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arXiv · 2301.03455

Datenkompetenz im Physikstudium -- ein Erfahrungsbericht

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Do our physics curricula provide the appropriate data management competences in a world where data are considered a crucial resource and substantial funding is available for building a national research data infrastructure (German: Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastuktur = NFDI)? Although basic data evaluation and systematic documentation are practiced when students first come into contact with data, particularly in experimental physics lab courses, they do not meet the increasing demands of research and professional practice to deal with the analysis of huge datasets. In many cases, the problem starts with the fact that there is no consensus on a suitable entry-level programming language. At the Department of Physics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\"at Erlangen-N\"urnberg, we have made minor adjustments to the physics curriculum in recent years, which we present in this article. We placed data management competences early in the bachelor curriculum, which has resulted in considerable advantages throughout the further course of studies. The authors feel that students are quickly moving into the fast lane in data management; we can already see in our research groups that they are becoming a driving force towards modern research data management. -- Vermitteln unsere Physikcurricula die passenden Datenverarbeitungskompetenzen in einer Welt, in der Daten als entscheidende Ressource betrachtet werden und erhebliche F\"ordermittel f\"ur eine Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) bereitstehen? Beim Erstkontakt mit Daten, also insbesondere in den Praktika der Experimentalphysik, werden zwar elementare Datenevaluation und systematische Dokumentation einge\"ubt, diese gen\"ugen aber nicht den steigenden Anspr\"uchen der Forschung und der Berufspraxis, sich zunehmend mit der Analyse gro{\ss}er Datenmengen zu befassen. Es scheitert oft schon an einem Konsens \"uber eine geeignete Einstiegsprogrammiersprache. Am Department Physik der Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\"at Erlangen-N\"urnberg haben wir in den letzten Jahren kleinere Anpassungen im Physikcurriculum vorgenommen, die wir in diesem Artikel vorstellen. Datenkompetenz wurde fr\"uh im Bachelorstudium platziert, woraus sich erhebliche Vorteile f\"ur den weiteren Studienverlauf ergeben haben. Die Autoren k\"onnen sich des Eindrucks nicht erwehren, dass die Studierenden in puncto Datenkompetenz schnell auf die \"Uberholspur gehen; wir sehen bereits jetzt in unseren Arbeitsgruppen, dass sie sich als treibende Kr\"afte hin zu einem modernen Forschungsdatenmanagement erweisen.

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Michael Krieger, Heiko B. Weber, Christopher van Eldik. 2022-12-22. Datenkompetenz im Physikstudium -- ein Erfahrungsbericht. https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03455

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