CHY3012 : Chemical Skills and Employ-Ability (Inactive) - Undergraduate Study

Inactive for Year: 2020/21

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

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.

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

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	2	2:00	4:00	Preparation and completion of COSHH
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities	Lecture	8	1:00	8:00	Lectures
Guided Independent Study	Assessment preparation and completion	4	4:00	16:00	Preparation and completion of presentation
Guided Independent Study	Assessment preparation and completion	4	3:00	12:00	Preparation and completion of project plan
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities	Workshops	2	1:00	2:00	Feedback sessions
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	Presentations and professionalism
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)
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities	Dissertation/project related supervision	2	0:30	1:00	Supervisor meetings (2 sessions per student, 30 mins max)
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

CHY3012's Reading List

Timetable

Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
CHY3012's Timetable

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