Theory classes: Subject knowledge will be explained and illustrated with practical examples. The key learning difficulties will be identified, showing students how to complete and deepen the course contents. Practical problems will be discussed and solved, and the teacher will address the most common misunderstandings in reasoning and comprehension, resolving them for all students. These activities aim to develop students’ analysis and synthesis skills, critical reasoning, and problem-solving abilities.

Practical autonomous study case: Throughout the course, students must design, plan, carry out, present, and orally defend a practical project. The work must clearly state its objectives, include the development process, present the results with understandable diagrams, figures, and graphs, highlight the most significant aspects, and conclude with the most relevant findings. A proactive and dynamic attitude is expected, including an autonomous search for the knowledge required and a strong commitment to the project’s objectives.

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 dates for continuous assessment and the submission of deliverables will be published on the UAB Moodle platform (Virtual Campus) and may be subject to scheduling changes due to necessary adjustments to possible incidents. Students are required to check the Moodle platform for any updates, since the Virtual Campus is understood to be the usual channel for communication between teachers and students.

Evaluation Activities

Activity A: Written examination of theory and problems; done individually (closed book); 20% of the final grade; no required minimum grade. This part can be recovered at the end of the course.

Activity B: Lab exercises; done as a group; 50% of the final grade; required minimum grade of 5 out of 10. This part is not recoverable during all the course.

Activity C: Written report and oral defense of autonomous work; done individually; 30% of the final grade; no required minimum grade. This part can be recovered at the end of the course.

Recovery Process

The student can opt to recover activities A or C, only if he/she has done all of the activities A, B and C.

Irregularities by students, copying and plagiarism

Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures that may be deemed appropriate, any irregularity committed by a student that may result in a different rating of an assessed activity will be scored with a grade of zero. This includes copying, plagiarism, cheating, allowing others to copy, or unauthorized use of AI (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, or equivalents), among others. In case the teaching staff considers it appropriate, an oral test may be carried out to validate the authorship of any of the assessment tests.

All assessed activities graded in this way through this procedure will be non-recoverable. If passing any of these assessment activities is necessary to pass the course, the course will be failed directly, with no opportunity to recover in the same course. If the student fails the course because they committed irregularities in an assessed activity, the numerical final grade recorded will be the lower of 3.0 or the weighted average of the grades. In this case, the option of “passing by compensation” will not be available.