Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Conduct extensive research and development projects related to biological sciences, in the biology of organisms and ecology.
• Contributing to a project by mastering its complexity and taking into account the objectives, allocated resources and constraints that characterise it.
• Show initiative and be able to work independently and in teams.
• Master communication techniques.
• Communicate, both orally and in writing, their findings, original proposals, knowledge and underlying principles, in a clear, structured and justified manner.
• Master the techniques of written and oral scientific communication in both French and English.
• Develop and integrate a high degree of autonomy.
• Pursue further training and develop new skills independently.
• Develop and integrate a high degree of autonomy to evolve in new contexts.
• Apply scientific methodology.
• Critically reflect on the impact of their discipline in general, and on the contribution to projects.
• Demonstrate thoroughness, independence, creativity, intellectual honesty, and ethical values.

Learning Outcomes of UE

The main goal of this course is to lead students to understand and follow author recommendations for illustrations, as asked by international scientific journals. They learn to master computing tools to preprocess numerical images. They will learn how to create an illustration, to digitize it, to convert it, to define its correct attributes (colors, compression, definition, ...) to adapt the image to the various publication media (maste manuscript, scientific journal, web site, ...). The student also learn to extract quantitative information from digital images, using image analysis.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Bitmap vs vector images; Resolution, definition, dimension; Colors; Compression; Drawing, Clear chamber; Calque; Digital micro- and macrophotography; Flat-bed scanner; PDF; Conversion; Vectorial digitization; Numerical processing; Composite images; Figures numbering, legend, annotations, scales; Media and backup; Image analysis; Extraction of data form biological images (distances, angles or surfaces); Counting and measurement of particles.

Prior Experience

Use of a computer. Basic use of a computer. The tutorial https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/computerbasics/ can be used to learn the basics of computers, and possibly https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/typing/ to learn typing on a keyboard before the course begins.