Academic Year
2020/2021
Modelling workshop
Code: 100099 ECTS Credits: 9| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500149 Mathematics | FB | 2 | 2 |
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.
Contact
- Name:
- Xavier Mora Giné
- Email:
- Xavier.Mora@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Teachers
- Rosa Camps Camprubí
- Natalia Castellana Vila
Prerequisites
(See the official version in catalan)
Objectives and Contextualisation
(See the official version in catalan)
Competences
- Apply critical spirit and thoroughness to validate or reject both one’s own arguments and those of others.
- Develop critical thinking and reasoning and know how to communicate it effectively, both in one’s own languages and in a third language.
- Effectively use bibliographies and electronic resources to obtain information.
- Generate innovative and competitive proposals for research and professional activities.
- Recognise the presence of Mathematics in other disciplines.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Take account of social, economic and environmental impacts when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
- When faced with real situations of a medium level of complexity, request and analyse relevant data and information, propose and validate models using the adequate mathematical tools in order to draw final conclusions
- Work in teams.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse a situation and identify points for improvement.
- Apply critical spirit and thoroughness to validate or reject both one’s own arguments and those of others.
- Contrast the solution obtained, after resolving the model, in terms of its adaptation to the real phenomenon.
- Develop the capacity to identify and mathematically describe a problem, structure the available information and select an adequate model.
- Effectively use bibliographies and electronic resources to obtain information.
- Identify situations that require changes or improvements.
- Identify the social, economic and environmental implications of academic and professional activities in the area of your knowledge.
- Propose new experience-based methods or alternative solutions.
- Propose viable projects and action which can promote social, economic and environmental benefits. Propose way of evaluating projects and actions to improve sustainability.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Work in teams
Content
(See the official version in catalan)
Methodology
(See the official version in catalan)
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Lectures | 15 | 0.6 | |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Team working seminars | 60 | 2.4 | |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Personal work | 148 | 5.92 |
Assessment
(See the official version in catalan)
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral presentations | 25% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 5 |
| Written memoir and a possible exam on the team project | 45% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 5 |
| Written memoir on the individual project anˇd other possible individual submissions | 30% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 5 |
Bibliography
(See the official version in catalan)