Using transdisciplinary problem-oriented teaching approaches to inspire students for the diversity of engineering sciences

This article deals with current trends and challenges in the field of engineering teaching and presents an approach to the interdisciplinary design of undergraduate engineering courses. The approach can be seen as a further development of own, preceding research projects and the knowledge that goes along with them. As a point of starting for this teaching approach, the following research question is to be considered: “Which effects does a problem-oriented, interdisciplinary design of a digital teaching-learning arrangement have on students and their study satisfaction?“ The article focuses on the implementation of the research project, taking a closer look at the framework conditions at the University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten (RWU), the methodological approach for interlinking, as well as the accompanying empirical research and the yielded findings. Finally, success factors and challenges will be discussed on the basis of the gained experience.