TY - GEN A1 - Renz, Jan A1 - Meinel, Christoph T1 - The "Bachelor Project" T2 - 2019 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) N2 - One of the challenges of educating the next generation of computer scientists is to teach them to become team players, that are able to communicate and interact not only with different IT systems, but also with coworkers and customers with a non-it background. The “bachelor project” is a project based on team work and a close collaboration with selected industry partners. The authors hosted some of the teams since spring term 2014/15. In the paper at hand we explain and discuss this concept and evaluate its success based on students' evaluation and reports. Furthermore, the technology-stack that has been used by the teams is evaluated to understand how self-organized students in IT-related projects work. We will show that and why the bachelor is the most successful educational format in the perception of the students and how this positive results can be improved by the mentors. KW - computer science education KW - project based learning KW - bachelor project Y1 - 2019 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50657 SN - 978-1-5386-9506-7 SN - 2165-9567 SP - 580 EP - 587 PB - IEEE CY - New York ER -