To celebrate the World Emoji Day last Tuesday, July 17, 2018, Siemens published an article on the future of manufacturing and the use of emojis in the industrial world on its "Pictures of the Future" website. The article refers to the project, SIEMojis, which was implemented in the course of the iPraktikum in the winter semester 2018.

Jochen Nickles, the customer of the Siemens team, is quoted in the article: "Our prototype offers a highly promising means of bringing man and machine closer together."

We are pleased that the results of an iPraktikum have made it to the innovation pages of Siemens. We show that real problems are being worked on in the course of the iPraktikum and that innovations are being driven in the participating companies.

We would like to thank the whole SIEMojis team around project leader Andreas Seitz and coach Marija Jovanović. Thanks to Alina Usova, Anil Karatas, Dmitrii Petukhov, Florian Bodlée, Fridolin Koch and Mykola Vankovych.

We will offer the iPraktikum again in the coming summer semester! We are looking for participants in various roles. Would you like to learn about software engineering in an applied setting while developing a mobile application? Apply as a Developer for the practical course iPraktikum.

If you have already participated in a project at our chair, consider applying for the seminar/practical course Agile Project Management. In this course, you get to take on the role of a Coach and learn about agile project management in a real project.

Are you an experienced iOS developer? Apply to be a Tutor in our introductory courses and teach beginners how to develop in Swift as participant in the (pro)seminar Teaching iOS. You prepare an interactive tutorial and help students during the course. If you have any questions feel free to contact Dominic Henze or ios (at) in.tum.de.

Our massive open online course Software Engineering Essentials (SEECx) starts again. Together with the TUM Media Center we developed this course and provide it for learners all over the world on edX. It is an intensive course which is 8 weeks long and will start on October 24, 2017. It includes video lectures, quizzes, modeling and programming exercises and focuses on management, development and patterns.

https://www.edx.org/course/software-engineering-essentials-tumx-seecx-0 

The course is free and open to everyone and you will learn: 

• methods and techniques to develop software for different domains and platforms
• analyze requirements and transform the problem statement into models using textual analysis
• model multiple representations of the system consistently
• identify design patterns
• map models to source code
• integrate source code into an app
• deliver this app to the customer using build and release management

We will offer the iPraktikum again in the coming winter semester! We are looking for participants in various roles. Would you like to learn about software engineering in an applied setting while developing a mobile application? Apply as a Developer for the practical course iPraktikum.

If you have already participated in a project at our chair, consider applying for the seminar/practical course Agile Project Management. In this course, you get to take on the role of a Coach and learn about agile project management in a real project.

Are you an experienced iOS developer? Apply to be a Tutor in our introductory courses and teach beginners how to develop in Swift as participant in the (pro)seminar Teaching iOS. You prepare an interactive tutorial and help students during the course.

If you have any questions feel free to contact Dora Dzvonyar or ios (at) in.tum.de.

We just announced our new massive open online course Software Engineering Essentials (SEECx) on edX that we developed together with the TUM Media Center. The course is 9 weeks long and will start on May 30, 2017. It includes video lectures, quizzes, modeling and programming exercises and focuses on management, development and patterns.

https://www.edx.org/course/software-engineering-essentials-tumx-seecx 

The course is free and open to everyone and you will learn: 

• methods and techniques to develop software for different domains and platforms
• analyze requirements and transform the problem statement into models using textual analysis
• model multiple representations of the system consistently
• identify design patterns
• map models to source code
• integrate source code into an app
• deliver this app to the customer using build and release management

We held the intro course of the iPraktikum on April 19-25, in which we introduced over 80 students to the programming language Swift, concepts of iOS development as well as software engineering workflows they will need in the course. The course took place in the Rechnerhalle to fit all participants in one room at the same time. In 10 sessions, the participants completed interactive in-class exercises as well as homework in cooperation with tutors who are experienced iOS developers.

We will give a workshop on the topic How to Integrate Interactive Learning into Large Classes at the SIGCSE 2017. We will present how we teach in the lectures Project Organization and Management (POM) and Patterns in Software Engineering (PSE) lecture and introduce the concept of Interactive Learning. We provide insights into the different interactive learning exercises and show hands-on examples how to apply them for classes with more than 300 students. In case you have friends or colleagues joining the SIGCSE 2017 conference, spread a word about our workshop and recommend to register for it.  The workshop will take place on Saturday March 11, 3:00 pm-6:00 pm in Seattle, Washington.  If you have any questions feel free to contact Andreas Seitz.

In the upcoming winter semester 2016/17, we will teach a completely new course Essentials of Applied Software Engineering (EASE) as Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The course focuses on software development with exercises on analysis, design, modeling, programming and testing, but also includes project management and design patterns topics.

The course has a special emphasis on active, blended and experiential learning, mixing theory in online videos with online exercises to create an interactive learning experience for participating students. Therefore, we are looking for motivated tutors who help us in the preparation of videos and online exercises.

If you are interested, please write an application email with motivation, CV and TUM Online grade report to Stephan Krusche.

The iPraktikum is once again coming to the finish line. We are happy to invite you to the Client Acceptance Test (CAT), which will take place on Thursday, 14 July, 4:30 pm - 8:00 pm in the Interims Lecture Hall 1. We will also live stream the complete event: https://livestream.com/ios/16CAT.

Each of the 12 teams will give a presentation about the functionality of their App, a demonstration of the main features and the final status of their project. Check the schedule and other practical information here.