Bachelor's Degree Final Project
Code: 106058 ECTS Credits: 12| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering | OB | 4 |
Contact
- Name:
- Montserrat Sarra Adroguer
- Email:
- montserrat.sarra@uab.cat
Teachers
- Ricardo Gene Torrandell
Teaching groups languages
You can view this information at the end of this document.
Prerequisites
According to the regulations on permanence in official undergraduate and master's studies at the UAB (June 2011-Agreement 18/2011), in order to enroll in fourth-year undergraduate courses, you must have passed at least all first-year subjects and a total number of credits that is at least two-thirds of the total credits of the Degree (ie having passed 160 credits)
The recommendation to be able to do the final degree thesis (TFG) is to have first and second all passed and in third the subjects: Reactors, Separation Operations, Heat Transmission, Control, instrumentation and automatisms, Design of equipment and resistance of materials , Process and product engineering, Chemical process simulation and Environmental technology.
Having completed or been enrolled in the subject Projects and Security.
YOU CANNOT REGISTER FOR THIS SUBJECT WITHOUT FIRST SPEAKING WITH THE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING DEGREE COORDINATOR
Objectives and Contextualisation
The objective of the Final Degree Work is to carry out a Chemical Engineering project, that is to say, to analyze, evaluate, design and operate a certain chemical process in accordance with certain requirements, rules and specifications under the principles of sustainable development. All the knowledge acquired in the basic and compulsory subjects taken throughout the Chemical Engineering Degree will be applied.
Competences
- Analyse, evaluate, design and operate the systems or processes, equipment and installations used in chemical engineering in accordance with certain requirements, standards and specifications following the principles of sustainable development.
- Apply one's knowledge when performing measurements, calculations, estimations, evaluations, assessments, studies, reports and other similar tasks.
- Communication
- Develop personal attitude.
- Develop personal work habits.
- Develop thinking habits.
- Direct specific projects in the field of chemical engineering.
- Gender.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
- Work in a team.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply and manage time and resources available to a work team in order to satisfactorily undertake a chemical engineering project.
- Apply the knowledge required to produce engineering reports and diagrams required for a chemical engineering project.
- Apply unitary operations to environmental processes.
- Communicate efficiently, orally and in writing, knowledge, results and skills, both professionally and to non-expert audiences.
- Design and calculate engineering solutions to environmental problems.
- Develop a capacity for analysis, synthesis and prospection.
- Develop critical thinking and reasoning
- Develop curiosity and creativity.
- Develop independent learning strategies.
- Efficiently use ICT for the communication and transmission of ideas and results.
- Generate innovative and competitive proposals in professional activity.
- Integrate the variables of sex and gender as important elements in the problem or topic to be addressed in the assigned projects.
- Make one's own decisions.
- Manage available time and resources. Work in an organised manner.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
- Take account of gender differences and inequalities in the design of product safety measures and in the the impacts on personal safety that products can have.
- Work autonomously.
- Work cooperatively.
Content
The contents of this subject are ALL the main ones of the Bachelor's degree since this subject encompasses all the knowledge acquired throughout the studies of the Degree in Chemical Engineering.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Lectures | 30 | 1.2 | 2, 3, 7, 5 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutorials | 30 | 1.2 | 2, 1, 3, 6, 8, 7, 5, 10, 11, 15 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Individual work | 120 | 4.8 | 2, 1, 4, 9, 6, 7, 14, 13, 16, 18 |
| Work as team | 115 | 4.6 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 5, 14, 13, 16, 15, 19 |
The TFG will be made in groups of 4-7 people made BY DRAW.
There will be two hours of class per week during the semester of the project, where the student will be shown basic concepts and techniques to be able to carry out the project.
At the same time, a weekly meeting with the tutor will be held in which the progress status of the project and the problems that have arisen will be reviewed.
- In order to detect possible cases of a student not meeting work expectations, three follow-up surveys will be conducted in which students who are part of a group will be asked to rate their work colleagues anonymously.
- In the case of detecting a student below the required level of work in accordance with the surveys provided by the classmates themselves, a committee headed by the Degree coordinator will decide whether or not this student can continue in the subject.
- Weekly follow-up meetings between the tutor and group members will be mandatory. If a student is not present in two meetings without justification, a committee headed by the Degree coordinator will decide whether or not this student can continue in the subject.
- Tutoring meetings must fit within the School of Engineering's school hours. On the part of the tutors, they will try to have flexible schedules within this schedule.
The comunication with students will be throught Campus Virtual or e-mail.
In this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is allowed as an integral part of the development of the work, provided that the final result reflects a significant contribution by the student in the analysis and personal reflection. The student must clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used, and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. Non-transparency in the use of AI will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in serious cases.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exam | 10% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 2, 14, 13, 17, 18 |
| Grade of the colleagues | 25% | 0 | 0 | 2, 1, 3, 6, 7, 5, 14, 16, 15 |
| Memory and oral presentation | 45% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 12, 2, 1, 3, 4, 9, 6, 8, 7, 5, 10, 11, 14, 13, 16, 15, 17, 19, 18 |
| Tutor grade | 20% | 0 | 0 | 12, 1, 3, 6, 5, 11, 14, 13, 17, 19 |
The grade percentages are:
- 25% memory (the memory grade can be weighted by the personal assessment of the tutor, so not all group members must have the same memory grade)
- 20% oral presentation
- 10% theoretical exam to be proposed by the teacher responsible for the subject
- 20% tutor personal assessment
- 25% peer assessment by students. Students will evaluate their peers. This is a good way to prevent people in the group from losing interest in the project. This peer review will take place after the public presentation.
Due to the eminently practical nature of this subject it is a non-retrievable subject.
A student will be considered non-evaluable if he has not presented himself at the oral defense of the project or has not handed in the report.
The defense of the TFG will be oral and public before a university court.
Bibliography
The main bibliography of all the subjects of the Chemical Engineering Degree studies
Software
All software used in the degree, especially HYSYS.
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.