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Workshop in Modelling

Code: 100099 ECTS Credits: 9
2025/2026
Degree Type Year
Mathematics FB 2

Contact

Name:
Natalia Castellana Vila
Email:
natalia.castellana@uab.cat

Teachers

Angel Calsina Ballesta
Julia Cufi Sobregrau
Natalia Castellana Vila

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

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Objectives and Contextualisation

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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

  1. Analyse a situation and identify points for improvement.
  2. Apply critical spirit and thoroughness to validate or reject both one's own arguments and those of others.
  3. Contrast the solution obtained, after resolving the model, in terms of its adaptation to the real phenomenon.
  4. Develop the capacity to identify and mathematically describe a problem, structure the available information and select an adequate model.
  5. Effectively use bibliographies and electronic resources to obtain information.
  6. Identify situations that require changes or improvements.
  7. Identify the social, economic and environmental implications of academic and professional activities in the area of your knowledge.
  8. Propose new experience-based methods or alternative solutions.
  9. Propose viable projects and action which can promote social, economic and environmental benefits. Propose way of evaluating projects and actions to improve sustainability.
  10. Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  11. Work in teams

Content

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Activities and Methodology

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

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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 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 and other possible individual submissions 30% 0 0 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 5

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Bibliography

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Software

No specific software is used in the course.


Groups and Languages

Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(SEM) Seminars 1 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(SEM) Seminars 2 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 1 Catalan second semester morning-mixed