PHY2028 : Laboratory and Professional Skills in Physics
- Offered for Year: 2020/21
- Module Leader(s): Dr Toby Hallam
- Lecturer: Dr Tiago Marinheiro, Miss Amy Kinsman, Dr Aleksey Kozikov
- Owning School: Mathematics, Statistics and Physics
- Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters
| Semester 1 Credit Value: | 10 |
| Semester 2 Credit Value: | 10 |
| ECTS Credits: | 10.0 |
Aims
To raise awareness of and develop students' transferable Physics career management skills.
To enable students to utilise current careers information to help make future careers decisions.
To reflect and market their employability attributes in job applications.
To introduce and enhance practical skills through the use of challenging experimental Physics.
To enable the student to demonstrate enhanced capabilities in terms of error analysis and good experimental technique.
To enhance scientific writing skills by reporting experimental Physics.
To continue the development of MatLab and LabView programming to enable the student to be able to use computing to support their learning and development.
The career management aspects of the module will develop students' understanding of what it means to be employable in the national and international labour market.
Outline Of Syllabus
Professional skills: employability attributes awareness and development, occupational/LMI awareness, marketability including application writing and interview techniques.
The experiments used in the laboratory portion of the module will be used to reinforce key aspects of Physics, including those covered in the Stage 2 taught modules.
Teaching Methods
Please note that module leaders are reviewing the module teaching and assessment methods for Semester 2 modules, in light of the Covid-19 restrictions. There may also be a few further changes to Semester 1 modules. Final information will be available by the end of August 2020 in for Semester 1 modules and the end of October 2020 for Semester 2 modules.
Teaching Activities
| Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 1 | 10:00 | 10:00 | Prof skills assessment writing |
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 3 | 6:00 | 18:00 | Report Writing |
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 11 | 1:00 | 11:00 | Lab Book Writing |
| Structured Guided Learning | Lecture materials | 4 | 1:00 | 4:00 | Professional skills seminars |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Practical | 9 | 3:00 | 27:00 | S2 Laboratory Sessions |
| Structured Guided Learning | Structured research and reading activities | 3 | 6:00 | 18:00 | Asynchronous remote lab exercise |
| Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 1 | 25:00 | 25:00 | Prof skills independent study |
| Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 1 | 75:00 | 75:00 | Lab independent study |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Scheduled on-line contact time | 4 | 3:00 | 12:00 | Synchronous remote lab exercises |
| Total | 200:00 |
Teaching Rationale And Relationship
S1 contains all-remote lab delivery through combination of take-home tasks and remote desktop/virtual experiments.
S2 has distanced in-person experiments
Assessment Methods
Please note that module leaders are reviewing the module teaching and assessment methods for Semester 2 modules, in light of the Covid-19 restrictions. There may also be a few further changes to Semester 1 modules. Final information will be available by the end of August 2020 in for Semester 1 modules and the end of October 2020 for Semester 2 modules.
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
Other Assessment
| Description | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Practical/lab report | 1 | M | 12 | Lab report 1,2,3 choose best 3 out of 4 submitted Lab reports |
| Practical/lab report | 2 | M | 12 | Lab report 1,2,3 choose best 3 out of 4 submitted Lab reports |
| Practical/lab report | 2 | M | 13 | Lab report 1,2,3 choose best 3 out of 4 submitted Lab reports |
| Practical/lab report | 2 | M | 38 | Practical lab book (includes preliminary tasks and quizzes) |
| Prof skill assessmnt | 1 | M | 25 | Career management portfolio made up of a report of the current graduate landscape, a selection of one career idea & an annotated USP |
Assessment Rationale And Relationship
The laboratory sessions provide the opportunity for the student to demonstrate their understanding of laboratory Physics and the underlying skills.
The professional skills portfolio provides the opportunity for the student to demonstrate their understanding of LMI, careers research skills, self-awareness and practical applications of career management.
Lab book now online in OneNote workbook via Canvas.
Reading Lists
Timetable
- Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
- PHY2028's Timetable