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| ASTG9005-1 | Research Internship
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| Duration : | 300h Proj. |
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| Lecturer : | Guy Leduc |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| All year long, with partial in January |
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Course contents :
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| The internship is a substantial individual project that must be accomplished in a research laboratory, in Belgium or abroad. We generally consider that it amounts to 2 months of full time work. The subject is generally proposed by the research center and approved by an advisor who must be an academic member or a permanent researcher. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The goal of the internship is to prepare the student to his/her future career in research by discovering a professional environment and specialized techniques. The student will have to prove that (s)he can carry out a substantial project based of his/her theoretical and practical knowledge and skills. This project will include a preliminary study, the description of an innovative idea, and possibly its evaluation. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Internship in a research centre. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The evaluation is first based on the report written by the student. There are no formal constraints on its length, but it will typically be 30-page long. It should describe the context of the work, the research center, the problem addressed, the methodology, the proposed innovative idea, the obtained results, and a conclusion (contributions and perspectives). The defence by the student is oral and public. It consists of an oral presentation, a question/answer session, and is followed by a short deliberation. The final grade takes account of the amount and quality of the achieved work, the quality of the written report and of the oral presentation, the relevance of the provided answers, as well as the opinion of the external internship advisor. |
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Work placement(s) :
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| Professors propose internship subjects for which they will act as academic advisor. These subjects are collected from research centers. A student can also make a proposal, but it must be approved by an academic advisor. Students should choose a subject as early as possible, ideally at the end of the previous academic year, if they want to start during the summer holidays. The internship will have a minimal duration of 30 working days spent in the company, not including the writing of the report, nor its defence. It can start as soon as the student has finalized his/her registration, for example during the summer holidays. It is organized according to the terms of a sample agreement signed by all parties. |
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Organizational remarks :
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| The regulation, detailed guidelines, the sample agreement, and proposed internships can be found at: http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/stages.php |
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