TRACKS – LEARNING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

KRISTINA HENRICSON BRIGGS

MIKAEL ENELUND

MARCH 31 & APRIL 2, 2020

QUESTIONS: TRACKS.GRU@CHALMERS.SE

OUTLINE

• Tracks in short

• Learning environment

• Tracks courses – practicalities

• Questions

• Brief introduction of courses starting during fall-20

BACKGROUND

• Trend analysis

• Workshops with teachers, students, deans, support functions etc.

• Three trends influence our role in the society

• complex societal challenges require improved competences to work interdisciplinary

• changed expectations from, and on, the students including life long learning

• shorter development times for (digital) technology development

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TRACKSWith Tracks, Chalmers will test a new educational model, where education is structured to:

1) Give students the opportunity to develop their interdisciplinary competences

2) Meet students' needs and expectations for a more individualised study path

3) Reduce the time required to offer new educational content including new technology and materials

TRACKS

EDUCATIONAL IDEA

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Programme 1

Programme 2

• Courses/projects to understand/solve contemporary societal and recent research related challenges

• Each courses will belong to a challenge-driven theme

• Tracks courses do no belong to a specific programme, school or department and are open for all students

• Students are trained to discover, develop, build, test, and implement

• Supportive learning environment conductive to active and experiential learning

• Tracks courses will start in year 2 at BSc level

and run through year 5 (2nd year at MSc level)

• Tracks courses were introduced 19/20 with pilots

THEMES 20/21

• Emerging technologies: – from science to innovation

• Sustainable transportation

• Health and sports technology

• Sustainable cities

• Sustainable production

LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

• Increased number of large flexible class- rooms and project spaces

• Expansion of the digital learning environments, including capacity for large computer simulations, capacity to manage massive amounts of data, machine learning and AI

• Labs to create, test and evaluate prototypes (digital and physical).

• Space for group work and open creative learning environments

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UMBRELLA COURSES

• A framework for Tracks courses

• Included in the regular course offer

• Have fixed number of credits (3, 7.5 and 15 ECTS) on basic and advanced level

• Start and end are flexible

• Have general course descriptions, aims and general professional learning outcomes

• Topic oriented learning outcomes are to be added for the specific project

MORE INFORMATION

• At the Student portal you find all courses and contact information to the examiners

• You apply to the examiner of the course

• Courses may be used as electives or extra curricula

• Scheduled together with students in the beginning of the course

Questions

Courses starting during the fall of 2020

Theme - Sustainable Transportation

Level

(A=advanced,

B=Basic)

Round 1 Round 2 Status

(deadline)

Contact

Design of Sustainable

infrastructure and

urban transformation

A Fall 2020 Open for

applications

(April 28)

Anna

Kaczorowska

Optimize subsystems

for electric vehicles

B Fall 2019 Fall 2020 Open for

applications

(May 15)

Björn Pålsson

Solar car design B & A Fall 2020 TBA Göran

Gustafsson

Theme - Health and sports technology

Level

(A=advanced,

B=Basic)

Round 1 Round 2 Status

(deadline)

Contact

Mechanics in sports B & A Fall 2020 Open for

applications

(May 15)

Martin

Fagerström

Digitalization in sports B & A Fall 2020 Open for

applications

(May 15)

Dan

Kuylenstierna

Here, there and

everywhere –health-

care integrated in our

everyday life and

places

A Fall 2020 Open for

applications

(June 2)

Patrik

Alexandersson

TRA100/TRA105 Digitalization in sportsMeasurements

Data analysis Interaction design/User interfaces

Sensor development• strain gauge sensors• IMUs• GPS• niomedical sensors• -power meters• -high speed cameras

• Statistics• Multidimensional data• Data driven methods• Big Data• Machine learning• Artificial inteligence

• Athlete user interface• Coach-Athlete interaction• Virtual reality• Augmented reality

TRA100/TRA105 Mechanics in Sports

Basic concepts in mechanics and physics

Biomechanics

Solid mechanics and structural dynamics

Here, there and everywhere – healthcare integrated in our everyday life and places Erik Eriksson, TME/SML/CHI Andreas Hellström. TME/SML/CHI Patrik Alexandersson, TME/CHI Johanna Eriksson, ACE/CVA Göran Lindahl, ACE/CVA Stefan Candefjord, E2 Links: www.chi.chalmers.se https://www.chalmers.se/sv/centrum/cva/sidor/default.aspx https://www.chalmers.se/sv/styrkeomraden/halsa-och-teknik/Sidor/default.aspx

Tracks courses aim to expand the students’ experience and competence in cross-disciplinary collaboration. In this course (TRA105 – master) within the theme Health and sports technology we welcome students from all programmes.

The course will address a number of the global Sustainable Developement goals (SDG) as well as having a broad societal focus. Primary focus will be on SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. The projects within the course can also relate to, for example, SDG 10 “Reduced inequalities” and 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

Background

Healthcare systems all over the world are exposed to huge challenges – from the local level to global. There are higher expectations on healthcare provision from users and staff, together with technological opportunities combined with new needs. These factors push towards a shift from hospital-based units towards a situation where provision of health promotion and healthcare activities is needed in patients/inhabitants’ everyday places. The global Covid-19 virus pandemic raises the importance to think in innovative and resilient ways to deliver care and staying healthy during challenging times.

