CHY3012 : Chemical Skills and Employ-Ability (Inactive)
- Inactive for Year: 2021/22
- Module Leader(s): Dr Lee Higham
- Owning School: Natural and Environmental Sciences
- Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters
| Semester 1 Credit Value: | 10 |
| ECTS Credits: | 5.0 |
Aims
The aim of this module is to prepare students for independent study leading to their project module, ensuring awareness of time management, and giving techniques on how to plan time and break work up into manageable portions.
Safety will be further developed in this module, ensuring students can collect safety material from the web and show that they can complete a COSHH form using the template provided.
This module offers students the opportunity to undertake a 'Dragons Den' approach to Industrial case studies in a professional environment. The ability of students to critically reflect on their personal skills development will be enhanced.
Outline Of Syllabus
Taught sessions include workshop and lectures on the following list of topics. The sessions will include training and expertise provided by various NU services as well as external suppliers.
• Project and Time Management
• COSHH forms
• Professionalism and Presentations
• Working with the Scientific Literature and Patents
Time Planning
In order to prepare for the project work, students need to be aware of time-management and how to prepare for independent study and analysis of data. This will closely align with the work they are asked to do for the stage 3 projects.
Breaking up the work into manageable chunks
Planning your time: Gantt Charts
2) Health and Safety III
At this stage, students should have encountered COSHH forms for the laboratory classes and should be able to collect material safety data from the web. In preparation for their individual projects, students will need to complete their own COSHH forms following the template provided by Chemistry at NU.
3) Professionalism
Connected Chemistry - LinkedIn
Further Experimental Design (Costing)
Students will be given a real time problem set by a global organisation and working within a team, develop, plan and present a business solution to a well known employer from industry.
Literature searching for your project
At Stage 3 students will attend 3 workshops to consolidate their expertise with the core databases and their skills in finding, evaluating and managing information, preparing them for their final year projects, further research or industry beyond University.
Workshop 1: Demonstrating your digital and information literacy skills.
Workshop 2: SciFinder.
Workshop 3. Reaxys
Teaching Methods
Teaching Activities
| Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Lecture | 8 | 1:00 | 8:00 | Lectures |
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 2 | 2:00 | 4:00 | Preparation and completion of COSHH |
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 4 | 3:00 | 12:00 | Preparation and completion of project plan |
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 4 | 4:00 | 16:00 | Preparation and completion of presentation |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Workshops | 2 | 1:00 | 2:00 | Presentations and professionalism |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Workshops | 3 | 2:00 | 6:00 | Literature and patent sessions, including external supplier training |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Workshops | 2 | 1:00 | 2:00 | Feedback sessions |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Dissertation/project related supervision | 2 | 0:30 | 1:00 | Supervisor meetings (2 sessions per student, 30 mins max) |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Dissertation/project related supervision | 1 | 0:30 | 0:30 | Supervisor read through of draft research paper (strictly one read through per student) |
| Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 1 | 48:30 | 48:30 | Independent study and background reading |
| Total | 100:00 |
Teaching Rationale And Relationship
This module will use a variety of teaching methods.
Lectures will provide the basis for enhancing employability and developing career management skills.
Practical Sessions will allow students to experiment and practise with the software and communicate with others.
The individual presentation will develop skills such as resilience, using your initiative, confidence building; all which are key skills to highlight to an employer.
Assessment Methods
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
Exams
| Description | Length | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral Presentation | 10 | 1 | A | 50 | 10 min oral presentation on allocated research topic |
Other Assessment
| Description | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Written exercise | 1 | M | 10 | COSHH form |
| Written exercise | 1 | M | 30 | Project plan (1 page) |
| Prof skill assessmnt | 1 | M | 5 | Careers workshop record form |
| Written exercise | 1 | M | 5 | Reflective report |
Assessment Rationale And Relationship
Careers workshops record of attendance form - Students need to attend three 'Careers Service' workshops of their choice and submit the form confirming their attendance at these workshops.
The oral presentation requires students to briefly summarise a research topic that will be allocated to them at the start of the module. This will allow students to demonstrate learning and development goals learnt throughout the skills modules.
Reflective Report provides an opportunity for the student to reflect on their professional development. It requires critical reflection on personal and professional development in relation to the Graduate Skills Framework and employability.
Reading Lists
Timetable
- Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
- CHY3012's Timetable