Beginning with the winter semester 2007/08 we started to offer a kick-off-weekend for 1^st year students of the degree course Computer Engineering, in order for them to get to know the other students and to help them to create teams. We are convinced this helps to make the first steps at the university easier.

In order to guarantee a practical education, almost all the lecture modules are accompanied by classes taught in modern laboratories.

We have also been carrying out an exchange for several days with a partner university abroad for 4^th semester students, which is funded through study fees, since the winter semester 2007/08. This exchange also includes visits of relevant research institutes and industrial companies. It will help the students to make contacts abroad, in case they are interested in writing their final thesis at one of these institutes or companies.

In the 5^th and 6^th semester the lecture modules will be concentrated on the first half of the semester. This will allow the students to carry out their fourteen-week-long practical project in the 5^th semester and the bachelor thesis in the 6th semester away from the Ulm University. The university explicitly encourages the students to carry out the practical project and to write their final thesis abroad.

At the end of the degree course the students will write their Bachelor’s thesis in order to proof that they are able to work scientifically independent.

The students will graduate from this degree course with a