Work Placement
Code: 44427 ECTS Credits: 15| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4313385 Industrial Chemistry and Introduction to Chemical Research | OB | 0 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Felix Busque Sanchez
- Email:
- felix.busque@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- english (eng)
Prerequisites
No requirements needed
Objectives and Contextualisation
The student will become familiar with analytical and instrumental techniques structural and / or synthesis techniques and chemical products formulation determination.
Competences
- Analyse and use the data in autonomous fashion in complex laboratory experiments and relate them with the appropriate chemical, physical or biological theories, and including the use of primary bibliographic sources.
- Be capable of working in a team and adapting to multidisciplinary teams.
- Correctly evaluate the risks and environmental and socio-economic impact associated to special chemical substances.
- Evaluate responsibility in the management of information and knowledge in the field of Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Research.
- Evaluate the human, economic, legal and ethical dimension of professional practice, as well as the environmental implications of one's work.
- Innovate in chemical synthesis and analysis methods related with different areas of Chemistry.
- Operate with advanced instrumentation for chemical evaluation and structural determination.
- Show a respectful attitude to the opinions, values, behaviours and practices of others.
- Students should be able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgements from information which, being incomplete or limited, include reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgements
- Students should know how to apply the knowledge acquired and the capacity to solve problems in new or little-known areas within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts realted to thier area of study
- Students should know how to communicate their conclusions, knowledge and final reasoning that they hold in front of specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse experimental results in comparison with the bibliography and drawing conclusions.
- Be capable of working in a team and adapting to multidisciplinary teams.
- Evaluate responsibility in the management of information and knowledge in the field of Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Research.
- Evaluate the human, economic, legal and ethical dimension of professional practice, as well as the environmental implications of one's work.
- Make correct use of specialised laboratory instruments and materials for the determination of properties and analysis of chemical products.
- Propose and develop protocols for analysis and chemical synthesis in a professional laboratory.
- Recognise the risks associated with the chemical system that is the subject of study, as well its environment by adopting the appropriate measures.
- Show a respectful attitude to the opinions, values, behaviours and practices of others.
- Students should be able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgements from information which, being incomplete or limited, include reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgements
- Students should know how to apply the knowledge acquired and the capacity to solve problems in new or little-known areas within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts realted to thier area of study
- Students should know how to communicate their conclusions, knowledge and final reasoning that they hold in front of specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously
- Suitable synthetic methods used for the formulation of chemicals
Content
See methodology section
Methodology
In the specialty "Advanced chemical research", these practices will be carried out in a research laboratory of the Department of Chemistry of the UAB under the supervision of a professor who will act as tutor or in a Research Institute under the supervision of a member researcher of staff with recognized experience. The supervisors will issue a report at the midterm of the stay that will be used by the Coordination Committee for the evaluation of students. The tasks that will be carried out by the students will be the learning and the practice of analysis and synthesis techniques in a research laboratory.
In the specialty "Chemistry in industry" these practices will be carried out in laboratories of chemical companies. Each student will have a supervisor at the company who will guarantee the progress and quality of their work and issue a report at the midterm of their stay. This report will be used by the Coordination Committee for the evaluation of students. The tasks that the students will be carried out will be the learning and the practice of analysis and synthesis techniques in an industrial chemical laboratory. Students have guaranteed up to a minimum of three interviews with different possible companies interested in hosting the student during the development of the experimental credits of the master's degree; from this moment on, if the student has not managed to be admitted by a company,will be also responsible for finding a company where develop these credits.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Tutorials | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 8, 11 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Meetings with the thesis supervisor | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 8, 11, 4 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Autonomous student research | 340 | 13.6 | 1, 9, 10, 5 |
| Preparation of mid-term report | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 4 |
Assessment
The ability to develop a correct activity in the lab will constitute the main source of information to be taken into account for the evaluation of the student. Also the ability to write a mid-term report about the research carried out until the midterm period will be considered.
The final grade will be obtained from:
- 70% final report of the activities carried out by the student provided by the supervisor of the company or research laboratory.
- 30% final report provided by the student.
Both reports will be delivered to the Master's coordinator at the midterm of the training period at the company or research laboratory.
VERY IMPORTANT: Partial or total plagiarising will immediately result in a FAIL (0) for the plagiarised exercise (first-year students) or the WHOLE subject (second-, third- and fourth-year students). PLAGIARISING consists of copying text from unacknowledged sources -whether this is part of a sentence or a whole text - with the intention of passing it off as the student's own production. It includes cutting and pasting from internet sources, presented unmodified in the student's own text. Plagiarising is a SERIOUS OFFENCE. Students must respect authors' intellectual property, always identifying the sources they may use; they must also be responsible for the originality and authenticity of their own texts.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final report provided by student | 30% | 0 | 0 | 1, 8, 12, 6, 9, 10, 11, 7, 2, 5, 4, 3 |
Bibliography
It will depend upon the specific student research project
Software
Chem draw professional