Practicum

“Aula profesional” course is framed in the second half of the 4th year of the Chemical Engineering degree. The aim of this activity is to complement the scientific and technical training of students by application of concepts and fundamentals previously addressed in other courses by means of practices in an industrial company. The course pursues that students improve their skills in several cross-competences which facilitate their successful integration into the working world, not only from a professional point of view but also personal.

“Aula professional” course has not a rigid structure in contents or methodologies. Students can freely choose in a series of activities that want to improve their training. The school has signed more than 100 agreements with companies: Abengoa, Alcoa, Endesa, Ferroatlántica, Nestle, Respol ... so that students of Chemical Engineering degree can do practices in their facilities.

There is no specific bibliography. Students will have to use the own company documentation as well as the books, articles, etc., of the university library.

General:
CG.1 Ability to write, sign and develop projects in the field of industrial chemical engineering aimed at the construction, modification, repair, maintenance, demolition, manufacture, installation, assembly or operation of structures, mechanical equipment, energy facilities, electrical and electronic installations, installations and industrial plants and manufacturing processes and automation.
CG4. Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical thinking and to communicate and transmit knowledge and skills in the field of engineering.
CG11. Knowledge, understanding and ability to apply the necessary legislation in the exercise of the profession of Industrial Engineer
Cross:
CT7. Decision making
CT9. Team work in an interdisciplinary team
CT10. Skills in interpersonal relationships
CT11. Ability to communicate with experts from other areas
CT12. Critical thinking and ethical commitment
CT13. Ability to apply knowledge in practice
CT14. Adapting to new situations
CT17. Creativity
CT18. Leadership
CT19. Autonomous Learning
CT20. Initiative and entrepreneurship

The course will be developed by a student internship in one company for 150 h. For credits recognition must have a previous agreement between the company and the ETSE. For managing the allocation process and verification of agreements, the school has appointed a Coordinator. In addition, each student has an academic tutor who will monitor the work done by the student and ensure the practice quality. The company will also assign a tutor among its technical staff to guide the student.
Students enrolled in the activity will have information not only about the places available, but also of their time planning, through bulletin board dedicated in the website of the school.

Students enrolled in the subject must participate in the Business Forum activity.

During practices, students will develop various general skills (CG4, CG11) and essentially cross-skills (CT7, CT9, CT10, CT11, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT17, CT18, CT19, CT20).
During the preparation of the final report it is basically developed the general competence CG1.

Academic tutor based on the practices monitoring, evaluation of tutor in the company (indicating the skills developed) and the final report created by the students will assign the final mark.

The student has one template for the completion of the report in:
https://nubeusc.sharepoint.com/:b:/r/sites/centro-etse/Practicas/Grao%2…

The final report will be assessed according to:
The assessment of the course will be done by the academic tutor based on the quality of the submitted report.
Given the particularities of this course, the weighing between final report and evaluation of the tutor company is a decission of the academic tutor.

The subject has a workload of 6 ECTS, corresponding 1 ECTS to 25 hours of total work. An approximate distribution of these hours is:
Classroom / student work hours / ECTS
Lectures 0.0 / 0.0 / 0.0
Seminars 2.0 / 133.0 / 5.4
Individualized tutoring 2.0 / 13.0 / 0.6
Review and revision 0.0 / 0.0 / 0.0
TOTAL 4.0 / 146.0 / 6.0

ETSE holds a seminar presentation of the activity opened to all degree students in which the procedures of practices course will be explained.