The project work will be to construct a prototype fulfilling certain requirements. The work will be performed in groups and presented orally and written

Background

This course is offered at the end of the master programme in Medical Engineering

As an engineer you need to be able to integrate skills and knowledge from different courses within this programme. It is also expected from you to be able to construct a product or prototype from a given, not completely finished, specification of requirement, both as participant and as a project manager. To manage this you will also need to acquire new information and knowledge, which is a life-long process.

Main Objectives

The aim of this course is to give you skills to participate in and conduct a practical design project.

This means that you should be able to integrate and deepen your knowledge from earlier or parallel going courses in a complex problem.

Since the task will be chosen from the area of medical engineering you might need to apply your medical knowledge.

The result of this course will be a prototype which fulfils certain requirements and a correct report describing the product and the process of the project as well as an oral presentation.

Expected skills

After passing the course the student should be able to:

•Participate in and conduct project groups with similar problems

•Show an analytic ability by dividing a larger problem into smaller sub problems

•Show the ability to use relevant prerequisites to solve the task

•Show ability to independently search or ask for relevant information to solve the task

o Interpret data sheets and technical manuals

o Use resource persons to acquire searched

information

•Orally present a technical product and discuss the work

•Be able to produce a well disposed technical report with good linguistic and scientific quality

•Show the ability to review your own and others work

For higher grades it is also required that the student

•Can suggest several alternative solutions to a given problem and chose the best one from certain criteria

•Can make assumptions of performance or inaccuracy in the constructed prototype

•Can suggest  improvements of the presented construction that could be implemented in a later version

• Have shown a large degree of independence

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The student should have knowledge in project management and experience in project based work form previous courses and be able to write a technical report and have basic knowledge of electrical engineering, computing, microcomputer technology, communication and control technology.

There is no particular textbook for this course. You'll probably have use for literature from earlier studies. Further, you will need to use manuals, articles and other literature that can not be identified in advance. You will have to ask and seek what is required to solve the task.

However, for the project part, I would recommend "SCRUM and XP from the trenches" by Henrik Kniberg ISBN 978-1-320-22427-8 is available for free on https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches-2

Students at KTH with a permanent disability can get support during studies from Funka:

Funka - compensatory support for students with disabilities

Resources

You will have access to our Maker Space after an introduction (and some paper signing) with Linus Remahl remahl@kth.se. The MakerSpace currently consist of a crafting studio where you find traditional tools for crafting, an embedded studio for IoT and mechatronics, a software studio for software development and finally a 3D studio with 3D printers, lasercutter and PCB manufacturing. 

For PCB manufacturing, we use a cutter and not liquids. You provide a basis for the production by Linus. A certain lead time is therefore needed. See also below regarding the software. PCB designers are in great demand in the market!

To gain access to the MakerSpace the group needs to book an appointment with Linus. Do this on one of the tutors scheduled.

For lab purposes and early prototypes used breadboard and experimental cards in the first place, but you can also make temporary boards.

A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

• PRO1 - Project, 9.0 credits, Grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Project ( PRO1 )

Evaluation criteria

The course is rated individually, but is group work.

To pass there are 6 criteria in the course description. Additionally, there are three criteria for higher grades.

1. Participate in and lead project teams

Excellent

Move the project forward according to agile project methodology.

Keeping schedules, convene meetings that have prepared sprint demonstrations. Work is created independently and produced documents is of good quality.

Good

Work is applied independently and produced documents is of good quality.

Enough

Work and documents ready in time. The student are able to explain their work. 

Fail

Lack of respect for agreements, severe lack of independence, or disregard for supervision.

2. Handle technical problems which are incompletely stated

Excellent

Can move forward on a challenge based ”wicked”  technical problem. Are able to utilize tolls from among other design thinking to better understand the problem.  

Good

Some assistance to work,

Enough

Much supervision to work

Fail

Unable to handel the technical problem and severe lack of independence

3. Show analytical skills, divide into subproblems

Excellent

Show holistic skills and be able to synthesizing e.g. find appropriate portions and specify functional requirements and the dependencies between parts. Identify shortcomings in the existing solution.

Good

Understand the agreed division and understand the pros and cons, but unable to identify appropriate portions.

Enough

Agrees to work with a small sub-task, but do not understand the meaning of it.

Fail

Lack of respect of fixing divisions. Rather work independently with their own complete solution or larger partial solution.

The group may have agreed on a "sharing". Either you have been involved or at least discuss it, it's excellent. Then drops the understanding of the parts belonging and / or the willingness to share the problem.

4. Demonstrate the ability to use, search for alternative ask for relevant information

Excellent

Can assess the required skills and use them to solve subtask

Can see several alternative solutions as the knowledge utilizing

Good identification, rapid insight, efficient acquisition and effective utilization.

Good

Can see and understand the need for prior knowledge of more than one previous course, but can not clearly define. Realize after some time the necessary knowledge and acquire this satisfactory.

Enough

Can solve the problem by using knowledge for instructions on the relevant. Waiting long to ask for information or to become enlightened by the supervisor, but embrace what was then presented.

Fail

Can not understand that the "prior knowledge" is used in this case

Do not realize the need for new knowledge or information. Inability or unwillingness to acquire new skills.

5. Communicate engineering – orally, in writing and graphically

Excellent

Show a good ability to orally and in writing present with clear argumentation and analysis, and good ability to discuss work also from an holistic perspective.

Good

Show a good ability to orally and in writing present and discuss work.

Enough

Some good ability to orally and in writing present the report.

Fail

Substantial inability to orally in writing present or discuss the project.

6. Demonstrate the ability to assess their own and others' work

In order to meet the objective assessment of their own and others' work involves:

During the project, the student will continuously track their progress in chosen digital project platform eg. Version ONE. Send in biweekly reflection summary and peer-reviews of half time short paper.

Weighting of grades

All the areas of assessment should be balanced based on an overall assessment. To assist in this assessment are used matrix below. For sake (sake) it is a translation made

Excellent - 3 

Good -2

Enough - 1 

Unacceptable - 0

For the higher the Grades assessment areas, H1-H3, only 1 and 0th

Apparently there are not all the possible combinations in the matrix. It is only a guide. One conclusion that can be drawn is that the criterion G1 has a high weight factor.

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.