Project Organized Problem
Base Learning
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ORAL EXAMINATION
23/11/11
THOMAS DA SILVA PERRET
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Project Group 507
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AIS COMMUNICATION
SUPERVISOR: HANS HERBERT
AUDREY GARIN
MELVIN POINOOSAWMY
THOMAS DA SILVA PERRET
NIELS BORCH CHRISTIANSEN
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ECE Paris
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 Lectures:
1h30 – 100 students
 French Engineering
School
 5 years
 French engineer diploma
 Master of Science
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 Practical Work:
1h30 – 30 students
 1 project: 1 per year
 Mini-project: 2 per
semester
Aalborg Universitet
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 Electronics and IT:
5th semester
 Danish POPBL University
 3 / 5 / 8 years
 Bachelor
 Master
 Phd
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 Lectures:
1h45 – 30 students
 Assignments:
1h45 – 4 to 6 students
 1 project : 1 per semester
Intercultural Competencies
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 Project Group:
1 danish student + 3 french ECE students
 Writing scientific documentation
 Working assignments as a group
 Matlab + Calculator / Handmade Calculation
 Approximations / Complex Results
 Academic / Industry
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Learning Style
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 Reflective Learner:
 Visual Learner:
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Think first
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Flowcharts

Think quietly

Diagrams

Work alone

Schematics
 Intuitive Learner:
 Sequential Learner:
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Dislike repetition

Linear steps

Grasp new concepts

Logical stepwise path for
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Dislike memorization and
calculation routine
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finding solution

Explain things
Learning Style
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Alone
 Reflective:
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Work efficiently quietly and alone
 Intuitive:
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Working faster without repetitions
 Visual:

 Reflective:

 Sequential:
Mastering a specific theme or subject
Avoiding confusion by thinking a lot
 Intuitive:

Using and finding easily new concepts
 Visual:
Summarizing knowledge with
flowcharts

Group

Summarizing heavy process
 Sequential:

Working on a subject until it is
completely understood
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Cooperation Contract
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 Attendance
 Documentation
 Expectations
 Group
 Lecture
 Meeting
 Organization
 Supervisor
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Cooperation Contract
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 Failures at some points
 No major impact on the project
 Establish the “philosophy” of the group
 Additional possible points (members evaluation)
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Management of People
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 Determined by the group chart:
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Two groups of two students: writer + observer

Student rotation: global knowledge

Worksheets review: global agreement

Advisor meetings: validate ideas
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Management of People
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 Failures:

Impossible to apply the
 Potential solutions:

group mechanisms

Group meetings:

ideas
Communication
problems:

Knowing what the other
group is working on

Having ideas together
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Summarise work and


General brainstorming
Member evaluation:

Solving problems earlier
Management of Time
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Project Planning
 Built at the beginning of
the project
 Pessimistic estimations
 As simple as it can be:
Planning Control
 Displayed on a board

Timeline

Pinned cards:

Meetings / Seminaries

Meetings / Seminaries

Milestones

Milestones

Deadlines

Deadlines
 Reviewed before each
working session
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Management of Time
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 We are behind on planning:

Real task duration > Estimated task duration
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Short and expected delay (3 days)

No more lectures
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Questions ?
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