Course Evaluation Winter Term 2023

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. Compulsory attendance is not possible by legal regulations. The faculty does not apply admission tests for examination attendance in general so that all students of a semester and branch of study are eligible examination candidates automatically. Students' attendance discipline or work performance is usually not measured by the faculty. The central examination office of the university compiles examination lists containing all registered students of a semester and branch of study even if a candidate did not attend a course at all.

All of my courses make use of the inverted classroom teaching method so that students' preparation becomes mandatory for the weekly appointments. The examinations are carried out in digital form so that no prints and no travel is required. Examination attendance is possible from the university campus or from home offices as it is for the courses during the semester. 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 are listed on the examination lists of the central examination board of the university. "Unknown" students are individuals that seemingly exist only on paper (indicated "NV" in the diagrams below). Such students never appear in lectures, exercises, labs or examinations nor do they register on course pages or respond to contacting by eMail. De-registered students are individuals that officially cancel their examination attendance between the finalization of the examination lists and the date of examination or students that left the university.

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.



1. Digital Engineering - Summary

The minimum rate of points to pass the examination is 45%, i.e. 27 out of 60 points.

Grades greater than 4 do not pass the examination.

Examination Sample Solution Comment
[pdf] [pdf] Online-Examination
[pdf] [pdf] Online-Examination (assessment examination for first semester students)
Distribution Of Points
Distribution Of Points
Digital Engineering (all courses) - Overview Of Grades (1 - Best Grade, 4 - Minimimum Grade to Pass)
Simulated Pass Rate (ALL courses)
Digital Engineering (all courses) - Simulated Pass Rate
Simulated Pass Rate (ALL courses)

The simulation of the examination pass rate is performed by variations of the minimum rate to pass. The curves are a footprint of the collective knowledge of a course. This makes examination results and the collective students knowledge comparable over semesters. The course content is always the same while the Inverted Classroom teaching method was applied the first time during winter term 2023.

Example (green line): if 50% is the minimum rate of points to pass, 71% would have passed in the summer term 2022 (last corona semester).

Comparison (black line): with the same rate of points to pass, only 35% would have passed in the summer term 2023.

Digital Engineering Enrolled Examined Attn Rate Passed Pass Rate
1st attempt 71 56 78% 39 69%
2nd attempt 15 10 66% 7 70%
3rd attempt 5 4 80% 3 75%
Total 91 70 77% 49 70%


1.1 Digital Engineering - Bachelor Electrical Engineering (EIB))

Bachelor Electrical Engineering (EIB)
Presence Map Digital Engineering EIB
Presence map with attendance and examination statistics.
Exam EIB (1st Semester) Enrolled Examined Attn Rate Passed Pass Rate
1st attempt 40 30 75% 19 63%
2nd attempt 3 2 66% 0 0%
3rd attempt 2 1 50% 0 0%
Total 45 33 73% 19 58%

Exam EIB (1st Semester) Enrolled Examined Attn Rate Passed Pass Rate
Assessment 16 10 62% 6 60%


1.2 Digital Engineering - Bachelor Intelligent Mobility Systems (IMS)

The course was 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, former examinations with sample solutions.

Exam IMS (2nd Semester) Enrolled Examined Attn Rate Passed Pass Rate
1st attempt 4 4 100% 3 75%
2nd attempt 6 5 83% 4 80%
3rd attempt N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Total 10 9 90% 7 70%


1.3 Digital Engineering - Bachelor Industrial Engineering (EIW) and Bachelor Industrial Engineering International (IWI)

Bachelor Industrial Engineering (EIW) and Industrial Engineering International (IWI)
Presence Map Digital Engineering EIW and IWI
Presence map with attendance and examination statistics.
Exam EIW (2nd Semester) Enrolled Examined Attn Rate Passed Pass Rate
1st attempt 7 5 71% 4 80%
2nd attempt 4 2 50% 2 100%
3rd attempt 1 1 100% 1 100%
Total 12 8 66% 7 88%
Exam IWI (2nd Semester) Enrolled Examined Attn Rate Passed Pass Rate
1st attempt 20 17 85% 13 77%
2nd attempt 2 1 50% 1 100%
3rd attempt 1 1 100% 1 100%
Total 23 19 83% 15 79%


1.4 Digital Engineering - Bachelor Automobile Intelligent Systems

One candidate attended and passed the examination.




2. Electrical Engineering

Minimum rate of points to pass the examination is 50%, i.e. 22.5 out of 45 points. The Inverted Classroom Teaching Method was applied.

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


2.1. Electrical Engineering - Summary for EIW and IWI branches of study

Electrical Engineering Enrolled Examined Attn Rate Passed Pass Rate
1st attempt 56 40 71% 29 73%
2nd attempt 2 1 50% 1 100%
3rd attempt (or higher*) 7 1 14% 1 100%
Total 65 42 65% 31 74%
*examination attempts for attestations without gradings are UNLIMITED as per examination regulations of the faculty Electrical Engineering


2.2 Electrical Engineering - Bachelor Industrial Engineering (EIW))

Bachelor Industrial Engineering (EIW)
Presence Map Industrial Engineering EIW
Presence map with attendance and examination statistics.
Exam EIW (1st Semester) Enrolled Examined Attn Rate Passed Pass Rate
1st attempt 21 15 71% 12 80%
2nd attempt 1 0 0% 0 0%
3rd attempt (or higher*) 2 0 0% 0 0%
Total 24 15 63% 12 80%
*examination attempts for attestations without gradings are UNLIMITED as per examination regulations of the faculty Electrical Engineering


2.3 Electrical Engineering - Bachelor Industrial Engineering International (IWI))

Bachelor Industrial Engineering International (IWI)
Presence Map Electrical Engineering IWI
Presence map with attendance and examination statistics.
Exam IWI (1st Semester) Enrolled Examined Attn Rate Passed Pass Rate
1st attempt 35 25 71% 17 68%
2nd attempt 1 1 100% 1 100%
3rd attempt (or higher*) 5 1 100% 1 100%
Total 41 27 66% 18 66%
*examination attempts for attestations without grading are UNLIMITED as per examination regulations of the faculty Electrical Engineering


WS'23 - Print Savings due to Online-Examinations - 1760 Sheets.

Calculation: 10 sheets per examination (double-sided color prints for German and English versions) in average times registered attendees plus 10 prints for unregistered attendees. Unregistered attendees are allowed to attend the examination as per instruction of the examining board of the faculty. It will be decided later by the examination offices of the faculty, if the attendance was permitted.

Note: Students are registered for examinations by the University automatically and without self-action. The low attendance rates at examinations are the reason for lots of wasted prints. The University sticks to this practice despite several indications with the reasoning that students forget regularly to enroll for examinations. I therefore decided after the Corona pandemic to continue the Online-Courses and Online-Examinations to eliminate this waste.

The waste savings on prints for registered but non-attending students was 640 sheets of paper (i.e. 36,4%).