Internal/Minutes/islab/2012-10-09

From ISLAB/CAISR
date of the meeting 2012/10/09
e.g. IS-lab, project name, ... islab
list of people (optional) AV, RT, AM, JL, SK, JB, TS, SB, SN, SGS, TR, RP, TM, NW


Next meeting/ Important issues:

  • Make proposals/ put them on wiki: 6th November - deadline for proposals
  • take care of SP projects
  • start thinking about infrastructure money (not used yet) for more collaboration

Master thesis project proposals for 2013

  • Make proposals/ put them on wiki: 6th November - deadline for proposals

Discussion on how to organize the different CAISR activities/actions in the table
(see Denni's email sent on September 25)

Notes from email summarizes info from CAISR kick off meeting. They are summarized by more/less important, taking more/less efforts and short/long prospective => see table HI - higher importance, LI - lower importance BE - bigger efforts, SE – smaller efforts SP - short prospective, LP – long prospective (more than year)

Slide 2: Earlier connection with students (HI, SE, LP)

  • difficult, students at master level are foreign students that did bachelor somewhere else
  • attract Swedish bachelor students (NW, SN, RP)

Slide 3: Civilingenjör (HI, BE, LP)

Slide 4: PhD students supervise master students (HI, SE, SP)

  • more money for excellent evaluation of the program

Slide 5: Courses for PhD students (HI, SE, SP)

  • there is money for developing PhD courses => SE
  • new 'outstanding' course making PhD students coming from other universities=> LP
  • advertising courses
Slide 6: Advertise more students (SE, HI, SP)
  • combine master students education with research

Slide 7: = Slide 5. Attract PhD students from other universities (BE, HI, LP)

Slide 8: Increase networking (inside school, between universities) (SE,HI, SP)

  • budget from CAISR to send people out & to invite people

Slide 9: =Slide 4. Synchronize MSc and PhD

Slide 10: = Slide 4. PhD students learn to supervise

Slide 11: Support for PhD student’s novelty ideas (SE, LP, HI)

Slide 12: Newsletter (SP, LI, BE)

  • attract local newspapers
  • important (send links to partners)
  • systematic way of collecting info

Slide 13: Workshops/open days (run events) (HI, SP, BE)

  • workshop with Carl Iagnema
  • workshops every year (way to make contacts) => invite people from other universities

Slide 14: Publications from master students (SE, SP, HI)

  • depends on the quality of student

Slide 15: Keeping Companies interested (SE, HI, SP)

Slide 16: Manage and reuse of project asset, i.e. make companies interested (LP, BE, HI)

  • put project results on wiki (data collection environment)
  • need to use wiki to show something until next year
  • use infrastructure money (infrastructure investment)

Slide 17: involve more people in projects (SE, LI, LP)

  • networking
  • switch PhD student's projects

Slide 18: Improve presentation results (put aside)

Slide 19: Academic cooperation (SE, LP, HI)

Slide 20: Broader application areas (LP, LI, BE)

Slide 21: Be aware of changes in technology (put aside)

Slide 22: cooperate with different types of companies (HI, BE, LP) - HOS for automotive domain (except Volvo, attract smaller companies)

Slide 23: Continuous quality assessment (SE, SP, HI)

  • cooperate more
  • checking each other papers before publishing

Slide 24: Visit companies (BE, SP, HI)

Slide 25: Time and financial follow - ups (SE, HI, SP)

  • administration issues of the research
  • make sure that we are taking care of it

Slide 26: Project vs environment

  • connect outside projects (BE, LP, HI)

Slide 27: High quality of publications (BE, SP, HI)

  • two of the most cited researched at university
  • strategy on where to submit papers
  • listen for others, learning about it

Slide 28: Long term commitment (put aside)

Slide 29: Act (BE, SP, HI) - publication strategies

Slide 30: Achievements vs Resourses (BE, SP, HI)

  • achieve more with less
  • quality publications

Slide 31: Internal quality evaluations (SE, SP, HI)

Slide 32: Risk vs time productivity (put aside)

  • nature of research: if start new research risk is high

Slide 33: Review project goals (SE, HI, SP)

  • go through all the projects at the lab by presentations
  • internal quality evaluations

Slide 34: Follow up projects + application groups (SE, SP, HI)

Slide 35: =Slide 24. Visit companies that are not inside CAISR (BE, SP, HI)

Slide 36: = Slide 13. Workshops

Slide 37: Review project at start (SE, HI, SP)

  • continuous project evaluation

Slide 38: Project management (SE, SP, HI)

Slide 39: Visit companies inside CAISR (BE, SP, HI)

Slide 40: =Slide 39. CAISR open house

Slide 41: =Slide 4. Involve PhD students for master projects

Slide 42:= Slide 5. New PhD courses

Slide 43: Priority to EU projects (BE, LP, HI)

  • involve other universities

Slide 44: =Slide 43. Academic networking

Slide 45:=Slide 43. Keep track of calls in your area

  • brainstorm meeting in Brussels