Highlights

From EECS

Making Students Fit for Industry & Science: Jacobs University continuously strives to offer highest quality standards in student education. In the field of Computer Science, our goal is to enable students to become successful IT professionals, be it in an industry or in an academic career.

The CHE ranking of 2009 places Computer Science at Jacobs University at the first place for the general study situation ("Studiensituation insgesamt") among more than 80 universities in Germany and selected European institutions. Jacobs CS students rate their university top in facets like mentoring quality, contact with teachers, study organization, e-learning, and relevance for science and career. Thus, they effectively place Jacobs University even above some German excellence universities. Already the 2007 CHE ranking has evaluated Jacobs University 2nd across Germany in the categories "study conditions", "lab equipment", and "mentoring and supervision" (see also press release).

Competitions

• April 2009: Jacobs Robotics wins the Virtual League at RoboCup German Open at Hannover Fair
• Mai 2008: Jacobs Robotics wins first places at the IEEE Robot Challenge 2008 at ICRA, Pasadena, USA
• April 2008: Jacobs Robotics wins two first places at RoboCup German Open at Hannover Fair; one in the Rescue Robot League and one in the Virtual League
• March 2008: Two teams from Jacobs University placed among the Top Ten teams at the IEEE Xtreme worldwide programming contest.
• November 2007: An EECS student team scores 5th place at the Northwestern European Programming Contest (NWERC) in Utrecht.
• August 2007: Jacobs Robotics makes a 1st place at the European Land Robotics Trials (ELROB)
• July 2007: Jacobs Robotics becomes Viceworldchampion at RoboCup
• Spring - Fall 2007: A Smart Systems graduate seminar in machine learning wins an international competition in financial forecasting.
• April 2007: Jacobs Robotics win RoboCup German Open
• In March 2007, a group of Jacobs University CS students manages to attract the TopCoder contest to Jacobs University. (US-based TopCoder carries out programming contests both online and on location. The TopCoder Collegiate Tour, of which the Jacobs University event is part of, started in the US in 2006 and reached Europe in spring 2007.)
• November 2006: An EECS student team scores 10th place at the Northwestern European Programming Contest (NWERC) in Stockholm.
• July 2006: Jacobs Robotics becomes Viceworldchampion at RoboCup
• May 2006: Jacobs Robotics wins RoboCup US Open
• April 2006: Jacobs Robotics wins RoboCup Dutch Open
• April 2005: Jacobs Robotics make a 2nd place at RoboCup US Open

Student Careers

… are now listed on the Smart Systems program homepage

Success Stories

Industry repeatedly has confirmed that Jacobs University is well on track and Jacobs University students convey key success factors:

• "In February 2009 Andrei Ionita joined lat/lon GmbH, a small enterprise specialized on Spatial Data Infrastructure and Geo-Information Systems. His skills in software engineering - especially object oriented technologies and Java programming - are an asset for our company. I believe his university-acquired knowledge was decisive in quickly adapting to our very dynamic Java project framework." -- Dr. Christian Kiehle, lat/lon GmbH Bonn, Germany, September 2010

• "On behalf of CleverSoft GmbH I would like to express our complete satisfaction with the Jacobs University students, who did internships with us in the summer of 2009." -- Ivan Stefanov, CleverSoft GmbH Munich

• In summer 2007, five Jacobs University CS students have been invited to internships at Google after undergoing a highly competitive selection process by Google. This amounts to a stunning 6.7 % of all Jacobs CS students - a percentage unrivalled among German and international universities.

• In January 2006, an EECS grad student did an internship with ASML, The Netherlands, in the field of cleanroom circuit design and immersion systems. "Ivan started Tuesday 10th of January and he is starting up very quickly. In these two weeks he already joined some people to the cleanroom for experiments (partly doing experiments himself), is finding his own way in the company (people, procedures,...) and learning the focus technology (especially focus setup for immersion systems) very quickly. I am very pleased by his approach of working here, he is adapting very good!" -- Marc Boonman, ASML

• In summer 2005, two EECS undergrad/grad students did an internship with EADS Germany on complex geo information services. "The students' effort here was excellent and I truly believe that they are an asset in the software engineering field." -- Juergen Jonas, Head of Software Engineering, EADS Friedrichshafen, Germany