ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 22 Interactive Classroom: 32 Total: 57
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 must achieve sufficient mastery of the techniques and skills that will allow:
+ Assemble, adjust and repair existing basic models of glasses.
+ Determine the appropriateness and validity of a glasses
+ Identify the source of problems and adjustment difficulties for users.
+ Offer solutions or alternatives to overcome these problems.
THEORY
1. Classification and parts of the spectacle frames.
2. Measurements of the spectacle frames. Facial measurements and spectacle frame parameters
3. Centration of single vision and multifocal lenses.
4. Standards of tolerance of ophthalmic lenses
5. Materials and manufacture of frames. The skin and spectacle frames
6. Selecting and adjusting spectacle frames
PRACTICES PROGRAM
The practices of the field are 10 workshop sessions, three hours each, of which the latter will be a test.
Practices study the assembly processes of different types of lenses in the frames most commonly used, adapting them to the user and the maintenancer of fitted glasses.
+ Benito Galindo A., Villegas Ruiz E.A., Montaje y aplicaciones de lentes oftálmicas, ed. Universidad de Murcia (2001).
+ J. Salvadó, M. Fransoy (Ed.), Tecnología Óptica. Lentes oftálmicas, diseño y adaptación. ed. UPC, Barcelona (1997)
+ Obstfeld H., Spectacle frames and their dispensing, Ed. Saunders, Londres (1997).
+ Brooks C. W., Borish I.M., System for ophthalmic dispensing, Butterworth Heinemann, 2a edición, Boston (1996).
+ Brooks,C.W., Essentials of ophthalmic lens finishing, ed. Butterworth-Heinemann, St. Louis 2003.
+ Tunnacliffe, A.H., Essentials of dispensing, 2a edición, ed. ABDO, London (1998)
+ Jalie M., Ophthalmic lenses & dispensing, ed. Butterworth Heinemann, 2a edición, Edinbourgh, (2003).
+ M. Jalie, The Principles of Ophthalmic Lenses. ABDO, London, 2021, 6th edition.
+ Rodríguez Martínez J.I., Adaptación de monturas, ed. USC (2015)
+ Manual de lentes progresivas. INDO. Hospitalet de Llobregat (1999)
+ Fannin, T. E., Grosvenor, T.P. Óptica clínica. 2ª ed. Barcelona: Omega, (2007)
+ Standars UNE-EN ISO 7998=2007, 8624=2011, 8980-1, 8980-2, 13666=2000, 14889=2009-1
Knowledge
• Con_30. Know the most relevant geometric, optical, and physical parameters that characterize all types of ophthalmic lenses used in optometric prescriptions and know how to relate them to the properties involved in the fitting process.
Skills and Abilities:
• HyD_1. Think in an integrated manner and approach problems from different perspectives with critical reasoning.
• 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_15. Be able to master the techniques for centering, fitting, mounting, and handling all types of lenses, an optometric prescription, a visual aid, and protective eyewear.
• HyD_18. Master the techniques for analyzing, measuring, correcting, and controlling the effects of compensatory optical systems on the visual system, in order to optimize their design and fitting.
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.
• Comp_8. Ability to calculate the geometric parameters of specific visual compensation systems: low vision, intraocular lenses, contact lenses, and ophthalmic lenses.
In the class will be taught two hours per week of teaching expository during one half.
In practice sessions, the teacher will demonstrate the work to be done by the student. Then, students will develop the practice under the supervision of the teacher. The end result should be self-assessed by the student before submission to the teacher. This will make a final assessment before the student noting, especially, how to correct errors, problems or defects detected.
We will use the Virtual Campus as a repository for documentation and communication channel between students and teachers
There will be a written test and another practical test. The overall grade will be the arithmetic average of the marks from the written test (50%) and the practical test (50%). This average grade must be 5 out of 10 or higher to pass the subject. It is a necessary condition to pass the subject to have a minimum grade of 5 out of 10 in each of the parts.
For the evaluation of the practical test, attendance at a minimum of 8 sessions is mandatory.
Those students who, during the normal class period, have not attended this minimum of 8 practical sessions will not be able to take the second opportunity.
The student must know how to use the lensometer correctly.
Those students who do not appear for either the theory test or the practical test are considered NOT PRESENTED.
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the "Regulations for the evaluation of academic performance of students and the review of qualifications" will apply.
Presential
+ In the Classroom: 22
+ In the workshop: 30
+ Tutorials: 6
Non presential:
+ Individual or self-study group: 28
+ Writing exercises, conclusions or other work: 8
+ Programming / testing or other laboratory work: 8
+ Further reading, library, or similar activities: 6
+ Attendance at lectures, exhibitions or other activities recommended: 4.5
- Review of the knowledge acquired in Ophthalmic Optics I and II.
- Studying, or at least have seen, the corresponding theory before the practice session.
- Make use of tutorials to check and clarify doubts.
- Do not save "recipes", but always understand what is doing.
- Active participation in the class and in the workshop practice sessions
Maria Dolores Mouriz Cereijo
Coordinador/a- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- Phone
- 881813519
- mariadolores.mouriz [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Mª Carmen Bao Varela
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- Phone
- 881813512
- carmen.bao [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Carlos Montero Orille
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- Phone
- 881813506
- carlos.montero [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Yago Arosa Lobato
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- yago.arosa.lobato [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Post-doctoral Contract
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| 17:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician | Classroom 2 |
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| 17:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician | Classroom 2 |
| 05.22.2026 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 1 |
| 05.22.2026 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 2 |
| 07.09.2026 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 3 |