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Each week of the 13-week semester period contains a Long Day with a 2-hour lecture and an 5-hour exercise session with your teachers present during three of the hours, and a Short Day with a 1-hour lecture and a self-study exercise session ending with a Weekly Test, lasting one hour. It is important that you participate in all of these activities; what you learn here will be tested in the exams. You should expect a significant amount of homework and preparation.

Course structure for the General Engineering study line

Long Days (Mondays or Tuesdays) 12:00-17:00 consist of:

  • Self-study 12:00-13:00 (lunch at your own discretion).
  • Exercise session with teachers present 13:00-16:00.
  • Self-study 16:00-17:00.

Short Days (Thursdays or Fridays) 8:00-12.00 consist of:

  • Self-study 8:00-9:30.
  • Exercise session with teachers present 9:30-11:00.
  • Weekly test 11:00-12:00.

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Teaching

The Lectures
In this academic year, the lectures from last year are watched in advance from home. Wednesdays start with a survey lecture where important and central topics are outlined and put into perspective. At the lecture on Fridays, time permits a deepening in more examples, particular cases, alternative methods, etc., and important input to the subsequent group exercises ending in the Weekly Test is provided. Please be aware that the content of the lectures does not fully define the curriculum of the course. Tests and homework may include content that has not directly been covered in the lectures but which is provided in eNotes and other material. You ought to ensure that you know all important parts of the curriculum by studying these further resources.

Long Days
Long Days start with a 2-hour lecture, after which you have a exercise session which we recommend that you parttake in with a study group. Note that your study area is already available from 12 o’clock. On the agenda on the homepage, information and activities for the day are described, including problems that must be solved partly with only pen and paper and partly using the mathematical software Maple. Use the self-study timeslot 12:00-13:00 to acquaint yourself with the challenges of the agenda such that you are ready to dive into the exercises with your teachers present from 13:00. Here you and your group will continue to work with subjects from the day’s lecture and the exercises on the agenda. When the teachers leave at 16:00, you and your group are expected to continue self-studying from 16:00-17:00 in order to finish the work of the day, e.g. to solve the problems from the agenda that you have not yet solved or start on the homework problems.

Short Days
Short Day start with a 1-hour lecture, after which you have an exercise session for self-study and group work before the Weekly Test becomes available 16:00-17:00, where you are tested in basic skills from the subjects of the week. There will be a few teaching assistants/student supporters present that both offer technical support and to some degree help if you are stuck with a mathematical problem.

Agendas
The agendas are the backbone of the course and our found on the homepage. They constitute an important channal of communication between the course coordinators and you. The agendas will describe and present the curriculum of the week, introductions to the topics, recommended preparation and eNotes, the activity program of the day, the exercises for the exercise sessions, and suggestions for discussions for self-study and exercises. Furthermore the agendas contain information about homework problems as well as exam info and more.

The course will grant you 20 ECTS credits and you are expected an effort of 16 hours weekly in order to obtain this. Therefore it is necessary for you to use time every week on preparation and follow-ups at home.

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Homework problems

Seven sets of homework problems will be given: four in the Autumn semester and three in the Spring semester. Here you will get the opportunity to delve deeply into the subject matter. Homework will require of you mathematical skills, understanding of concepts, good use of methods and occasionally the ability to conduct advanced studies, e.g. of experimental nature. The abilities to reason, explain, visualize and communicate are in focus.

At the last Long Day before a homework hand-in deadline from 15:30-16:00 (so, the last half hour of your time with your teacher before the deadline), you can ask your teacher conceptual questions about the homework. Your teacher will give you hints and guidance without offering solutions. The teachers will not answer homework-related questions outside of this timeslot but will then rather refer you to exercises of the exercise sessions.

In connection with each homework set, a theme exercise will also be given to be worked on on Fridays. Here you (and your group) have the opportunity to work with an application-oriented task unfolding a mathematical subject.

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Project period

By the end of the Spring semester during the calendar weeks 15, 16, 17 and 18 of 2022 (the four weeks after Easter of 2022), a large project assignment will be carried out. It will be project-based group work finalising with a report hand-in after about three semester weeks, after which (during the Long Day of the following week) an oral examination will be conducted, which expectedly will include a project presentation and report defence. You will in groups of six students work on a project originating from an engineering-related issue or real-life challenge by applying the mathematics you have learned in the course.

All information about the project period will be given early in the Spring semester.

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Materials

The teaching materials in the course consist of the agendas and other materials from the course homepage, including the eNotes, a broad spectrum of problems, MapleDemos etc.