Lund University

This course provides the knowledge and understanding about how cost and environmental issues affect the choice of design solutions and which measures need a longer-term perspective than others, in order to get back the investment costs or make the building sustainable. This course also provides the knowledge and understanding related to different types of actors’ interests (city-owned property owners, private property owners, property developers (build and sell), private homeowners, builders, and manufacturers). Also included are aspects of barriers and possibilities. The course presents methodology and tools for determining life cycle perspective issues like life-cycle costs and environmental certification. This can be used for evaluation, system design and to produce convincing arguments and facts for the client.

The overarching goal of the course is for the students to acquire basic knowledge of linear algebra which is necessary for further studies in mathematics and natural sciences. Special emphasis is placed on developing the mathematical theory for vector spaces in a systematic way that contributes to strengthening the students' ability to absorb mathematical text, to conduct mathematical reasoning, to solve problems of both theoretical and applied nature and to communicate mathematics. The course covers Matrices; Determinants; Linear spaces; Euclidean spaces; Linear mappings; Spectral theory; Systems of linear ordinary differential equations; and Quadratic forms.

Organizations are facing a wide range of unexpected challenges of crises, requiring them to develop strategic thinking in order to prepare for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from unexpected occurrences. The aim of this course is to develop strategic skills in mitigating issues and managing crises that organizations encounter. This course places crisis communication in organizational, social, and global contexts. The course emphasizes real-world application of crisis communication concepts, theories, and principles. Thematically, the course covers the foundational of crisis communication, three phases of crisis management, internal and external crisis communication, media and stakeholder relations, and issues and trends in crisis communication.

The course deals with time discrete signals and systems. Items such as the Fourier Transform, the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and the z-transformed are treated in the course as well as some basic structures for implementation of digital filters. Also, system function and frequency functions are introduced as well as digital filters. Digital processing of analogue signals using A/D and D/A conversion is studied. In the laboratory work, practical applications of digital signal processing such as speech signals processing and biomedical signals processing are treated. Also, the course includes basic filter design using Matlab and digital signal processors (DSP).

This course covers concurrent activities, busy-wait and polling, synchronization and communication, atomic operations such as test-and-set, and mutual exclusion. Central aspects of the Java concurrent package, such as locks, semaphores, thread pools, tasks, and blocking queues are also reviewed. The course concludes with an overview of multicore hardware, real-time operating systems, and scheduling.  Entry requirements include Programming and a second course in Java.

The course gives in-depth knowledge about climate systems and how climate models are constructed. In the first half of the course different components of contemporary climate models (ocean/land/atmosphere) and interactions between them are introduced and discussed. This includes handling of typical data formats associated with climate models and the analysis of model output with varying resolution and/or complexity. The second half of the course focuses on applications in paleoclimate reconstructions and impact models and the use of ensembles to assess model uncertainties. This includes projects where students independently and in groups solve tasks using programming. Exercise in the use of simplified climate models and analysis tools as well as information retrieval and oral and written presentation techniques are included as a part of certain learning activities.

The course consists of a part with a practically oriented project assignment and a theoretical part.  Working in groups, choose a service robotics topic to study and present this orally to the other students. The theoretical part is deepened at a literature seminar where scientific articles are discussed. Examples of service robotics topics include different service robotics applications, human-robot interaction, levels of robot autonomy, navigation of mobile robots, SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping), maze-solving algorithms, line-following algorithms, wheeled locomotion, odometry, anthropomorphic robots, robot ethics or a service robotics topics of the students’ own choice. The practical part consists of a project in one or more of the above-mentioned areas which is carried out in groups of usually four students. A functioning service robot is developed by integrating an Arduino controller, servos, sensors and mechanical components produced by for example laser cutting or 3D printing. The project applies knowledge in mechanics, electronics and programming.

In this online course, learn how to construct graphs and visualizations according to the theory Grammar of Graphics. Learn how to create visualizations yourself using the software R and its package ggplot2. A central part of creating visualizations is making choices. Through the choices you make, your visualizations are more or less intelligible and also highlight different aspects of the data. An important element of the course is therefore to review visualizations by other course participants. Topics covered in the course include introduction to R and ggplot2; choice of color, symbols, scales, and perspective (2D, 3D); summation and abstraction; interactive visualizations; maps and spatial data; visualization of statistical models.

The course focuses on integrative human physiology, which means how the internal organ systems interact to maintain homeostasis. This includes the structure of the organ systems (anatomy, histology) and their function and regulation (physiology). The course includes the following organs and organ systems: the heart, the circulatory system and the blood, the kidneys and the urinary tract, the respiratory system, the digestive tract and accessory organs, endocrine organs and the reproductive organs. The structure, function and regulation of the musculature is also studied. Integrated knowledge of the autonomic nervous system and energy metabolism are also included. The organ systems in question are studied from the cellular to systemic level. Major emphasis is placed on the understanding of homeostatic regulation. The course concerns how homeostasis is maintained at rest and under different conditions such as physical activity and potentially homeostasis imbalance changes in the surroundings. In order to explain physiological functions, the required anatomy and histology is studied in parallel with physiology.  Course requires 60 credits and is graded Pass or Fail.
 

The course enables students to practice oral proficiency through discussions, argumentations, short presentations and talks. Written proficiency is practiced through essay writing, reviews, practical texts and compilations of facts from different sources of information. Different texts are analyzed with regard to genre and language style. Reading comprehension is trained through scanning and study of both non-fiction and fiction texts. Newspaper articles, radio and TV programs are used in the proficiency training. The pronunciation and grammar tuition consists of revision of the typical traits of Swedish phonetics and grammar.