Degree | Type | Year |
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4313797 Telecommunication Engineering | OB | 1 |
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It is required background on Digital Communications and Communication Systems.
System design requirements and functionalities are oriented to customer requirements and can become highly interdisciplinary and complex.
Design alternatives and system validation are part of the design process, which requires interdisciplinary team efforts.
Unlike the usual teaching in an engineering course, the general objective of this subject is to learn how to think (per design), rather than learn what (design) to think.
Detailed objectives include familiarizing students with systems thinking through interdisciplinary teamwork for the design of a complex system.
The content provides work guidelines but never exact rules, which depend on the project and the team.
Examples of real systems will be described that will inspire students in their own designs to develop in practical work.
Introduction: System Thinking.
Engineering Systems Design.
Elements of Communication Systems.
Design Phases: Problem Statement and Requirements.
Design Phases: Functional and Physical Architecture.
Design Phases: System Verification and Validation (V&V).
Life Cycle.
Optimization.
Laboratory:
Session 0. System Ideation.
Session 1. Problem Statement and Requirements Gathering.
Session 2. System Design: Functional and Physical Architecture.
Session 3. System Verification and Validation (V&V).
Session 4. Student Project Presentations.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Supervised | 45 | 1.8 | 2, 4, 3, 5, 8, 7, 6 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Student's work | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 6 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Lectures | 86 | 3.44 | 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 6 |
The methodology will consist of lectures and study cases.
The students will be given two examples of requirements-driven full design study cases after which, teams of students will work on their own (interdisciplinary) design cases.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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A | A | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 6 |
B | 0.25 | 1 | 0.04 | 4, 3, 8 |
C | 0.25 | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 6 |
D | 0.25 | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 6 |
Evaluation
Theory: 50% (individual evaluation)
50% concept questionnaire 50% system functional analysis
Laboratory: 50% (team evaluation)
50% laboratory session submissions 50% final report and presentation
The option to improve the obtained grades will be offered in case of error or low score (<7). This will be done by providing a set of specific potential improvements on the presented design, which will be submitted before deciding the final grade. The grade will be "NOT PRESENTED" as long as there are no evaluation records during the general evaluation period.
Note on copying, plagiarism, and other irregularities.
Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures that may be deemed appropriate, and in accordance with current academic regulations, irregularities committed by a student that may lead to a variation in the grade of an evaluable activity will be graded with a zero (0). Evaluation activities graded in this way and by this procedure will not be recoverable. If it is necessary to pass any of these evaluation activities to pass the course, this course will be directly failed, with no opportunity to recover it in the same term.
These irregularities include, among others:
total or partial copying of a practice, report, or any other evaluable activity;
letting others copy;
presenting a group work not entirely done by the group members (applied to all members, not just those who did not work);
presenting as own materials produced by a third party, even if they are translations or adaptations, and in general works with non-original and exclusive elements of the student;
having communication devices (such as mobile phones, smartwatches, pens with cameras, etc.) accessible during individual theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams);
talking to classmates during individual theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams);
copying or attempting to copy from other students during theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams);
using or attempting to use writings related to the subject during theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams), when these have not been explicitly permitted.
The numerical grade in the record will be the lower value between 3.0 and the weighted average of the grades in case the student has committed irregularities in an evaluation act (and therefore passing by compensation will not be possible). In future editions of this course, a student who has committed irregularities in an evaluation act will not be granted any of the evaluation activities completed.
In summary: copying, letting others copy, or plagiarizing (or attempting to) in any of the evaluation activities equals a FAIL, not compensable and without validations.
Not required.
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