KJTS3900 Bachelor Thesis Course description

Students shall apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired in over the course of the degree programme to a realistic engineering problem. They shall demonstrate the ability to further develop their knowledge and skills in theoretical and/or practical problem-solving. Students shall demonstrate a responsible and ethical approach to their professional expertise. The course builds on the first and second years of the study programme.

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can sit the exam:

• 8 compulsory exercises (2-4 hours per exercise)
• 1 laboratory exercise with Lab report (2 -5 pages)

Students must be registered in the third year and have completed at least 100 credits from the first and second years by the 1st of October before they are assigned a topic for their bachelor's thesis.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student:

• is capable of using and processing knowledge of science and technology to solve biotechnology and chemistry-related problems
• is capable of proposing alternative technical solutions, and analysing and quality assuring the results.

Skills

The student:

• is capable of translating knowledge into practical solutions
• masters modern analytical and biotechnology methods and has knowledge of safe laboratory work
• is capable of quality assuring and analysing results obtained in a project
• is capable of documenting and discussing results, both orally and in writing
• is capable of obtaining literature and other background information of relevance to the project, and writing reports based on standardised methods.

General competence

The student:

• is capable of carrying out an engineering assignment based on a practical industrial or research-related issue in an independent and systematic manner
• masters both independent work and team work, including planning and implementation of engineering projects
• has the ability to place their own work in a wider engineering context.

The bachelor's thesis is an independent project assignment carried out in groups of students. The content of the thesis shall be relevant to the programme. The bachelor's thesis shall be method-oriented and problem-oriented, and shall be organised in a manner that allows students to use knowledge and skills from several fields.

The thesis shall preferably be written in cooperation with an enterprise, industry organisation or public institution.

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can sit the exam:

• course in literature searches and source criticism
• approved progress schedule
• two oral presentations.

The students shall acquire knowledge of thermodynamics and kinetics. In addition, the course shall provide students with basic knowledge of radioactivity and coordination chemistry.

Passed laboratory course in KJPE1300 General Chemistry.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge The student:

• is capable of defining and carrying out calculations of energy, work and heat
• is capable of explaining and carrying out calculations of enthalpy (H), entropy (S), and Gibbs free energy (G), for different processes
• is capable of deriving and carrying out calculations of the connection between equilibrium constants, temperature and thermodynamic values
• is capable of explaining and calculating phase equilibria/ phase diagrams
• is capable of defining and carrying out calculations of colligative properties
• is capable of deriving connections between electrochemistry and thermodynamic values
• is capable of deciding a reaction order and performing kinetic calculations
• has basic knowledge of energy and energy transfer in different systems, knowledge of colligative properties and phase equilibria
• has basic knowledge of radioactivity
• has basic knowledge of transition metal and coordination compounds

Skills The student:

• can collaborate in groups both with practical and written work
• have insight into the proper handling of chemicals on the basis of safety data sheets and from laboratory experience

General competence

The student:

• can perform thermodynamic measurements for different processes and phase transitions
• can derive some equations in thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium and phase equilibrium, electrochemistry and reaction kinetics
• can plot and outline phase diagrams
• can use Nernst equation and emf measurements in calculations
• can solve simple rate laws as differential equations and use the expressions further in calculations

The teaching is organised as lectures, exercises and demonstration of laboratory equipment