Professional Projects in Chemistry

- Provide knowledge about the documents and the development of an engineering project.
- Train students to understand other professionals in the area of chemical engineering.
- Familiarize students with the interpretation of flow and control diagrams.
- Awareness of the importance about industrial processes safety and sustainability and knowledge on the most relevant current legal framework.
- Train students to use different techniques and tools that allow them to present a basic professional project.

*Master lectures:
- The project: previous studies. Basic operations and processes. General criteria for project development. The market. Size. Construction project. Design phase stages: calculations. Organizational structure of an industrial plant.
- The engineering project. Documents: memory, annexes, plans, specifications, budget, own entity studies.
- Diagrams: location, block, flow and control.
- Environment.
- Security and health.
- Budget and economic viability.

*Interactive sessions (seminars):
The teachers will guide small groups of students in the elaboration and presentation of a professional project in chemistry.

Basic bibliography:

-Toro López, F. J. (2012). Gestión de Proyectos con Enfoque PMI (eBook). ECOE Ediciones. ISBN: 9789587710489
-Sinnot, R. K. (2012). Diseño en Ingeniería química (5ª edición). Reverté. ISBN: 9788429171990

Complementary bibliography:

-Smith R. (2010). Chemical process design and integration (2nd edition). Wiley. ISBN: 9780471486817
-Cos Castillo, M. Dirección de proyectos (1988). Madrid: Universidad Politécnica, E.T.S.I.I., Sección de Publicaciones.
-López Vázquez, J.A. (2002).La Oficina Técnica y el Proyecto. Universidad de A Coruña.
-A guide to the project management body of knowledge: (PMBOK guide). Newtown Square (Pennsylvania): Project Management Institute, 2013
-Calleja Pardo, G. (1999). Introducción a la Ingeniería Química. Madrid: Ed. Síntesis
-Zahera Pérez, Manuel (2016). Gestión integrada de proyectos innovadores: curso básico. Madrid : Pirámide, D.L. 40966-2016. ISBN: 9788436836783

* BASIC AND GENERAL:
CG2 - That they be able to gather and interpret relevant data, information and results, obtain conclusions and issue reasoned reports on scientific, technological or other problems that require the use of knowledge of Chemistry.
CG3 - That they can apply both the theoretical-practical knowledge acquired and the capacity for analysis and abstraction in the definition and approach of problems and in the search for solutions in both academic and professional contexts.
CG4 - That they have the ability to communicate, both in writing and orally, knowledge, procedures, results and ideas in Chemistry to both a specialized and non-specialized audience.
CG5 - That they are able to study and learn autonomously, with organization of time and resources, new knowledge and techniques in any scientific or technological discipline.

* TRANSVERSAL:
CT12 - Acquire autonomous learning
CT13 - Ability to adapt to new situations.
CT14 - Develop creativity.
CT15 - Leadership ability.
CT16 - Develop motivation for quality.
CT17 - Acquire sensitivity towards environmental issues.
CT8 - Be able to work in an international context.
CT7 - Carry out interdisciplinary teamwork.

* SPECIFIC:
CE25 - Be able to relate chemistry with other disciplines.
CE9 - Acquire knowledge of the unit operations of Chemical Engineering.
CE13 - Be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of essential facts, concepts, principles and theories related to the areas of Chemistry.

Lectures will be dedicated to the presentation of the theoretical contents of the course, always with the active participation of the students and with the support of audio-visual tools (CG5, CT16, CT17, CE9, CE25).
In the interactive sessions, the teachers will guide the team work consisting of the realization of a professional project in chemistry (CG2, CG3, CG5, CT7, CT8, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CE13). Following the pilot experience carried out in the academic year 2021-22, a limited number of groups will additionally receive supervision from students of the Master's degree in Chemical Engineering and Bioprocesses as part of the subject "Engineering Project Management".
In group tutorials, partial and final presentations of the project will be carried out by each team (CG4, CE13).
The Learning Management System (LMS) will be used as the main tool for communication with the students, offering them information about the teaching program and the evaluation tests, as well as making available additional materials for the study of the subject.

There will be a continuous learning monitoring, in such a way that the final mark will be obtained as the weighted sum of the following elements:

- Continuous evaluation (with contribution from both the master lectures and the interactive sessions). The continuous evaluation results will be communicated to the students before the final exam.
- Exam: includes writing and oral test. Both the contents of the master lectures and the report and defense of the project will be evaluated.

With the following specific weights:
1) 25% continuous assessment: 20% activities associated with master lectures and 5% activities associated with interactive sessions and group tutorials.
2) 75% exam: 55% written part and 20% oral part.

A minimum of 35% is needed in each part of the exam to pass.

Attendance at seminar classes and tutorials is mandatory, due to their interactive nature. Unexcused absences will have an impact on the final mark of the group project.

The continuous assessment and the group project marks will be saved for the second opportunity qualification. They will not be saved for the next academic course.

The qualification of the student will not be inferior to the one of the final examination neither to the obtained weighting it with the continuous evaluation.

In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the “Regulations for the evaluation of student academic performance and the review of qualifications” (Normativa de evaluación del rendimiento académico de los estudiantes y de revisión de cualificaciones) will be applied.


Activities and competences Assessment:
- Exam: CG5, CT16, CT17, CE9, CE25.
- Continuous assessment, project elaboration: CG2, CG3, CG5, CT7, CT8, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CE13.
- Presentation and defence of the project: CG4, CE13.

TRAINING ACTIVITY: HOURS; PRESENTIALITY
Large group master lectures: 15; 100
Small group interactive sessions: 24; 100
Small group tutorial: 3; 100
Autonomous work of the student: 108; 0. They represent 2.6 hours of work for each classroom hour. In the work teams, the total number of working hours will be 2.6 hours for each student x number of students.

Class attendance. Daily work. Active and collaborative participation in work teams.
It is recommended to take or to have taken the subject "Chemical Engineering".

Teaching is in Galicia and/or Spanish. Some materials and bibliography will be in English with the aim of promoting professional development competence in the international context.

In case of discrepancy among the different versions of this guide, the content of the Galician language guide will prevail.