For Students

The Service Prototyping Lab contributes to the formation and qualification of tomorrow’s industry specialists and the next wave of researchers. Become an associated student by working on our BSc/MSc tasks, or become a PhD student/candidate along our research directions!

Bachelor’s level:

  • Serverless and Cloud Application Development (SCAD), formerly: Internet Service Prototyping, elective for computer science and business engineering (IT+WI) at ZHAW – invitation blog post and reflection blog post 2019, and older blog post
  • Cloud Computing 1 + 2, elective for computer science students
  • IT Programming 1 + 2, obligatory for various non-computer science engineering disciplines (WI+AV+VS) at ZHAW
  • Programming 1, obligatory for computer science bachelors at ZHAW

Master’s level:

  • Join us as part-time MSE student – apply as part-time assistant by e-mail – contact
  • Scripting in MAS/DAS/CAS Information Engineering
  • Software Maintenance and Evolution, guest lectures at University of Zurich (UZH) as of autumn 2018 – website

Doctorate’s level:

  • programmatic cooperative doctorates with University of Zurich, University of Bern and University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland for research assistants employed in whole or part at SPLab – open to all of our research assistants
  • individual cooperative doctorates with or without employment, currently co-supervision of dissertations at University of Coimbra (UC) in Portugal and University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) in Mozambique – blog post

We also offer guest lectures and tutorials at other institutions on various occasions. In the past, they included:

  • 2019 Summer School on Software Evolution: From Monolithic to Cloud-Native at Tampere University, Finland – sign up!
  • 2019 guest lectures at UOS, Sharjah, UAE – (no blog post)
  • 2018 guest lectures at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India – blog post
  • 2017 guest lectures at PTI, Paraguay – blog post
  • 2016 companionship of Swiss students in China – blog post
  • 2016 cloud computing summer school – blog post