Transferable skills for engineering: Time Management and Personal Organization (advanced module)

Code:

CTEGTO01

Acronym:

CTEGTOP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Engineering and related techniques

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S (of 02-09-2024 to 03-02-2025)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Informatics Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Transferable skills for engineering: Time Management and Personal Organization (advanced module)

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CTEGTO	10	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	11	40,5
PDEEC	11	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	11	40,5
PDQUI	1	PE_Doctoral Degree Program in Chemistry	1	-	1,5	11	40,5

Teaching language

Portuguese and english

Objectives

• Analyze dysfunctional situations in the organization of work and identify efficient strategies in terms of managing time, pressure and stress, in order to keep the development of your doctoral thesis at a strong pace.


• Use practical time management techniques and improve the organization of personal work to improve your productive efficiency at work andcontrol daily stress, in order to benefit from high productivity conditions for carrying out your research and writing your thesis.


• Internalize the changes to be made to ensure a growing effectiveness of your performance as a researcher, through a progressive optimization of time management throughout your PhD and ensuring a better balance between your personal and academic/professional life.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of this course, students should be able to successfully use their time management skills and their personal organization skills, in order to streamline the development of their research and intensify the productivity in writing their thesis, remaining psychologically coherent/resilient to the intellectual and emotional aspects (motivation, euphoria, enthusiasm... isolation, boredom, frustration...) they face throughout their PhD.

SKILLS (CDIO): 2-Personal and professional skills 2.2-Experimentation and discovery of knowledge 2.4-Personal skills and attitudes 2.5-Professional skills and attitudes.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Importance of perception and control of the time variable


2. Organization of personal agenda and work planning


3. Self-diagnosis and productivity throughout the PhD


4. Management of pressure and stress in thesis work


5. Micromarketing and information management processes


6. Exercise of designing an individual work plan

Mandatory literature

Manuel Firmino Torres; Textos de Apoio

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical-practical classes: expository and interrogative methods using various audiovisual aids such as blackboards and/or computer with video projector; demonstrative and active methods using practical activities and individual and group exercises with practical sheets to improve skills relating to the different levels of application referred to in the program contents.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	28,50
Frequência das aulas	12,00
Total:	40,50

Eligibility for exams

Attendance in at least 75% of classes

Calculation formula of final grade

100% assignement