Design Project - Annual

Code:

EM545

Acronym:

PI

Instance: 2003/2004 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Fluids and Energy Division
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
LEM	25	Plano de Estudos EM Oficial a partir de 2000	5	7	14	-
		Plano para Bachareis EM a partir 2000	2	7	14	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To propose an exercise of integration of knowledge in a pre-professional environment. Themes are selected by groups of two students among those proposed by the different supervisors. The students are confronted with the complexity of new situations calling upon the use of previous knowledge, the search for new information and the exercise of capacity for analysis and synthesis and for reporting both in written and orally.

Program

One anual project of a thermal installation or a thermal based problem (industrial, building systems related, efficient and renwable energies utilization, etc.).
Ther are weekly contacts of each group with the supervisor.

In addition, students have to attend a 50 minutes lecture a week given by the coordinator or an invited speakers. Topics are related with the coordination of the internal buisness of the course (how to writte a report or to make a presentation,etc.); with the profession of ingenier (innovation, quality management, certification, etc.) or more wide issues such as environment, innovation, etc.

Main Bibliography

Not applicable in general terms. Each supervisor and/or each speaker will provid his/her own lists of references.

Complementary Bibliography

Ibidem

Teaching methods and learning activities

Through the lecture there is an attempt to create a culture favouring a pre-professional environment addressing issues of more general, societal caracter.

Through the project, under the supervision of a professor with two oral public presentations (the first one, by December, defining the problem, indicating the methodology adopted and the type of results envisaged; the second one, by the end of the academic year, with the presentation of the results) and a written report.

Software

Ibidem

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam