Training sessions and personal work

Duration

10h Th, 30h Pr, 2d FW

Number of credits

Lecturer

Ngoc Duy Nguyen, Christelle Prosperi

Coordinator

Ngoc Duy Nguyen

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The course is intended to bring to the students three complementary and mandatory activities: 1. The active participation to pedagogic activity related to physics experiment sessions with students in a bachelor degree. 2. The achievement of original physics experiments. Students will have to imagine and mount themselves using equipments available in the lab. 3. The achievement of an external observation training session, in Research Institutes, Industries or even secondary schools.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The main objective of this course is to make the students discover the multiple key aspects of a physicist job. This approach should help them to make a choice between the orientations that they will face when completing their bachelor degree.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Notions of TeX editor, learned during the bachelor degree in physics, will be very helpful to prepare the required reports. Common sense and curiosity are good assets.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

There is no experimental directed activities but students will have to deal with experimental work requiring a personal research effort.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

The teaching is organized during the whole academic year. The participation to the pedagogic activity related to the physics labs, the internship and the development of the experimental project will be organized accordingly to a timetable and calendar that will be communicated at the beginning of the first semester.

Recommended or required readings

No course material is needed. However, in the framework of the pedagogical preparation of the physics labs, a copy of the booklet which is distributed to the bachelor students to be supported will be made available.

Assessment methods and criteria

The final grade will be weighted following the rule below: 1. Physics lab tutoring : 30% 2. Experimental lab project : 40% 3. External internship : 30%
In case of non-attendance to any of these sessions, without valid motivation (disease or exceptional circumstances), the final mark that will be registered is 'ABSENT'.
If a second exam session is required, no additional training session is organized. Instead, a re-writing of the training or lab report(s) or a new oral presentation report would be organized. Moreover, if the student weakness is related to the physics lab tutoring, an oral exam would consist in presenting a physics experiment  (concept explanation) and performing it in the laboratory.

Work placement(s)

The external internship (2 observation days) is usually organized during a week of the second semester. The final agenda will be determined jointly by the internship mentor and the student.

Organizational remarks

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Contacts

Course teachers : Prof. N. D. NGUYEN (Tel: +32 4 366 3604; E-mail: ngocduy.nguyen@uliege.be) Dr. C. PROSPERI (Tél. + 32 4 366 3663; E-mail : christelle.prosperi@uliege.be)
Institute of Physics, Building B5a, Sart-Tilman, B-4000 Liège, Belgium.
Secretary : Mrs. Christine Renson Tel. : 04/366.36.14 (christine.renson@uliege.be)

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

The learning is focused on the writing of the internship report, accordingly to the communicated requirements. The teachers are available in case of questions concerning this writing.

Assessment subjects

The evaluation will consist in the defense of the internship report.

Assessment methods

The defense of the internship report will be performed via a remote presentation of 10 to 15 minutes. It will be followed by a Q/R session of 5 to 10 minutes.
The weight of each activity is adapted as follows :
Lab teaching : 40 %, Experimental project : 20 %, Internship : 40 %

Contacts

See above.

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session

Assessment subjects

Available only in French.

Assessment methods

Available only in French.

Contacts

Available only in French.

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