This course will address healthcare system challenges, presented and explained by actors central within the Swedish healthcare system. The questions addressed in the course are not possible to solve properly within a single field of knowledge, these challenges need a multidisciplinary approach. Therefore, the teachers and stakeholders in the course include a multitude of competences in a unique setting, headed by the Centre for Healthcare Improvement (CHI) with competence about healthcare organization and also involving Architecture and Civil Engineering as

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CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden, +46 (0)31 772 10 00, www.chalmers.se

Göran Gustafsson, Senior Lecturer

Department of Industrial and Materials Science

gorang@chalmers.se

TRA100 & TRA105: Solar Car Design

- Building solid knowledge on how to design and build Chalmers car in the World Solar Challenge 2021

The course will consist of lectures by Chalmers teachers as well as invited outside experts. The students will work in teams

which are specialized on different parts of the car, e.g., body, chassis, wheel suspension and brakes, electric motor and

driveline, and cockpit. Solar car technology as well as lean product development methodology will be studied, and the latter

will be applied in the different team’s projects.

Lean product development stresses the importance of building knowledge of the subject at hand and base design and

other decisions on that. Techniques used include visual management, early testing and A3:s and tradeoff curves for

documentation. The Chalmers Solar Team’s car Alfrödull from last year’s competition is back from Australia and will be

available to the students at Campus Lindholmen. We will use it both as a study object and a test bed for new ideas.

The course activities will mainly take place at Campus Lindholmen, although opportunities to cooperate with other courses

and Chalmers activities on both campuses will be sought. The students are also welcome to suggest lectures that they feel

would fit in and encouraged to take own initiatives to create contacts with actors, organizations and companies that can

contribute in different ways.

The course runs in study period 4, 2020, with plans for an extension during the next academic year. It is open to students

from the basic as well as the advanced level. Desired but not mandatory backgrounds are mechanical, electrical, computer,

mechatronics and design engineering. More important than knowledge associated with a particular program is, however, a

genuine interest in solar powered vehicles, so students with other backgrounds than the ones mentioned are also most

welcome to apply. We are looking for approximately 30 students to compose a well-balanced group.

Does this sound interesting? In that case, please contact or send application to Senior Lecturer Göran

Gustafsson, IMS, gorang@chalmers.se.

Application should include a short covering letter explaining why you are applying and your cv.

Application deadline: March 12th, 2012.

In case the course attracts a lot of interest, we can for practical reasons unfortunately not guarantee that we can

admit everyone who would like to join.

In this 7,5 credit course within the Tracks theme Sustainable transports, we will build on the experience

gained from Chalmers participation in the World Solar Challenge 2019 as well as other available knowledge to

develop a solid understanding of the technology in a solar powered car, and how to design such a vehicle.

For more information on the Tracks initiative, please visit:

https://student.portal.chalmers.se/en/chalmersstudies/tracks/Pages/current-themes-courses.aspx

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Alfrödull during pre-race testing at the Hidden Valley Raceway, Darwin, NT, Australia, in October 2019.

Photograph: Christian Kiprianoff

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Design of Sustainable Infrastructure & Urban Transformation

This is an interdisciplinary platform for an exchange of experience and know-how in

learning disciplines linked to sustainable transport, design of infrastructure and urban

transformation in contemporary cities (see: Thematic framework) using problem-based

and challenge-driven approach at a specific side.

STUDY PERIOD

LP 1 & LP 2

September – December 2 0 2 0

WHO CAN APPLY?

All Master’s Programme

students at Chalmers interested

to broaden their knowledge in

relation to sustainable transport

outside their main chosen area.

APPLICATION

Due to limited number of places

for practical reasons students

are asked to send a Motivation

letter - max. 1 page A4

DEADLINE

April 28, 2020

Course Framework

This course is a part of TRACKS Chalmers’ educational initiative within sustainable

transport. Today cities depend extremely on infrastructure also seen as mature

technological systems. Hhighways, roads, terminal stations figure among the icons

of contemporary urbanism. Transportation areas are considered to be essential for the

city’s functions but correspond to many complex challenges linked to design,

maintenance and operation (e.g. pollution, use of resources, technologies, mobility

& space). Due to its inherent complexity, a transformation of cities and their infrastructure

require interdisciplinary approach. The important question remains how transformation

of cities today can be sustained by infrastructure and vice versa?

TRA 105

T E AC HE RS

Anna Kaczorowska Sebastien Rauch Patrik Höstmad Kamyab Zandi Leonardo Rosado Jonas Tornberg Jonas Lundberg Ivana Tasic

CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden

Anna Kaczorowska,

annakac@chalmers.se

Why Sustainable Infrastructure & Urban Transformation?

Course consists of two main parts:

- Part 1 (Sept.-Oct.2020): Obligatory thematic workshops with involved relevant

stakeholders, linked to study location, on-going real projects, and a study trip.

- Part 2 (Nov.-Dec.2020) Project - design tasks and thematic focus chosen by a project

group in relation to sustaibale transport. It may address issues like for example: how

to design and build resilient cities and their infrastructure; balance city’s

dependencies on technological systems; transport mobility; infrastructure information

development; adaptive use of space, uplifting environmental, social, economic, and

technological aspects.

CONTACT

For more

information

on the course

please send

email to:

MORE COURSES TO APPEAR

Check Canvas and the Study portal