nd attempt	1	1	100%	0	0%
3rd attempt	1	1	100%	1	100%
Total	22	20	91%	11	55%

1.3 Economic Branch - Bachelor Industrial Engineering (EIW) - Regular Examination

Digital Engineering (EIW)
Presence map with attendance and examination statistics.

Exam EIW (2nd Semester)	Enrolled	Examined	Attn Rate	Passed	Pass Rate
1st attempt	12	6	50%	5	83%
2nd attempt	4	3	75%	0	0%
3rd attempt	0	0	-%	-	-%
Total	16	9	56%	5	56%

1.4 Technical Branch - Bachelor Intelligent Mobility Systems (IMS) - Regular Examination

The course Digital Engineering is in general not offered in the winter term for this branch of study. All candidates prepared themselves in self-study with the available online material, i.e. lecture videos, PDF exercise notes, exercises and former examinations including sample solutions.

Digital Engineering (IMS)

Exam IMS (2nd Semester)	Enrolled	Examined	Attn Rate	Passed	Pass Rate
1st attempt	-		-%	-	-%
2nd attempt	-	-	-%	-	-%
3rd attempt	-	-	-%	-	-%
Total	-	-	-%	-	-%

2. Electrical Engineering [w3]

The course content is structured in modules, delivered by weekly lectures (90 min) and labs (90 min). Students get a working set of digital documents including literature, script, exercises with sample solutions, former examinations with sample solutions, lecture videos (MP4), a weekly digital summary (PDF) of lecture and lab appointments, special work packages (ZIP archives) on specific topics including LTSpice simulations and a detailed summaries of the theory including examples. Special revision dates are offered two times per semester for repeaters, i.e. students that failed the examination in a previous attempt. Repeaters normally do not follow the regular course schedules due to time conflicts. The revision dates offer a condensed rework of theory and practice to quickly refresh contents. The offer is regularly used by all students of a course to repeat.

The minimum rate of points to pass the examination is 44%, i.e. 20 out of 45 points. This is the lowest level to pass since 2015.

Examination	Sample Solution	Comment
[pdf]	[pdf]	Online-Examination

2.1. Electrical Engineering - Summary

Electrical Engineering (Total)	Enrolled	Examined	Attn Rate	Passed	Pass Rate
1st attempt	36	18b)	50%	7	39%
2nd attempt	27	16	59%	4	25%
3rd attempt (or highera))	11	10	91%	3	30%
Total	74	44	59%	14	32%

a) examination attempts for attestations without gradings are UNLIMITED per examination regulations
b) one attendee did not drop an exam sheet

Pass Rate Simulation

2.2 Technical Branch - Electrical Engineering (EIB) - Ungraded Certificate

Bachelor Electrical Engineering (EIB)
Presence map with attendance and examination statistics.

Exam EIB (1st Semester)	Enrolled	Examined	Attn Rate	Passed	Pass Rate
1st attempt	15	7	47%	4	57%
2nd attempt	4	1	25%	0	0%
3rd attempt (or higher*)	1	1	100%	0	0%
Total	20	9b)	45%	4	44%

*examination attempts for attestations without gradings (called 'Schein') are UNLIMITED as per examination regulations
b) one attendee did not drop an exam sheet

2.3 Economic Branch - Bachelor Industrial Engineering (EIW) - Ungraded Certificate

Bachelor Industrial Engineering (EIW)
Presence map with attendance and examination statistics.

Electrical Engineering (EIW)	Enrolled	Examined	Attn Rate	Passed	Pass Rate
1st attempt	4	2	50%	1	50%
2nd attempt	9	3	33%	2	67%
3rd attempt (or higher*)	6	6	100%	2	33%
Total	19	11	58%	5	45%

*examination attempts for attestations without gradings (called 'Schein') are UNLIMITED as per examination regulations

2.4 Economic Branch - Bachelor Industrial Engineering International (IWI) - Ungraded Certificate

Bachelor Industrial Engineering International (IWI)
Presence map with attendance and examination statistics.

Exam IWI (1st Semester)	Enrolled	Examined	Attn Rate	Passed	Pass Rate
1st attempt	17	9	53%	2	22%
2nd attempt	14	12	86%	2	17%
3rd attempt (or higher*)	4	3	75%	1	33%
Total	35	24	69%	5	21%

*examination attempts for attestations without grading (called 'Schein') are UNLIMITED as per examination regulations