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Mechatronics is very relevant here. You have so many industries you can fit into. For instance Automotive, Aerospace or even Autonomous Robot. It's a field of study that Germans don't play with. Relevant skill you could acquire is Embedded system design. If you are good you can get a Werkstudent position.

Dande55:
Thank you so much. I'm into Engineering.
Did Mech Engr in my B.Eng, I want to go for mechatronics in masters. How relevant is it over there.

Well never knew AUTOSAR had an open source part to it. Which SW tool are you using for it? And I guess all these you are talking about is on the BSW layer?

Not my intention to derail this thread. I'll be happy to take the discussion to another thread or private.

Buliwyf:
Even AUTOSAR is open
Don't worry I will give you the information within the limits of my agreement. Even though the tool is open source it has not been released yet. What I am working on is part of an overall software that was designed for multicore systems. The software was designed to be compatible with AUTOSAR and it's an EU partly funded project. Other sponsors are part of the AUTOSAR partnership.

My own contribution is just creating a simulation of the different aspects that of the features of a system under concern. Let's take schedulers for example. I am implementing some myself and also using some that has already been implemented.

One way will be to simulate the effect of using one scheduler over another or one type of execution time over another. So I am creating a plugin into the software that does just that. There are many other things that can be done with simulation. You get the idea.

Some parts of the project are easy. And some parts are hard. Like the part where I have to randomly select an execution time and it will have to conform to a certain probability distribution curve. I haven't figured it out yet and I have been told that I don't need to work on it because it's hard. But I intend to figure it out because if I do I would already have a good masters thesis topic in the bag.

Hey dude.

I got interested with the part you talked about an Automotive Software Engineering project.
Did you go through the Scheduling algorithm calculation yourself?
Secondly what platform is it based on?
Finally can embedded automotive sw dev be open source because I was made to understand that most cars run on AUTOSAR platform?

A clue to what you are doing will be nice. I will be interested in knowing what you are doing if it's not a classified information.

Buliwyf:
Wait where do you guys get this idea that hackers don't have a university degree? From Hollywood? LMAO.

Most cyber security experts working anywhere that matters have higher degrees. For you to even begin to understand certain exploits mean you have to have been exposed to the computer architecture and other stuff. That's why these big companies fund Professors and other people to do research into these things and protect their investment. Most of the people you guys call hackers in Nigeria are just guys that go online to get info about exploits because there are lots of that online and then replicate them. There are actually very very few original hackers outthere in Nigeria. For every 1 uneducated success story there are 30 otherwise.

And like you said, there are geniuses that don't need education for sure. But trust me, most of these boastful Nigerians that are only good in web design aren't the stuff of genius. Most of them don't even have the foggiest idea about endianess and how it applies to programming. I don't blame them. I blame the Nigerian system that churns out graduates without any project experience and no meaningful exposure and that's why a CS graduate in Nigeria can be giving his final project to an Agric student to do. Thats the height of unseriousness. Which is why most web guys in Nigeria now think they are better than a CS degree. Even Andela was smart enough to know the difference that for long they kept calling their employees technicians.

I am currently working on an open source project in Automotive software engineering. This is where you deal with hard real-time systems where the effectiveness of the scheduling algorithm you choose matters a lot to performance and response of the systems. You also have to consider deadlocks and the best way to avoid race conditions in those circumstances. These are hard problems. A friend of mine got a job in April from a conference we attended in March in another European country. He is working in Edge Computing which is a topic we had done in school the semester before and built projects on it. The kind of things he is doing with computer networking will make you appreciate why computer science is mathematics heavy. Who do you think will be paid better tomorrow by telecoms equipment manufacturers or telecoms companies? Him or a guy that designs website? Who do you think is likely to become CTO in a great company? Who is likely to have job satisfaction that comes with career mobility?

I was working with a Portuguese company part time using Flutter and I can't forget because that's what made me finally decide to leave Nigeria and get a master's degree abroad. This was when Flutter was still in alpha. The kind of little useful tidbits of knowledge these guys had acquired just from what they were taught in school made me realise I was getting too comfortable being considered skilled among willful mediocres. And in the first semester of masters alone I realised the use and need for many things I had been taking for granted in programming languages.

You reading this, if you get an opportunity to study in a good system, take the knowledge seriously and improve yourself. Trust me it will usually pay off in a few years.

And to those that think web design is the greatest form of computer science, keep being a paragon of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Please all this online workers that praise Ugwuanyi, tell him that he has turned us to joke in the eyes of Ebonyi people. He should plead on his conscience to at least repair the roads Sullivan did.

Hank04:
Hello guys, is there anyone heading to TU Chemnitz that has gotten his/her AM? Appointment was on August 14 (5 weeks ago) and blocked account was funded before the interview.

Which course are you going for?

Congrats man. We welcome you to chemnitz. If you are free now start working on language.

oluwafemi88:
AM Alert! AM Alert!! AM Alert!!!
AL June 21

AD july. 26

AM August 22
MSC advanced Manufacturing
TU Chemnitz
Fund before interview

I Thank God for his mercy favour and Grace over life
I thank every member of this German waka
People waiting for AL AD AM
It will surely come in Jesus Name

heybaby12:
Msc or Bsc, which every start reading reading reading now. This place has no joy, there are few Africans left that would make it fun for you. There are little or no jobs ( that wont affect your studiès).
The semester fee doesn't cover any ticket so you would have to become a guest student at chemnitz so you get their semester ticket that takes you around saxony.

