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Mentorship
From the beginning of their academic studies, our students are
mentored by the professors who provide guidance throughout
the entire duration of study and offer one-on-one meetings.
These meetings also offer the possibility to inform the interested students about the hands-on projects that we offer.

Evaluation
We constantly try to improve our courses, labs, and seminars.
For this to happen, we run evaluations by means of detailed
questionnaires. Some of the questions explicitly concern
hands-on experiences. In this way, we receive and are able to
take into account feedback from the students on how to
increase the number and quality of hands-on projects.

Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Christian Steffens, Prof. Henning
Puder, Prof. Heinz Koeppl, Prof. Marius Pesavento, AnnKathrin Seifert, Dr. Michael Fauß, and Mark Ryan
Balthasar from the Institute of Telecommunications for their
efforts in helping us give this article a broadband overview
of the hands-on activities in signal processing at TU Darmstadt. The work of Dr. Muma was supported by the project
HANDiCAMS, which acknowledges the financial support
of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme within the Seventh Framework Programme for
Research of the European Commission, under FET-Open
grant number 323944.

Authors
Tim Schäck (schaeck@spg.tu-darmstadt.de) received the
Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering and information
technology from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany,
in 2013, where he is currently working toward his Ph.D.
degree in the Signal Processing Group, Institute of
Telecommunications. His research focuses on biomedical signal processing. He was the supervisor of the Technische
Universität Darmstadt student team that won the international
IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2015 with the competition topic
"Heart Rate Monitoring During Physical Exercise Using
Wrist-Type Photoplethysmographic Signals."
Michael Muma (muma@spg.tu-darmstadt.de) received the
Dipl.-Ing. degree in 2009 and the Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) degree
(summa cum laude) in electrical engineering and information
technology in 2014, both from Technische Universität
Darmstadt, Germany, where he is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Signal Processing Group. His research is on robust
statistics for signal processing; biomedical signal processing;
and robust distributed detection, classification, and estimation
for wireless sensor networks. He was the supervisor of the
Technische Universität Darmstadt student team that won the
international IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2015. He coorganized the 2016 Joint IEEE Signal Processing Society and
EURASIP Summer School on Robust Signal Processing.

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Abdelhak M. Zoubir (zoubir@spg.tu-darmstadt.de)
received his Dr.-Ing. degree from Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
Germany, in 1992. He was with Queensland University of
Technology, Australia, from 1992 to 1998. He then joined the
Curtin University of Technology, Australia, as a professor of
telecommunications and was interim head of the School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2001 to 2003.
Since 2003, he has been a professor of signal processing at
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. He is an IEEE
Distinguished Lecturer (class of 2010-2011), past chair of the
Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee
of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the editor-in-chief
of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2012-2014). His
research interest lies in statistical methods for signal processing applied to telecommunications, radar, sonar, car engine
monitoring, and biomedicine. He has published more than 400
journal and conference papers in these areas. He is a Fellow of
the IEEE.

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