PINS9530 Well-being and Sustainability Course description

The assessment/examination is based on a group porfolio consisting of:

• a written project report (between 5.000-10.000 words)
• an oral presentation and discussion (20 + 10 minutes)

The portfolio is assessed as a whole and cannot be appealed.

Grade scale A-F

Associate professor Tengel Aas Sandtrø (Academic head of EPS)

The program is mainly offered to third year engineering students, but students from other disciplines may apply. The EPS is also an alternative to writing the regular Final Thesis for third year BA-students at the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design.

Candidates must have a qualification equivalent to two years of relevant college education. Proficiency in English is required.

Active participation in the seminars is necessary to adequately understand the course material and themes. Participation is therefore mandatory, and candidates are expected to attend all days of teaching and required to attend at least 80 percent of teaching days. In special cases of documented illness, the course leader may accept exceptions to this requirement. In these cases, lack of participation can be substituted with alternative arrangements such as active reading of the relevant syllabus literature. Course requirements are assessed as confirmed or not confirmed. The course requirement must be completed and confirmed within the given deadline in order to have the right to submit the final exam.

The course requirements are:

• Each candidate will arrange a practical workshop relevant to the PhD project, alone or in collaboration with other candidates. In addition, participation in a number of the other workshops is mandatory.
• 80 % attendance is required.

Confirmed participation in the course and accepted exam.

Exam:

• Documentation of the development and execution of a practical workshop arranged by the candidate, alone or in collaboration with other candidates
• An individual reflection note (3000 - 4000 words) discussing experiences and reflections drawn from the workshop and the syllabus, relevant to the candidate’s PhD project. Cover page, illustrations, and list of references come in addition.

All examination support material is allowed as long as source reference and quotation technique requirements are applied.

Assessment is pass/fail. If a documentation and reflection is graded fail, the candidate has one opportunity resubmit a revised version within a given time-period.

The final exam is assessed by the course lecturer and one other examinator. External examinators will be used regularly. The assessment is based on the learning outcomes for the course.

The requirement for admission to the course is confirmation of admission to a PhD programme or documentation that you are in the process of being admitted to one of the faculty's two PhD programmes (Engineering Science or Innovation for Sustainability).

Kristin Støren Wigum