Marco Beck<\/a> (University of Freiburg), Philipp Sommer<\/a> (ABB Research Switzerland), Philipp Scholl<\/a> (ABB Research Switzerland), Balz Maag<\/a> (ABB Research Switzerland), Sandro Sch\u00f6nborn<\/a> (ABB Research Switzerland) <\/p>\n Bernd-Christian Renner<\/a> (Hamburg University of Technology), Peter Oppermann (Hamburg University of Technology), Fabian Steinmetz (Hamburg University of Technology) <\/p>\n Leonard Zurek (TU Braunschweig), Jan Schlichter (TU Braunschweig), Sven Pullwitt (TU Braunschweig), Felix B\u00fcsching (Ostfalia - University of Applied Sciences), Lars Wolf (TU Braunschweig) <\/p>\n Felix B\u00fcsching (Ostfalia - University of Applied Sciences), Samira Nazemi (Ostfalia - University of Applied Sciences), Mia S\u00f6rensen (Ostfalia - University of Applied Sciences), Maurice-Christian Ziesmann (Ostfalia - University of Applied Sciences) <\/p>\n Antonio Boiano<\/a> (Politecnico di Milano), Fabio Palmese<\/a> (Politecnico di Milano), Alessandro Redondi (Politecnico di Milano), Matteo Cesana (Politecnico di Milano) <\/p>\n Authors of session 1<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Devin Jean (Vanderbilt University), Saman Kittani<\/a> (Vanderbilt University), Gordon Stein (Vanderbilt University), Akos Ledeczi (Vanderbilt University) <\/p>\n Jens Dede<\/a> (University of Bremen, Germany), Faruk Kollar (University of Bremen, Germany), Daniel Helms (University of Bremen, Germany), Asanga Udugama<\/a> (University of Bremen, Germany), Andreas K\u00f6nsgen (University of Bremen, Germany), Saurabh Band (University of Bremen, Germany), Shadi Attarha (University of Bremen, Germany), Jennifer Horstmann (University of Bremen, Germany), Luis Hagemann (University of Bremen, Germany), Anna F\u00f6rster (University of Bremen, Germany)<\/a> <\/p>\n Koojana Kuladinithi (Hamburg University of Technology)<\/a>, Yevhenii Shudrenko<\/a> (Hamburg University of Technology), Dorothea Ellinger (Hamburg University of Technology) <\/p>\n Laura Harms (Kiel University, Germany and Hamburg University of Technology, Germany), Olaf Landsiedel (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany and Kiel University, Germany) <\/p>\n Shrutkirthi Godkhindi (Indian Institute of Science), TV Prabhakar (Indian Institute of Science), Jamadagni H S (Indian Institute of Science) <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Authors of session 2<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> Devin Jean (Vanderbilt University), Saman Kittani<\/a> (Vanderbilt University), Gordon Stein (Vanderbilt University), Akos Ledeczi (Vanderbilt University) Antonio Boiano<\/a> (Politecnico di Milano), Fabio Palmese<\/a> (Politecnico di Milano), Alessandro Redondi (Politecnico di Milano), Matteo Cesana (Politecnico di Milano) Koojana Kuladinithi (Hamburg University of Technology)<\/a>, Yevhenii Shudrenko\u00a0(Hamburg University of Technology)<\/a> Jens Dede<\/a>\u00a0(University of Bremen, Germany), Faruk Kollar (University of Bremen, Germany), Daniel Helms (University of Bremen, Germany), Asanga Udugama<\/a> (University of Bremen, Germany), Andreas K\u00f6nsgen (University of Bremen, Germany), Saurabh Band (University of Bremen, Germany), Shadi Attarha (University of Bremen, Germany), Jennifer Horstmann (University of Bremen, Germany), Luis Hagemann (University of Bremen, Germany),\u00a0Anna F\u00f6rster (University of Bremen, Germany)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Koojana is a lecturer and senior researcher at the Hamburg University of Technology. She has extensive teaching experience in Computer and Communication Networks as well as Internet of Things (IoT) courses and seminars. In her teaching practice, she integrates innovative pedagogical approaches such as flipped classroom models, and project-, problem-, and challenge-based learning. In 2024, she was awarded the Hamburg Teaching Award in recognition of her outstanding teaching performance, pioneering methodologies, and the development of novel mediation concepts.<\/span><\/p>\n Resources<\/b> https:\/\/github.com\/ComNetsHH\/teaching-industry-4.0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Other relevant publications:<\/b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Yevhenii is a research fellow at the Institute of Communication Networks, Hamburg University of Technology, with the focus on IEEE 802.15.4-based Wireless Sensor Networks. His involvement in teaching includes Simulation of Communication Networks as well as project-based IIW Praktikum on various IoT topics, where students learn how to use suitable communication technologies, e.g., LoRa, to solve practical problems through engineering and teamwork. Furthermore, Yevhenii\u2019s supervision of IoT-related student theses and project works is another major contributor to his teaching experience in this field.