ENBIS-26 Conference

Session

Hands-on with physical experiments for teaching Design of Experiments

Sep 8, 2026, 2:00 PM

Conveners

Hands-on with physical experiments for teaching Design of Experiments

• Christian Ritter (Ritter and Danielson Consulting)
• Morten Bormann Nielsen (Danish Technological Institute)

37. Hands-on with physical experiments for teaching Design of Experiments

Christian Ritter (Ritter and Danielson Consulting), Dr Morten Bormann Nielsen (Danish Technological Institute)

9/8/26, 2:00 PM

Other/special session/invited session

Design of Experiments (DOE) is powerful but rarely intuitive. What is wrong with poking around in design space? Why not vary one factor at a time? The mathematics answers clearly, but the classroom often doesn't.

Physical experiments — where participants can see, touch, and interact with a real system — bring DOE concepts to life. They make abstract ideas like screening, response surface...