UMH - RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND FUNDING

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND FUNDING

Course

Code: 3615

Degree: Master's in Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Faculty of Experimental Sciences

Year: Year 1 of Master's in Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Semester: Fall

Type: Required

Language: Spanish

ECTS credits: 7.5

Lecture: 6

Laboratory: 1.5

Hours: 187.5

Directed: 75

Shared: 42.5

Autonomous: 70

Subject matter: Research Activities and Funding

Module: Required

Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.

Description

Key features in the process of scientific production and its dissemination. Information retrieval systems. Evaluation of research work. Reality of scientific activity. Ethics in research activity. Research funding. Preparation of research projects. Research career. Scientific documentation and communication: writing scientific papers, panel design, writing and processing of patents, doctoral dissertations, scientific dissemination. Creating technology-based companies.

Faculty

Name	Coordinator	Lecture	Laboratory
ROPERO LARA, ANA BELEN	■	■	■
FERNÁNDEZ CARVAJAL, ASIA	■	■	■
DE AZA MOYA, PIEDAD NIEVES		■	■
VELASQUEZ CASTILLO, PABLO ANDRES		■	■
FERRER MONTIEL, ANTONIO VICENTE		■	■
FERNÁNDEZ BALLESTER, GREGORIO JOAQUIN		■	■
PEREZ GARCIA-ESTAÑ, LUIS		■	■
ZAPATER HERNANDEZ, PEDRO		■	■
PONCE MOLET, MARIA ROSA		■	■
MICOL MOLINA, JOSÉ LUIS		■	■
RIPOLL ORTS, CRISTINA		■	■
BARRAJON CATALAN, ENRIQUE		■	■
PEREZ PEREZ, JOSE MANUEL		■	■
REIG MACIA, JUAN ANTONIO		■	■
GOMEZ PEREZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER		■	■
VILLALAIN BOULLON, JOSÉ		■	■
ROCHE COLLADO, ENRIQUE		■	■
SASTRE SANTOS, ANGELA		■	■

Professional interest

The integral formation of a scientist requires the acquisition of skills in various fields related to the research activity. The subject of Research activity and funding, pursues the student get the comprehensive training that is often not available during the years in which the student takes graduate and that they will find of paramount importance when developing with guarantees of success a career in the field of scientific research.

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Apply acquired knowledge to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to biotechnology and bioengineering.
Ability to integrate knowledge and handle the complexity of making judgments based on information that, although incomplete or limited, includes reflections on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of knowledge and judgments on biotechnology and bioengineering.
Ability to communicate conclusions and the knowledge and latest rationale that sustain them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous manner.
Develop the capacity to continue studying in a mostly self-directed or autonomous manner.
Capacity to manage and organize information.
Have the ability to design and propose experiments in biotechnology and bioengineering.
Be able to critically assess and discuss information.
Be capable of coming up with new ideas to address problems related to biotechnology and bioengineering.

Specific competencies

The ability to design a research project using the scientific method, compiling and evaluating information critically to solve problems in biotechnology and bioengineering.
The ability to transfer knowledge of biotechnology and bioengineering to finding effective industrial, therapeutic, or preventive interventions, preparing the application request for a patent for a biotechnological invention.
Demonstrate good scientific communication skills in front of a lay audience, paying special attention to the social implications of scientific advances.

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

To know which are the rules of work and safety to be followed when working in a research lab.
To acquire skills in handling the tools used in the statistical analysis.
Develop the ability to search, collect and interpret information from the main bases of biological and chemical data.
To be able to design experiments to test the proposed hypotheses.
Learn and be able to apply techniques for scientific writing, research projects, dissertations and patents
Know how to prepare a bibliography and cite and skilled in the management of bibliographic databases
Understand the importance of bibliometric analysis of scientific activity, know the main bibliometric indicators and know how to handle the major databases that collect statistical information of scientific journals
Develop the ability to critically judge the scientific results.
Learn and apply useful techniques to pass with success a job interview.
Knowing that is a spin-off, its usefulness and what processes are usually followed in its creation are.

Teaching units

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

Methodology and grading

Methodology

Case studies: Learning through the analysis of actual or simulated cases in order to interpret and resolve them by employing various alternative solution procedures.
Cooperative learning: Develop active learning through cooperative working strategies among students and promote shared responsibility to reach group goals.
Lecture: Pass on knowledge and activate cognitive processes in students, encouraging their participation.
Problem-based learning: Develop active learning strategies through problem solving that promote thinking, experimentation, and decision making in the student.
Solving exercises and problems: Exercise, test, and apply previous knowledge through routine repetition.

Grading

The evaluation procedure will consist of attendance rate, up to 50% of the final grade, and the remaining 50% will be the criteria established by each of the teachers involved in teaching topics of the course (class participation, completion and delivery of tasks, etc..). Each teacher will issue a grade between 0-10 points for each of the sessions provided. The final grade for the course shall be the arithmetic average of all the ratings issued by the teachers and the score for assistance.
Control assistance will be conducted as follows. Before the start of each class, the teacher responsible for the subject will deliver a sheet with a list of the students that should be signed by all the students and the professor and subsequently delivered to the teacher in charge of the subject.

About: RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND FUNDING

General competencies

Specific competencies

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

Lecture topics

Teaching units

Course contents

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

Links

Software

Methodology

Grading