Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Final Degree Project
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, Spanish
Teaching staff
You can contact the TFG coordinator by email, jolmos@uic.es. Each teacher / tutor will provide the tutored student a way to communicate fluently during the completion of the Final Degree Project.
Introduction
The completion of the Bachelor’s Final Degree Project (TFG) is considered as an exercise which integrates the training content received and the skills acquired in the degree and, in order to unify the criteria and procedures that ensure and guarantee homogeneity in the organisation and assessment of this subject, the International University of Catalunya has internal regulations for Bachelor’s Final Degree Projects (TFG) and Master's Final Degree Projects (TFM), which are affected by all the official degrees offered by the UIC regulated by Royal Decree 1393/2007, as amended by Royal Decree 861/2010.
Pre-course requirements
The Bachelor’s Final Degree Project is the final subject of the programme. For this reason, the student can only enrol in it in the last academic year.
Objectives
• To apply in an integrated way all the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the undergraduate studies by carrying out and defending an individual, independent, supervised, original and unpublished research project.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- CB1 - Students must demonstrate that they have and understand knowledge in an area of study based on general secondary education. This knowledge should be of a level that, although based on advanced textbooks, also includes some of the cutting-edge elements from their field of study.
- CB2 - Students must know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and have the competences that are demonstrated through the creation and defence of arguments and the resolution of problems within their field of study.
- CB3 - Students must have the ability to bring together and interpret significant data (normally within their area of study) and to issue judgements that include a reflection on important issues that are social, scientific or ethical in nature.
- CB4 - Students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- CB5 - Students have developed the necessary learning skills to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.
- CE1 - To solve the maths problems that arise in the field of Bioengineering. The ability to apply knowledge of geometry, calculate integrals, use numerical methods and achieve optimisation.
- CE11 - To evaluate manufacturing, metrological and quality control systems and processes.
- CE12 - To undertake a professional project in the field of Bioengineering-specific technologies in which knowledge acquired through teaching is synthesised and incorporated.
- CE15 - The ability to undertake a project through the use of data sources, the application of methodologies, research techniques and tools specific to Bioengineering, give a presentation and publicly defend it to a specialist audience in a way that demonstrates the acquisition of the competences and knowledge that are specific to this degree programme.
- CE2 - To know how to apply the basic concepts of mechanics and biomechanics to resolve problems that are specific to the field of Bioengineering.
- CE4 - To have spatial vision and know how to apply graphic representations, using traditional methods of metric geometry and descriptive geometry, as well as through the application of computer-assisted design
- CE6 - To incorporate the foundations of science and materials technology, while taking into account the relationship between microstructure, synthesis or process and the properties of materials.
- CG1 - To undertake projects in the field of Bioengineering that aim to achieve a concept and a design, as well as manufacture prosthetics and orthotics that are specific to a certain pathology or need.
- CG10 - To know how to work in a multilingual and multidisciplinary environment.
- CG3 - To be able to learn new methods and theories and be versatile so as to adapt to new situations.
- CG4 - To resolve problems based on initiative, be good at decision-making, creativity, critical reasoning and communication, as well as the transmission of knowledge, skills and prowess in the field of Bioengineering
- CG5 - To undertake calculations, valuations, appraisals, expert reports, studies, reports, work plans and other similar tasks.
- CG6 - To apply the necessary legislation when exercising this profession.
- CG7 - To analyse and evaluate the social and environmental impact of technical solutions
- CG8 - To apply quality principles and methods.
- CG9 - The ability to organise and plan in the field of business, as well as in institutions and organisations.
- CT2 - The ability to link welfare with globalisation and sustainability; to acquire the ability to use skills, technology, the economy and sustainability in a balanced and compatible manner.
- CT3 - To know how to communicate learning results to other people both verbally and in writing, and well as thought processes and decision-making; to participate in debates in each particular specialist areas.
- CT4 - To be able to work as a member of an interdisciplinary team, whether as a member or by management tasks, with the aim of contributing to undertaking projects based on pragmatism and a feeling of responsibility, taking on commitment while bearing the resources available in mind.
- CT5 - To use information sources in a reliable manner. To manage the acquisition, structuring, analysis and visualisation of data and information in your specialist area and critically evaluate the results of this management.
- CT6 - To detect gaps in your own knowledge and overcome this through critical reflection and choosing better actions to broaden your knowledge.
Learning outcomes of the subject
- Use techniques and tools for the management of bioengineering projects, including planning, development and execution.
- Know and apply specifications, regulations and standards.
- Write texts with the appropriate structure for communication objectives.
- Present the text to an audience with the appropriate strategies.
- Identify the information needed and use the collections, spaces and services available to design and carry out research appropriate to the subject area.
- Work under the basic guidelines given by the supervisor, deciding the time to be used in each task, including personal contributions and expanding the indicated sources of information.
- Take initiative that create opportunities, with a vision of the process and market implementation.
- Have the ability to assess the financial cost of the different tasks involved in the project.
- Have the ability to analyse and assess the social and environmental impact.
