The teaching methodology includes different types of activities that are:

Theory classes: will be carried out combining the use of digital material (e.g. slides) and the realization of developments on the board. It is recommended to take notes and expand or complete them by consulting the books and materials recommended in the bibliography and in class. It will try to boost student participation during classes. The teaching staff will solve some practical cases in order to exemplify the theory.

Classes of problems: they are essential for the correct understanding of the subject and for the application of the concepts studied in the resolution of real problems. Students will have a collection of problems that must be solved and that (a part) will be corrected throughout the course to the classes of problems. When the teaching staff determines it, the delivery of solved problems will be mandatory.

Laboratory practices: practices will be carried out in the laboratory (experimental and/or computational) so that the students get to know the work in the laboratory and can work in a more practical and applied way the concepts seen to theory.

Autonomous work: the students must work autonomously on the theoretical contents and the questions raised by the lecturerin the directed sessions or through the Moodle classroom, in the realization of the practices, and in the elaboration of the works of the subject that will involve a part of bibliographic research.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

The evaluation will be carried out throughout the course and will be done through different evaluation activities, each of them with the weight in the final grade indicated in the table (Continuous evaluation, AC). The evaluation method will also be subject to the guidelines set by the Faculty of Sciences. Class attendance will be part of the continuous assessment, in accordance with the criteria established by the teaching staff.

Partial exams (70% of the total grade): Two tests (35% weight each) will be done to evaluate the scientific-technical knowledge of the subject achieved by the students, as well as their capacity for analysis and synthesis, and critical reasoning. The contents evaluated will be those of the theory and problem classes, as well as some questions about the practices carried out. The minimum grade required in each partial is 4.5 out of 10.

Laboratory practicals (10% of the total): Attendance and completion of the practical sessions are mandatory. Students must immediately contact the teaching staff responsible for the course and the practical sessions if any issue arises that may affect their participation. Assessment of the practical sessions will be based on laboratory reports and/or an examination, and will account for 10% of the final course grade. The average mark of the assessed activities associated with the practical sessions must be at least 5.0 out of 10.

Other evidence (20% of the total): In order to motivate the work of the subject and to monitor the progress of the students, the teaching staff will require that the students autonomously carry out tests in Moodle (or in other online platforms), problem solving to deliver, preparation of materials or presentations, visualization of videos and / or bibliographic works, that will be evaluated. They shall represent a maximum of 20% of the total notice.

Those not presented: A student will be considered evaluated if he/she performs any of the following activities: (a) completion of a partial exam or (b) realization of two practical laboratory sessions.

Recovery exam: If the minimum requested is not reached, at the end of the course one or both partial exams can be repeated. The grade obtained will replace the one obtained in the first attempt. To participate in these second exams it is necessary to have been previously evaluated in a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of two thirds of the total grade of the subject.

Review: Students will have the opportunity to review all assessment activities as set out in UAB regulations.

Single Assessment (UA):

Students who have taken advantage of the single evaluation modality must take a final test that will consist of: (1) a theory exam where they must answer a series of questions related to the theory classes and laboratory practices carried out; (2) a problem test where a series of exercises similar to those that have been worked on in the Classroom Practices sessions and laboratory practices must be solved. These tests will be carried out on the day that the students of the continuous evaluation take the exam of the second partial. In addition, and given that the practices are mandatory, the reports of the practices must be presented on the same day as the continuous evaluation students, which, normally, will be tried to be the same day of the realization of the practice.

The student's grade will be calculated from the different evaluation activities according tothe following weights: the theory exam will account for 45% of the grade, the problem exam 40% and the grade of the practice reports and/or practice exam will count 15%.

If the final grade does not reach 5.0, students will have another opportunity to pass the subject throughanew exam (similar to the final test one) that will be held on the date set by the coordination of the degree. The weight of this test will be 85%. The laboratory practices mark is not recoverable.

The students will be able to review the different tests evaluated on the day of the review of the second partial by the rest of the students or, if necessary, on a day agreed with the teaching staff responsible for the subject.

In this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is strictly limited to consultation or support tasks, and their use to generate content that forms a direct part of assessable evidence is not permitted. Any contribution based on AI must be properly reasoned, reinterpreted, and expressed in the student’s own words. The use of AI-generated content without such original elaboration will be considered a breach of academic integrity and may result in a partial or total penalty in the activity grade, or more severe sanctions in serious cases.

Any irregularity in an assessment activity (academic fraud, plagiarism, or misuse of AI) that may lead to a significant alteration of the grade will result in that activity being graded as 0. If the course syllabus establishes that passing the course requires obtaining a minimum mark in that assessment activity, or if multiple irregularities occur in the assessment activities of the same course, the final grade for the course will be 0. Additionally, a disciplinary process may be initiated against any student who incurs any of these irregularities.

If the course is failed but the laboratory grade is higher than 6.0, it will not be mandatory to repeat the laboratory sessions the following academic year, and the laboratory grade will be retained, provided that 75% of the same lab sessions are maintained as in the previous year in which the course was failed.