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Valid for year : 2010
 
TSKS05 Communication Systems project course, 12 ECTS credits.
/Kommunikationssystem CDIO/

For:   D   SY   Y  


OBS!
The Entrepreneurship part overlap with other CDIO courses and cannot be included more than once in a degree.

 

Prel. scheduled hours:
Rec. self-study hours: 320

  Area of Education: Technology

Main field of studies: Electrical Engineering

  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
The project shall be carried out using industrial practice, and it shall develop and consolidate competence in the following areas:
  • Apply knowledge and methods from previous courses and when necessary new knowledge shall be developed.
  • Integrate knowledge from different disciplines, such as communication systems, signal processing, computer programming, etc. and apply this knowledge in new contexts.
  • Define requirements for the project based on preliminary specifications, and investigate the conditions under which the project work can be carried out.
  • Present the project outcome for the customer and other students, whom are not expected to be experts within the fields of expertise of the students who carried out the work.
  • Show the ability to, and in an independent way, manage the project work using a project model and with limited support in terms of supervision.
  • Plan, implement and evaluate a project.
  • Analyze and break down problems.
  • Take initiative and find creative solutions.
  • Actively contribute to the forming of a well functioning project group. The result of the project work shall be:
  • Of high technical quality and be based on state-of-the-art knowledge and methods in communication systems.
  • Documented in terms of a project plan, a project schedule, and a technical report.
  • Presented orally as well as with a poster.
  • Evaluated in a review report.

A purpose for the course is also for the students to acquire knowledge and abilities within the general area of entrepreneurship, with particular focus on business planning for new ventures. After the course, students should be able to:

  • account for models that describe what it takes for a new venture to have a stable basis for further development and to assess the level of development of ventures using such models; and
  • account for the information and analyses needed to evaluate a development project from a business point of view and have the ability to collect and analyze relevant information for the purpose.



    • Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
    Signals and Systems, Signal theory, Telecommunication, and preferably also some more advanced level communication related course, like for example Digital communication, continuation course. You are especially recommended to have taken at least one of the courses Radio communication or Wireless Systems. Basic computer programming skills.

    Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
    Organisation:
    Some initial lectures, followed by self studies and project work. Each project group, which is formed by 5â?"8 students, will be assigned a supervisor to support its work. The students also have limited help from technical experts.

    Before the project work is started, the project group shall negotiate a requirement specification with the customer, and write a project plan and a time plan for the project. The project shall be carried out according to the LIPS project model. The project documents shall adhere to the templates that are part of the LIPS model.
    The course runs over the entire autumn semester.
    Course contents:
    The project will be closely related to the ongoing research within the divisions of Communication Systems and Information Coding or to companies working in these areas. The contents of the projects will change from year to year. An example of a project which will be offered this year is a software-defined radio communication system, consisting of a number of programmable radio transmitters/receivers. One possible application can be to build an autonomous ad-hoc network for communication between mobile nodes and/or an exciting application related to WLAN, Bluetooth, DECT, or RFID. In such an application the project group may for example be challenged to build a communication system which has as high performance as possible. How high performance can you get by using techniques that are not yet used in the present commercial communication standard? This may be a competition challenge between project groups. The project members will use and apply knowledge and methods from other communication related courses. More details can be found on the course web page.

    Course literature:
    Books from previous studies and other project related literature, which is specified on the course web page. On the course web page, there may also be supplementary downloadable course material. A compendium about the LIPS project model, which can be bought at Bokakademin.
    Examination:
    Project work
    Entrepreneurship assignements
    		 9 ECTS
    3 ECTS
     
    Grades are given as â?TFailâ?T or â?TPassâ?T.


    Course language is Swedish/English.
    Department offering the course: ISY.
    Director of Studies: Lasse Alfredsson
    Examiner: Lasse Alfredsson
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    Course Syllabus in Swedish

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    Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se
    Last updated: 04/28/2010