Teaching will consist on 24 hours of theory lectures, 6 hours of problems and 22 hours of laboratory practices (8 hours about seminars related with laboratory).

Practical sessions: The practical sessions and their corresponding reports will be carried out in groups of a maximum of two students. Groups formed by more than two students will not be accepted. The delivery of the reports will be governed by a deadline that will be communicated after having done the practice, via virtual campus. Attendance at the laboratory practices is mandatory. Group changes or absences without a justified reason (with the corresponding documentation) will not be accepted. Punctual changes to the day of laboratory practices will not be accepted without a justified reason. A justified reason is understood to be a medical reason, a family emergency or the necessary presence in an evaluation exam or the driving license exam.

Extra exercises: During the course, extra exercises may be given to the students that must be done out of the teaching hours and which will be evaluable.

AI: In this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is not allowed at any stage. Any work that includes content generated by AI 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 (see evaluation section).

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.

There will be the following evaluation activities:

Two midterm exams (theory and problems), one at the midterm and the other at the end, with a weight under the final qualification of 70% (35% each). Attendance to these partial exams is mandatory to access to the recovery exam.

Reports corresponding to laboratory practices with a weight on the final qualification of 30%. This note will be taken into account for the final evaluation provided that the student exceeds the qualification of 4.5 as an average of the two midterm exams or as a qualification of the resit exam. Failure to attend any of the laboratory sessions without a justified reason (supported by appropriate documentation), and/or failure to submit the corresponding report within the deadline established on the virtual campus, will result in the student being graded as “not assessable” in the final mark for the subject.

A grade of “not assessable” implies that it is not possible to carry out an overall evaluation of the student’s knowledge in the subject, due to the lack of assessment evidence for the specific laboratory activity, as well as the significant importance of laboratory sessions in the final evaluation of the knowledge acquired.

NOTE: Attendance at the practical sessions and the delivery of the corresponding report are a mandatory condition for the student to be evaluated. Failure to attend any of the practices without a justified reason (with supporting documentation) and/or failure to submit the relevant report within the deadline established on the virtual campus will result in the qualification of not assessable in the final grade of the subject. As not assessable it will be understood the impossibility of globally assessing the student's knowledge within the subject, given the lack of evidence of assessment in the laboratory practice in question and given the special relevance of the laboratory practices in the final assessment of the knowledge acquired.

Resit exam (theory and problems): Attendance to the resit exam will be recommended if you have obtained a qualification of less than 5 in one of the two partial exams. It will have a weight of 70% of the final qualification. The contents referring to the first partial and the second will be assessed separately. This allows presentation to the resit exam of a partial or total contents of the subject. Final qualification of the exams (70% of the final subject qualification) will be the averaging between the two parts of the subject, choosing for each part the best qualification between the midterm exam and the resit exam.

Single assessment modality:

Students who have accepted the single assessment modality will have to take a single final test which will consist of an exam with a theory part and a problem part where they will have to solve a series of exercises similar to those they have worked in the Classroom Practice sessions. On the same day that they take the written test, they must hand in the reports of all the practices sessions (laboratory sessions). This exam and the delivery of all practice reports will take place on the day of the second partial exam set for continuous assessment students by the degree coordination. The written exam (theory and problems) will be delivered on paper and the practicals in PDF format via virtual campus.

The student's final grade will be as follows: the written exam (theory and problems) will have a weight of 70% of the final grade and the practical reports a total of 30%. The grade of the practice reports will be taken into account for the final grade only if the student has passed the grade of 4.5 in the written exam (theory and problems) or in the recovery exam.

If the final grade does not reach 5, the student has another opportunity to pass the subject through the recovery exam that will be held on the date set by the degree coordinator. In this test you can recover 70% of the grade corresponding to the theory and the problems. The laboratory practices part is not recovered.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Any irregularity in an assessment activity (academic fraud, plagiarism, or improper use of AI) that may lead to a significant variation in the grade will result in a grade of 0 for that assessment activity. If the teaching guide states that obtaining a minimum grade in this assessment activity is an essential requirement for passing the course, or if multiple irregularities occur in the assessment activities of the same course, the final grade for the course will be 0. In addition, disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against any student who commits any of these irregularities.