Ideas for Collaboration

These are suggestions, not a commercial catalogue. As a professor at a University of Applied Sciences (HSBI, Campus Gütersloh) I do independent academic work. The ideas below are the kinds of hands-on, educational, and expert activities that fit that role and that I enjoy most. If one of them resonates with you, just get in touch and we will figure out a sensible set-up together.

Workshops and hands-on classes

• Internet of Things (IoT) introduction. A hands-on session built around my own development kit: participants build small smart devices with sensors and actuators and explore what IoT can mean for their teaching, research, or institution. It scales from a few hours to several days and can cover programming, hardware, requirements engineering, networking, or machine-to-machine communication.
• Requirements engineering for mobile applications. Turning ideas into specifications programmers can work with — mock-ups, scenarios, and story-based design.
• Run your own server. A gentle, cloud-and-Linux introduction for people who already build websites and want to host and network their own services.

Expert input and independent work

• Expert assessment / second opinion on IoT, networking, or (mobile) software questions — for example an opinion piece or a short expert report.
• Project support as a product owner or advisor for a short, well-scoped software project, coordinating a small team.
• Talks and guest lectures on the Internet of Things, software development and requirements engineering, information management, open source, Linux, and making/3D printing. See also my talks and my YouTube channel @ulnonet.

These are ideas rather than a fixed offering. Anything along these lines fits my professorship and the independent (freelance) academic work I take on alongside it — and is arranged informally, person to person.