4.2 Thesis Opportunities

We regularly embed students in our research projects, giving them the chance to work in a team of senior developers and researchers. This can be done using student jobs or as part of final theses. You can find current job descriptions on this blog. If you wonder what our research projects are about...

Our group supports students who would like to go abroad for a final thesis. We maintain close connections with Asian Universities in China, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, as well as with Oceanian Universities in Australia and New Zealand. We also maintain close connections with several American Universiti...

Our group maintains close connections with professors from Beijing-based Universities (Peking University, Tsinghua University), Hong Kong-based Universities (HK University of Science and Technology, City University of HK), and MMU (Multimedia University, Malaysia). While no easy exchange program exi...

Update 1: Prof. Ludewig provides a clear account of the situation (in German). Update 2: FAU provides a leaflet with common Q&A on "external theses". Occasionally, students approach me with a final thesis topic "provided to them by industry" and hope I will supervise them on this topi...

We currently have plenty of Bachelor and Master Thesis opportunities available that focus on product management. Specifically, these are case-writing theses. In such a thesis, you will work with an industry partner (and us) to analyse a specific situation that the industry partner once faced. Typica...

Herr Meier was staring at this quarter's revenue numbers for their enterprise software product. He should be very happy: Substantial maintenance revenue from several large customers was making the product profitable. Yet he wasn't. A deluge of one-off change requests from these large customers was s...

About two years ago, a company local to the Nuremberg area had to make a decision whether to open source their closed source enterprise software. This is a difficult decision: Does open sourcing mean you'll lose your bread-winning revenue streams? Or will you open up new markets and win big? In this...

Some software firms move some or all of their software development to foreign nations to take advantage of lower labor costs in those other countries. One example are German firms performing joint software development projects with firms located in China. While financially attractive, such projects ...

Wir möchten hiermit zwei Forschungsthemen ausschreiben für Softwareentwickler, die gern nebenberuflich promovieren möchten. Die zwei Forschungsgebiete sind: Gamification von Geschäftsoftware. Fragestellung: Wie sieht die Benutzungsschnittstelle der Geschäftssoftware der...

Hier zwei beispielhafte Ausschreibungen für mögliche Abschlussarbeiten (Bachelor-, Diplom-, Master-Arbeiten) für Informatiker bei der Open Source Research Group der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg: Continuous Deployment Mydosis Gamification Weitere Optionen (StudOn) Wie immer freuen wir uns auch ü...