Level of education
Bachelor's degree
ECTS
10 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Description
This module is devoted to an internship of at least three months in a research laboratory or industry.
Objectives
familiarizing oneself with the conduct of a research/R&D project
- Synthesis and physical-chemical characterization of materials
- Developing skills in research work using initiative, autonomy, and the student's curiosity
- literature review
-use of classical synthesis methods in solid state chemistry: solid state reaction, sol-gel method, etc.
-characterization by traditional methods used in Materials Science: X-ray diffraction, electron diffraction thermogravimetric analysis, UV-visible and IR spectroscopy, Imaging techniques, Conduction measurements…
Knowledge assessment
The final grade will be the average of the internship supervisor's grade, the presentation grade, and the internship report grade.
Syllabus
This module is devoted to an internship of at least three months in a research laboratory or industry.
- Choice of internship topic
- Getting organized and conducting a research project in an operating research group
- Literature analysis and summarizing the state of the art of the research topic
- Needs analysis and definition of the research project
- Laboratory work: synthesis/characterization of materials
- Scheduling and carrying out the necessary tasks for the research project
- Documentation (written internship report) and presentation (oral PowerPoint presentation)
Additional information
Administrative contact(s): Master's in Chemistry Secretariat Master's degree in Chemistry @ umontpellier.fr