Lecture assistant

A lecture assistant is an employee of a university or college who supports lectures . He is responsible for planning, setting up and implementing all scientific experiments in the lecture halls . In advance, he advises the lecturers on possible experiments for the upcoming event.

Accordingly, it is mainly used in the natural sciences, physics and chemistry , but is also used, for example, in some medicine or mechatronics lectures. In addition, depending on the scope of his area of ​​responsibility, he can advise the university administration on technical issues, such as the redesign of classrooms for students with physical disabilities . Lecture assistants have a wide variety of professional backgrounds, but most of them have an academic degree in the relevant subject. Often they are former teachers, but research assistants and doctoral students also take on this role. Some work part-time as course instructors at adult education centers .

In the first semesters of the Physics degree program, the fundamental laws of physics are conveyed with the help of a series of well-known physical demonstration experiments, which the lecture assistant develops, procures, builds, demonstrates, maintains, and repairs appropriately and properly stored in the lecture collection.

For the field of experimental physics , the lecture assistant conference (VAT) serves as the most important training measure and exchange platform in the German-speaking countries. It took place for the first time in 2003 and has been held annually at a university or college since 2007. In addition, several workshops are offered nationwide in Germany .

Detailed list of some of the previous lecturer meetings

year	date	University where the conference took place	organizer
2003		Technical University of Munich
2005	13.9.	University of Regensburg
2007	13.9.	University of Osnabrück	Department of Physics
2008	10-11 September	Ulm University
2009	21-23 September	technical university Ilmenau
2010	September 27-29	Free University of Berlin	Department of Physics
2011	19. – 21.9.	Chemnitz University of Technology	Institute for Physics
2012	19. – 21.9.	Dresden University of Technology and Economics / Dresden University of Technology
2013	16-19.9.	University of Hamburg
2014	8-10 September	Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg	Faculty of Science
2015	September 14-16	University of Stuttgart	Department of Physics
2016	September 12-14	University of Greifswald
2017	September 11-13	University of Bremen / Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
2018	10-12 September	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2019		Karlsruher Institute for Technology
2020		University of Potsdam

Web links

• http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/studium/journal/2011/05/siebigs.html - "In the third generation in the service of the University of Heidelberg". Professional profile of the lecture assistants at Heidelberg University

Individual evidence

1. ↑ H. Geiger, K. Scheel: History of Physics Lecture Technology . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-49940-1 ( google.de [accessed on September 19, 2018]).
2. ↑ Department of Physics College Road 12 64289 Darmstadt: Lecture assistance . In: Department of Physics Hochschulstrasse 12 64289 Darmstadt - Technical University of Darmstadt . ( tu-darmstadt.de [accessed on September 19, 2018]).
3. ↑ Press office: Successful exchange of experiences between lecture assistants and internship leaders. Retrieved September 19, 2018 . 
4. ↑ maria vass: Homepage PLT2015. Retrieved September 19, 2018 .