Final Degree Project
Module: FINAL DEGREE PROJECT
Matter: FINAL DEGREE PROJECT
Main language of instruction: English
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, Spanish
Head instructor
Dr. Emilio CASTRO - ecastro@uic.es
Office hours
You can contact the coordinator of TFGs through the following email ecastro@uic.es. Each teacher / tutor will provide the tutored student a way to communicate fluently during the completion of the final grade work.
The completion of the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project 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 Final Degree Projects and Master's Final Projects, 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.
The Final Bachelor’s Degree Project is the final subject of the programme. For this reason, the student can only enrol in it in the last academic year.
• 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throughout the undergraduate studies by carrying out and defending an individual, independent, supervised, original and unpublished research project.
Use techniques and tools for the management of bioengineering projects, including planning, development and execution.
Know and applies 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 needs 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 initiatives that create opportunities, with a vision of the process and market implementation.
Ability to assess the financial cost of the different tasks included.
Ability to analyse and assess the social and environmental impact.
Original work to be done individually (or in groups after acceptance by 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.
The completion of the Final Bachelor’s 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.
Writing a report.
Submit the project.
Presentation and individual public defence.
Follows the rules.
The process involves a continuous assessment based on competences throughout the completion of the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project. There are several assessment points as well as participants in the assessment:
Student self-assessment.
Assessment of the process of carrying out the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project by the tutor.
Final rating of the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project by the tutor.
Assessment of the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project by the panel.
Peers’ rating by the students.
For the assessment of the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project the following criteria will be taken into account:
Scope, difficulty, complexity and originality of the research project covered in the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project.
Degree of achievement of the objectives.
Bibliographic sources consulted and how they have been cited in the report and the presentation.
Quality of the preparation of the written document of the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project (academic report)
Quality of the presentation and oral defence before the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project panel.
Degree of commitment and dedication of the student to the research project.
Learning, competences and skills demonstrated during the performance of the work.
The assessment rubrics are available on the intranet of the subject. The marks will be published after meeting all the assessment rubrics. 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 assessor to the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project management program before the end of the month set in the schedule, except in the defence month when all rubrics must be uploaded to the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project management program or the Moodle of the subject at the end of the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project public defence day.
The tutor may decide not to authorise the presentation of a student’s Final Bachelor’s Degree Project (recording this in the relevant rubric) if they considers that the student does not meet the minimum academic requirements for public defence. The tutor will propose, in the last assessment rubric of the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project written report, whether or not to grant an honours classification to the student. Depending on the number of honours that can be awarded per subject and the global assessments obtained by that student in all the subject rubrics collected from the panel, the tutor, the student and their classmates, the coordinator of Final Bachelor’s Degree Projects will ultimately decide who gets the honours. The panel, once the oral defence is finished, will proceed to accept or reject the work presented and fill in the rubrics, evaluating both the written work and the oral defence of the student.
These rubrics must be sent to the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project coordinator on the same day as the defence. In the event that the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project is rejected by the panel, it must state those errors, omissions and deficiencies that must be corrected and that lead to its non-acceptance in a written report that will be sent to the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project coordinator and the tutor. In the case of suspension of the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project on first round, you can choose to defend yourself on the second round as long as the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project is reworked based on the errors, omissions and deficiencies detected and noted by the panel in its report after the defence on first round with the approval of the tutor. In case of failure of the Final Bachelor’s Degree Project in the second sitting, the student must enrol in the subject for the following year.
First-sitting
Rubric |
Percentage |
Student self-evaluation |
5 % |
Peer review |
10 % |
Evaluation of the defense and memory |
40 % |
Continuous assessment by tutor |
45 % |
Second-sitting
Rubric |
Percentage |
Student self-evaluation |
5 % |
Peer review |
10 % |
Evaluation of the defense and memory |
40 % |
Continuous assessment by tutor |
45 % |
Important considerations:
Plagiarism, copying or any other action that may be considered cheating will score zero in that assessment. Moreover, plagiarism during the exams will result in the immediate failure of the whole subject.
In the second-sitting exams, the maximum mark students will be able to obtain is "Excellent" (a mark with honours distinction will not be possible).
Changes of the calendar, exam dates or the assessment system will not be accepted.
Exchange students (Erasmus and others) or students resitting will be subject to the same conditions as the rest of the students.
(1). Reglamento interno de Trabajo Fin de Grado y Fin de Máster Universitario de la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya.
(2). Guía TFGs en la web de la biblioteca de la UIC: 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 Trabajos Final de Grado: http://repositori.uic.es/handle/
(5). Bibliographic management: http://biblioteca.uoc.edu/en/resources/bibliography-management