At a high scientific level, the course aims at his specialization: to improve a professional training leading to the preparation of students as highly skilled technicians in the field of urban and environmental issues; to adjust the knowledge and training to the level of market requirements in specific work Portugal and the European Union; to promote in the academic or professional field advanced skills for technological progress, for social and cultural knowledge; to enlarge knowledge in the contemporary spatial dynamics area, and the theories and planning systems; to strengthen the capacity for critics, analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing new and complex ideas in the field of technical and scientific study; to assure the appropriate academic training requirements for the university teaching or researching career.
Specific objectives of the Programme are: to expand the areas of training at the level of undergraduate and advanced study courses in various topics of engineering education and, in particular, the specific area of the Master in Civil Engineering - Planning Option, allowing thus a wider spatial coverage of postgraduate education in territorial planning and dynamics and adjust that level to the requirements of specific labor market in Portugal and the European Union aiming, therefore, the attractiveness and mobility of students from different countries and the competitiveness and complementarily of training and education at FEUP and FAUP, as well as in European and broader international institutions, at the university level of education.
Official Code: | M520 |
Director: | Fernando Brandão Alves |
Assistant Director: | Sara Cruz |
Acronym: | MPPU |
Academic Degree: | Master |
Type of course/cycle of study: | Masters Degree |
Start: | 2011/2012 |
Duration: | 2 Years |