Project Course in Signal Processing, Communications and Networking, CDIO

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, networking, computer programming, etc. and apply this knowledge in new contexts.
• Implement algorithms in software.
• 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 signal processing, communications, networking and/or data science.
• 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.
• 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.

Content

The project will be closely related to the ongoing research in signal processing and communications within the Division of Communication Systems or to companies working in these areas. The contents of the projects will change from year to year.

The project members will use and apply knowledge and methods from related courses in signal processing, communication, networking, and data science. The project members will take on different roles, partially based on their interest and previous courses.

More details about this year's project can be found on the course web page.