International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1998 / Town & Country Resort Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / To help students learn the principles of microwave engineering and electromagnetic theory, labs were developed in which the students built a rail-synthetic aperture radar(SAR) and a Doppler radar. These labs gave the students practical experience in the paper design, simulation, construction, testing, and debugging of RF circuits. This paper includes a description of the design, physical construction, the basic operation, and the results from these projects.

Der vorliegende Band „Regionale Bedeutung von Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen - Das Beispiel Potsdam.“ gibt einen Einblick in die Ergebnisse eines Studienprojekts am Institut für Geographie der Universität Potsdam. Das Studienprojekt war eingebettet in das URBACT II Projekt RUnUP (Role of Universities in Urban Poles). Bei den unterschiedlichen Beiträgen stehen die vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen Stadt/Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft in der Region Potsdam im Mittelpunkt. Den theoretischen Bezug bildet dabei das Triple Helix Modell. / The volume in hand, “Regional significance of universities and research institutions – The case study Potsdam”, gives an insight into the research findings of a student project carried out at the University of Potsdam’s Department of Geography. The student project was embedded in the URBACT II project RUnUP (Role of Universities in Urban Poles). The various contributions focus on the multifarious relationships between city/politics, industry and science in the region of Potsdam. The Triple Helix Model forms the theoretical basis of the project.

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometre scale detector for high-energy neutrinos above hundreds of GeV produced in Earth’s atmosphere as well as outside our solar system whenever particles are accelerated to ultra-relativistic energies. The prompt atmospheric contribution is a result of the creation of heavy mesons with charm components in the atmosphere. Past studies from IceCube using a maximum likelihood estimation over the whole neutrino energy spectrum always reported a best-fit zero prompt contribution so far [1–5], contrary to theory [6, 7]. In this analysis we tried to measure this prompt atmospheric flux in muon neutrino event data from different IceCube releases. In contrast to past studies we performed a binned least-squares fit of the conventional atmospheric flux from data at low energies and subtracted this fit and an astrophysical flux reported by IceCube to measure a prompt contribution. Due to a lack of statistics and accessible information from data releases, our results are also compatible with a zero prompt contribution.

La question de la réussite des étudiants en première année universitaire est présente dans les préoccupations politiques actuelles au regard de l’échec massif la caractérisant. L’enjeu de cette thèse réside dans la compréhension des mécanismes qui régissent la réussite universitaire, en adoptant une démarche quantitative et intégrative. A cette fin, des données ont été récoltées sur un peu plus de 700 étudiants en première année de Licence de trois filières (AES, Droit et Psychologie) à l’Université de Bourgogne. Les informations recueillies permettent de contrôler un ensemble de facteurs relatifs aux caractéristiques socio-démographiques et scolaires des étudiants. Deux focus plus spécifiques caractérisent cette thèse : une mesure fine des capacités cognitives des étudiants à leur entrée à l’université et une mesure de leur motivation en cours d’année. Il ressort que le passé scolaire des étudiants est un déterminant particulièrement fort dans la prédiction de la réussite universitaire. Ce déterminisme scolaire est cependant nuancé par l’effet indirect de l’origine sociale, établissant la persistance d’inégalités sociales de réussite au niveau universitaire. Les capacités cognitives exercent elles aussi un effet médiatisé par le parcours scolaire, jouant positivement sur la réussite. A ces facteurs déterminés préalablement à l’entrée à l’université, s’ajoute le projet personnel de l’étudiant. Un choix établi par intérêt pour la discipline augure de meilleures chances de réussite. Les capacités motivationnelles de l’étudiant se répercutent quant à elles plus directement sur la réussite. Mesurée dans le cadre de la théorie de l’autodétermination, la motivation intrinsèque exerce une influence positive tandis que l’amotivation se traduit par de moins bonnes performances. Par ailleurs, la motivation est un atout pour les bons étudiants, mais ne joue qu’un rôle plus modéré pour les étudiants moyens et même nul pour les plus faibles. Ce résultat est éclairé par l’effet positif du sentiment de compétence sur la réussite, médiatisé par une motivation intrinsèque plus élevée. / Today, academic failure is closely monitored, especially when first year students are concerned. The aim of this dissertation is the comprehension of the mechanism that builds academic success. The approach is both quantitative and integrative. For this purpose, data have been collected from 700 first year students in social administration, law and psychology areas in the university of Burgundy. Collected information allows to control academic and demographic factors. This dissertation focuses on two aspects : a measure of the student’s cognitive abilities at their entry in the university and a measure of their motivation during the course of the year. The results show that the school background of students plays a crucial role in the prediction of their university success. This school determinism, however, is tempered with the indirect effect of social origin, establishing the persistence of social inequalities in success at the university level. Cognitive abilities also have an effect mediated by the school career, playing positively on success. To these factors determined prior to university entrance, shall be added the personal project of the student. Choices made by interest in the discipline augur better chances of success. Motivational abilities of the student impact most directly on their success. Measured in the context of the self-determination theory, intrinsic motivation has a positive influence while amotivation results in worse performance. Moreover, motivation is an asset for good students, but plays only a moderate role for average students and even none for the weakest. This result is highlighted by the positive effect of perceived competence on achievement, mediated by a higher intrinsic motivation.

