Internship and Thesis

Where to work, in a company or on campus?
Usually if you find an internship or a thesis topic in school, you don't get paid, and if you do get paid, it is not a lot (around €400 a month). If you find an internship or a thesis topic in a small scale company, they might pay you a small amount of money, but they might not pay. THEN (drum roll...) if you get accepted by a large company to do an internship or write a thesis, they usually pay you. And what I heard is that they amount varies from €500 to €1000 monthly, and I heard the average is about €700 a month.

How long does it take for an internship or a thesis from start to finish usually?

Fundamentals of Optimization (Prozessoptimierung)

The English Lecture (isn't necessarily valid for the German lecture)

English Lecture conductor:  Dr. Harvey Arellano-Garcia  (updated March 7, 2011)

This lecture is typically taught by Dr. Harvey Arellano-Garcia.  The Übung of the course is optimizing using a MatLab toolbox called TOMLAB.  The problem of the Übung is that the computer lab in KWT (the 3rd floor) is way too small and probably lack of funding to have more computers.  So a lot of times, the Übung would be too crowded and you can't do much.  I recommend you to get the gist of the idea and understand the idea behind the problems, then do the optimization on your own.