Course content

The course is part of the study program on digital building processes, and will give a specialization within building processes. The project work can have either investigation or research content. Relevant topics for the project can be picked from the whole life cycle of a building project. The project work can be carried out either individually or in groups. The final report can be individual or a combination of individual and group work. The project work can be designed as a startup project for the master thesis.

Learning outcome

After completing the course, participants shall independently have

Knowledge:

• how to specialize in a selected, specific topic using scientific methods

Skills:

• put together additional knowledge using registrations, literature studies and other kinds of sources, and combining this with theoretical knowledge.

General competence:

• carry out a major independent project work, including the a project plan, reporting partial results and writing a scientific project report

Learning methods and activities

Individual, supervised project work

or

The course will use lectures, exercises, team work and discussions. The student activities will be concentrated on team-based project work, where CDIO principles are important.

Specific conditions

Course materials

Relevant literature for the project work is selected by the student (supervised by the responsible teacher) For the common part on research methodology:

• Elizabeth Fisher & Daniel Holtom (2014). Enjoy writing your science thesis or dissertation. A step by step approach to planning and writing dissertations for undergraduate and graduate science students, (2Nd Edition), Imperial College Press, London, ISBN: 978-1783264216, sidene 1-145
• Engineering ethics in practice: a guide for engineers (2011),The Royal Academy of Engineering, ISBN 1-903496-74-8, Download from: http://www.raeng.org.uk/publications/other/engineering-ethics-in-practice-full, 80 sider