GSEEM in Amsterdam

GSEEM @ VUA

GSEEM @ VUA

Ranked 159 in the world top 500 Universities by “The Times Higher Education Ranking 2011-2012* ”

*http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2011-2012/top-400.html

...Immersed in beautiful Amsterdam, the European capital of tourism for 2010…

STUDENT HOUSING FOR ALL STUDENTS!!!

SERVICES ON CAMPUS…

Café Uilenstede

VU Theather and Gymn Mini-markt

The VU consists of 24.000 students, 2.000 academics and 2.000 employees. They are part of the 12 faculties, 6 interfaculty institutes. VU provides 149 Bachelor & Master degrees. A clear organization with short lines of communication.

AMSTERDAM

Also… You can find many big IT companies in Amsterdam e.g. IBM CISCO TOMTOM Google

8 Faculty of Sciences

AMSTERDAM

As well as smaller, independent, start-ups to settle in Amsterdam.


RESEARCH Interdisciplinary research Compact campus stimulates closer collaboration with other disciplines • Academic renewal plan ranked in world top 100 • Social relevance • Top researchers International Students Population: 32.3%!!!!


Faculteit der Exacte Wetenschappen

- SOCIAL AND SUSTAINABLE SERVICES & SOFTWARE - S4 GROUP

Dr. Patricia Lago, associate professor (team leader) Dr. Jaap Gordijn, associate professor Dr. Pieter De Leenheer, assistant professor Dr. Qing Gu, Post-doc Maryam Razavian, PhD Researcher “Lady Marian” Ivan S. Razo-Zapata, PhD Researcher “Machete” Damian A. Tamburri, PhD Researcher “Don Tamburri”



GSEEM @ VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM

This program is for computer science students, specializing in Software Engineering. An international double master program.

>  1 year at the VU University Amsterdam (60 ECTS)

>  1 year at one of the partner universities (60 ECTS) Master thesis (30 ECTS) is done in the second year and the whole program is in English 12 Faculty of Sciences


TYPICAL COURSES GSEEM @ VUA

Service Oriented Design Developing Services for the Cloud Software Architecture E-Business Innovation Internet Governance Knowledge Engineering Software Asset Management Software Configuration Management Green IT (in development) Service Science (in development) Distributed Systems All courses are 6 ECTS


GSEEM @ VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM


THE VU DELIVERS TWO SPECIALIZATION PROFILES


•  Examples of topics: wiki.cs.vu.nl/mp •  Industrial thesis projects with: Philips, CapGemini, Accenture,

Logica, IBM, KPN •  Research thesis projects with: Univ. British Columbia (Canada),

University City London (UK), Software Engineering Institute, CMU (USA), IBM Research Zurich (Swiss), NTNU Trondheim (Norway)


THESES @ VUA

Industrial (paid) internships to carry out case studies (i.e. apply theory in industrial practice, examining real data): •  Possibility of getting employed

immediately afterwards •  Learning from current practices

in industry •  High-edge theoretical

applications within vivid industrial settings



THESES @ VUA

Worldwide research collaborations with major academies: •  Harnessing multi-cultural

thinking •  Addressing and understanding

global software engineering by “living it” as a global professional

•  Work on frontier technologies such as “The internet of the future”, “social-networks based software engineering” among others


Univ. British Columbia

IBM Research Zurich NTNU Trondheim


Topics examples available at: wiki.cs.vu.nl/mp

SUCCESS STORIES

“Costs vs. benefits assessments of industrial software refactoring”

Florian Uunk @University of Hawaii Now @GoogleUK

“Baggage Handling Service-Based Solutions for Airports and Airlines”

Dmitry Litosh @IBM Benelux Now @SIG.nl


SUCCESS STORIES 1/7

Damian Andrew Tamburri PhD Researcher @ VUA “ero alla festa della regina… non ridete! !”



SUCCESS STORIES 2/7

Alessio Sclocco Research Assistant @ VUA “stavo facendo una battuta di caccia al beer-cafè del campus universitario !”



SUCCESS STORIES 3/7

Andrea Florio Software Engineer @ pro-UnicBV.nl “il mio bicchiere… è vuoto?!”



SUCCESS STORIES 4/7

Antonio Cappiello Master Student Intern @ WoodWing.com “The GSEEM is an awesome opportunity to experience an high quality study program at the VU University and a challenging life adventure in the stunning city of Amsterdam.”



SUCCESS STORIES 5/7

Giuseppe Cascavilla Master Student Intern @ Copernica.com “E’ qui la festa?!?”



SUCCESS STORIES 6/7

Simone Potenza Master Student Intern @ KPN “It is incredible how meeting new people from several different places of the world is inspiring! Studying at VUA gave me many opportunities, and stimulated me into a great experience!”



SUCCESS STORIES 7/7

Paolo Bozzelli Master Student Intern @ Rabobank “Surrounded by the best mood, sharing wonderful moments with friends from every corner of earth, stimulated by several challenges, riding my bike... I couldn't ask anything better!!”



OH… AND ONE MORE THING…

BORREL == DRINK!!! Student associations (e.g. STORM for computer science) organize one almost every week… b.t.w. beer is free !


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Faculty of Sciences

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