Master project in Life Sciences Engineering
BIO-597 / 30 credits
Teacher: Profs divers *
Language: English
Withdrawal: It is not allowed to withdraw from this subject after the registration deadline.
Summary
The Master project is the culmination of a student's work of analysis, design and implementation, which proves his/her engineering capacities. Students will engage in laboratory-based projects in the field of life sciences engineering.
Content
In the context of a Master Project, the student works on a problem defined by the head of the laboratory where the project will be carried out, whether that is at EPFL, at another university where he/she is doing an exchange program, or in a company. The head of the laboratory must
ensure that the student can carry out the necessary analysis and design work that will subsequently allow the EPFL advising professor to evaluate the engineering capacities of the student.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Manage an individual research project
- Develop expertise in a specific area of research
- Implement appropriate technologies to address the scientific or engineering problem being studied
- Conduct experiments appropriate to the engineering problem being studied
- Assess / Evaluate data obtained in wetlab and computational experiments
- Integrate data obtained in wetlab and computational experiments
- Optimize experimental protocols and data presentation
- Plan experiments to test hypotheses based on obtained results
Transversal skills
- Assess progress against the plan, and adapt the plan as appropriate.
- Plan and carry out activities in a way which makes optimal use of available time and other resources.
- Use a work methodology appropriate to the task.
- Continue to work through difficulties or initial failure to find optimal solutions.
- Keep appropriate documentation for group meetings.
- Demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking
- Demonstrate a capacity for creativity.
- Write a scientific or technical report.
- Collect data.
- Make an oral presentation.
Assessment methods
Written report and oral presentation
In the programs
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Oral (winter session)
- Subject examined: Master project in Life Sciences Engineering
- Project: 900 Hour(s)
- Type: mandatory
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Oral (summer session)
- Subject examined: Master project in Life Sciences Engineering
- Project: 900 Hour(s)
- Type: mandatory
Reference week
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Légendes:
Lecture
Exercise, TP
Project, labs, other