Project Period

Project Period#

In semester week 10, the project period of Spring 2025 will begin, replacing the usual teaching with your own independent work in groups on a mathematically focused project.

Intro#

Groups of 6 students will be formed. To register, each group fills out one joint registration form. A link to the registration form, along with project topic appetizers will be released in semester week 7 on DTU Learn. Registration deadline is March 26 at 18:00. A reminder: Your work in the project period will account for 20% of your final course grade.

All project topics will include significant elements from the curriculum in the courses 01003 Mathematics 1a and/or 01004 Mathematics 1b, as well as the use of Python/SymPy. In some project topics, supplementary, project-specific methods will be introduced, building upon the curriculum.

The project period will finalize in a project report, where you document and present your work, results and conclusions, as well as a final project exam day.

Rules for Group Formation and Registration#

  • Students form their own project groups of 6 people.

  • Partial groups with fewer than 6 members can register with the group members they have.

  • If you have not found a group, you may fill out a registration form with only your name on it.

  • The course responsibles will combine partial groups to form 6-person groups. If you register with a partial group, you should expect to have more group members added - worst case, you risk being split up in order for the puzzle to fit.

  • On the registration form, the group must place all offered project topics in prioritized order.

Supervisors and Work Load#

During the project period, your group will be assigned one or more supervisors who will be available for supervision in the usual Long Day and Short Day timeslots. We expect you to put in the usual amount of work, i.e., at least 18 hours per week.

Requirements for the Report#

  • The report is the group’s collective work, and you shouldn’t specify who wrote what.

  • The first page of the report must contain the project title, the group name you are given (e.g., SolarPanel3), the names, student numbers and signatures of all group members, as well as the submission date. - When you sign the report, you are confirming that all signees, including yourself, have actively participated in the group’s work.

  • The report should be understandable by a fellow student who has worked on a different project. The target audience is “your peers” and not the supervisor/examinator.

  • The report may be delivered either as a Jupyter Notebook file or as a pdf file. The report should be readable and understandable for a person who has not read the script/roadmap. The report should follow a typical structure for technical reports. The report should be short, well-organized, consize and precise. Less important details, long in-between calculations, long derivations, and larger Python pieces can be placed as appendices.

  • The final report must be submitted online via Assignments on DTU Learn - you may only deliver one file, so any appendices or attachements must be merged into the file. The report submission deadline is Friday in semester week 12, May 2.

Project Exam Day#

The project exam day will take place on the last Long Day of the semester, in semester week 13. The day will consist of oral group presentations and a written individual test. More details will follow later.

Project Appetizers and Scripts#

This year, three project topics are offered:

  • Transport of Pollutants

  • Solar Panels

  • Self-Driving Cars

Find appetizers for these project topics on DTU Learn. When the project period begins, detailed project roadmaps/scripts will be shared with the groups to guide their project work.

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