<\/span><\/p>\n Resources<\/b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n GitHub repo: https:\/\/github.com\/ComNetsHH\/teaching-industry-4.0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Further courses: https:\/\/www.tuhh.de\/et6\/teaching<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Other relevant publications:<\/b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Asanga is a senior lecturer at the Sustainable Communication Networks Group of the University of Bremen, Germany. He obtained his BBA from Colombo University, Sri Lanka, M.Eng. from the Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland, and PhD from the University of Bremen. Throughout his academic career, he has made numerous contributions to research in computer networks through patents, publications, talks, teaching, and student supervision. He primarily focuses his research efforts on improving and assessing information-centric and opportunistic networking protocols for the Internet of Things, with an emphasis on sustainability, achieved through modeling and practical implementations.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> Jens Dede earned his PhD in electrical engineering and information technology from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 2024. He is currently a senior lecturer with the Sustainable Communication Networks group at the same university. Resources Anna is a full professor of computer science and electrical engineering, leading the Sustainable Communication Networks group. Her research is focused on Internet of Things, its communication protocols, realiability and fault tolerance and its applications to the Sustainable Development Goals. She is teaching various courses, from scientific practice through introductory courses of computer science for EE students, communication networks, to advanced courses in Internet of Things and Edge Computing. She is very interested in modern teaching methods and gladly experiments with various formats and concepts to motivate the students to look for deeper insights and cross-connections and to let them perform at their best.<\/span><\/p>\n Resources<\/b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The main GitHub repo for the MoleNet boards: ComNets-Bremen\/WUSN: MoleNet: A Wireless Underground Sensor Network platform<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n GitHub repo for MoleNet-based labs: https:\/\/github.com\/ComNets-Bremen\/MoleNet-Labs<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Other relevant publications:<\/b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Philipp Sommer holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich and was a post-doc at the CSIRO in Australia. At ABB Research Switzerland, he leads a research team in industrial software systems. He has been involved in teaching classes on wireless sensor networks at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. For the last few years, he has been teaching a lecture on industrial automation at EPFL. Furthermore, he has been involved in several TecDay events at high schools throughout Switzerland.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> Marco Beck completed his teaching qualification and authorization studies in Germany in 2025 and is currently completing his probationary training. He specialised in computer science education and was involved in multiple teaching projects during his studies. He completed his thesis work in collaboration with ABB.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> Philipp Scholl completed his PhD in 2018 at the University of Freiburg, following a post-doc period before joining ABB Research in 2022. He taught eight lectures on Embedded Systems, Hardware Architecture and Wearable Systems, and taught a total of twenty-five laboratory and seminar courses on Ubiquitous Computing, Wearable Computing, as well as Psychology and Computing. He is currently researching Embedded, Real-Time and Ubiquitous Computing at ABB Research.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> Balz Maag holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich, where his research focused on air quality monitoring using sensor networks. At ABB, he works on applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to industrial challenges, with a particular emphasis on embedded systems. He also enjoys teaching and has led university courses in computer engineering, as well as seminars on developing sensor-centric smartphone applications. Beyond his professional and academic work, since roughly three years he supports TecDay, a STEM outreach initiative that encourages high school students to explore science and technology.