ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 47 Hours of tutorials: 1 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 9 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Sciences
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
-Acquire the basic knowledge about quality control in a laboratory, as well as about the quality control and evaluation activities, necessary to ensure this quality both in the operation of the laboratory and the results issued.
-Acquire basic knowledge about the accreditation process of an activity in a laboratory.
-Train the student in the search for information on certification and accreditation bodies and agencies at national and international level, as well as the regulatory references applicable to different real cases.
Theoretical Part
Item 1. Introduction to Quality Control
Item 2. Quality in sampling and sample management
Item 3. Team management
Item 4. Evaluation and control of methods of analysis
Item 5. Laboratory Accreditation
Practices
Use of different computer programs (Statgraphics, Excel, etc.) to apply the theoretical knowledge acquired to practical cases
Basic:
-QUALITY CONTROL. Dale H. Besterfield, Ed. Prentice Hall
-QUALITY ASSURANCE IN ANALYTICAL LABORATORIES. R. Compañó Beltrán, A. Ríos Castro. Ed. Synthesis
Complementary:
-QUALITY MANAGEMENT: CONCEPTS, APPROACHES, MODELS AND SYSTEMS. C. Camisón, S. Cruz, T. González. Ed. Pearson/Prentice Hall
-QUALITY AND SAFETY IN THE AGRI-FOOD SECTOR. J. A. Serra Belenguer, I. Fernández Segovia. Ed. Unite. Polytechnic of Valencia.
Basic and General Competences:
CB2 - That student knows how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study
CB3 - That student can gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific, or ethical issues
CB4 - That student can transmit information, ideas, problems, and solutions to both a specialized and non-specialized audience
CB5 - That student has developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy
Transversal competences:
CT1: Capacity for analysis and synthesis
TW5: Ability to use information and communication technologies (included in GC5)
CT6: Ability to manage information (included in GC6)
CT10: Capacity for critical reasoning and argumentation.
CT11: Capacity for autonomous learning (included in GC3)
Specific competences:
COP27 - Ability to apply the basic concepts of quality control, as well as the necessary control and evaluation activities in a laboratory
COP28 - Ability to apply the theoretical knowledge acquired in an accreditation process in a laboratory.
Face-to-face classes (theory and seminars).
The teacher will explain the fundamental theoretical contents of each topic and its importance in the context of the subject. The classes will be developed in an interactive way with the students, discussing with them the aspects that are most difficult or especially interesting of each topic.
Laboratory practices. They will be mandatory attendance. The practical sessions will be dedicated to the realization of the corresponding practice and to the interpretation of the results obtained.
Tutorials. They are intended to carry out a close follow-up of the work developed by each student, as well as clarify doubts and guide the student's personal work.
The USC Virtual Campus will be used to support teaching
The evaluation shall be carried out considering the following aspects:
* Continuous evaluation: 15%.
Competences evaluated: CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5, CT1, CT5, CT6, CT10, CT11, COP27, COP28
* Final exam: 70%
Competences evaluated: CB5, CT1, CT6, CT10, CT11, COP27, COP28
* Practice report: 15%
Competences evaluated: CB5, CT6, CT10, CT11; COP27, COP28
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the "Regulations for the evaluation of students' academic performance and the review of grades" will apply.
The subject consists of 3 ECTS credits. The total number of hours of student work is 75 hours, of which 36.7% are face-to-face and 63.3% are student work hours.
The detailed distribution of the student's working time is as follows:
- Master classes: 16 h face-to-face / 32 h student work
- Interactive laboratory classes: 6 h face-to-face
- Interactive seminar classes: 2 h face-to-face/6 h student work
- Hours of tutorials: 1.5 h face-to-face
- Exam: 2 h face-to-face / 9.5 h student work
-Attend face-to-face classes and bring the subject up to date
- Participate actively, constructively, and respectfully in the classes.
- Prepare the contents that are working on the subject with the recommended basic and complementary bibliography: it is important to consult the recommended bibliography for a better understanding of the subject and to have a greater global vision of the field of action of Quality Control in a laboratory.
- Properly use the tutorials to know in detail the recommendations of the teacher and clarify any doubts that arise in the learning process.
- Regularly consult the virtual classroom of the subject and make use of it.
- The study is convenient to focus on the reasoned understanding of the contents and not only on the memorization of these
The subject is taught in the two official languages of the autonomous community.
Attendance at expository and interactive classes is considered necessary to overcome the subject. The material to be provided to the student is intended to facilitate and guide learning, but they do not replace the consultation and study of the recommended reference texts nor do they in themselves constitute a reference manual for the preparation of the exam.
To pass the subject it is necessary first to understand it and handle the concepts correctly.