TEE 2 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 second phase of the supervised project, known as “TEE 2,” aims to train students in the collection of experimental and analytical data—in the laboratory and/or in the field—as well as in the critical evaluation and interpretation of results. Progress meetings to establish a work schedule for the entire sixth semester (S6) leading up to the final presentations of the study will be organized by the course coordinators and instructors. These meetings will help students build on the knowledge acquired in the TEE 1 Project, enabling them to write the final scientific report and prepare for the oral defense of the work completed throughout the project.

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This unit will be assessed through ongoing assessment.

This course unit is a project-based course unit (1 hour 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:

- updates on the work schedule and data processing/analysis

- additional information on how to write a scientific report and prepare an oral presentation of their work

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

- Acquire theoretical and practical skills in the laboratory and/or in the field

- Process, evaluate, and interpret experimental and analytical results

- Be able to present scientific results in a structured and concise manner in the form of a report and an oral presentation.