Level of Education
4-year college degree
ECTS
10 credits
Training Structure
College of Sciences
Description
This module is dedicated to an internship lasting at least 3 months in a research laboratory or an industrial setting.
Objectives
becoming familiar with how to conduct a research/R&D project
- Synthesis and physicochemical characterization of materials
- Developing research skills through initiative, independence, and the student’s curiosity
- literature review
-use of classical synthesis methods in solid-state chemistry: solid-state reactions, sol-gel method, etc.
-characterization using traditional methods in materials science: X-ray diffraction, electron diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis, UV-visible and IR spectroscopy, imaging techniques, conductivity measurements…
Knowledge Assessment
The final grade will be the average of the internship supervisor's grade, the presentation grade, and the internship report grade.
Course Outline
This module is dedicated to an internship lasting at least 3 months in a research laboratory or an industrial setting.
- Choice of internship topic
- Getting organized and conducting a research project in an operations research group
- Literature review and summary of the current state of the art in the research topic
- Needs analysis and definition of the research project
- Laboratory work: synthesis and 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): Chemistry Master's Program Office Master's in Chemistry @ umontpellier.fr