Syllabus
Original work to be done individually (or in groups after agreement of the tutor) and presented and defended in front of a university panel, consisting of a project in the field of specific bioengineering technologies of a professional nature in which the acquired skills in the teaching are synthesised and integrated.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
The completion of the Bachelor’s Final Degree Project includes several fundamental training tasks or activities:
- Choice of subject.
- Attendance at individual tutorials.
- Attendance at group seminars.
- Planning.
- Development.
- Individual, independent work supervised by the tutor.
- Preparing a written report.
- Submit the project.
- Individual presentation and public defence.
- Follows the rules.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
The process involves a continuous evaluation of competencies throughout the completion of the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project. There are several evaluation points as well as agents in the evaluation:
- Student self-evaluation.
- Evaluation of the execution process of the Bachelor’s Final Degree Project by the tutor.
- Final evaluation of the Bachelor’s Final Degree Project by the tutor.
- Evaluation of the Bachelor’s Final Degree Project by the jury.
For the evaluation of the Bachelor’s Final Degree Project, the following criteria will be taken into account:
- Scope, difficulty, complexity and originality of the research project covered in the Bachelor’s Final Degree Project.
- Degree of achievement of the objectives.
- Bibliographic sources referenced and how they were cited in the report and in the presentation.
- Quality of the written document of the Bachelor’s Final Degree Project (academic report)
- Quality of the presentation and oral defence before the Bachelor’s TFG jury.
- Degree of student’s commitment and dedication to the research project.
- Learning, skills and ablilties demonstrated during while preparing the project.
The assessment and evaluation rubrics are available on the intranet of the subject. The marks will be published after the assessment rubrics have been completed. The qualification will be quantitative between 0 and 10 to a decimal point, to which the corresponding qualitative mark of fail, pass, good, excellent and honours is added. The course is passed with a minimum mark of 5 out of 10. The assessment rubrics must be uploaded by the respective agent to the course Moodle before the end of the month as set on the timeline, except in the defence month when all rubrics must be uploaded to the course Moodle at the end of day on which the public defence of the TFG take place.
The tutor may decide not to authorise the presentation of a student’s Bachelor’s Final Degree Project (recording this in the respective rubric) if they considers that the student does not meet the minimal academic requirements for public defence. The tutor will propose, in the final assessment rubric of the Bachelor’s Final Degree Project written report, whether or not to grant an honours distinction to the student. Depending on the number of honours that can be awarded per subject and the overall assessments obtained by that student in all the subject rubrics collected from the panel, the tutor and the student, the coordinator of Bachelor’s Final Degree Projects will ultimately decide who the honours distinction is awarded to. Once the oral defence is finished, the jury will proceed to accept or reject the work presented and fill in the rubrics, evaluating both the written report and the oral defence of the student. These rubrics must be sent to the FBachelor’s inal Degree Project coordinator on the same day the defence take place. In the event that the Bachelor’s Final Degree Project is rejected by the jury, it must state those errors, omissions and/or deficiencies that must be corrected and that led to its non-acceptance in a written report that will be sent to the Bachelor’s Final Degree Project coordinator and the tutor. Should the student fail the Bachelor’s Final Degree Project in first call, they can choose to defend their project in the second call as long as the Bachelor’s Final Degree Project is updated based on the errors, omissions and deficiencies detected and reported by the jury in its report after the defence in first call with tutor’s approval. If the student fails the Bachelor’s Final Degree Project in the second call, the student must enrol in the subject the following year.
First-call
|
Rubric |
Percentage |
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Student self-evaluation |
5% |
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Evaluation of the defense and written report by the jury |
50% |
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Continuous assessment and evaluation by tutor |
45% |
|
|
Second-call
|
Rubric |
Percentage |
|
Student self-evaluation |
5% |
|
Jury evaluation of the defense and written report by the jury |
50% |
|
continuous assessment and evaluation by tutor |
45% |
|
|
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Important considerations:
- Plagiarism, copying or any other action that may be considered cheating will receive a zero in that evaluation section. Plagiarism during exams will lead to immediate failure of the subject.
- In the second-sitting exams, honors distinction will not be awarded; therefore, “Excellent” will be the maximum mark students can obtain.
- Changes in the calendar, exam dates or the evaluation system will not be accepted.
- Exchange students (Erasmus and others) or repeaters will be subject to the same conditions as the rest of the students..
Bibliography and resources
(1). Reglamento interno de Trabajo Fin de Grado y Fin de Máster Universitario de la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya.
(2). Guía TFG en la web de la biblioteca de UIC Barcelona:
https://biblioguias.uic.es/guiatrabajofinaldegrado/inicio
(3). Tutorial aplicación gestión TFGs UIC para alumnos/as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUEqbm-RR00&list=PLnKcA9XgmyYRCfSqdcIjBRfHwB_DYZwn4&index=11&t=0s
(4). Repositorio institucional UIC Barcelona Trabajos Final de Grado:
http://repositori.uic.es/handle/
(5). Bibliographic management:
http://biblioteca.uoc.edu/en/resources/bibliography-management
Evaluation period
- E1 20/06/2024 Auditori 08:00h
- E1 21/06/2024 Auditori 08:00h
- E2 09/07/2024 Auditori 08:00h