Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

All students must be introduced to proper use of scientific methods. This project module therefore separate learning objectives for scientific methods.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Must have knowledge about the analysis of complex problems and the design of secure distributed solutions for such problems.
• Must have knowledge about the analysis implementation, with a focus on the security aspects.
• Must have knowledge about IoT and mobile devices, and how to securely integrate them in distributed solutions.
• Must have knowledge about open source and commercial tools and frameworks and how to select between them, considering the security aspects.
• Must have knowledge about privacy and security by design principles.

Scientific Methods:

• Must have knowledge about scientific methods and their applicability in ICT engineering.
• Must have knowledge about main scientific paradigms and their applicability for different problems.
• Must know methods for the iterative development and refining of project ideas and problem formulations .
• Must know methods for quantitative data gathering, data analysis and data presentation, e.g.interview techniques for expert interviews.
• Must know the consequences of plagiarism.

Skills

• Must be able to understand when to apply a distributed system solution to a problem.
• Must be able to develop such solution in a secure way.
• Must be able to understand the different problems and advantages related to distributed computing, such as synchonization, scalability, etc.
• Must be able to select the appropriate communication channels, considering security as one of the important deciding factors.

Scientific Methods:

• Must be able to extract scientific knowledge from academic publications, e.g. journal papers, conference procesdings and anthologies.
• Must be able to master good academic praxis for the use and presentation of sources.
• Must be able to discern between inductivism, models vs. reality, hypothesis, empirical data, assumptions and proofs for a given research problem within the scope of the study programme.
• Must be able to explain the applicability for qualitative methods for a given ICT engineering problem.
• Must be able to conduct a structured search for sources, e.g. peer-reviewed literature.
• Must be able to assess the quality and applicability of a given source (e.g. peer-reviewed / non peer-reviewed sources, industry whitepapers, interviews, marketing texts)

Competences

• Must have the competencies in identifying the privacy and security concerns in a distributed system
• Must have the competencies in identifying and combining a wide range of IoT, mobile devices, and technologies in order to analyse and implement advanced distributed solutions for complex problems.

Scientific Methods

• Must have the competency to identify and apply relevant scientific methods in relation to ICT engineering problems and projects
• Must have the competency to structure an academic presentation of project (e.g. semester project) in a report 
• Must master the principles for correct academic citing.

Type of instruction

Project work

Exam

Exams