Course syllabus - Model-Based Development for Aerospace (MBD-AS)

Objectives

Model-based development is a methodology aiming at reducing the complexity of development and management of modern software applications through the exploitation of models. Even if it can still be considered a young methodology, it has already gained interest from the industry, which considers it as a possible solution for the ever growing system and software complexity as well as requirements on quality factors, notably time-to-market, performances, and maintainability. Aerospace is not an exception, given the opportunities of validating a system software architecture at its early stages and of automatically generating implementation code. The aim of the course is to introduce the basic principles related to modelling, analysing, and generating implementation code for  software systems, with special focus on the aerospace domain. The student will be made aware of both the state of art in research and state of practice in industry.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student shall be able to:

1. to analyse relevant state of the art achievements and open problems in model-based development of aerospace software
2. to argue about the possibilities and limitations of model-based development for the analysis and automated generation of aerospace applications

Course content

The focus of this course will be on model-based development for aerospace software. The basics on software modeling technologies will be provided together with the issues related to the automated derivation of corresponding artifacts (other models, code, documentation) in the aerospace domain.
The course includes:

- Introduction to software engineering and modeling
- General-purpose and domain-specific modelling languages
- Model execution
- Model transformations: basics and classification
- Multi-view modelling
- Model-based development applied to aerospace

Tuition

Lectures, labs and  seminars.

Specific requirements

At least 120 credits of which at least 20 credits in Computer Science and also at least 7,5 credits in Software Engineering or corresponding.
In addition, Swedish B/Swedish 3 and English A/English 6 are required. For courses given entirely in English exemption is made from the requirement in Swedish B/Swedish 3.

Examination

Written assignment (INL1), 2 credits, examines learning objectives 1-2, marks Fail (U), Pass (G), or Pass with distinction (VG)
Laboratory work (LAB1), a series of laboratory exercises that continuously is presented according to instructions, 3 credits, examines the learning objective 2, marks Fail (U), Pass (G), or Pass with distinction (VG)
Project (PRO1), an assignment that is presented with a report and a demonstration of the project, 2,5 credits, examines the learning objectives 1-2, marks Fail (U), Pass (G), or Pass with distinction (VG)

A student who has a certificate from MDU regarding a disability has the opportunity to submit a request for supportive measures during written examinations or other forms of examination, in accordance with the Rules and Regulations for Examinations at First-cycle and Second-cycle Level at Mälardalen University (2020/1655). It is the examiner who takes decisions on any supportive measures, based on what kind of certificate is issued, and in that case which measures are to be applied.

Suspicions of attempting to deceive in examinations (cheating) are reported to the Vice-Chancellor, in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance, and are examined by the University’s Disciplinary Board. If the Disciplinary Board considers the student to be guilty of a disciplinary offence, the Board will take a decision on disciplinary action, which will be a warning or suspension.

Grade

Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail

Interim Regulations and Other Regulations

The course overlaps with 2,5 credits towards Model-Driven Engineering 7,5 credits.