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Work placement

Code: 100109 ECTS Credits: 12
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
2500149 Mathematics OT 4

Contact

Name:
Isabel Serra Mochales
Email:
isabel.serra@uab.cat

Teachers

Dolors Herbera Espinal
Ferran Torres Benitez
Marti Almor Danti

Teaching groups languages

You can view this information at the end of this document.


Prerequisites

In order to be able to enrol in the subject, the student must have  passed  180 ECTS.

It is adviced to have   passed 200 ECTS

The student must have an academic tutor, who must be a teacher of the subject.

Annotation: The registration is formalized once the agreement has been signed between the UAB and the entity that hosts the student (and this can be at any time during the academic year), so the first steps to do the course are done before being enrolled. For non-enrolled students, there will be updated information in the Virtual Campus Coordination Space.


Objectives and Contextualisation

The main objective of the subject is to bring the student closer to the professional reality and to facilitate employment in a job related to the studies completed in the degree.

Taking this subject the student will be able to contrast the theoretical-practical knowledge acquired in the Degree studies with the needs of professional life. You will also have the opportunity to work in teams
interdisciplinary In this way, you have the opportunity to validate the professional orientation that you want to follow once you have finished your degree.

The subject also helps to assess the need to obtain more training for the professional orientation that you want to take.

To do the internship subject, it is very important that you look at the documentation in the Business Internships section of the Virtual Campus communication space.

 

 

The interested student must read carefully the documentation in the  Internship section of the Virtual Campus Communication  Area. 


Competences

  • Actively demonstrate high concern for quality when defending or presenting the conclusions of one's work.
  • 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.
  • Distinguish, when faced with a problem or situation, what is substantial from what is purely chance or circumstantial.
  • Effectively use bibliographies and electronic resources to obtain information.
  • Formulate hypotheses and devise strategies to confirm or reject them.
  • 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.
  • Use computer applications for statistical analysis, numeric and symbolic calculus, graphic display, optimisation or other purposes to experiment with Mathematics and solve problems.
  • 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

  1. Actively demonstrate high concern for quality when defending or presenting the conclusions of one's work.
  2. Analyse a situation and identify points for improvement.
  3. Analyse the indicators of sustainability of academic and professional activities in the areas of knowledge, integrating social, economic and environmental dimensions.
  4. Apply critical spirit and thoroughness to validate or reject both one's own arguments and those of others.
  5. Contrast acquired theoretical and practical knowledge.
  6. Do work that tests one's critical and reflexive capacity and encourages decision-making.
  7. Effectively use bibliographies and electronic resources to obtain information.
  8. Identify situations that require changes or improvements.
  9. Identify the social, economic and environmental implications of academic and professional activities in the area of your knowledge.
  10. Know about professional life.
  11. Propose new experience-based methods or alternative solutions.
  12. Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  13. Work in interdisciplinary teams.
  14. Work in teams

Content

Stages and activities to be carried out by the student throughout the internship period:
1) Interview with the academic tutor. CV preparation (12 hours)
2) Planning: search, interviews, organization, etc. (10 hours)
3) Full internship stay. (250 hours)
4) Preparation of the memory. (30 hours)
5) Preparation of the public exhibition of the work carried out. (6 hours)
6) Public presentation and attendance at the presentation of colleagues. (2 hours)

 


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Interview and planificatin 12 0.48
Type: Supervised      
Internship at the choosen entity 250 10
Type: Autonomous      
Presentation Preparation 6 0.24
Public presentation and attending the presentation of other students 1 0.04
Report preparation 30 1.2

This subject has an exceptional nature, since you are enrolled throughout the course, as you are about to sign your internship agreement and not the other subjects. Then, the first steps of the subject the first step is to be enrolled.

It is very important that you access the department dedicated to Business Practices of the Graduate Coordination Area.

Among the documentation that we found:

  • document de protocol on hi trobareu the detailed information of the subject.
  • history of internships on you can consult the companies and entities that have been your previous companies.
  • Additional documentation that is missing for the subject (pre-agreement document, evaluation report from the internship tutor...)
  • internship offers.

 

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.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Entity's tutor evaluation 60% 0.5 0.02 3, 2, 4, 5, 10, 1, 9, 8, 11, 12, 6, 14, 13, 7
Public Presentation 10% 0.25 0.01 2, 4, 5, 10, 1, 8, 11, 12, 7
Report on the internship 20% 0.25 0.01 3, 2, 5, 10, 1, 9, 8, 12, 6, 7

The steps to evaluate the subject are as follows:

1. At the end of the internship, the collaborating entity must be asked to draw up the accreditation-evaluation report for the internships carried out. You will find the model to be used in the moodle classroom of the subject on the Virtual Campus.
2. Write the internship report
3. Deliver the report to the collaborating entity for approval (e.g. confidentiality of data and processes)
4. Prepare and make the oral presentation of the report (10-15 minutes)

Throughout the course, several sessions of presentations of internship reports will be organized. In the Virtual Campus of the Subject we announce the calendar of these presentations. 

 In order to be evaluated positively, two conditions are indispensable:

(a) That the tutor's evaluation is positive.
(b) Achieve a positive evaluation of the internship report.

The student will be considered "Not Presented" in case the tutor of the Company does not certify that he / she has
the work has actually been carried out, or in the event that the Internship Report is not submitted or is not submitted to the
oral defense of memory.

For this subject there is no option of unique evaluation


Bibliography

The bibliography may vary depending on the type of work and, most likely, the company will provide it. It is good to have on hand the bibliography that has been used throughout the studies of the Degree in Mathematics.


Software

The subject does not have any specific software, but it is almost certain that where you do the internship you will have to program.
										
											
										
											To fill out the forms you will need to use Word or Libre Office, and to make the memory Latex or Word. For the presentation it is recommended to prepare a Beamer or Powerpoint presentation, for example.

Language list

Information on the teaching languages can be checked on the CONTENTS section of the guide.