Professional projects - project follow-up

The professional project bridges the gap between traditional practical work and the internship in a laboratory or company. It is carried out in the form of a tutored project, which puts students in a professional situation through collaborative (group) work based on the realization of a project in response to a problem set by a company, community, association or academic. It is part of the Chemistry Master's core curriculum, and is carried out under the responsibility of a member of the teaching team (academic or industrial). Carried out throughout the semester, this project aims to link and anchor the knowledge and know-how acquired during the Bachelor's degree and the early Master's program, through a professional setting. These situations will be directly linked to the Master's course chosen by the students. In addition to their chemistry-disciplinary skills, students will also acquire the interpersonal, organizational and communication skills intrinsically linked to project management, which will equip them for their future professional life.

Responding to a research problem: example of the synthesis of new phosphorescent materials.

Hourly volumes* :

CM: 5h

TD: 5h

Practical work: 40h

The objectives associated with tutored projects are for students to :

• Responding to industrial or academic problems
• Be able to position this issue in a more general context and in relation to the state of the art,
• Be able to draw up specifications for a given problem and propose original solutions,
• Draw up an experimental plan in collaboration with other group members
• Manage your own safety and that of others, act as a responsible chemist
• Implementing the right safety measures for a synthesis
• Master analysis and characterization techniques from a variety of fields to successfully complete the project entrusted to it,
• Know how to analyze/interpret data based on knowledge acquired during their studies or on data from the literature,
• Carry out a critical analysis of the results obtained in relation to the initial objectives and the state of the art, and adapt your approach according to successes and failures.
• Communicate the results associated with the project through a scientific publication in English and an oral presentation to a jury.

Bachelor's degree in Chemistry (Organic Chemistry, Chemistry of Materials, Chemistry of Life), Biochemistry or Chemistry-Physics

Basic knowledge of chemical synthesis and analysis.

Continuous assessment + Final oral examination

Introduction to scientific ethics

Bibliographic research

Risks and safety in chemistry

Preparing for the oral presentation/writing of a report in English

40h experimental work on an industrial or academic problem: synthetic and analytical approaches in line with the student's chosen career path

Use of synthesis and analysis equipment (microwave synthesis, hydrothermal, FT-IR, Raman, NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, scanning electron microscope, chromatography systems, etc.)

Combining different skills to complete a project: an example of reverse opals synthesized by combining macromolecular and soft chemistry using a sol-gel process (left) and observed under a scanning electron microscope (right).

Example: Synthesis and characterization by NMR and Mass Spectrometry of an intermediate for the preparation of a commercial antiviral acyclic nucleotide (Adefovir)

Administrative contact(s) :

Secretariat Master Chemistry

https://master-chimie.edu.umontpellier.fr/