PHUV9470 Inkludering og mangfold Emneplan

This PhD course addresses some fundamental contemporary questions within the inclusion and diversity debate and relates these to some main controversies in the field of education.

More specifically, the course focus on theories, methods, and ethical considerations regarding cultural diversity, social class, gender, language, religion, and disabilities. The aim is to provide the participants with a profound understanding of inclusion and diversity based on international research and the Nordic education traditions. In addition, the aim is to develop participants' understanding of how intercultural issues and participation pertaining to inclusive education in light of the special education tradition.

The course goal is to develop participants' knowledge and understanding of posing fundamental questions on diversity and inclusion and to examine issues at stake in this field of research.

Teaching language: English (Norwegian, dependent on the language of the participants).

Approved by LUI's educational committee 23.02.2023.

Knowledge

The candidate

• can explain the primary concepts of structural integrity, fatigue, and creep
• can identify the relevance of sustainable design to structural integrity through enhancing performance and mitigating long-term accumulative damage
• can explain plasticity, fracture, and damage qualitatively at material and structural levels
• can distinguish between statics and dynamics and judge when dynamics is relevant
• can explain viscoplasticity, fracture toughness, and size-dependence and identify their relevance to a problem at hand
• can identify research ethical issues related to one’s own project.

Skills

The candidate

• can formulate a static problem and calculate the plastic collapse load in a beam, plate or shell using the bound theorems of plasticity
• can explain qualitatively the principles of damage mechanics, fatigue, and creep
• can apply the methods of plastic analysis to solve problems concerning structural integrity and impact
• can calculate the permanent and maximum deflections in a beam or plate under pulse or impact loads using analytical methods and FEM
• can interpret the results of and assess analytical and numerical solutions obtained and corroborate them against experiment for instance in permanent displacement or level of damage due to cyclic or impact loads
• can quantify strain-rate sensitivity effects during high-rate deformation of blast and impact loaded structures
• can calculate stresses, strains and displacements in problems involving cyclic loading, using the FE software ABAQUS
• can solve real-size problems and report on the results in the format of a scientific report.

General competence:

The candidate

• can explain the results of research in a simple and efficient way to be communicable and perceptible to peers
• can reflect on a solution and the meaning of its implications for design
• can communicate their work and can master language and terminology of the field in a suitable academic format.

A practical course in analyzing text and talk.

Approved by the Doctoral Committee October 25, 2018. Minor changes approved 27.04.2020.

This is a practical course where the students will be offered analytical tools to carry out analyses of documents, observations and/or interviews on the topics of their own research, in comparison with leading discourses as well as research knowledge and other contextual aspects. The course will also focus on strategies for discussing explanations and implications of findings. The content of the course is based on a combination of insights to discourses and power from social sciences and humanities.

The following coursework requirements must have been approved for the student to take the exam:

Individual presentation on an advanced topic related to structural impact and fatigue or creep analyses followed by peer Q&A 15-minute presentation + 15 minutes Q&A.

The exam consisting of two parts:

• Part one: A project report (on either a research project or solving an industrial problem) in groups of 2-4 people, 30-40 pages; this report counts 80 % of the final grade.
• Part two: A group oral presentation (30 min per group followed by 15 minutes of Q&A); the presentation counts for 20% of the final grade.

Part one can be appealed, part two cannot be appealed.

Both parts of the exam must be passed in order to pass the course.

New/postponed exam:

In the event of a postponed examination in this course the exam may be held as an oral exam. Oral exams cannot be appealed.

Preparations for the course

Students are expected to read the syllabus before the first part of the course to be able to participate actively in discussions.

Work requirements

Mandatory participation at the two-days workshop in the first part of the course.

Mandatory participation at the one-day workshop in the last part of the course. External students will be given the opportunity to participate by electronic means.

Attendence

80 % attendence of the time of the course is required. If a student has attended at least 60 % of the course but less than 80 %, he/she must submit an extra paper of at least 3000 words plus reference list on a given topic.

The student writes an individual paper (as described in the section "Teaching and working methods") of between 3000 - 5000 words plus reference liste. The paper must be written in English, Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish. The deadline for submission will be 10 days before part two of the course.

New and postponed examination

If a paper is not graded with "pass", the student must submit a revised version within a given deadline.

The grades are "pass" or "fail". The requirement for "pass" is that the paper builds on insights from the first part of the course and outlines ideas on how an analysis and journal article can be planned on this basis. The paper must be graded «pass» in order for the student to pass the course.