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Latest News on Open and Public Courses
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How we improved The AMOS Project over the years
You may be familiar with The AMOS Project, our university course in which student programmers develop open-source software for our industry partners. The effort is substantial: Student teams are of size 7-10 computer science students (usually Master’s students); each student has to put in 270-300 hours of work over the course of the project (three…
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AMOS retrospective and testimonial by Siemens Energy
Michael Messner of Siemens Energy sent us this email, reviewing a stream of AMOS projects over the years and their results: Thank you, Mike, for the fabulous projects and for giving our students a chance to learn from you and work with industry and real requirements!
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Now looking for AMOS #25 (winter 2025/26) project partners
We are now looking for industry partners to provide requirements and sponsor Scrum projects with our students in Erlangen-Nuremberg and Berlin. In The AMOS Project, 7-10 students of computer science (or similar degree programs) develop open-source software based on the project partner’s requirements. Student teams follow a Scrum process. Our students hail from FAU Erlangen, FU…
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