Project FEUP

Code:

FEUP002

Acronym:

PF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Personal and Communicational Development
OFICIAL	Social Science
OFICIAL	Personal and Interpersonal Skills
OFICIAL	Engineering Sciences
OFICIAL	Technological Sciences
OFICIAL	Civil Engineering

Instance: 2015/2016 - 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
LCEEMG	25	Plano de estudos oficial a partir de 2008/09	1	-	1,5	14	40,5
MIEA	36	Syllabus since 2006/07	1	-	1,5	14	40,5
MIEC	142	Syllabus since 2006/2007	1	-	1,5	14	40,5
MIEEC	208	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	14	40,5
MIEIC	125	Syllabus since 2009/2010	1	-	1,5	14	40,5
MIEIG	73	Syllabus since 2006/2007	1	-	1,5	14	40,5
MIEM	151	Syllabus since 2006/2007	1	-	1,5	14	40,5
MIEMM	32	Syllabus since 2006/2007	1	-	1,5	14	40,5
MIEQ	66	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	14	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: team work, 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:

• Used a Logbook – either paper or web based
• Written a Technical/Scientific Report
• Created a Poster
• Prepared an oral Presentation
• Presented publicly and defend work of the Theme/Project.

Learning Outcomes:

• RES_1: To know FEUP and to use its services, such as CICA, SICC, SERAC, SDI
• 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 team work skills: to make part of a team, to be assessed; to have flexible interpersonal relationships; to have the ability to interiorize and respect group 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 team-work 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
• Effective Learning (including Time Management)
• Other topics: ethics, plagiarism, quotation styles and referencing.

The course also includes technical work and formation within the scope of the program that the student enrolled to the 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 with full dedication with several welcoming activities, lectures, practical trainning and e-learning activities in the above mentioned topics. These activities of the initial week will be graded.

After the initial week, six weeks of team work follow. The professors chosen to supervise Project FEUP will set Themes/Projects, which can be divided into two different tasks. Each of these tasks will be given to a team of 6 students that will be guided by a Monitor, elder FEUP student.

Each team make a project about a Theme/Project and during the project a logbook must be used.

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

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

keywords

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

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	5,00
Teste	10,00
Trabalho escrito	60,00
Trabalho laboratorial	25,00
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 the team work (Theme/Project)

Calculation formula of final grade

Assessment formula:

• Final_Mark =(15%×Individual_Grade_of_First_Week) + [(40%×Report) + (20%×Poster) + (25%×Presentation)+Individual_Offset]

 Notes:

• Individual_Grade_of_First_Week => includes attendance and results of the activities of the first week, ELearning activities and may include quiz information ("Mid-Term")
• 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 ranges between ± 2 and the total of the Individual Offset for all of the people in the team is 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.

Observations

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

• Find your own schedule for the initial week in 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)
• Presence in lectures and other activities may be part of final grade (e.g in the case of FEUP auditorium, attendance is monitored by passing the FEUP card at the entrance)
• It is mandatory to read FEUP's email daily.

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

• Public web page:  http://fe.up.pt/projfeup
• E-Learning:  http://moodle.up.pt  (viewable as a guest)
• Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/projfeup