Transferable skills for engineering: Time Management and Personal Organization (advanced module)
Keywords |
Classification |
Keyword |
CNAEF |
Engineering and related techniques |
Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S (of 01-09-2023 to 28-02-2024)
Cycles of Study/Courses
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
- Importance of perception and control of the time variable
- Organization of personal agenda and work planning
- Self-diagnosis and productivity throughout the PhD
- Management of pressure and stress in thesis work
- Micromarketing and information management processes
- 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
Evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
Designation |
Weight (%) |
Exame |
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
participação ativa nas aulas
Calculation formula of final grade
100% assignement