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 * HW/SW Co-Design**

Electronic Embedded Systems like cell phones, consumer electronics, automotive control systems etc. are developed and designed in large research&development projects. A cell phone development project can easily consume several hundred man years of engineering work. The development targets to a sophistcated system of many (several hundred) hardware and software components which are highly interconnected. Time-to-market requires fast development cycles and therefore, a high degree of concurrent engineering is used. The result are large projects with interdependent and highly connected work packages. The complexity is high. Due to the high degree of innovation uncertainty and risk is high, too.

There is a strong demand for project management methodology for this kind of projects. The combination of the EuroMPM with the computer science and engineering departments of the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences is a good basis for research on this topic, since both engineering and project management competencies are required.

Students from both the EuroMPM and the Master in Computer Science conduct project and master theses on this topic, mainly in connection with Intel.

- Idania Gorrochategui (EuroMPM) - project thesis - Sebastian Runge (MSc. Computer Science) - master thesis

Results appear in conference proceedings.