Information Systems

Today's organizations are vitally dependent on their information systems, and the high demands placed on these systems require skilled technical specialists. "Information Systems Engineering" graduates are experts and can be found at all stages of a distributed information system's lifecycle (requirement analysis, architecture design, realization and maintenance). The information systems of today's organizations manage large volumes of internal information, including structured and sensor data, multimedia data or geographic information. These systems encompass workflow, groupware and e-business processes and are often distributed across organizational units and physical locations.

Information system engineers are able to combine and configure basic software components, such as database management systems, transaction processing monitors, workflow management systems and middleware. In short, they know how to define a system on which an organization can truly depend without giving rise to any vulnerabilities.

Programme mentor:

Course programme

Basic subjects

4 basic subjects

At least one of the following 9 basic subjects

Advanced subjects

At least 20 ECTS of the following advanced subjects

Elective subjects

Other subjects to obtain the minimally required number of 120 credits may be chosen from the subjects offered by other specializations.

Mandatory (45 EC)

Research Topics

The research topic is intended to be a preparation for the graduation. You approach a teacher of a topic of your interest and ask for possible research topics. If the teacher and you agree on a topic, you work independently on the topic. If at the end you still find the topic interesting you can continue the topic as a graduation project. This enables you to have a smoother start into the Graduation. If you do not know whom to approach feel free to contact Andreas Wombacher.

Graduation

You work half a year to graduation. This can be both inside and outside the faculty. There are also possibilities for assignments abroad. The following rules apply for admission to graduation:

o	The student has an academic supervisor for the graduation project.

o	The student has no more than 10 credits to finish except the graduation project to complete the master.

Graduation supervision is organized by the following chairs:

o	Information Systems

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Databases

There is a thesis committee consisting of at least three members, of which two belong to the academic staff of the university. Within one month after starting the graduation project, the start of the project is announced to BOZ. This announcement contains a project description as well as the graduation committee. It is signed by the student and the supervisor (s). More information respectively graduation projects are available from Maya Daneva and Andreas Wombacher.