Learning by doing is what our fourth semester students do in terms of their academic discourse skills.
In this year's three-day seminar part of the “Building Envelope” course, the 2022 cohort's students had the opportunity to gain their first conference experience and prepare for academic discourse in this lecture format.
From a well-prepared presentation and support as a chair to a Q&A session and detailed feedback from fellow students and the lecturer – the Smart Building Technologies students are already practicing for later off-campus conference experiences at the start of the second half of their studies.
For example, Jonas Seitner presented aspects of building physics and construction variants in timber construction – with illustrative material on the variants of the “natural solid timber wall”, the “solid timber wall” and the “frame wall”. The obvious great interest of the fellow students in this illustrative presentation was evident from the subsequent round of questions and discussion.
Mr. Seitner was supported by his fellow student, Robert Kühnst, who was able to gain practical experience as chair and take over the moderation, control, and bundling of the discussion.
A big thank you to our lecturer Silvia Öttl for offering this practice-oriented setting on the academic discourse.
The first afternoon lecture began with illustrative models: Jonas Seitner presented “Building physics aspects and construction variants in timber construction” by bringing along examples of “natural solid wood”, “solid wood” and the wall structure of the “timber frame construction” variant (from left to right). © MCI/Hofer
The construction variants in timber construction were illustrated under various aspects - including their respective thermal capacity, which depends on the overall design of the building envelope (such as the addition of individual installation levels to the wall structures). © MCI/Hofer
The commitment to the lecture was rewarded with numerous requests to speak and interested questions - Chair Robert Kühnst was pleased with the lively questions from fellow students about the building physics aspects and construction variants in timber construction presented. © MCI/Hofer
Finally, detailed feedback was given by course instructor Silvia Öttl. © MCI/Hofer
Jonas Seitner used the models he brought along to illustrate individual types of construction even more clearly to his fellow students. MCI/Hofer
