Learning outcomes
- BaLO_1 To possess in-depth, application-oriented knowledge, understanding and practical skills related to mathematics and science, directed towards engineering applications.
- BaLO_2 To possess application-oriented knowledge, understanding and skills about engineering sciences and engineering techniques.
- BaLO_3 To solve practical engineering problems from an understanding of the basic theory and from an understanding of basic methods for the schematisation and modelling of processes or systems.
- BaLO_4 Implementation-oriented and analytical problem-solving, design, development and creative innovation with a focus on the operational implications of the specific case.
- BaLO_6 Based on acquired insight, to select the appropriate methods of research, design and solution and appropriately apply the results in a scientific and effective manner.
- BaLO_9 To demonstrate an engineering attitude: attention to planning, to technical, economic and societal factors as well as managerial implications, assessment of the risks and feasibility of the proposed approach or solution, being result-driven and achieving effective solutions, innovative thinking.
- BaLO_10 To correctly handle the scientific and discipline-specific terminology in language relevant to the programme.
- BaLO_11 To present and communicate the results of technical and scientific work, in writing, orally and visually.
- BaLO_12 To be able to work in a team in different roles, to have insight in one's performance; to take shared responsibility for determining and achieving the goals of the team.
- BaLO_13 To act in an ethical and socially responsible manner with attention to technical, economic, human and sustainability aspects.
Objectives
D1: knows the units of all relevant quantities and applies them consistently (BaLO 1)
D2: knows the basic principles of special relativity, including the Lorentz transformations and the expressions for relativistic momentum and energy, and their applications (BaLO 1, 3, 6)
D3: knows how the experimental study of the interaction between light and matter forms the basis of early quantummechanical theories and is able to explain the experiments using these theories (BaLO 1, 3, 6)
D4: can quantummechanically explain radiative processes such as absorption, emission, scattering, fluorescence and phosphorescence (BaLO 1, 3, 6)
D5: can construct and solve the time-independent Schrödinger equation for an idealised system and can realte such a system to real systems (BaLO 1, 3)
D6: knows the different types of superconductors and their practical applications, including their different advantages and drawbacks (BaLO 1, 3)
D7: knows the working principles of doped and non-doped superconductors and their main applications (BaLO 1, 2, 3)
D8: knows the different kinds of radio-active radiation and their effect on the human body (BaLO 1, 3, 9, 13)
D9: knows the working principles of a nuclear reactor (BaLO 1, 2, 4, 9, 13)
D10: can explain the formation of an X-ray spectrum, both for spectral lines and the continuum (BaLO 1, 3, 6)
D11: can independently conduct experiments that illustrate the principles acquired during lectures and process the measurements with standard methods (BaLO 1, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11)
D12: can work in a team (BaLO 12, 13)
AD1: reasons and acts in a structured and systematic manner (BaLO 9)
AD2: communicates in understandable and well-structured Dutch (BaLO 10, 11)
AD3: develops a professional attitude (BaLO 9, 10, 13)