Lund University

This course provides practical experience in early stages of starting a technology-based start-up. The course is based on principles from lean-startup and business model canvas. Through practical experience, student-driven seminars, inspirational lectures and literature studies, understanding of business model components in the start-up process, as well as ability to analyze and validate an idea or invention is mainly achieved through customer-based development and experimentation with minimum viable products. This understanding is used to develop an efficient and scalable business model and review the business model from sustainable and ethical perspectives.

The course describes how non-linear systems can be treated through analysis, simulation, and controller design. Lectures cover non-linear phenomena; mathematical modeling of nonlinear systems; stationary points; linearization around stationary points and trajectories; phase plane analysis; stability analysis using the Lyapunov method; circle criterion; small-gain and passivity; computer tools for simulation and analysis; effects of saturation; backlash and dead-zones in control loops; describing functions for analysis of limit cycles; high-gain methods and relay feedback; optimal control; and nonlinear synthesis and design. Laboratory exercises include analysis using the describing function and control design with dead-zone compensation for an air throttle used in car motors; energy-based design of a swing-up algorithm for an inverted pendulum; and trajectory generation using optimal control for the pendulum-on-a-cart process.

This course covers compiler construction: the main phases in a compiler like scanning, parsing, static-semantic analysis, and code generation; compiler formalisms like context-free grammars and attribute grammars; compiler tools like parser generators and static aspect-oriented programming; program representations like abstract syntax trees and intermediate code; and run-time systems that handle programs during execution. Lab course includes implementation of a small compiler. The course makes use of the compiler generation tool JastAdd.

This course gives an introduction to some of the approaches, theoretical concepts and tools used in sustainability studies. The course uses problem solving and critical approaches to explore some key sustainability challenges, e.g. climate change, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification and land-system change. The course integrates natural and social dimensions of these challenges. In this way it covers the scientific understanding of, theoretical perspectives on, and social perceptions of major sustainability challenges.

The course begins by introducing the fundamental strategies, terminology, and methodology associated with product innovation and its subprocesses. The primary focus is set on the strategic parts of the industrial development process as product planning/product renewal, including the establishment of business plans for the products resulting from the development efforts. The product development process is further examined, and alternative methods are introduced for some of the phases of the development process.

The course gives an overview of the most common tools used when transcribing and editing texts, primarily from manuscripts; the different forms of digital presentation of texts; and the types of projects related to corpuses, databases, and editions of premodern texts in which memory institutions (libraries and archives) interact with scholars and the general public. 

The course provides an introduction to the study of the Holocaust--the term used to describe the killing of the European Jews--and its causes and mechanisms. It also provides a basis for seeking answers to difficult questions, such as why this tragedy occurred. By examining the circumstances and mechanisms leading to genocide, and especially to the Holocaust, students are oriented on the post-war interpretations and debates. The effects of the Holocaust, how the Holocaust has affected post-war political and cultural discourses, and the reasons behind the delayed interest in it are also introduced. The Holocaust is also viewed in the context of other genocides committed both before and after World War II. Related lectures, readings, and seminars provide an overview of the Holocaust through empirical, chronological, theoretical, political, and other perspectives. Assessment is based on two short papers on elective readings related to the course topics and a take-home exam that is discussed at the final class meeting.