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> Sandro Sch\u00f6nborn has an academic background in physics and computer science at the University of Basel. While he performed PhD and post-doc research in probabilistic methods to interpret and manipulate images of human faces, he was also teaching seminars and courses around this topic. At ABB, he researches the application of AI and ML in industrial software systems, and their combination with knowledge-based methods. He has rich teaching experience with years of teaching a practical robotics course at a high school, including participation in RoboCup Junior. He regularly visits high schools at TecDays, a STEM focus day initiative, and practically introduces students to the topic of automation with robots and IoT devices.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> Felix B\u00fcsching is a professor of embedded systems at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences. Since 2020 he leads the \"Data Technology Laboratory\", where students learn to program microcontrollers from scratch, the \u201cDigital Systems Design\u201d lab, where students learn the basics of FPGA programming, and the \u201cEmbedded Systems\u201d course, where students build and program their own distributed embedded systems. https:\/\/www.ostfalia.de\/buesching<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> Fabio is a research fellow at Politecnico di Milano, where he <\/b>received his PhD on March 2025. His research activities focus on network traffic analysis and Internet of Things topics. His Ph.D. thesis focused on the IoT forensics, with specific attention to IoT network traffic collection and analysis for forensic investigations. Bernd-Christian Renner is a full professor and head of the Institute for Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (ACPS) at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). From 2020 to 2022, he was associate professor at the University of Koblenz-Landau und from 2016 to 2020, he was assistant professor at TUHH. He received his Diploma degree in 2008 and his Ph.D. in 2013 from TUHH. From 2012 to 2016 he was postdoc at the University of L\u00fcbeck. He is currently teaching master-level courses on software for embedded systems (since 2020), autonomous cyber-physical systems (since 2015), design and implementation of software systems (since 2016), and an undergraduate course on procedural programming (since 2022). He is also running seminars on IoT-related topics with particular focus on underwater, and he has run courses on electrical engineering, hardware\/software co-design, and data structures and algorithms.<\/p>\n Resources<\/strong> Saman is a 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0year Ph.D. Student at Vanderbilt University. He is working with the Vanderbilt lab to expand\/maintain a block-based programming environment (NetsBlox) for use as an introduction to programming for beginners. The team actively engages with local schools, offering curriculum outlines in the form of NetsBlox project guides. The most recent additions to NetsBlox are RoboScape Online, PhoneIoT, and NetsBlox32. RoboScape Online allows beginners to interact with virtual robots, reading sensor data and controlling motors. PhoneIoT allows students to tap into their smartphone's sensors, turning them into proxy IoT devices. Finally, NetsBlox32 simplifies microcontroller programming by allowing students to remotely upload NetsBlox code from the web browser to the microcontroller. These tools are completely open source. Each one of the tools discussed are available below:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n10:50 am - 11:10 am<\/h4>\n
Taming the Challenges of Teaching the IoT<\/h3>\n
PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n11:10 am - 11:30 am<\/h4>\n
Wireless Networking-Lab \u2013 A Project-Based Approach for Teaching WSN Fundamentals<\/h3>\n
PDF<\/a><\/strong>\u200b<\/p>\n11:30 am - 11:50 am<\/h4>\n
Do cool stuff! \u2013 The Incredible Charm of Open-Ended Tasks<\/h3>\n
PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n11:50 am - 12:10 pm<\/h4>\n
15 Years of IoT Education: a Shift from Theory to Practice<\/h3>\n
PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n12:10 pm - 12:30 pm<\/h4>\n
