Structuring Student Projects along Concept Inventories

There are a lot of reasons why student projects are integrated in most of the engineering curricula - to name only the most important of them: It's about motivating and activating students as well as bridging the gap between theory and real-world problems. But, only the right student projects for the right project teams are able to meet these goals. Designing and structuring of student projects as well as choosing and - as kind of long term activity - developing student teams become critical tasks in engineering education. In this paper, we propose a method using concept inventories in order to get the right student projects as well as the right student teams. We explain our method by using examples from our robotics courses.