Project FEUP

Code:

FEUP003

Acronym:

PFEUP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Personal Development

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://www.fe.up.pt/projfeup
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
L.AERO	31	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	13	40,5
L.EA	43	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	13	40,5
L.EC	147	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	13	40,5
L.EEC	251	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	13	40,5
L.EGI	113	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	13	40,5
L.EM	223	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	13	40,5
L.EMAT	26	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	13	40,5
L.EMG	21	Plano de estudos oficial a partir de 2008/09	1	-	1,5	13	40,5
L.EQ	63	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	13	40,5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

• To welcome and integrate the new coming students.


• To introduce the most important services of the campus


• To teach “Soft Skills” and to stress their importance (soft skills: teamwork, communication, etc) 


• To discuss a scientific Theme / Project of limited complexity in engineering areas.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of this course, the team of students should have:

• Written a Technical/Scientific Report
• Created a Poster
• Prepared an oral Presentation
• Presented publicly and defended the work of the Theme/Project.

The work should demonstrate awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established by the United Nations, and be able to identify sustainability principles in engineering practices.

Learning Outcomes:

• RES_1: To know FEUP and to use the primary services of the Campus
• RES_2: To have communication skills (report, oral presentation and poster)
• RES_3: To have research skills and to be organized
• RES_4: To have teamwork skills: to make part of a team, to be assessed, to have flexible interpersonal relationships, to have the ability to interiorize and respect team rules
• RES_5: To reach the specific aims of the Theme/Project

 

Working method

B-learning

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Basic skills in teamwork and computer applications (as a user)

Program

Specific training on professional non-technical skills (so-called "soft" skills):

• Writing in engineering
• Effective Communication
• Visual Communication

Additionally, special initial training on:

• Campus Information System
• Advanced computer tools (namely collaborative / web-based) such as for instance, Google Apps and Moodle
• Effective Learning (including Time Management)
• Other topics include ethics, plagiarism, quotation styles, and referencing.

The course also includes technical work (framed within the objectives for sustainable development) and formation within the subject that the student enrolled to work in the Theme / Project.

Mandatory literature

Joan van Emden, Lucinda Becker; Presentation skills for students. ISBN: 978-0-230-24304-0
Edward R. Tufte; The visual display of quantitative information. ISBN: 0-9613921-4-2
Kathleen McMillan, Jonathan Weyers; How to write dissertations and project reports. ISBN: 978-0-273-74383-5

Complementary Bibliography

Julce Mary Cornelsen; Escrever... com normas. ISBN: 978-989-26-0108-3
Angelika H. Hofmann; Scientific writing and communication. ISBN: 978-0-19-539005-6
José Gonçalves das Neves, Margarida Garrido, Eduardo Simões; Manual de competências pessoais, interpessoais e instrumentais. ISBN: 978-972-618-477-5
Nuno Ferreira com Bruno Caldeira; Faz o curso na maior. ISBN: 978-989-23-2104-2
University of Chicago ; The Chicago Manual of Style Online, University of Chicago Press, 2015. ISBN: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html (Available only for the FEUP community; access from the outside with VPN)

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course has an initial week of full dedication, with several welcoming activities, lectures, practical training, and e-learning activities on the abovementioned topics. These activities of the initial week will be graded.

After the initial week, six sessions of teamwork follow. The teachers appointed as supervisors of the Projeto FEUP propose themes/projects that could possibly be articulated with content from other curricular units of the same course. These works must be carried out by a team of around 6 students, accompanied by a monitor, who is a more experienced student and with specific training in the Projeto FEUP.

At the end of the work, a Scientific Report, a Poster and an oral Presentation will be submitted for grading. The works will be presented orally and defended to a jury in the style of a scientific conference.

The form and the content of the work Report, the Poster and the oral Presentation, as well as the defence of the project (jury questions/audience), will be assessed.

keywords

Technological sciences > Engineering
Humanities > Philosophy > Ethics > Applied ethics
Social sciences > Communication sciences
Technological sciences
Technological sciences > Technology > Communication technology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Teste	5,00
Trabalho escrito	65,00
Trabalho laboratorial	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	10,00
Estudo autónomo	5,00
Frequência das aulas	19,00
Trabalho de campo	6,50
Total:	40,50

Eligibility for exams

Participation in teamwork (Theme/Project) and at least 75% of class attendance.

Calculation formula of final grade

Assessment formula:

• Final_Mark =(5%×Individual_Grade_of_First_Week) + [(45%×Report) + (20%×Poster) + (30%×Presentation)±Individual_Offset]

 Notes:

• Individual_Grade_of_First_Week => evaluation through a Mini Test
• Individual Offset => Individual performance in the team. The grade is set by the supervisor based on the assessment given by the peers and information collected by the monitor. Generally, it ranges between ± 2, and the total of the Individual Offset for all team members tends to be zero.

 

RESULTS AND ASSESSMENT MATRIX:

	RES_1 Know FEUP	RES_2 Communicate	RES_3 Organiz.	RES_4 Team	RES_5 Theme/Proj.
Report on Theme / Project		X			X
Oral Presentation		X			X
Poster		X			X
Peer Evaluation			X	X
Evaluation by "Monitor"	X		X	X
Evaluation by "Supervisor"		X	X		X

Examinations or Special Assignments

Initial activities (lectures, etc).

ELearning activities.

Work in the Theme/Project in the scope of the program.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

• All students will have to complete a mandatory minimal set of activities, to be defined yearly


• Working Students do not have mandatorily to attend classes (equivalent to justified absence)


• Work on the Theme/Project is mandatory


• In this course is not possible to be evaluated by exam in any official periods of assessment

Observations

============ Important: ============

• Find your own schedule for the initial week in http:www.fe.up.pt/projfeup
• Find your own schedule for the next six weeks at the SIGARRA information system (press in the student name and then in time schedule)
• It is mandatory to read FEUP's email daily.

====================== Important Links: ======================

• Public web page:  http://fe.up.pt/projfeup
• E-Learning:  https://moodle2425.up.pt/ (viewable as a guest)