Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

All students must be introduced to proper use of scientific methods. This project module therefore includes 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 distributed systems 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 proceedings 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 competence in identifying the privacy and security concerns in a distributed system
• Must have the competence 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 competence to identify and apply relevant scientific methods in relation to ICT engineering problems and projects
• Must have the competence 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