Panel 1: Challenges, opportunities and next steps<\/h3>\n
Lunch break<\/h3>\n
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm<\/h4>\n
Bringing Networked Sensing to High School<\/h3>\n
PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n1:50 pm - 2:10 pm<\/h4>\n
MoleNet: A Wireless Sensing Platform for Teaching and Research in the Internet of Things<\/h3>\n
PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n2:10 pm - 2:30 pm<\/h4>\n
Enabling Industry 4.0 Applications<\/h3>\n
PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n2:30 pm - 2:50 pm<\/h4>\n
Teaching the Internet of Things with BLE and Zephyr<\/h3>\n
PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n2:50 pm - 3:10 pm<\/h4>\n
Addressing the five challenges in Teaching IOT<\/h3>\n
PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nCoffee break<\/h3>\n
3:30 pm - 3:50 pm<\/h4>\n
Panel 2: Challenges, opportunities and next steps<\/h3>\n
3:50 pm - 4:50 pm<\/h4>\n
Demo: Turning Mobile Phones into Educational IoT Devices<\/h3>\n
PDF<\/a><\/p>\nDemo: Teaching IoT with a Capture-the-Flag Challenge<\/h3>\n
PDF<\/a><\/p>\nDemo: Teaching How to Enable Industry 4.0 Applications using TSCH in Cooja Simulator<\/h3>\n
PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nDemo MoleNet: A Wireless Sensing Platform for Teaching and Research in the Internet of Things<\/h3>\n
Authors<\/h2><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
Koojana Kuladinithi, TUHH Germany<\/span><\/h3>\n
Teaching materials and assignments on Cooja simulations used for ECIU micro module of \u201cEnabling Industry 4.0\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n
<\/a>Yevhenii Shudrenko, TUHH Germany<\/span><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Asanga Udugama<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Jens Dede<\/h3>\n
His research focuses on the Internet of Things, communication networks and protocols, image processing, and machine learning, with an emphasis on sustainability and environmental monitoring.
With over 10 years of teaching experience, he has contributed lectures and projects on various aspects of IoT, including Arduino-based computer science lectures, simulation, and general communication courses at the Bachelor and Master levels.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/jdede.de\/<\/a>
github.com\/ComNets-Bremen\/MoleNet-Labs<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>Anna F\u00f6rster, University of Bremen Germany<\/span><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Philipp Sommer<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Marco Beck<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Philipp Scholl<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Balz Maag<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Sandro Sch\u00f6nborn<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Felix B\u00fcsching<\/h3>\n
From 2013 to 2020 was postdoctoral research assistant at the Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks (IBR) at Technische Universit\u00e4t Braunschweig, Germany. In this position, he headed the microcontroller laboratory there and the practical course on \u201cprogramming distributed embedded systems,\u201d which he significantly influenced.
During his doctoral studies, which he completed in 2013, he worked with students to develop various distributed and embedded systems for different research and development projects.<\/p>\n<\/a>Fabio Palmese<\/h3>\n
From 2021 he has been a teaching assistant for the \"Internet of Things\" and \"Foundations of Networks and Internet\" Courses at Politecnico di Milano, covering exercises and laboratory lectures.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/a>Antonio Boiano<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Bernd-Christian Renner<\/h3>\n
He has published articles in several International journals and conferences, and reviewed for and served on several TPCs. He has served the ENSsys workshop at ACM SenSys in several roles since 2014 and is member of its steering committee. His research interests include applications of networked low-power sensing and cyber-physical systems running on energy harvested from the environment. He is also active in networking protocols for networks of embedded sensors, active and passive backscatter acoustic communication, localization, and navigation in mobile, low-power underwater networks.<\/p>\n
Website: https:\/\/www.tuhh.de\/acps<\/a>
Git (only research at the moment): https:\/\/collaborating.tuhh.de\/e-24\/public\/<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/a>Saman Kittani, Vanderbilt University, USA<\/h3>\n