NDAK13003U Project with Companies - Solving Challenges in a Real Company

Volume 2013/2014
Education
MSc Programme in Computer Science
Content
The Companies will present various cases, which the students will base their projects on. The students will then employ their academic skills to present solutions within the framework of the cases. The students will have great latitude in the construction of the specific questions/challenge to be studied within the cases. The methods and theories used will reflect the specific questions/challenge selected. The students should end up with a solution useful for the company, and the solution be presented as a product in the form of text, prototype, or powerpoint. During the course the students will also write a report. The report should among other things includes a description of the problem selected, literature used to understand the problem and create the solution, tools and information given by the company and used for the solution, evaluation of the solution using relevant parameters, which could be reliability, stability, manageability, usefulness, etc.
Learning Outcome
Knowledge: The students will achieve domain knowledge about the specific problem studied, both from an academic perspective and industrial perspective.

Competence: The students will to a certain extend have built competences inherent the skills described below, but also to a certain extend and more general, be more efficiently productive in a real working environment outside the academic world.

Skills: The students will be more able to apply their achieved academic skills at a ”real” problems, including scoping extent of a solution to a rather open problem to be finish in time, balancing ambition versus time available, more focus on producing something for being used, than something for just learning etc.
Literature
The reading will consist of data from the company and materials handed out by the teachers relevant to the selected cases.
Bachelor degree in Computer Science or similar.
The students will be introduced to the companies as well as information and tools to the cases. The students will hereafter formulate a problem and for the rest of the course work with this problem. There will be continuous dialog with the companies and teachers.
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Guidance
  • 18
  • Project work
  • 394
  • Total
  • 412
Credit
15 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment
Oral examination, 30 min
The oral exam is without preparation. The grade willl be given based on an overall evaluation.
Aid
All aids allowed
Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Several internal examiner
Re-exam
As the ordinary exam. If the written assignment is not passed then the student can choose to turn in a new assignment or rewrite the original one.
Criteria for exam assesment
To get top grade the student must:
1. Formulate an operational project plan.
2. Search the relevant literature and write a literature review setting own work in perspective.
3. Be able to formulate the challenge/problem selected as hypothesis, and demonstrate proper citation and reference style.
4. Solve the selected problem using skills obtain from described recommended qualifications
5. Produce a thorough experiment plan that clearly demonstrates the quality of and highlights boundaries for the solution.
6. Produce a scientific text of fair quality both textually and scientifically.
7. The student must be able to make an oral presentation of own work.