In this diploma thesis, I focus on the main principles of the HandJet mobile printer. This printer is mostly intended for industrial use to mark products and spaces with 2D and EAN codes. Despite the purely utilitarian function of the printer, I have decided to use it for artistic purposes. I look for its potential in application in the field of graphic design and art. I record the process as a part of the work process of a graphic designer when delivering assignments via research, sketching, and automatic drawing. The key aspect is the exploration of the possibilities of visual form. The result is a series of prints presented in the form of an installation.

All developers understand the benefits of testing their code to ensure its functionality. Today’s market is moving further towards design principles where testing is a central or driving force during development. This puts a certain pressure on academia to supply these skills to their students.Recently the course II1302 Projects and project methods at the Royal Institute of Technology in Kista made a concerted effort to introduce the students of the course to these modern concepts. This thesis investigates how areas of testing can effectively be introduced to the students in the course, utilizing a tailored example that takes the area of testing into particular consideration and how to automate it via DevOps-tools provided by a cloud-based service. Further, it also makes an attempt to provide additional material to be used for teaching testing in conjunction with the example provided.The case study covers the development of an example application, meant to mirror a typical student project. It also covers how this was used for teaching the students about the testing areas considered. The covered testing areas include unit testing, integration testing and UI testing. With these given testing areas, the application and an associated learning module was developed for each area in question. Relevant standards, strategies and approaches was also identified for each of these areas.The thesis also presents important properties to take into consideration when developing similar examples in the future, based on the experiences obtained during the study. These include needs such as understandable by inexperienced students, applicability outside the course, adherence to established standards, tools that are simple to use and an architectural structure that allows for testing.Some improvements are also recommended: the students would benefit from learning software testing from an early stage of their studies. The content of the learning modules should also be brought to the students earlier in the course, so it can be applied in their projects at an early stage as well.Further research is also recommended to evaluate the suitability of using other cloud-based environments instead, and to evaluate the applicability of the learning modules for students of varying disabilities. / Alla utvecklare förstår fördelarna med att testa kod för att garantera dess funktionalitet. Dagens industri går i en riktning där testning spelar en central del av design under utveckling av mjukvara. Denna tendens lägger en viss press på högskolan att lära ut dessa erfarenheter till dess studenter.På senare tid har kursen II1302 Projekt och projektmetoder på Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan i Kista tagit en stor ansats för att introducera sina studenter inför dessa moderna koncept. Denna uppsats undersöker hur testningsområdet effektivt kan introduceras till studenterna inom denna kurs, genom att utnyttja ett egengjort exempel som har området i fokus, samt att automatisera detta via DevOps-verktyg tillhandahållna av molnbaserade tjänster. Dessutom görs även en ansats för att tilldela ytterligare material som kan användas för att lära ut testning av mjukvara i samband med det givna exemplet.Fallstudien omfattar utvecklingen av en exempelapplikation, som var avsedd att likna ett typiskt studentprojekt. Den täcker även hur denna användes för att lära ut de betraktade testningsområdena till studenterna. De täckta områdena av testning inkluderar enhetstestning, integrationstestning och testning av användargränssnitt. Med dessa givna testningsområden utvecklades både applikationen och dess associerade lärmoduler för vardera testningområde i fråga. Relevanta standarder, strategier och metoder var också identifierade för vardera av dessa områden.Denna uppsats presenterar även ett antal viktiga egenskaper att hålla i åtanke vid utveckling av liknande exempel i framtiden, baserat på erfarenheterna från studien. Detta inkluderar behov som tillgänglighet för mindre erfarna studenter, applicerbarhet utanför själva kursen, tillämpning av etablerade standarder, utnyttjande av lättanvända verktyg och en arkitektur som tillåter testning.Några förbättringar föreslås även: studenterna skulle gynnas av att lära sig om mjukvarutestning i ett tidigt skede av sina studier. Innehållet i lärmodulerna bör även presenteras för studenterna tidigare i kursen för att kunna appliceras i deras projekt.Ytterligare forskning rekommenderas även för att utvärdera andra lämpliga molnbaserade miljöer, samt för att utvärdera tillämpbarheten av lärmodulerna hos studenter med inlärningssvårigheter.

