About structuring and developing knowledge, searching for and finding valid answers to valid questions about how to resolve stated factual problems according to a hypothesis (strategy and measurements) in the respective thematical field
Guidance:
Prof. em Dr. Ing. Andrea Haase
Student-Participants:
Sona Sajan, Yingda Wu, Beyza Tanrikulu, Atefeh Safakishhamedanide, Leonard Krayer, Shanyu Ke, Yasamin Ghasemi, Yibin Chen, Shevval Bayir, Yasaman Banafshehkalaki, Kalina Asenova, Eda Akbas, Luis San Jose
Editorial Board:
Prof. em Dr. Ing. Andrea Haase, cand. MSc. Yasaman Banafshehkalaki
Lecturer: Prof. em Dr. Ing. Andrea Haase
Winter Semester 2025/2026
… was oriented on teaching to build up structures for self-selected thesis themes by starting with a broad basis of knowledge from the international discourse as a deductively derived theoretical framework (for evaluating publications about theories and best practices), by narrowing this framework onto the research focus with a statement of factual problems, a hypothesis and a research question (“the sausage in the sandwich”) and to deepen the investigation of the focus interest into an analysis of a selected case-study inductively, in order to search deeply and broadly for valid answers on the valid question (without getting lost in aiming unsuccessfully to compare here cases which were to be distinguished earlier by the theme definition as not being appropriate for comparison relative to the focus interest, because of different background conditions in geography, culture and the economy).
The course has enabled graduates (1st-3rd semester) to find individually theme-related methods to study/ research, requesting a final elaboration of text/ visualization (2-3 pages):
The course has trained the argument of the students with themselves … through brainstorming/ preparing for a Final Elaboration