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Mahir Zuki

DAAD Study Scholarship Proposal

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I am applying for a DAAD Study Scholarship to pursue a masters degree in

Software Engineering and Management at the Hochschule-Heilbronn in Heilbronn. This degree is

designed to embrace theoretical concepts along with the practical aspects of

foundations of the software engineering coupled with business management. With the assistance of

DAAD and scientific resources available in Heilbronn, I will be able to strengthen my competence in the

general field prior to commencing my professional career in this field of business.

In studying computer science I have gained insight in various programming languages, paradigms, data

structures as well as methodologies for creating software solutions, including having done research on

artificial intelligence as my graduation project, which required processing huge amounts of data and

analyzing it, searching for patterns and correlations.

By pursuing the masters degree in Software Engineering and Management, I intend to expand my

understanding of software engineering and conduct projects in software engineering field. I am

especially interested in the software life cycle as a whole, starting from the software requirements

through software design, software construction and testing (unit testing, integration testing, system

testing, verification and validation testing), finishing with software maintenance. Having been

extensively engaged in breadth research as an undergraduate, I seek to complement my graduate

studies with the depth component. Software engineering component will improve my team working

skills, as there will be lots of social interaction, especially between members of the same teams,

sometimes even between members of different teams, as there will be a lot of feedback going on

between not only individuals within a group, but also groups themselves.

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Having done many freelance projects during my undergraduate education (be it for the academic

purposes or the commercial purposes), I have had the opportunity to work on projects utilizing the

methods in the previously mentioned phases of software engineering. In that regard my experience is

pretty humble, and there is a lot more for me to learn as far as any of the phases is concerned.

The other specialty that I am looking to acquire through masters degree in Software Engineering and

Management is the management of the whole software life cycle, especially from the perspective of

software requirements, which include the analysis of business requests made by the clients, constant

communication with the client, in a trial and error fashion. It will also expand my knowledge of making

the business requirements, functional requirements, user requirements and non-functional

requirements.

The program is designed to create engineers equipped with leadership, applied software engineering

practices, as well as interpersonal and intercultural competences. As the requirements of the program

state, the masters thesis is mandatory if a degree is to be gotten. In order to achieve that goal, I wish to

part take a project in a software company in or near Heilbronn, under the supervision of my mentor,

which would combine the knowledge acquired throughout the studies, both from the software

engineering as well as business management areas to make a software worthy of a student holding a

Masters degree.