Description

The aim of the ‘Independent Research Project S3’ module is to start working on students' M2 internship. This internship carry out in the fourth semester has to last at least 4 months and be undertaken arounf a research project within a lab or a compagny.This module enables students to gain initial practical experience on their futur research project and to better understand the problematic they will be exposed during their internship through meeting with their futur colleagues as well as in undertaking bibliography work. 

The skills developed in this module (critical analysis, project management, time management, ethics in the scientific world, writing and presenting a study using a given formalism, etc.) will be of value to all students, even if they are not heading for a career in academic research. 

Compétences visées

• Carrying out a scientific survey
• Conduct research using concepts and knowledge and following ethical principles
• Organise and plan a research project
• Critically analyse the results of one's own work or of other scientific studies
• Develop a critical awareness of knowledge in a field and/or at the interface between several fields
• Synthesise research work in a written document that meets the standards of the field

Disciplines

• Enveloppes fluides du système Terre et autres planètes
• Structure et évolution de la Terre et des autres planètes
• Terre solide : géodynamique des enveloppes supérieure, paléobiosphère
• Génie informatique, automatique et traitement du signal
• Sciences de l'information et de la communication