Unit information: Industrial Placement with Distance Learning in 2010/11

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Unit name Industrial Placement with Distance Learning
Unit code PHYSM0003
Credit points 120
Level of study M/7
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24)
Unit director Emeritus Professor. Cherns
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

Normally 120 credit points at Level I/5 Physics units. In order to progress in a degree programme with Study in Industry or with Industrial Experience (and thus spend Year 3 in industry), a candidate is required to achieve a sufficiently high standard in the major subject, including practical work, (normally obtaining assessment marks of at least 60 in the Level I/5 units). See Science Faculty Handbook, para 5.3.

Co-requisites

None

School/department School of Physics
Faculty Faculty of Science

Description including Unit Aims

This unit comprises the period spent in an industrial placement, involving work with a company guided on a day-to-day basis by an industrial supervisor and under the general supervision of an academic supervisor, and completion of an industrial project. In addition there is distance learning via monitored independent study of PHYS30030 Core Physics 303.