Course content

The course consists of a project dealing with a specific theme within the area Services and Systems Engineering. The area encompasses system architectures and the development of distributed services, including the administration of applications, step-wise design, programming and installation of net-based services as well as multimedia systems and model-based engineering technologies.

Learning outcome

The student should learn to obtain in-depth knowledge of a specific theme within the technological area by applying a scientific approach. As a part of this, to acquire additional information and knowledge through literature studies and similar, and combine this with his/her current knowledge. Furthermore, the student shall learn to accomplish a independent project work of some size, including to prepare a plan with milestones, report progress, to give a brief oral report on the work and findings and to write up a final report according to (best) common practice. The course should also provide specialist knowledge within the theme and training in producing technical results.

Learning methods and activities

Individual (or group) project work with supervision.

Compulsory assignments

• Oral presentation

Recommended previous knowledge

The NTNU courses TTM4160 Software Design for Distributed Real-Time Systems, TTM4128 Networks and Service Management, TTM4142 Networked Multimedia Systems (see course description for 2009/10) as well as at least one of the courses TTM4120 Dependable Systems or TTM4155 Teletraffic Theory, or a similar basis.

Course materials

To be decided.

Credit reductions