ECTS credits ECTS credits: 18
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 18.5 Interactive Classroom: 6.5 Total: 25
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: End of master’s Degree Project RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: End of Degree Projects and End of Master's Degree Projects
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
The main objective of the Master’s Thesis (TFM, after the acronyme of “Traballo Fin de Máster” in the USC official language) is to perform a work in the field of Chemical Engineering and Bioprocesses, of either professional or researching profile, that synthesise and integrate the different skills acquired in the various courses comprised in the Master’s Programme; while concomitantly contributing to complement the training of the student.
The TFM will consists of an original work done individually, consisting of a comprehensive project of Chemical Engineering of professional nature, in which the skills acquired throughout the Master’s programme be synthesised. The project may consist of a research or design project, or a scientific or technological development study, always related to the different courses fo the Master’s programme.
The project may be carried out through a stage in a company, public organism, university (including research groups at USC), research centre, or technological centre, with with the USC have a collaboration agreement in place in the context of the Master’s programme.
The bibliography will be the one appropriate to the type and topic of the work to the work to be developed.
(Please refer to the Memoire-Guide of the Master’s programme for interpretation of the coding)
Knowledge: CN01, CN02.
Competence: CP01, CP02, CP03, CP04.
Skill: HD03, HD04, HD07, HD09, HD11, HD12.
An academic tutor from within the set of teachers of the Master will be appointed, along with an external tutor from the company/institution hosting the student during the development of the TFM, if that is the case.
The establishment of a general methodology universally valid for all types of TFM does not look reasonable. Thus, the methodology will be defined specifically by the tutors for each TFM, depending on its characteristics; but guaranteeing the acquisition of all the skills associated to this course: CN01, CN02, CP01, CP02, CP03, CP04, HD03, HD04, HD07, HD09, HD11, HD12.
The tutor(s) will set work sessions with the student, to establish the scheduling of the tasks to be performed and to guide the work. He/She/They will be responsible for presenting to each student the characteristics of the work, for guiding her/him in its development, and for ensuring compliance with the established objectives.
The tutor(s) will submit a mandatory and confidential assessment report before the defence of the work by the student. The student will prepare a report of her/his work, which will be presented in a public session before the designated examination panel, constituted by teachers of the Master’s programme. In this session, the student will defende the TFM before the examination panel and will answer those questions raised by this panel.
The assessment criteria will be the following:
* Work done by the student, including the quality of the report submitted (50 %) (CN01, CN02, CP01, CP02, CP03, CP04, HD03, HD04, HD07, HD09, HD11, HD12)
* Mandatory report by the tutor(s) (25 %) (HD03, HD04, HD07, HD11, HD12)
* Presentation and defence of the TFM before the examination panel (25 %) (HD03, HD04, HD09, HD11)
The evaluation of each of the criteria will be done according to the rubric specifically prepared for this purpose.
The course has a work load of 18 ECTS, equivalent to 450 h of total work. The distribution is as follows:
Acitivity – Hours – Face-to-face percentage
Stage for development of the TFM – 440 – 100
Individualised tutorial sessions – 3 – 100
Examination and revision – 1 – 100
Personal work by the student – 6 – 0
Students must have passed all the other courses of the Master’s programme before defending the TFM (with the obvious exception of the TFM course itself).