International IT-Seminar (3 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Schedule

This course will be run for three hours a week in Period 4, then there is the Seminar in Spain May 4 - 8, then one more three hour session to wrap up the learning.

Materials

Handed out during the course in Moodle.

Teaching methods and instruction

This Seminar is intended to bring students into interaction with students fro Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, and Finland, and to have them work in cross-cultural teams during the Seminar week.

The Seminar will take place at the Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain, during the week of May 4 - May 8, 2020.

Every day of the week is dedicated to one country’s students presenting the work they have done at their home institution, and then teaching some of that work to the other students.

It is intended that this year, the Finnish team will first learn how to use the Pozyx Indoor GPS system based on Ultra Wide Band technology, and then the ESP32 based camera chip, thus allowing for a system that can send a live image stream while having its location tracked with precision.

After that has been discussed, much of the actual material consists of issue-based research into material available on the Internet regarding Arduinos, ESP32s, LORA devices, Raspberry Pis and other devices.

Working life connections

This Seminar does not have direct connection with business, but it will be good for the professional development of the students, especially regarding teamwork in multi-national teams.

Exam dates and re-exam possibilities

No exam.

Internationality

This course and seminar are fully designed to give a great international experience

Completion alternatives

This course cannot be completed in alternative ways.

Learning assignments

There are two assignments:

1) deployment of the Pozyx Indoor GPS
2) learning to use the ESP32 Camera SoC (system on a chip)

The Pozyx assignment will be done as a group. The ESP32 installations are done either in pairs or singly.

Assessment methods

This course is graded 20% on the first five weeks, 20% on the learning diary, and 60% on the performance of each student in the Seminar. There it will be examined how
• active the students are
• how well they mix with the other students from the other institutions
• how well the students manage to teach the systems to the other students
• what is the outcome of the students’ teaching sessions

Of the diary, the student's progress, handling of issues during the project, learning points, discussion of personal learning, and attitude towards the course are assessed.