Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Evidences	10%	6	0.24	16, 4, 9, 6, 2, 13, 14, 5
Lab Contents	30%	21	0.84	1, 7, 3, 15, 16, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 5, 18
Written Exams (Partials and Supplemental)	60%	7	0.28	3, 13, 14, 5

Continuous Evaluation

Assessment of the performance of the student in the subject will be done through three contributions: Theory Contents, Lab Contents, and Evidences (take-home exercises). To pass the subject it is a requisite that the student has achieved a global mark of 4.0 over 10.0 on both the Theory Contents and the Lab Contents. Students not meeting these requirements will fail the subject.

• Theory Contents. These count 60% towards the final grade. The grade in this section indicates the student’s knowledge of the theoretical aspects of the subject and his/her capacity to apply them to solve problems. A total of three written exams are scheduled along the semester: two partial exams and a supplemental exam. Each partial exam will include the part of the syllabus covered during the corresponding part of the term, while the supplemental exam will cover the full syllabus. To be allowed to take part in the supplemental exam a student must, at least: have written one partial exam, have attended the practical sessions and have turned in at least one evidence (take-home exercise). A student that gets a pass on the Theory Contents via partial exams does not have to write the supplemental exam. Otherwise, the supplemental exam must be taken. The final score of the part of Theory Contents will be the weighted average of the partial exams (the first partial exam has a weight of 60% and the second of 40%) if this grade is at least of 4.0 out of 10.0, or the grade of the supplemental examotherwise Students that, having passed the Theory Contents part via partial exams are willing to try and increase their marks can request to write the supplemental exam in written form (E-Mail) to the lecturer, who will ackowledge receipt. These students can write the supplemental exam, with the understanding that if they turn in the exam to the lecturer/invigilators, the score of the supplemental exam substitutes completely the score of both partial exams (i.e. it is possible to reduce their score).

• Lab Contents. Lab Contents contribute 30% to the final grade of the subject. Attending practical sessions is compulsory. The grade of the Lab Contents consists of two parts, both contributing 50% of the grade: One is the grade obtained from the corrected lab reports, and the other is the grade of an exam on the lab.

  • During the lab work of each session a model report will be published using the Campus Virtual platform. Lab reports shall be turned in using the channel and before the deadline that will be made public to the students during the lab session. The final marks for the lab reports part will be a weighted average of the marks of all reports, as the complexity of each session is not uniform. At the lecturer's discretion individual students might be required to discuss their lab work.

  • Alongside the 2^nd partial exam students will also get an exam based on the lab work done.

  To be able to pass the subject it is necessary to obtain a grade of at least 4.0 out of 10.0 in the Lab Contents grade, computed as the mean with equal weighting of the lab reports grade and the lab exam. This grade is final and cannot be recovered.

• Evidences (Take-home Exercises). These contribute 10% to the final grade of the subject. Over the term a number of exercises will be proposed, related to the extent of syllabus already covered. These will be exercises more ellaborate than those solved in the classroom, and might require use of knowledge of other parts of the theory syllabus already studied. Evidences shall be turned in on an individual basis and before the deadline. The final score for the Evidences part will be a weighted average, taking into account the complexityof eachproposed task.

• Challenges. Additionally, at the lecturer's discretion a reduced set of voluntary advanced exercises could be proposed. These advanced exercises try to stimulate students willing to improve their grasp of the subject and deepen their knowledge. These will be exercises of larger complexity and might require the use of concepts in the syllabus, concepts from other subjects, checking with bibliographical sources and even to use specialized software to carry out simulations. Overall, the full contribution of these "challenges" will be a maximum of 1.0 mark over 10.0 on the final score of the subject depending on the total number of Challenges proposed, and their contribution will be additive to those of the compulsory items: in particular it is noted that this could bring the final score over 10.0, in which case the final score will be decreased to this figure. In no case will the grade of the "Challenges" waive the requirement of getting a minimum grade of 4.0 over 10.0 in both the Theory Contents and Lab Contents section for any student.

Single Evaluation

Attending lab sessions, turning in the lab reports and writing the practical exam are compulsory requirements of the subject, as they are for students taking the continuous evaluation.

Srudents who have chosen to take the Single Evaluation itinerary will have to write two exams on the same day the rest of students take the second partial exam:

• The first exam will cover the complete syllabus of the subject (theory and exercises). The grade obtained in this paper is the student’s grade in Theory Contents.

• The second exam is a short paper related to the lab activity. The Lab Contents grade of the student is computed in the same way as for the rest of students: 50% of the grade comes from the lab reports and 50% from this exam.

To have a possibility to pass the subject the student needs to reach a minimal grade of 4.0 out of 10.0 in both the Theory Contents and the Lab Contents. If this is the case, the final grade of the subject is computed as follows:

Final Grade = (70×Theory Contents + 30×Lab Contents)/100

If the final grade computed with the above formula does not reach 5.0 out of 10.0 or the grade of the Theory Contents does not reach 4.0 out of 10.0 the student has a second chance to pass the subject by taking a supplemental exam on a date to be determined by the Degree Coordinator. In this supplemental exam the student can only recover the grade on Theory Contents. The grade of Lab Contents cannot be recovered: A student not achieving a grade of 4.0 out of 10.0 on his/her Lab Contents cannot pass the subject.

"Non-Evaluable" Status

The status "Non-Evaluable" will be assumed for students having no grade for Theory Contents or Lab Contents. To this end, and depending on the kind of evaluation (continuous or single), it must be borne in mind that:

• Students following the Continuous Evaluation model will not have a grade for Theory Contents if they have only written one partial exam but no supllemental exam, or have no exam grades altogether. Students following the Single Evaluation model will not have a grade for Theory Contents if they have not written at least one of the two written exams they are entitled to.
• Irrespective of the evaluation model followed by the student: no grade for Lab Contents will be given to a student if any of the following circumstances applies: (1) s/he has not attended the lab sessions, (2) s/he has not turned in at least one lab report, (3) s/he has not taken the written lab exam.