SfES Project

6 EC

Semester 1 & 2, period 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

5354SFPR6Y

Owner Master Physics and Astronomy (joint degree)
Coordinator Raoul Frese
Part of Master Physics and Astronomy, track Science for Energy and Sustainability,

Course manual 2020/2021

Course content

SfES project is a compulsory project for SfES physics students. A short research based project is executed within or outside academia, targeting sustainability research. Research may be literature research, resulting in a literature thesis, or desktop or experimental research resulting in data, data analyses or other output of relevance to supervising researchers and organizations.  The project results in a report briefly describing the topic, the main question, the answer or result and a discussion and conclusion. Additional data and information can be placed in appendices. 

A project outside an academic laboratory is much encouraged, researching energy and sustainability issues for a company, municipality, green office, and others. In such case, the research and report will be conducted and written in the style of the course Current Sustainable Energy Technologies.

Within the university, a literature research and project can be adjacent to, but must be sufficiently different from, the master internship research project/s. It is advised to conduct the SfES project before your master research internship.

After enrolling in the course, the project starts with contacting the coordinator with a brief overview of plan, name/s of supervisor/s. In case of outside academia research, the coordinator can be supervisor, but other staff at VU or UvA if more appropriate can be contacted as well.

Objectives

  • student demonstrate the ability to perform and  or describe state of the art physics research in renewable energy or sustainability.
  • or, student demonstrates the applicability of sfes-physics courses such as current sustainable energy technologies in organizations or companies outside academia

Learning activities

Activity

Hours

Self study

168

Total

168

(6 EC x 28 uur)

Attendance

Requirements concerning attendance (OER-B).

  • In addition to, or instead of, classes in the form of lectures, the elements of the master’s examination programme often include a practical component as defined in article A-1.2 of part A. The course catalogue contains information on the types of classes in each part of the programme. Attendance during practical components is mandatory.

    • Assessment

    Item and weight Details

    Final grade

    Final grade

    Assessment is conform assessments of a research internship. Given the brief period of research, examinators must send their grading policy, explaining what constitutes a particular grade for this particular investigation. This also holds for a literature thesis. Supervisors/examinators send the coordinator of this course a brief description of work including title, the grading policy for this particular type of investigation explaining  insufficient, sufficient, 7, 8, 9 or 10 mark.

    Fraud and plagiarism

    The 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' applies to this course. This will be monitored carefully. Upon suspicion of fraud or plagiarism the Examinations Board of the programme will be informed. For the 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' see: www.student.uva.nl

    Course structure

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    Contact information

    Coordinator

    • Raoul Frese