At the department of physics at FAU, we have introduced Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN) in the compulsory electronic lab course in the 4th semester of the physics curriculum. Immediate advantages are obvious: all data, raw data and metadata including experiment description and experimental observations, are digitally stored at the same place. Student teams share and actively work in their group...
We attended the electronics lab course at the departments of physics at FAU in the winter term 2023/2024. This was the first time that we worked with an electronic lab book (here: eLabFTW). In our presentation, we report on our experience from a student perspective and demonstrate the use of the ELN with examples from our lab course. Finally, we list ideas and suggestions for future improvement.
In this interactive hands-on tutorial, we will elucidate the use of an ELN in physics lab courses from the lecturers and supervisors perspective. Together we will set up an ELN (here: eLabFTW) using open-source python scripts. User accounts will be created and grouped automatically, and all experiments will be predefined that give students – in a real-world lab course – a valuable tool at hand...