Capstone Project in Biomedical Engineering

Code:

L.BIO030

Acronym:

PIEBIOM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Biomedical Engineering

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Bioengineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
L.BIO	35	Syllabus	3	-	6	13	162

Teaching language

Portuguese and english
Obs.: Será adotada a lingua inglesa sempre que hajam estudantes de lingua estrangeira.

Objectives

Implement and apply work methodologies in industrial, hospital or Research & Development institutions.
It is intended that the student develops transversal skills that begin with the search for a short-term internship, in an industrial, hospital or R&D institution, until the development of the project in that environment.

Learning outcomes and competences

Successful completion of this curricular unit will allow students to acquire skills to:

-Implement a research project in an industrial environment, hospital facility or R&D institutions;

- Effectively apply advanced engineering knowledge in these environments;

- Adopt individual and group work strategies to promote the development of initiative, decision-making and creative and critical thinking skills;

- Demonstrate knowledge of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) established by the United Nations, integrating the principles of sustainability into engineering practices. This includes being able to identify the contribution of their work to the environmental, social and economic aspects of the proposed solutions, with a view to a more sustainable and inclusive future through projects and initiatives aligned with the SDG.

In particular, it is expected that the students:

- acquire experience of multidisciplinary teamwork (CDIO 3.1) in the realization of a common project and learn to organize and distribute different tasks among the team members;
- get in touch with a formal development process and use computer aided work organization tools (CDIO 4.6.1);
- exercise the design and development of the components of the project on time, meeting requirements, specifications and the established test plan (CDIO 4.4.2);
- write simple documents of requirements, specifications and test plan (CDIO 4.5.5);
- understand how to write the final report and present it orally (CDIO 3.2.6).

Working method

Presencial

Program

Development of an internship in an industrial, hospital or research and development entity.
Basic training will be obtained through the implementation of tasks associated with carrying out experimental work, collecting and processing data, researching information for scientific/technological innovation, according to the area of activity of the internship location.

Mandatory literature

Albert Lester; Project management, planning and control. ISBN: 978-0-08-102020-3
M. Daud Alam; Project-management in practice. ISBN: 978-3-662-52944-7
David Beer; A guide to writing as an engineer. ISBN: 978-0-470-41701-0

Teaching methods and learning activities

Presentation of work topic proposals to be developed in an occupational environment, followed by the selection of topics preferred by students. Each work is accompanied by an academic advisor and another at the company, health institution or R&D institute. Students will deliver a report at the end and will present and discuss the work to the head of the curricular unit and an invited evaluator.

keywords

Technological sciences > Engineering > Biomedical enginnering

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	40,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	25,00
Trabalho de campo	10,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	42,00
Realização de Estágio	100,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	20,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Each student must attend the internship location and actively participate in carrying out the work defined in the respective internship plan throughout the semester, showing evidence of their collaboration to achieve the proposed objectives.
At the end, the student will deliver a written report and will make a presentation and discussion of the work to the head of the curricular unit and an invited evaluator.

Calculation formula of final grade

Distributed assessment without final exam. The final classification is obtained taking into account 3 parameters:
(1) Quality of Work: Goals achieved, Commitment, Autonomy: 40%;
(2) Quality of Report: Organization, Scientific content: 25%;
(3) Oral Presentation/Discussion: Clarity, Relevance, Argumentation: 25%.
The remaining 10% will only be awarded to students who are successful in their active internship search.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not aplicable

Internship work/project

See program

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Não aplicável

Classification improvement

It can be carried out by improving the results achieved in the internship and the final report with corresponding new presentation and discussion in deadlines to be defined in the evaluation periods of the semester.