Development Cooperation Project

5 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4020626ENR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.

Semester

1st and 2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

English

Partnership Agreement

Under interuniversity agreement for degree program

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

Department

Faculty of Engineering

External partners

Université libre de Bruxelles

Educational team

Antoine Nonclercq (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

150 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

Waning: there is a selection process! Please see http://www.ulb.ac.be/facs/polytech/cooperation-Mission.html and/or contact anoncler@ulb.ac.be, bhaut@ulb.ac.be and cboey@ulb.ac.be.

Objective: to practice the concepts acquired previous years in a single project that is applied to development cooperation.

Skills: disciplinary skills in different fields, design methodology and test, project management and planning, group work, writing a technical report, presentation.

Additional info

In general, each project includes two phases. The first is to study the problem, at the university, based on the demand expressed by our partners in southern countries, in consultation with them. This phase ends with the production of a prototype, tested at the ULB. Students are coached by a technician, a mentor and a resource person. To best take in account the reality of the southern countries, the prototype must be robust, relatively simple in its operation and easily reparable. Then, the second phase consists in replicating the prototype in the filed with our partners, using local materials and resources. The student group is involved in this achievement. The prototype is reproduced there, rather than transported, so that local partners can take part in its implementation, and can, thereafter, repair and reproduce independently. The working language of the student project is chosen in accordance to the language of our partners (either English or French). This language will be communicated to the students in the project description early in the academic year.

Learning Outcomes

General Competences

Skills: disciplinary skills in different fields, design methodology and test, project management and planning, group work, writing a technical report, presentation.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Written report + oral presentation.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context