Duration
54h AUTR
Number of credits
| Master in forests and natural areas engineering, professional focus | 6 crédits |
Lecturer
Substitute(s)
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The "Nature and Forest Management" project (NFM project) is conducted by a working team of 3 to 5 students assisted by a project superviser. 2 types of projects are proposed:
- "applied" project similar to the job of a technical consultant;
- "scientific" project conducting a scientific research supposed to lead to the drafting of a scientific paper.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The aim of the project is to train the student on how to carry out a team project form the conception to the presentation of the results:
- to organize the work in groupe (soft skills for common decisions, working packages distribution, meetings, etc.)
- to use the necessary skills acquired during the bioengineer course of study (data collection in the field, interviews of key actors, data analysing and modeling);
- to present and defend its report face to an examining board.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The project uses the hard skills acquired during the bioengineer courss. The necessary knowledge depends on the project requirements.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The students conceive their project and realize it together with the support of their project supervisor, given a workplan defined by the group and promotor (internal meetings, technical and methodological training, field trips, meetings with institutions and key actors, etc.).
Midway, the students have to present an intermediate document containing the work in progress (project context, the methodology, the available data, the organization of the work,...) and the expected results at the end of the project. A debrieffing on the group functioning is also organized at this stage with the softskills group of ULiège.
At the end, the students produce a final report that is presented (in English) and defended in front of an examining board composed of teachers.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Teaching by project
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Depending on the projects
Written work / report
Out-of-session test(s)
Additional information:
The evaluation of the group project is collective and based on:
- the evaluation of the project supervisor, based on the quality of the final report and the team organizing and functioning;
- the evaluation of the presentation of the final report and the discussion with the examining board composed of teachers supervising group projects.
- the student will present in 5 minutes (5 slides) key aspects of the project and/or aspects the student would personnaly like to highlight;
- the student inteact during 5 minuts with the English teacher(s) and the project coordinator.
In cas of non-success at first exam session, the second session evaluation will be performed by the group project coordinator and the group supervisors, based on a revised version of the written report.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
simon.lhoest@uliege.be