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This page contains the program of the course. Other information, such as learning outcomes, teachers, literature and examination, are in a separate course PM.

Course examiner: Alexei Heintz, heintz{at}chalmers.se

Teaching in statistics: Serik Sagitov serik{at}chalmers.se

 

Program

The main idea of this course is that last year master students should practice the role as mathematics/statistics consultants for industrial and research-related projects. The main part therefore consists of working on your projects within small groups of  2- 3 people, meeting with your external partners and with the course coordinator and the teacher in statistics as necessary.

Working groups will be build and assigned to particular projects from the available list by the course coordinator. It will be done according to preferences and experiences of particular groups and individual students.

Chalmers introduced learning of ethical problems in engineering within this course. It will include 3-4 hours lectures on the topic and a workshop on this topic in December or beginning of  January  (alternatively an individual essay on the topic can be supplied) . Working groups will make short presentations about ethical questions in the relation with their work on their project and will take part in the follow up discussion with  other groups. A book on the topic is available online from Chalmers' library.

Main areas of applications and methods for the projects are:

  • Simulation and control of technological processes using ODEs and PDEs.
  • Simulation of mass flow processes in industry using PDE modeling with available software.

  • Microfluidics for biophysics and material science applications with PDE modelling by Comsol or Open Foam

  • Stochastic simulation of heterogeneous materials.

  • Image, video and and signal processing for various applications.

  • Stochastic data analysis and machine learning for various applications.

  • Discrete and continuous optimization, stochastic and classical.

Master projects are possible as the extension of  some of the topics.

The tentative schedule of the course is given in the weekly program below.  Exact times for workshops on ethics and for presentations of reports will be specified later depending on particular situations for different working groups.

We will use larger Vasa A or Pascal for the first three occasions of the course scheduled in TimeEdit. We will use MVF31 later for consultations and for workshops.

Otherwise the schedule given in TimeEdit does not represent the real way of work at this course.

 

Weekly program (Check Assignments for exact deadlines of the key steps in the course)

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Week Day Time Content
1(45)

5th of November

 10-12, Vasa A

Introduction to the course. Aim and purpose. Presentation of the projects.

 
1(45)

 

Ranking projects and building  working groups.
1(45) 7-th of November  9 - 12, Pascal

Lecture on ethics in engineering.
1(45)

Building working groups. Ranking projects.

Distribution of the projects
2(46)

Meetings with partners. Start the project work. Discuss working plan with course examiner.       Write project plan according to  instructions.
3(47) Project work
Hand in project plan (preferably earlier)
4(48) Project work
5(49) Project work
6(50) 2-d of December 

10-12, MVF 31

20 minutes presentation and 5- minutes discussion per group.

Workshop on ethics for groups:

Saab 1B Multi dim. search and Jeppesen

(to be finally confirmed)
5th of  December 

9-12, MVF 31,

20 minutes presentation and 5- minutes discussion per group.

Workshop on ethics for 4 groups:

Viscando_2. B - Stone quarry (1-st in Yuri's termer ) ; Mölnlycke Health Care 1 Normality and skewness; Astra 4 modeling molecular fragments;                        Albany 2 Paper surface roughness
 

 

 
7(51) 10th of December

9-12, MVF 31,

20 minutes presentation and 5- minutes discussion per group.

Workshops on ethics for groups:

Saab 1 A  Multi dim. search;          

Tetra Pack 2 Image Analysis for SAXS_WAXS;

IRLAB 2 Statistics of medical scales; Viscando_2. A. Stone quarry (2-d in Yuri's termer);

IRLAB 1 Detection of rearing rats

 
8(1)

Deadline for preliminary report: 17th of December
9(2)

6 - 10 January

Workshops on ethics for groups:

(to be specified)

Projects presentations for groups: to be specified

Workshops on ethics for groups:

(to be specified)

possible projects presentations in Zoom or Teams
10(3)  13-17 January

Projects presentations for groups: to be specified

possible projects presentations in Zoom or Teams

 
1(4) 20-24 January

Projects presentations for groups: to be specified

 

possible projects presentations in Zoom or Teams

 

 

Course requirements

To pass the course you must fulfill the following tasks formulated as Assignments in Canvas:

  • Hand in rankings of the projects and descriptions of your mathematical qualifications and programming experience
  • Hand in a working plan according to instructions.
  • Hand in a preliminary report according to instructions.
  • Present your project results in an oral presentation (about 20-30 min)
  • Report your project in a scientific report according to instructions.
  • Take part in the presentation and discussion at a workshop on ethical problems in engineering. Alternatively students absent in the city at the time of the workshop can write an individual essay on the topic.

Examination

The course is passed when all course requirements formulated above are met.
Grades will be given based mainly on the final project report and on the feedback from the industrial partners,
but oral presentations, participation in the workshop on ethics in engineering and work during the project will also be weighed in.
The report should be a full high-quality report written in English according to instructions with input from each participant in the group clearly specified.

 

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