Field trips abroad

The core elective module (FWPM) “Software Industries, Education, and Economy in India”, also called “India Gateway Program”, has been offered since 2009 in every winter semester for all bachelor’s students in their 3rd semester.

• By talks during a weekly seminar, students learn about India’s history, culture, politics, and IT industry.
• Through joint technical projects with students of the partner university Christ University in Bangalore, the students get to know the working methods of their fellows.Opens internal link in current window
• After the examinations, the group goes on a two-week field trip to Bangalore and Mysore. Technical projects are finalised and results are presented. There are company visits (e.g. Infosys) and sightseeing tours in Bangalore and Mysore.

In May or June, all students are invited to come to the information event about the next India Gateway Program where they can learn about the requirements, programme and costs. 

Contact: Prof. Dr. Peter Braun

Since 2018, a small group of students accompanied by professors has been attending the International Conference on Applied Informatics Imagination, Creativity, Design, Development (ICDD) conference at our partner university Universitatea Lucian Blaga Sibiu in Romania every May.

There, students of our Faculty have the opportunity to present results from project papers, bachelor’s or master’s theses in a first scientific publication as well as discuss them with students from other European countries and professors.

In 2018, one of our students, Alexander Frühwald, won the Best Paper Award.

Contact Prof. Dr. Arndt Balzer

This core elective module (FWPM) was offered for the first time in the summer semester 2019. Ten students from the Faculty of Business and Engineering, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration as well as the Faculty of Computer Science and Business Information Systems together with another twenty students from partner universities in Thailand and China spent two weeks developing technical solutions and business plans related to the subject of machine learning.

During the two-week field trip to Bangkok and Chumphon in Thailand, which was organized as a summer school, the first week was devoted to the technical contents of computer science and economics/business studies. In the second week, the participants were able to work in groups with students from all three universities on specific projects.

Following the same pattern, this Summer School will now be offered annually and the venue will change between the three partner universities in Bangkok, Nanjing and Würzburg.

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Contact: Prof. Dr. Peter Braun

 

 

The first field trip to Huzhou in China took place in autumn 2015. Eight students headed by Prof. Dr. Peter Braun spent one week at the partner university where they staged a course on programming mobile applications under Android.

Since then, the contact to Huzhou consists rather in visits of guest lecturers and students with us. It has not been decided yet when the next field trip to Huzhou will take place.

Contact: Prof. Dr. Peter Braun

Within this module, a course for the introduction to the programming language Java was developed in the winter semester 2018 for students of our partner university in Shenzhen (China). In a first step, our students got to know different didactic methods and discussed their applicability in a seminar taking into account the expected learning situation. Then they developed study resources, exercises and different types of assessments. 

During the field trip in November 2018 to attend the International Week at Shenzhen Technology University (SZTU), the course underwent a first test with forty Chinese students and the different didactic methods were evaluated.

The International Week of SZTU takes place annually, but now in September. The course might be offered the next time in the summer semester 2020.

Contact: Prof. Dr. Peter Braun and Laura Vogel