Build innovative products of your ideas in 10 days!
What's your passion?
Choose your role to contribute to a successful team
ProblemExpert
“You got 99 problems …”
The role of the problem expert in your future team is dedicated to the following interests of user testing, requirements engineering, interviews for deep-user-insight, human-centered design, use case definition, benchmarking and design thinking.
Give us problems, not solutions.
You’re a T.E.K.K.I. !?
Your main interest is in mechanical and electronic hardware, manufacturing, prototyping, CAD/CAM, embedded systems engineering, microcontrollers, sensors/actuators, Arduino, you name it!
Your team needs you. Now.
TechDeveloper
TechDeveloper
You’re a T.E.K.K.I. !?
Your main interest is in mechanical and electronic hardware, manufacturing, prototyping, CAD/CAM, embedded systems engineering, microcontrollers, sensors/actuators, Arduino, you name it!
Your team needs you! Now!
BusinessDeveloper
Numbers, growth and competition are your favorite words!?
Then you can probably contribute exactly what many startups often lack. The vision for a sustainable business model. When you are also interested in business plan strategies, marketing & sales, finance & accounting click on the red button.
A unique combination of top academic learning and real-life experience, THINK. MAKE. START., is a 2-week lab course running at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) twice a year in both spring and fall semesters. It is a project-based course, which translates to an academic load of 180 hours.
For each project, a team consists of 4-5 master students with optimal skill. Teams are formed within the first days of the course. Teams typically contain Business Design & Marketing, Software and Hardware Developer and a Problem Expert. Each team gets a mentor which guides them and helps during the journey.
With the support of specialists, experienced entrepreneurs, lectures on the best methodologies to assess technologies, validate markets, prototype… the teams create a minimum viable product (MVP) and lay the foundation to start a business. Teams who want to continue their projects can do so in the Startup Ecosystem of Munich. These projects are integrated into the research of partner institutes and departements to provide scientific insights on innovation, teamwork and prototyping.
A unique combination of top academic learning and real-life experience, THINK. MAKE. START., is a 2-week lab course running at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) twice a year in both Spring and Fall semesters. It is a project-based course, which translates to an academic load of 180 hours.
For each project, a team consists of 4-5 master students with optimal skill. Teams are formed within the first days of the course. Teams typically contain Business Design & Marketing, Software-, and Hardware Developer and a Problem Expert. Each Team gets a Mentor which guides them and helps during the journey.
With the support of specialists, experienced entrepreneurs, lectures on the best methodologies to assess technologies, validate markets, prototype… the teams create a minimum viable product (MVP) and lay the foundation to start a business. Teams who want to continue their projects can do so in the Startup Ecosystem of Munich. These projects are integrated into the research of partner institutes and departements to provide scientific insights on innovation, teamwork and prototyping.
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A two week course hosted by TUM Lab for Product Development and Lightweight Design, designed to foster innovation.
Giving students the chance to work on real world problems, exploring the potential of new technologies or challenges by developing new solutions.
Our goal is to promote innovation and facilitate the creation of new spin-outs at TUM.
