Assessment of students’ technical competence, reporting and interpretative skills will be based on 9 to12 short reports of up to 6 pages each (meeting the required format) to be completed during the first half of the semester and two to three longer reports of up to 10 pages each (meeting the required format) based on themed experiments to be conducted in the second half of the semester (84%).The remaining 16% of the assessment will be based on students’ contributions to group work (conducted in weeks 10 to 12) and will be based on a long report (up to 10 pages), peer review (up to 500 words) and a short oral presentation.