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Online master Experience and advice from a senior student

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Online masterExperience and advice from a senior student

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Outline

• Me and why I choose to take the online master• Expectations• Experience

• Tips and tricks• Tools actually used.

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Me and why

• Stig Harald Gustavsen (28)• Working offshore

• And using my spare time to study• Systems control engineering / Industrial IT and Automation / IIA / I²A Student.

• Did my bachelors while working fulltime.  • Now still working fulltime but 50% student on the online master program

• Continued studies because I am still curious and fascinated about science & engineering.

• Obsessed with understanding.

Contact info: [email protected] / [email protected] or on FB messenger.

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• Inform your closest ones that your are a studentnow, witch will require a lot of a lot of time andeffort.

• It is probably going to take more time than youinitially planned.

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• Pause and rewind video lectures.

• Take notes as in an ordinary classroom.

• Use 1.25x or 1.5x speed on the video lecture(and any other technical video)

• Try to have someone to study with, discuss lectures,a online meeting or someone who lives near by you.

• If something is confusing• Ask students or the lecturer, don’t be afraid to ask!

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• Do first what is asked

• Don’t develop a product to industrial standards, do what is asked.

• But if the assignments is fun, and pokes your interest then of course spend more time and be curious.

• Report – proofreading:• Use the Speak function in Word, so that you listen to what you have written! 

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• Organizing tasks

• Writing / drawing• Collaborative writing• Consider to learn LaTex

• Online filestorage• Backup / syncronisation• Collaborative share a file system

with others

• Communication

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• Class Facebook group / chat

• Google hangout / skype / discord  etc.

• Use the MS Office360, you get freely from USN.• When downloading get the 64bit version (way faster) from 

portal.office.com• And get MS Visio (from Microsoft imagine )

• Collaborate over Google docs / Google drive.(Now also available with files on your OneDrive through the entire basic office 365 package)

• If  you live nearby join in on some lectures on campus (check TimeEdit) / 

• Video Speed Controller Extention for Chrome ( control all HTML 5 based videos in the browser)

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• Laptop / computer• Invest in a good / premium / business model computer, 

you are going to spend a lot of time with it.• Spec. recommendation: 

• Dell XPS series (13” or 15”) or equivalent series from MSI / Asus / Lenovo / HP 

• Display: Full‐HD screen (1920x1080) (4K not optimal for all engineering software but you choose)• CPU: Intel i5 / i7 6th gen or newer or equivalent from AMD• RAM: try get 16GB• SSD: Minimum 256GB (recommend 512GB NVME M.2 PCIe)

• Always bring a mouse and mouse pad• Extra monitor/s• Headset & webcam

• USB‐C / 3.0 dock in (make your laptop also into a desktop)• Make sure it Fitts your screen resolutions demands

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• It is a muscle• If used it grows stronger• If not used or cheated on it weakens

• Always keep your desk clean• You need to study, not to clean your desk.

• Make a schedule and stick to it

• Todo‐list / Organizers / Tasks• Google keep  ‐ keep.google.com• Trello – Trello.com

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• Big sturdy desk • legs from IKEA • tabletop from OBS bygg

• Dell XPS 15” 9550• Desktop Machine• Logitech Anywhere MX™ (travel mouse)• Two screens (connected to desktop)

• A better solution is to have a laptop with a USB dock in to a desktop.

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• Khan Academy,• Math & physics & fundamental JavaScript programing

• 3Blue1Brown• Visual math intuition

• Thermodynamics (MiT course)• ( IIA / I²A student: Check out some lectures in Thermobefore it confuse you in modeling of dynamics systems)

• Basic Python programing (MiT course)• If you need a good beginner course, inaddition/supplement to scientific computing.

• There are more courses on ocw.mit.edu• Key ideas in Linear algebra (Video ‐ G.Strange@MiT)• Linear Algebra subject / Applied Linear algebra subject (G.Strange@MiT)

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Drive.google.com Docs.google.com

Calendar.google.com keep.google.com

https://min.usn.no/student/tjenester‐for‐studenter/it‐tjenester/

Facebook.com

Dropbox.comTrello.com

https://discordapp.com/ hangouts.google.com

Tilgang til Office 365 portalen og Imagine fra mircrosoft finner du på linken under:

MS office Skype Onedrive Visual studio Visio

portal.office.com https://imagine.usn.no/Login: [email protected]

Login: [email protected]

Strongly reccomend to install 64bit version,  32bit is default. 64 bit is way more responsive, and uses less memory 

Goodie store for MS.net developers

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• elearninginfographics.com

What is engineering? A good answer: “ Engineering is the purposeful use of science – Stephen Senturia”