Generating web applications with correct structure and modern functionalities using a development platform is not widely known for students in academia around the world. Modern web development is moving further towards advancement where different functionalities adapted for web application development increase and become more central in today's market. Introducing modern concepts in web application development to the students in academia at an early stage is essential in order to provide better insight of how to suitably develop and maintain the structure of modern "Web Applications".  This thesis describes the work carried out to investigate how a web application can effectively be developed and structured by the undergraduate students in the course II1302 Projects and project methods at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) using a development platform.  The case study is conducted as a research method for this thesis. The research method revolved around experimentation with an example application to identify the possibilities of using a development platform in conjunction to improve the teaching of modern web application development early in education, and then apply the development platform in the course's future projects.  This thesis identifies pertinent fields of knowledge throughout the development of a web application using the development platform to learn about the relevant concepts and definitions of modern and future technologies used in web application development. The implementation of the web application covers the areas such as automation, deployment, and monitoring. These areas are utilized in the form of the following aspects: DevOps, CI/CD, integration cloud deployment, IoT simulated device, MVC design pattern architecture for both frontend and backend, programming frameworks, i.e., Angular JS frontend framework and Spring Boot backend framework. A description of how the application is managed and what technologies and resources are used is presented.  These aspects are used throughout the process of web application development. The requirements of using the development platform aim to be relevant to the students' studies at a sufficient difficulty level in course II1302. The students are expected to have an extended knowledge in basic web application development. / Att generera webbapplikationer med rätt struktur och moderna funktioner med hjälp av en utvecklingsplattform är inte allmänt känt för studenter inom akademin runt om i världen. Modern webbutveckling går vidare mot avancemang där olika funktioner anpassade för webbapplikationsutveckling ökar och blir mer centrala på dagens marknad. Att introducera moderna koncept inom webbapplikationsutveckling för studenter i akademin på ett tidigt stadium är viktigt för att ge bättre insikt om hur man på ett lämpligt sätt kan utveckla och behålla strukturen för moderna "Web Applications".  Denna avhandling beskriver arbetet med att undersöka hur en webbapplikation effektivt kan utvecklas och struktureras av studenterna i kursen II1302 Projekt och projektmetoder vid Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) med hjälp av en utvecklingsplattform.  Fallstudien genomförs som en forskningsmetod för denna avhandling. Forskningsmetoden kretsade kring experiment med en exempelapplikation för att identifiera möjligheterna att använda en utvecklingsplattform tillsammans för att förbättra undervisningen i modern webbapplikationsutveckling tidigt i utbildningen och sedan tillämpa utvecklingsplattformen i kursens framtida projekt.  Denna avhandling identifierar relevanta kunskapsområden genom utvecklingen av en webbapplikation med hjälp av utvecklingsplattformen för att lära sig relevanta begrepp och definitioner av modern och framtida teknik som används i webbapplikationsutveckling. Implementeringen av webbapplikationen täcker områden som automatisering, distribution och övervakning. Dessa områden används i form av följande aspekter: DevOps, CI/CD, integration av moln, IoT -simulerad enhet, MVC -designmönsterarkitektur för både frontend och backend, programmeringsramar, dvs Angular JS frontend framework och Spring Boot backend framework. En beskrivning av hur applikationen hanteras och vilken teknik och resurser som används presenteras.  Dessa aspekter används under hela processen för webbapplikationsutveckling. Kraven för att använda utvecklingsplattformen syftar till att vara relevanta för studenternas studier med tillräcklig svårighetsgrad i kurs II1302. Studenterna förväntas ha en utökad kunskap inom grundläggande webbapplikationsutveckling.