Schedule

Timetable

The table below shows the timetable the of the course. Dates, where you should be present are highlighted in green. In these session we will cover the theoretical basics, have practical exercises or handle important organizational things that require your presence. On all other dates it is not mandatory to be present. The presentation dates and the course introduction highlighted in red are mandatory for ALL students (and not only for the ones presenting)!

Exam and grading

The grade is composed of your project results, your performance in the two presentations and the quality of the project documentation (which you will have to create as a wiki page). Please note that all students of a group have to equally participate in the presentations and documentation.

Registration and Deadlines

The dates for the graded presentations are listed above in the timetable. The deadline for the completion of the wiki pages is the 1st of September, 2024. On this day I will remove edit rights from your documentation pages. The status of your wiki documentation on that day will be graded. Depending on what exam you register for you will have to provide the additional paper review or not:

• Master's program Geodesy and Geoinformation (5 ECTS): Geo Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things
  
  • ModuleNr: ED110027: https://campus.tum.de/tumonline/pl/ui/$ctx/WBMODHB.wbShowMHBReadOnly?pKnotenNr=2838823&pOrgNr=15100
  • No paper review!
    
    
• Master's program Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering and Information Technologies for the Built Environment (ITBE) (6 ECTS): Internet of Things for the Built Environment
  
  • ModuleNr: ED110046: https://campus.tum.de/tumonline/pl/ui/$ctx/WBMODHB.wbShowMHBReadOnly?pKnotenNr=2911190&pOrgNr=15100
  • Paper review required!

It is up to you which exam you pick. Just make sure your choice works with your study program. For instance, you may chose the 5 ECTS module an environmental engineer and use the 5 ECTS for this course as free credits in your master's program.

Overview grading

Grading criteria presentations

All students of a group should equally participate in the presentations!

• Speech: Volume, clarity, rhetoric, does the speaker convey information while maintaining eye contact with the audience?

• Slides: Graphic design, clarity, design, readability (font size, size of images, references, ...), amount of slides, correctness, sources, labels of e.g. graphics

• Content: Logical structure, connection of presentation and slides, completeness of content

• Time: Presentation time of each group member, total presentation time (too short/long)

Evaluation criteria of the project documentation

The documentation of the group project is prepared as a wiki page in this wiki. Each group prepares one documentation for their project. All sudents of a group should equally participate in the creation of the documentation.
The following questions give you an overview of what we expect:

Is the overall group project well described?

• What is the general topic and context of the group project?

• What is the objective of the group project? Is there a discussion at the end of the report to which degree the objectives were met? Are the reasons discussed on objectives that were not met on why they were not met?

• Is related work being discussed and are the proper references provided? Are the references complete and formatted according to the recommendations provided in the respective handout of the TUM library.

• Are all employed methods and algorithms properly introduced and explained? Is it getting clear from the reports that the students really understand the methods and algorithms they applied?

• Are the applied methods and algorithm appropriately chosen for the given tasks and project goals? Have the students explained why they have made the respective choices?

• What are the hardware design choices?

• What are the software design choices?

Source codes

• Are all source codes provided as files or well formatted code boxes in the wiki?

• Do all source codes contain information about the authors, group number, and last date of change?

• Are the source codes commented (e.g. each method or procedure, data structures, algorithms etc.)?

• Are code snippets taken from third parties (e.g. from the Web) marked and the original source and author(s) credited?

Hardware and sensor readings

• Is it getting clear from the report that the student group knows how the employed sensors work and how to interpret the observed values?

• Do the connected sensors produce sensible observation results? Were the results checked by the students and possibly compared with reference measurements?

Evaluation criteria paper review

Students registered for the (6 ECTS) Internet of Things for the Built Environment module must prepare a research paper review.

Each student will review an assigned scientific paper  and prepare a 10 minutes presentation on the research findings.

The following is a checklist to guide you in preparing the paper review presentation:

• The presentation should include :
• Research questions, goals, and objectives of the article.
• Overview of related work mentioned in the paper.
• The core concept and methodology proposed in the paper.
• Overview of the conducted case studies.
• Overview of the results and the discussion.
• A summary of the scientific contribution(s) of the paper.
• Conclusion and recommendations and outlook.
• Literature references
• If required, to better understand the topic, find more articles and add them to the list of references.
• The review should be comprehensive and accurate.
• The guidelines for presentation grading criteria given above apply.