What to expect
The purpose of the Project is to evolve the student’s ability to solve a relevant Software Engineering problem and document the solution. The more specific problems chosen to be dealt with shall be connected to the student’s background from her/his home university.
In a group, students must be able to analyse, design, implement and test complex problems and be able to carry out well-documented and tested solutions.
Each project group must consist of at least 3 students.
After having completed this course, the students must master the knowledge about:
- Searching and scoping relevant project information
- Project and team work planning
- Communication and documentation skills
- Testing
After having completed this course, the student must be able to:
- Identify and justify problems and their context
- Select and argue for choice of method and reflect critical on methods
- Find and assess relevant literature within the problem domain
- Present the result for an audience of engineers
After having completed this course, the students must be able to:
- Describe and delimit a large Software Engineering Project
- Select and use relevant theories and methods to solve the problem
- Plan and structure the project within the project time frame
- Initiate the preliminary steps in a system development process, leading to a clearly defined requirements capture, use cases as well as object and behaviour analysis.
- Work successfully in a project group with the objective of solving a well-defined engineering problem.
Teaching methods and study activities
Supervision, theory and independent work, project documentation and presentation. The projects should be made in groups of minimum 3 students. Primarily, the study projects should be based on a problem-oriented project model within a certain theme.
Prerequisites
The short term exchange programme is founded in VIA's Software Technology Engineering programmes, but is aimed at all students in the engineering field. Applicants must have completed 3. semester at a European engineering programme.