TEE 1 Project

This course involves conducting a project on a topic in Earth, Water, and Environmental Sciences. The topics will be defined by the entire L3 teaching team and will involve addressing scientific issues using data collected in the laboratory and/or in the field. The topics will be addressed by groups of 2 to 3 students and will be supervised by tutors throughout the L3 year as part of two complementary course units:

- The TEE 1 project in S5 will focus on literature review activities related to the topic and on acquiring the skills needed to write a scientific report and deliver an oral presentation.

- The TEE 2 project in S6 will focus more on processing experimental and analytical data, critically evaluating the results obtained, and interpreting them. The final presentation of the study will take the form of a final report and an oral presentation before a panel.

This project-based course unit, spread over the two semesters of the L3 TEE program, will provide students with their first opportunity to work independently; they can then apply this experience to their master’s program or directly to the professional world, depending on their career goals.

The first phase of the supervised project, known as the “TEE1 Project,” aims to train students in how to frame and contextualize a research topic. This will take the form of a review of the current state of the art, written as a preliminary report. This report will consist of a literature review of the topic, as well as a description of the methodology to be used to address the research question. It will serve as the basis for the final report. Training sessions on literature research and scientific report writing will be offered throughout the semester to help students successfully complete this first phase under the guidance of their advisor(s).

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This unit will be assessed through ongoing assessment.

This course unit is a project-based course unit (1.5 hours of SPS per student). The hours will be divided between the tutors supervising the student groups and the course unit coordinators, who will also organize lectures and tutorials focused on:

- Researching and synthesizing bibliographic data and drafting a bibliographic and methodological report on the topic (current state of the field and contextualization of the issue to be addressed, as well as the proposed methodology for conducting the study)

- writing a scientific report and preparing an oral presentation of their work

- Be able to research and synthesize bibliographic information to address a given issue.

- Train students in writing a scientific report and giving an oral presentation of their results

- Define a methodology for conducting a scientific study and specify the analytical and experimental procedures to be implemented

- Be able to work independently while collaborating with others on a given topic