Molecular Design - Project Course

Aim

The course is designed to give students further experience to an chemist’s approach to analyze a task, solving problems, organizing the required activities to complete the task and working in groups. This is a practical course in which students work in groups. The course will end with written and oral presentations of the groups accomplishments. By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• plan and experimentally execute a project in chemistry
• understand and evaluate experimentally determined data through critical thinking of scientific literature and available experimental data
• analyze and structuring problems
• plan a project after receiving a problem statement and to generate project and time plans
• take initiative and find creative solutions to problem
• make oral and written presentations of project work in english. Course content The project course involves a projekt based on the fundamental working metods in chemistry; syntesis, separation and analysis. The project can be taken from different areas in chemistry Teaching and working methods The project work is performed in groups of 3-4 students and is organized in two parts. First, a plan is worked out and designed for the project with literature research. The second part involves laboartory work, documentation and evaluation. During the project the students shall work independently with a supervisor as a discussion partner to support the project. Project work should be documented during the work, and at the end presented in the form of a presentation and a written report written in english. Both the presentation and the report must be passed. Examination PRA1Project6 creditsU, GGrades are given as ’Fail’ or ’Pass’. Grades Two grade scale, older version, U, G Other information About teaching and examination languageThe teaching language is presented in the Overview tab for each course. The examination language relates to the teaching language as follows: If teaching language is “Swedish”, the course as a whole could be given in Swedish, or partly in English. Examination language is Swedish, but parts of the examination can be in English.If teaching language is “English”, the course as a whole is taught in English. Examination language is English.If teaching language is “Swedish/English”, the course as a whole will be taught in English if students without prior knowledge of the Swedish language participate. Examination language is Swedish or English depending on teaching language.OtherThe course is conducted in a manner where both men's and women's experience and knowledge are made visible and developed. The planning and implementation of a course should correspond to the course syllabus. The course evaluation should therefore be conducted with the course syllabus as a starting point. The course is campus-based at the location specified for the course, unless otherwise stated under “Teaching and working methods”. Please note, in a campus-based course occasional remote sessions could be included. If special circumstances prevail, the vice-chancellor may in a special decision specify the preconditions for temporary deviations from this course syllabus, and delegate the right to take such decisions. Department Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi Course literature Vetenskapliga artiklar eller utdelat material från institutionen (IFM).

Content

The project course involves a projekt based on the fundamental working metods in chemistry; syntesis, separation and analysis. The project can be taken from different areas in chemistry