Practice partners 

The master's program in Software Engineering connects teaching, research, and practice. Companies from Thuringia and neighboring regions can contribute relevant questions from software development and digitalization as an Enterprise Project or master's thesis topic. 

Students work on real-world or realistic tasks in an academically supervised framework. The aim is not contract development work, but application-oriented project and learning formats with a clearly defined academic learning outcome.

Possible cooperation formats

• Enterprise Projects in the first or second semester 
• topics for practice-oriented master's theses 
• professional exchange on requirements, technologies, and development topics 

Suitable topic areas 

• software architecture and system design 
• DevOps, CI/CD, and quality assurance  
• test automation and software analysis
• data analysis and AI-related applications 
• knowledge engineering and knowledge graphs
• interfaces and process digitalization
• IT security, data protection, and compliance
• prototypical applications or feasibility studies  

Benefits for companies 

Companies gain new professional perspectives on current questions and get to know academically selected, internationally oriented master's students in a project context at an early stage. This can create further points of contact, for example master's theses, working student roles during the program, or a later career entry.

What companies contribute

• a clearly defined task,
• a professional contact person, 
• contextual information, data, or test environments where required,
• occasional feedback during the project.

What the university provides

• academic and organizational supervision, 
• an instructional framework, 
• support in defining the project scope, 
• supervision and assessment of student work, 
• coordination of framework conditions such as scope, timeframe, confidentiality, and result formats.

Companies: become a practice partner.

Contribute a project idea or a master's thesis topic, and we will work out the right format and next steps together.