Chai. How have you been surviving in Mittweida? No Nigerians there?

oluwafemi88:
Good day chairman, pls do u school presently in Chemnitz .if yes, I will like to know if u can help me with accommodation and payment of semester fees.
Thanks

You can pay for your accommodation online. Just follow the direction on your admission letter. Do that as fast as possible. Go to the studentwerk site and book a room immediately.

OliviaPretty9:
Thanks dear...

Nice breakdown.

I have a personal request if you don't mind.

Thanks again

Was ist das?

OliviaPretty9:
Thanks for responding.

How's student life generally?
Thanks

Well Chemnitz is just a calm and cheap city. Gets hot when the citizens feel uncomfortable.
For student life based on job;
You have high chances of getting a 450€ job easily if you don't have German knowledge. If you are well skilled in IT and based on your course you can get a werkstudent position in some companies around. Sometimes people get lucky with their lecturers and get a student assistant position. Other jobs are in close by cities like the state capital(dresden) and leipzig.

For student life based on activities;
You will meet nice and friendly people but also you'll meet few hostile ones. Based on your personality you can never be bored because the Nigerian guys here organise activities occasionally. Most times(when not exam period) they gather in school field to play ball and laugh away boredom.

For student life based on school work;
The same as other cities.

For student life based on expenses;
It depends on your spending habit but apart from monthly dorm fee which is within 170 - 260€, health insurance 92€(TK) and radio fee 17€, a 70€ visit to penny or edeka for food stuff should take you a through the month. Addition expenses come ones in a while.

OliviaPretty9:
Please anybody studying at Chemnitz University of Technology?

Thanks

Yup. Any issue?

decide:
2nd admission landed.
TU Chemnitz
Automotive Software Engineering
Anybody in the house going my way let's hook up
Please to gurus over there, what is the job prospect between Paderborn and Chemnitz?

Your response will be appreciated

Congrats man. If you decide on chemnitz. Welcome to ASE.
For job prospects, it depends on your skills and language level. Normally there is a student job here for none German speakers but max you can get in a month is €450 working for 20hrs. Some others come by luck. You also have the opportunity to earn a student assistant position if you are good. Other job options are in close by cities like Dresden and Leipzig which you can do on weekends or free time. The course is flexible so you can combine studies and hustle but if you want to gradg fast you face school.

Also in TU chemnitz you can go for web Engineering which will give you something computer related. Automotive Software Engineering is good but it won't be funny if you don't have a bit of embedded system experience and a little engineering.

Ayohbk:
Bielefeld university - data science, Tu Berlin- computer science, FAU erlangen- information and communication technology, bayreuth university- computer science, rhein waal kamp limptfort - information science, chemnitz university of technology- automotive.....

cliper230:
What course did you apply for. Did you summit the German language proficiency.i wanted to apply for advanced functional materials

German language cert not needed for AFM.

glopatra:
Who has apllied for Chemnitz here using uniassist, did you send the German A1 level certificate along. I am starting an online German course soon but right now can't even say come in gernan. Do they need it for the application let me not waste my money

Only Msc in Embedded system requires language cert A1. For others you don't need German language cert.

janettee:
You still need to pay your semester ticket. You still need money for security deposit. Whether big or small, the reality is that 400 isn't just enough.

For TU chemnitz. $400 can take you a whole month.
You pay semester ticket once every semester so it's not part of monthly expenses. Aside that, school accommodation ranges from €170 - €260 depending on your taste. Health insurance is €92 and for other expenses if you spend humbly €70 should be enough. I am there so I know how expenses are for me.

heybaby12:
Very close to chemnitz
15-19 mins away

ok

Dannyozs:
nice, have u been interviewed?

Yea. Gotten AM too

heybaby12:
Just buy me ogbono and I will be at Leipzig airport to pick you

Are you in Chemnitz too?

Dannyozs:
Msc advanced functional materials, u?

Automotive Software Engineering.

Dannyozs:
Morning guys, who's heading to Chemnitz this summer, how are u preparing?

I am. Which course?

waledora:
Have you heard from them?

Yes.

waledora:
Anyone heading to TU Chemnitz?

Yes. Summer Semester

Anyone going to TU chemnitz here?

Good day guys. Sometimes we should be considerate when some people ask questions here. To me no question is stupid. It just depends on the person answering it. That you've passed a stage doesn't mean that people should not reiterate questions about that particular thing again.

First, when someone asks questions here try to put yourself in the person's condition and try to imagine what will necessitate the question even after being answered. For instance, Imagine someone having an interview in a few days and he bumped into this thread today. You don't expect him to go through the Part 1 - 5 of this thread and read all messages to get a quick answer to continue his processes. Repeating answers at intervals would even help for quick solutions to the problem. If you don't want to help you keep your replies instead of making the person look stupid from the replies he gets. It scares some people away and further relevant questions wouldn't be asked.

Again, to those asking questions too, you can get a quick answer by typing keywords about your problem in google and including "nairaland". If you are just starting the processes then try to go through the thread because you'll avoid problems and mistakes of your predecessors.

Finally, I commend the lady that addressed the issue of booking for a visa without admission letter. It shows that not all Nigerians are about "Me first then other citizens sort yourself out" To those doing this, they even end up not canceling the visa appointment and makes that slot free for that day without anybody taking it.

waledora:
I haven't heard from them ooo

What program?

waledora:
I applied to the school, have they started giving admission?

Yes

Anyone here got admitted to TU - Chemnitz?

HI. Sorry I might be asking an already explained question. Can someone point me to a link that explained the formal procedure for applying for a student visa? Thank you