Teaching programme
Our courses aim to teach students the concepts of sustainable digitalisation. The orientation of the courses is based on our research focus areas: digital resilience, information security and compliance as well as "Dark and Bright Sides of Information Systems". Accordingly, our teaching covers the interfaces between sustainability, IT security and strategic IT management.
Module overview
Module name | Semester | ECTS | Language | Person responsible |
| M.184.3344 - Student research project: Information security management | winter semester | 5 | DEU | Prof. Dr. Simon Trang |
| M.184.3345 - Fostering sustainability: a digitalisation perspective | winter semester | 5 | ENG | |
| M.184.3341 - Student research project: Sustainable Information Systems | summer semester | 5 | DEU | Prof. Dr. Simon Trang |
| M.184.3342 - Methods of information security management | summer semester | 5 | DEU | Prof. Dr Simon Trang |
| Module name | Semester | ECTS | Language | Person responsible |
| M.184.5343 - Strategic IT Management | winter semester | 5 | ENG | Prof. Dr. Simon Trang |
| M.184.5341 - Project seminar: Digitalisation of Critical Infrastructures | summer semester | 10 | DEU |
Final theses
| Start time | Any time |
| Language preference | English preferred |
| Duration | Bachelor thesis (12 weeks), Master thesis (24 weeks) |
| Application | Please send an application (short cover letter on your motivation and a current transcript of records) to the relevant supervisor. |
| Finding a topic | You can choose from advertised topics or make your own suggestion within the research areas of the staff or the chair. |
| Contact for questions | Gilbert Hövel (gilbert.georg.hoevel@upb.de) |
Note: We offer some topics in cooperation with the Information Security and Compliance research group at the University of Göttingen. If you are interested, please contact the relevant supervisor and put Gilbert Hövel in CC.
Topics advertised:
Bachelor thesis topics will be called for proposals here shortly (flexible start time). If you are interested, you can then contact the supervisor.
Topics for your own proposal:
| Subject area | Methods | Contact person |
| Technostress in the context of healthcare | Experiments, scenario-based surveys, interviews, literature review | Gilbert Hövel |
| Nudging and compliance | Experiments, scenario-based surveys, interviews, literature review | Gilbert Hövel |
| (ML-based) fraud detection | Design science, quantitative methods | Tizian Matschak |
| IT security measurements | Design Science, Quantitative Methods | Tizian Matschak |
Topics written out:
| "Do you ever come out of the basement?" Qualitative Analysis of the Role of User-Involvement in the Development of Health Information Systems |
| The diffusion of health information systems such as Electronic Health Records is rapidly increasing in both inpatient settings (hospitals) and outpatient settings (e.g., medical practices or pharmacies). However, users complain that these systems poorly integrate processes, are difficult to use, and do not align with the user's perspective. The cause of the lack of acceptance of health information systems is that the actual context of use receives insufficient consideration in the development process. Against this background, the goal of this thesis is to capture the status-quo of the development process in regard to user involvement. To achieve this, expert interviews will be conducted with different roles (developers, project managers, product owners) within the development process of health information systems. |
Topics for own proposal:
| Subject area | Methodologies | Contact person |
| Technostress in the context of healthcare | Experiments, scenario-based surveys, interviews, literature review | Gilbert Hövel |
| Nudging and compliance | Experiments, scenario-based surveys, interviews, literature review | Gilbert Hövel |
| (ML-based) fraud detection | Design science, quantitative methods | Tizian Matschak |
| IT security measurements | Design Science, Quantitative Methods | Tizian Matschak |
