This event is all about developing your own product as a team and perhaps even founding your own company. Many successful products are manageable in their complexity and can therefore also be developed by small start-ups without a large development department. What is more important is that they meet the current spirit and make customers' lives better. Examples of this are products such as the fascia roll (very expensive construction foam) or the stitch healer Heat-it (a clever heater). The latter was developed as part of this course.

The aim of the course is for you to come together as a team and jointly design a product that fits to this team. In the course of a semester, the first prototypes are then built and possible market opportunities evaluated. Starting a company is difficult to plan and it always helps to get external feedback, which is why many teams then take part in the VDE's Cosima student competition (cosima-mems.de), where they can measure their product against that of other teams.

You can come to the event as a team or find other team members here, but since teams (3-5 people) are always needed, it would be great if you could send me an e-mail (dario.mager@kit.edu) up to one week before the start of the lecture to let me know that you are interested in the event.

Die Veranstaltung beginnt erst in der 2ten Vorlesungswoche (30.4.) bitte schicken Sie mir aber bei Interesse davor eine unverbindliche E-Mail an dario.mager@kit.edu das erleichtert mir die Planung der Veranstaltung.