ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 6 Expository Class: 20 Interactive Classroom: 34 Total: 60
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Applied Physics
Areas: Optics
Center Faculty of Optics and Optometry
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
The student will learn:
- The fundamental properties of the optical materials that Opticians-Optometrists work with
- The main manufacturing and characterization methods for these materials
And acquire:
- Basic skills for the manual adjustment of compensating optical systems
- Correct work habits in laboratories and workshop
Unit 1: Introduction to the subject
1. Course planning: objectives, program, schedule and so on.
2. Introduction to optical materials.
Unit 2: Properties of optical materials
3. Physical properties of materials . Refractive index, chromatic dispersion; absorption, transmission and reflection; protection against electromagneticradiation: filters; density; elastic phenomena and impact resistance; hardness; thermal conductivity and thermal expansion.
4. Chemical properties of materials . Moisturization; hydration; oxygen permeability; resistance to degradation; protection against mechanical andchemical agents: protective lenses and protective frames.
Unit 3: Fabrication of optical materials
5. Ophthalmic lenses. Ophthalmic lens materials: glass and plastic; glass manufacturing; mineral lens manufacturing; plastic manufacturing; organic lensmanufacturing; surface treatments; mass treatments; lens care and protection.
6. Contact lenses. Contact lens materials; contact lens manufacturing; treatments.
Laboratory work
1. Dyeing of organic optical materials
2. Transmission measurement (I)
3. Transmission Measurement (II)
4. Hardness measurement
5. Measurement of the refractive index and chromatic dispersion
6. Identification of lenses and frames; resistance of materials.
7. Review of the use of the focimeter.
8. Manual beveling
9. Adjustment and adaptation of mounts
10. PMMA fabrication.
1. J. Salvadó y M. Fransoy, Tecnología Óptica, Edicions UPC, Barcelona, 1997.
2. W. F. Smith, Fundamentos de la Ciencia e Ingeniería de los Materiales, McGraw-Hill, Madrid, 1998.
3. C. Saona, Contactología Clínica, Ed. Masson. Barcelona, 2002.
4. T. E. Fanin y T. Grosvenor, Clinical Optics, cap. 1, Butterworths, Boston, 1987.
5. M. Jalie, Ophthalmic lenses & dispensing, ed. Butterworth Heinemann, Edinburgh, 2003.
6. H. Obstfeld, Spectacle frames and their dispensing, Ed. Saunders, Londres, 1997.
7. A. Benito e E.A. Villegas, Montaje y aplicaciones de lentes oftálmicas, Ed. Univ. de Murcia, 2001.
8. C. W. Brooks y I. M. Borish, System for ophthalmic dispensing, Butterworth Heinemann, Boston, 1996.
9. C. W. Brooks, Essentials of ophthalmic lens finishing, ed. Butterworth-Heinemann, St. Louis, 2003.
10. E. Strandgaard, P. Jespergaard e O. Grønbæk, Datos de Física y Química, Marfil, Alcoy, 1987.
Resources available on the web
1. In prelo.usc.es: Barroso Herrero, S., Ibáñez Ulargui, J., & Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España). (2014). Introducción alconocimiento de materiales (Ed. digital.). Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shore_durometer
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbe_refractometer and the external links.
Knowledge
• Con_23. Know the physical and chemical properties of the materials used in optics and optometry.
• Con_24. Know the lens selection, manufacturing, and design processes.
Skills and Abilities:
• HyD_1. Think in an integrated manner and approach problems from different perspectives with critical thinking.
• HyD_2. Organize and plan work.
• HyD_3. Interpret results and identify consistent and inconsistent elements.
• HyD_4. Work as a team.
• HyD_5. Maintain an ethical commitment, as well as a commitment to equality and inclusion.
• HyD_8. Know how to analyze data and interpret experimental results specific to the fields of optics and optometry.
• HyD_12. Handle basic laboratory materials and techniques.
• HyD_19. Teamwork skills as a unit in which professionals and other personnel related to eye care are structured in a unidisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary manner.
Competencies:
• Comp_1. Students must have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific, or ethical issues.
• Comp_3. Students must have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
• Comp_4. Students must be able to apply the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired in the degree in a professional manner and be competent in posing/solving problems, as well as in developing/defending arguments in both academic and professional contexts related to Optics and Optometry.
• Comp_5. Ability to learn independently, work in a team, organize time and resources, and acquire new knowledge and techniques in Optics and Optometry.
- Two hours of expository classroom teaching per week, up to a total of 20 hours of expository classes in large groups.
- One hour of seminars per week until completing a total of 6 hours in small groups. The 6 hours of seminars will be dedicated to problem solving andactivities. The student will be provided with a bulletin with the statements of the problems/activities as well as the slides of the topics covered in class.
- Workshop/laboratory sessions in groups of one or two students per practice.
Teaching languages: Galician and Spanish.
Working languages in the classroom: Galician and Spanish.
The evaluation will be carried out taking into account the following elements:
1) A written exam on the theoretical and practical contents of the subject that will take place on the dates set in the official calendar;
2) the continuous evaluation through the completion of the seminar and laboratory activities, the preparation of individual reports of the practices carriedout, as well as the attendance and participation in the classes.
The student will have the option of being evaluated by means of: a) the on-site exam or b) the on-site exam and the continuous evaluation. If thestudent chooses the second option, his/her grade will be given by the best grade obtained between the exam and the grade calculated by the followingarithmetic average: N = 0.65*Nexame + 0.35*Nevalcontinuous.
The completion of the practicals is essential to pass the subject. In addition, to be taken into account, the reports of each practice must be deliveredwithin a period not exceeding two weeks from the completion of the same. Only the student who does not attend the exam and does not participate inany activity of the continuous evaluation will be considered as not presented.
Students who have been officially granted a dispensation from class attendance will only have to do some of the scheduled practices. The evaluation ofthese students will be carried out exclusively by means of the written exam.
In cases of cheating in exercises or tests, the system set out in the Regulations on the Assessment of Students' Academic Performance and theVerification of Qualifications will be applied.
Classroom work:
20 h of lectures
6 hours of seminar classes in small groups.
26 h of laboratory/workshop class
Personal work of the student:
30 h for individual or group self-study.
15 h for the realization of reports and preparation of the practicals.
3 h for library consultation activities
Total: 100 hours
- Have taken ophthalmic optics I.
- Attendance to lectures and seminars.
- Problem solving and participation in the activities proposed in the bulletin.
- Use of individual face-to-face or telematic tutorials to consult and clarify doubts.
Rosa María González Fernández
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- Phone
- 881813518
- rosa.gonzalez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University School Lecturer
Maria Concepcion Nistal Fernandez
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- Phone
- 881813529
- mconcepcion.nistal [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Mª Carmen Bao Varela
Coordinador/a- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- Phone
- 881813512
- carmen.bao [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Ana Isabel Gómez Varela
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- anaisabel.gomez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Ramón y Cajal
Yago Radziunas Salinas
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- yago.radziunas.salinas [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
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