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    <h1 class="post-title">Chair of Software Engineering</h1>
    <p class="post-description">Software Engineering at RWTH Aachen, Bernhard Rumpe</p>
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<h2 id="our-mission">Our Mission</h2>

<p>Improving software and systems development by identifying:</p>
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<strong>methods, concepts, tools</strong> 
and <strong>infrastructures</strong> for</li>
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<strong>efficient</strong> 
<strong>incremental</strong> development</li>
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<strong>high quality systems</strong>
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requirements</strong>.</li>
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<p><em>Bernhard Rumpe, Chair of Software Engineering, RWTH Aachen</em></p>

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    <span>Interesse an einer Promotion?</span>
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        Wir suchen engagierte wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterinnen und
        Mitarbeiter mit Interesse an einer Promotion im Software Engineering.
        <br>
        Sie können bei uns an einer der renommiertesten deutschen Universitäten im
        Bereich Informatik forschen und damit Ihre akademische oder 
        wirtschaftliche Karriere befeuern!
        <br>
        <a href="https://www.se-rwth.de/jobs/">Hier gibt es Details</a>.
        Oder melden Sie sich bei Bernhard Rumpe, rumpe@se-rwth.de. Eine
        aussagekräftige Bewerbungsunterlage ist dabei hilfreich.
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        Wir suchen eine(n) engagierte(n) wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin oder
        Mitarbeiter mit Interesse an einer Habilitation im Software Engineering.
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        Es besteht Gelegenheit zur Habilitation und zum Übernahme und Ausbau einer 
        eigenen thematisch fokussierten Arbeitsgruppe.
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        Dann melden Sie sich einfach bei Bernhard Rumpe, rumpe@se-rwth.de. 
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<p>Der Lehrstuhl für Software Engineering feiert die erfolgreiche Einwerbung 
des 100ten Forschungsprojekts.</p>

<p>Danke an alle Studierenden, wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterinnen und 
Mitarbeiter und Industriepartner für den spannenden Austausch in den 
letzten Jahren.
Wir haben dies adqäuat gefeiert und freuen uns nun 
auf die nächsten Forschungsideen und Kooperationen!</p>

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<h4 id="research-links">Research links:</h4>

<p>We are interested in quite a number of foundational 
and applied topics. Below we have collected especially interesting 
publications around our main research topics, application domains, and 
tools. Further links to research are:</p>

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  <li><a href="/essays">Research essays and definitions</a></li>
  <li><a href="/research">Research topics</a></li>
  <li><a href="/research">Topic sorted list of most interesting publications</a></li>
  <li><a href="/books">Books</a></li>
  <li><a href="/phdtheses">Aachener Informatik-Berichte, Software Engineering / Ph.D. Theses</a></li>
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