Master Thesis, Bachelor Thesis, Project Stury
📌 Key facts
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💡 Background
This Thesis is in cooperation with iwis
- iwis (www.iwis.com) is a family-owned company in Munich.
- More than 3.200 employees generate approx.. 720 Mio. € turnover.
- iwis is successfully active as global automotive supplier with more than 20 locations around the world.
- Each iwis division is market leader in its business.
The success of the three divisions is based on innovative strength and a strong focus on customer orientation:
- iwis mobility systems makes chains and timing drives for the automotive industry. Furthermore, complex mobility systems with integrated electronics, gears and e-motors will be produced in the future.
- iwis antriebssysteme manufactures precision roller chains and conveyor chains for industrial applications, including machine and plant engineering, packaging and printing, the food industry and conveyor technology. iwis antriebssysteme also supplies roller chains, chains for agricultural machinery, special chains, leaf chains, flat top chains and modular chains, sprockets and accessories.
- iwis mechatronics is specialized in manufacturing high-quality, high-precision plastic/metal compounds using single-component and multi-component technology and complex hybrid parts and assemblies in highly-automated production facilities. Components and complete solutions are manufactured for the automotive industry and the renewable energy sector as well as for fields as diverse as sanitaryware, electronic engineering, electrical engineering, white goods and medical engineering. Moreover, iwis mechatronics is active in the fields of high-precision stamping and bending technology, in particular in the area of electrical connection technology, press-fit technology, IDC insulation displacement connectors and PCA contact technology. High-precision stamped and bended parts as well as shielded housings for various industries are also produced.
🦾Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership, and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies, and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎯 Goals
- identify the chances and risks of Cryptos at iwis.
- What is the best way to work with Cryptos in an industrial environment?
- How to establish Cryptos, NFTs, … at iwis?
🧠 Topics of Interest
- Bitcoin, Ethereum
- Solana, Optimism, Arbitrum, Polkadot, ChainLink, ….
- Science in all-new areas
- Blockchain technology
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for Cryptocurrencies and emerging technologies
- Ability to do sophisticated internet, desk research, and connect with practitioners
- Passionate to learn more about the future and do research with impact
📄 Requirements to any Work
We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:
- Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
- Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
- Extract most important sequences from podcasts, videos, and other media
- 3-4 Tweets about the most important findings and summarizing the topic
- optional: Medium Article - let people outside the university know about your research and start your personal brand
📬 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe and Johannes Winklhofer (e-mail below) by submitting your CV and grade report. Please also briefly outline your tentative research idea (research question, data and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!
👉 welpe@tum.de