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| SMEM0041-1 | Personal project
- internship
- final thesis
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| Duration : | internship :
final thesis :
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| Number of credits : |
| Master en sciences et gestion de l'environnement, à finalité spécialisée en énergies renouvelables, 2nd year | | 27 |
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| Master en sciences et gestion de l'environnement, à finalité spécialisée en intervention technique, 2nd year | | 27 |
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| Master en sciences et gestion de l'environnement, à finalité spécialisée en interfaces sociétés-environnements, 2nd year | | 27 |
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| Master en sciences et gestion de l'environnement, à finalité spécialisée en surveillance de l'environnement, 2nd year | | 27 |
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| Master en sciences et gestion de l'environnement, à finalité spécialisée en procédés biologiques de valorisation des déchets, 2nd year | | 27 |
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| Lecturer : | internship : Collégialité
final thesis : Collégialité
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| Coordinator : | Marc Mormont |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| Professional focus in Environmental Monitoring
The course includes two parts :
- Observation traineeship in a company to follow a team during the real live situation of environmental monitoring (for 5 credits).
- An "end-of-study" work during which the student appropriates a subject and leads it within a scientific research approach. The subject must be related to environmental monitoring (for 22 credits).
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| Each student will spend two weeks in anorangisation (company, NGO or administration) by:
- either participating in the current work of the organisation
- or inquiring employee or customers of the oragnisation |
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| Student will write a thesis including:
- the definition of a problem
- the state of the art from scientific litterature
- a specific research question
- an anaysis of collected data according a methodology selected in those proposed in other courses
- a conclusion
- a bibliography |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Professional focus in Environmental Monitoring
For the traineeship, the student must appreciate the way of applying environmental monitoring in a company or an administration with respect to the teaching.
For the end-of-study work, the aim is to be able analyzing a subject from the state-of-the-art until the final discussion of results. The stress is laid on the application of the concepts learnt during the courses in a real-life situation.
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| Student will be able
- to describe the organisation (administrative structure, activities, impacts)
- to evaluate critically the contribution of the organsiation to environmental management and policy
- to define what he learned |
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| Student will make the proofs that he is able to deal with a problem of envoiron,mental management according a clear methodology and to propose some theoretical and practical conclusions |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Professional focus in Environmental Monitoring
The course takes place after the series of courses of the professional focus in "Environmental Monitoring", so that the student has already learnt good notions of data collection and data processing.
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| Case studies |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Professional focus in Environmental Monitoring
Some workshops to orientate the student in his choices and to assess the evolution of the work.
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| A Free seminar of training to the thesis will be organised; please look at the courses schedule. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Professional focus in Environmental Monitoring
Advices and spot help of teachers, but the work is essentially personal. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Depends on the subject. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Professional focus in Environmental Monitoring
Traineeship report + manuscript for the end-of-study work and oral presentation. Criteria are chiefly based on scientific rigor and critical analysis.
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| Written report |
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| Oral presentation of the thesis (20 minutes) and discussion with a jury (30 minutes) |
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Work placement(s) :
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| Included in the course.
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| Thesis can be associated with the training activity |
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Organizational remarks :
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| Sudent will bring up to date a journal including
progress of the work
remarks and comments of the professor
cloeccted data |
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Contacts :
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| Professional focus in Environmental Monitoring
Prof. Jacques NICOLAS
tél. 063/230.857
e-mail j.nicolas@ulg.ac.be
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| Marc MORMONT
mmormont@ulg.ac.be |
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| All the teachers of the orientation Interfaces Societies Environments |
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