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External work placement

Code: 103269 ECTS Credits: 12
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
2501922 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology OT 4

Contact

Name:
Enric Menendez Dalmau
Email:
enric.menendez@uab.cat

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

To enroll in, it is necessary to have completed at least all the first-year subjects and a total number of 120 credits from the first three years.


Objectives and Contextualisation

The main objective of the subject is to allow students to put into practice the knowledge acquired during the bachelor in a work environment.


Competences

  • Adapt to new situations.
  • Apply ethical principles and legislative standards to the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
  • Apply the concepts, principles, theories and fundamental facts of nanoscience and nanotechnology to solve problems of a quantitative or qualitative nature in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
  • Apply the general standards for safety and operations in a laboratory and the specific regulations for the use of chemical and biological instruments, products and materials in consideration of their properties and the risks.
  • Be ethically committed.
  • Communicate orally and in writing in one's own language.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of legislation on intellectual property in the field of knowledge and application of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the concepts, principles, theories and fundamental facts related with nanoscience and nanotechnology.
  • Handle the standard instruments and materials of physical, chemical and biological testing laboratories for the study and analysis of phenomena on a nanoscale.
  • Interpret the data obtained by means of experimental measures, including the use of computer tools, identify and understand their meanings in relation to appropriate chemical, physical or biological theories.
  • Manage the organisation and planning of tasks.
  • Obtain, manage, analyse, synthesise and present information, including the use of digital and computerised media.
  • Operate with a certain degree of autonomy.
  • Reason in a critical manner
  • Recognise the terms used in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, nanoscience and nanotechnology in the English language and use English effectively in writing and orally in all areas of work.
  • Resolve problems and make decisions.
  • Show initiative and an enterprising spirit.
  • Show motivation for quality.
  • Show sensitivity for environmental issues.
  • Work correctly with the formulas, chemical equations and magnitudes used in chemistry.
  • Work on the synthesis, characterisation and study of the properties of materials on a nanoscale from previously established procedures.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Adapt to new situations.
  2. Apply ethical principles and legal standards to activities in the company during work experience.
  3. Be ethically committed.
  4. Communicate orally and in writing in one's own language.
  5. Correctly apply concepts and theories related with nanoscience and nanotechnology to the professional world
  6. Integrate acquired knowledge and skills to solve problems in the professional field.
  7. Manage the organisation and planning of tasks.
  8. Obtain, manage, analyse, synthesise and present information, including the use of digital and computerised media.
  9. Operate with a certain degree of autonomy.
  10. Produce a summary in English of the work done.
  11. Produce an explanatory report of the results obtained in a professional study in fields related with nanoscience and nanotechnology.
  12. Properly handle reagents and chemistry products.
  13. Reason in a critical manner
  14. Recognise the legal standards for activities in the company during work experience.
  15. Resolve problems and make decisions.
  16. Show initiative and an enterprising spirit.
  17. Show motivation for quality.
  18. Show sensitivity for environmental issues.
  19. Show the necessary skill to develop synthesis and characterisation studies of materials in the professional field
  20. Show the necessary skill to handle the instruments required for professional work in fields related with nanoscience and nanotechnology.
  21. Work correctly with the formulas, chemical equations and magnitudes used in chemistry.

Content

The content will depend on the nature of the company where the internship will be carried out.


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
guided activities 40 1.6 1, 5, 6, 12, 3, 8, 14, 21
preparation of the report and the oral presentation 18 0.72 4, 17, 13, 11, 10
Type: Supervised      
supervised activities 61 2.44 1, 5, 2, 19, 20, 7, 6, 12, 3, 18, 13, 14, 15, 21
Type: Autonomous      
self-work 180 7.2 1, 5, 2, 16, 19, 20, 17, 7, 6, 12, 3, 18, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 21

Internships can be done in either of the two semesters of the course or during summer period, but they must be evaluated within the enrolment course.

Internships can only be carried out in companies, spin-offs, start-ups, technology centers, large scale facilities, such as ALBA synchrotron or Barcelona Supercomputing Center, scientific and technical services and technical divisions of universities or research centers. Internships cannot be conducted in research groups from universities or research centers. However, if the internship is scheduled abroad, this can be carried in research groups from universities or research centers. In such case, please contact the coordinator of the subject and the “Unitat de Mobilitat Professional Internacional” of UAB since the latter will handle part of the documents.  

Duration of the internship: between 250 and 300 hours.

Companies may remunerate internships, but it is optional.

The student must look for a company where to carry out the internship. A list of companies that are potentially interested in hosting students can be found in the virtual campus. If the company where you would like to do the internship does not appear in that list, please contact the coordinator to discuss about the suitability of it.

Before starting the internship, students must enroll in the subject. To do so, students must hand in the "preagreement" document that can be found in both the website of the “Nanoscience and Nanotechnology bachelor” and the virtual campus. This "preagreement" document is an internal document of the university and is not the final agreement with the host company. Students and the corresponding host companies must fill it out. Information about the host, the name of the person who will act as external tutor and the agreed work plan are the main required inputs. Once completed, this document must be sent to the coordinator (in editable form) to be reviewed. Upon revision and correction, the coordinatorwill sign it. Then, students must send it to “Gestió Acadèmica” and begin the enrollment process, which also implies the establishment of an insurance for the student and the final agreement between the university and the host. This registration process is relatively fast, it only takes a few days. To speed it up, it is recommended that students have the electronic signature activated.

All the information and documents can be found in the virtual campus.

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
oral presentation 25% 1 0.04 4, 17, 13
tutor evaluation 40% 0 0 1, 5, 2, 16, 19, 20, 17, 7, 6, 12, 3, 18, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 21
written report 35% 0 0 4, 8, 13, 11, 10

Before starting the internship, the coordinator will contact the student's external tutor to provide him/her with the template for the evaluation of the student. Upon completion of the internship, the student will prepare a written report following the template found in the virtual campus. The student will also have to give an oral presentation following the guidelines than can also be found in the virtual campus. The assessment of the tutor of the entity will count for 40% of the mark, the written report will count for 35% of the mark, and the oral defense will count for 25% of the mark.

When approaching the evaluation period, the coordinator of the lecture will set the deadlines to submit the final report and the evaluations from the external tutor. Then, already in the evaluation period, the coordinator will inform the students about when the oral presentation will take place, which will be held online via TEAMS.

There are three assessment periods: (1) in January/February for students enrolled during the 1st semester, (2) in June/July for students enrolled during the 2nd semester, and (3) in September for students enrolled in summer.

The evaluation process will focus on the integration, adaptation, organization and tasks performed. Please be careful and strict when presenting the scientific and technical parts but please do it in a concise manner.


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Language list

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