94289 - IT Skills

Learning outcomes

At the end of the activity the student will be aware of the most important IT tools useful to manage, elaborate, present and communicate scientific data. Communication capability will be further improved gaining basic knowledge of the national language (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish or Catalan). The acquired IT skills will find exploitation in training for preparation of research projects and in retrieval of scientific information.

Course contents

The CU will be made of three modules with the following contents:

1. Intensive “survival” language course

   Students will be trained to understand and use a few simple words related to the most common activities of living, accessing public transportation, orientation in urban environment, food and dink in one of the languages of the ChIR consortium (Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Italian) either written or spoken. The will become familiar with the most fundamental grammatic rules of the language.

2. IT tools

   Chemical informatics provide the tools to acquire, organize, and evaluate data, yielding new insights for further chemical research. The purpose of this module is to provide the students with basic knowledge of spreadsheets or free computer programs to data analysis, or of databases for compounds properties or bibliographic research

3. Research skills

Introduction to the general characteristics of a R&ID project: General, responsibilities and report Planning

Project Budget: main aspects

Control and monitoring a Project

Exploitation of the results

Readings/Bibliography

Lecture notes will be available for students.

Additional bibliography: N.A.

Teaching methods

In-class exercises and activities. Group working. Discussion of case-study example

Assessment methods

Each module is assessed independently through homework assignments or written assignment or practical assignment.

The Curricular Unit grade will be the arithmetic mean of grades from the three modules.

Teaching tools

Videoprojection

IT laboratory

Office hours

See the website of Emilio Tagliavini

See the website of Teresa Quarta

See the website of Alessandro Gesuato