Welcome to the course!
The schedule for the course can be found via the link to
webTimeEdit at the top of the
page. There will not be lectures at all scheduled times - see
Programme below. Instead, students will meet with external
partners at convenient times, and meet regularly with Tobias for
supervision.
More course material will be available on
PingPong. To access it,
you must register for the course.
Course coordinator/examiner: Tobias Gebäck,
tobias.geback@chalmers.se
External lecturers: André Kelkkanen (Innovationskontor Väst)
Presentations at lectures and literature (mainly
research papers) for individual projects.
The main idea of this course is that you should
practice the role as mathematics/statistics consultants for
industry-related projects. The main part therefore consists of
working on your projects, meeting with your external partners as
necessary.
Weekly programme
| Week |
Time
|
Contents
|
1
|
Tuesday, 8-10
|
Introduction to the
course. Aim and purpose.
Presentation of and introduction to projects. |
Thursday, 13-15
|
Final assignment of projects.
Instructions on course elements.
|
2
|
|
Meetings with partners.
Start of project work.
|
3
|
|
Project work
|
Thursday, 13-17
|
Lecture on intellectual
properties, innovations and patents (A. Kelkkanen,
Innovationskontor Väst). Compulsory |
4
|
|
Project work
|
5
|
|
Project work
|
7
|
Thursday, approx 9-11.30
|
Visit to Volvo Cars.
|
| Thursday, 13-17 |
Oral presentations of projects. Compulsory |
8
|
Monday,
December 16
|
Deadline for handing in written report
and written "reflections". |
The list of projects is now available on
ping-pong.
The projects should be conducted in groups of 2-3 students in
contact with an external (industrial or academic) partner. The
groups will meet with their partners (at the partner location) to
get started with their projects, and will then be in contact with
the partners as necessary during the work with the projects.
Mathematical supervision will be provided by Tobias at weekly
meetings.
The students will form groups themselves, and each group will be
given the opportunity to rank the projects in order of their
preference. They will then be assigned one of the projects as
their project for the course.
The partners for this year's course are: SCA Hygiene Products,
Astra Zeneca, Swedish NMR Center, Volvo Car Corporation,
Fraunhofer Chalmers Center, Dept. of Applied Physics at Chalmers,
Dept. of Conservation at Göteborg University
To pass the course you must
- Attend compulsory lectures
- Present your project results in an oral presentation (about
15 min)
- Hand in a preliminary report outline for feedback
- Report your project in a scientific report
- Write a reflection on "communication across
interdisciplinary boundaries during the course" (more details
will be provided)
The course is passed when all course requirements
are met (see above).
Grades will be given based mainly on the final project report, but
oral presentations and work during the project will also be
weighed in.
The report should be a full high-quality report written in
English. Details on what the report should contain will be given
during the course.
You can see your results in Ladok by logging on
to the Student portal.
Check that you have the right grades.