Theory classes: the knowledge of the subject will be explained. The basic concepts will be described and illustrated with practical examples. The most important learning problems will be highlighted and will show how to complete and deepen the contents. Practical cases will be discussed and the teacher will detect the most common comprehension and reasoning problems and solve them for all students.

Classes of Problems in Laboratory: cooperative activities of resolution of problems and of simple practical cases will be made, that will serve as support to the theory. After a previous individual work, the students will make a group sharing and solve their doubts. The teacher will detect the most common comprehension and reasoning problems and solve them in groups or for all students. The student's analysis and synthesis capacity, critical reasoning and problem-solving ability are promoted. During the session, the students should inform the teacher about their progress and the problems that may be encountered, and they will deliver a final document with the results and reflections on their activities.

Optimization Problems: throughout the course, exercises will be proposed to transform small pieces of code so that they run in less time. Students should apply the knowledge, methodologies and strategies learned and present the result by arguing the reasons for performance improvements. Students are expected to be proactive and dynamic, and to autonomously search for the necessary knowledge.

The dates for continuous evaluation and submission of works will be published on the Moodle platform of the UAB (Virtual Campus) and may be subject to programming changes for reasons of adaptation to possible incidents. Always be informed on the Moodle platform about these changes, as it is understood that it is the usual platform for exchanging information between teacher and students. Should it be neessary, a request may be made to reschedule assessment activities in accordance with the protocol set by the Engineering School. Should the teaching staff have doubts about the authorship of any assessment test, they may, if they deem it appropriate, conduct an oral interview to verify it.

Evaluation Activities

Activity A: solving practical problems in the laboratory; done as a group; 50% of the final grade; minimum score of 5 points out of 10; cannot be recovered

Activity B: written examination reflecting on activity A; done individually; 10% of the final grade; not necessary a minimum grade; can be recovered

Activity C: written examination of theory and problems; done individually and without notes; 40% of the final grade; minimum score of 5 points out of 10; can be recovered

Apart from the evaluation activities described above, during the course it will be possible to propose other voluntary activities that can contribute to the final qualification of the course

Program of Evaluation Activities

Activity A is carried out throughout the course. Activities B and C are carried out at the end of the course and on the dates specified by the coordination.

Recovery Process

The student can present himself to the recovery whenever he/she has submitted to the activities A, B and C. Activities B and C can be recovered, and they represent 50% of the final grade.

Review procedure

All evaluation activities can be reviewed in a place, date and time that will be published beforehand. Claims may be made on the activity grade, which will be evaluated by the faculty responsible for the subject. If the student does not show up for this revision, this activity will not be reviewed later.

Qualifications

An honor grade (MH) will be awarded to students who reach a final grade equal to or greater than 9.00, up to a total of 5% of the students enrolled, prioritizing the part of the grade that corresponds to individual assessments (activities B and C).

If the student does not reach the minimum grade in any of the evaluation activities, the final numerical grade will be the minimum between 4.5 points and the weighted sum of the grades of all the activities.

A student will be considered non-assessable (NA) if he / she has not submitted to any of activities B and C.

Irregularities by students, copy and plagiarism

Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, will be scored with a zero the irregularities committed by a student that may lead to a variation of the rating of an act of evaluation. Therefore, copying, plagiarism, cheating, letting copy, unauthorized use of IA (i.e., Copilot, ChatGPT or equivalents), etc. in any of the evaluation activities will involve suspending it with a zero. The evaluation activities qualified in this way and by this procedure will not be recoverable. If it is necessary to pass any of these assessment activities to pass the subject, then this subject will be suspended directly, with no opportunity to recover it in the same course. In the case of not passing the subject due to the fact that the student has committed irregularities in an evaluation act, the numerical note of the record will be the lower value between 3.0 and the weighted average of the marks (and therefore the approved by compensation will not be possible).

Evaluation of repeating students

There is no special treatment for repeating students.

Use of IA

In this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted as an integral part of the assignment development, provided that the final outcome reflects the student’s significant contribution through personal analysis and reflection. The student must clearly identify which parts were generated using AI, specify the tools employed, and include a critical reflection on how these tools influenced the process and final outcome of the activity. Failure to disclose the use of AI will be considered academic dishonesty and may result in a grade penalty for the assignment or more severe sanctions in serious cases.

Unique Assessment

This course does not contemplate the single evaluation system