Author: Dirk Riehle

Hello everyone, and welcome back to our Newsletter! Table of Contents Upcoming well-paid freelancer jobs Upcoming student jobs at research group Upcoming Ph.D. (Mitarbeiter) positions Upcoming Scrum industry talks Past issues and impressum Upcoming well-paid freelancer jobs There are a ...

In an AMOS project, students program an open source software with an industry partner as the provider of the idea and feedback. Effectively, the industry partner acts like a customer in a Scrum project. Students love our AMOS projects because it teaches something needed by industry (agile methods a...

In the rankings game, FAU scored big again, and was named 6th most innovative university in Europe in 2017, according to this Reuters report.

The main stages of science are (a) problem identification, (b) scientific collaboration, (c) problem solution, (d) celebration, and (e) communication. (We wished there were more women in those photos too.)

We track our performance by numbers. This includes student interest in our elective courses. We track those numbers as the number of students who signed up for the first session and did not leave right afterwards. Below, you can see our history of attracting students to our electives up to and inclu...

Shortly before the 2017 AMOS projects start, we will hold the TEAM workshop on April 20th. TEAM prepares students for high-performance teamwork; it is open for AMOS students only. We will start at 9am, please make sure to reserve the day. (TEAM is optional, but strongly recommended.) Below please ca...

We proudly present the initial set of confirmed AMOS projects for the upcoming summer semester. All projects will be developed as open source software on Github. Please register on StudOn, if you haven't done so already, to learn more about the projects and make sure get you a seat in the class. Tab...

Today, Christian Nester, a team lead on Google's GMail team, taught us about cluster management at Google. Below, please find some photo impressions. Thank you, Christian, for teaching us (again!).

We posted the course evaluations on our course evaluations page. Thank you to every student who provided us with feedback. Positive feedback is welcome and makes our day. Critical feedback that helps us improve our courses is equally welcome and appreciated. We will discuss this feedback in class...