Project

Code:

M.EMAT024

Acronym:

P

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Science and Technology of Materials

Instance: 2025/2026 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Metallurgy, Materials and Technological Processes Section
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Materials Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
M.EMAT	9	Syllabus	2	-	6	45,5	162

Teaching language

English

Objectives

This course aims to enable the student to materialize, improve, optimize, or reduce the time to reach the market of a given product concept using, on the one hand, the knowledge acquired in other courses, and on the other hand the process simulation tools that enable this materialization of projects. The projects will be implemented in collaboration with companies aiming at the development of components or equipment for the foundry, machining, and additive manufacturing industries.

 

Learning outcomes and competences

The aim is to provide students with essential skills in product design and development. Skills will also be developed in group work, communication strategies (written and oral), motivation, and integration into multidisciplinary teams with a strong industrial bias.
Some technical skills and learning outcomes to be acquired are explained, namely in:
- engineering and project requirements;
- analysis of the impact on society of the development and application of this work methodology;
- selection, research and discussion of procedures that lead to the most efficient manufacture of parts obtained by replicative, subtractive and additive processes;
- critical analysis of existing bibliography highlighting essential aspects that may have more immediate industrial application.

Working method

Presencial

Program

The syllabus will be adapted for each concrete project.
An example of this is the syllabus for a project for a foundry or machining system.
[Foundry] - Metrological control of project components, pattern plates, core boxes. Application to the transformation of definition drawings to mold plates and tin boxes drawings. Shape analysis. Gating systems. Simulation of cavity filling and solidification, selection of thermal and physical parameters of the alloy and casting material, selection of the casting process, post processing parameters of the simulation results.
[Machining] - Machining: Selection of tools, machining paths, simulation, and optimization.

Mandatory literature

Several.; Manuals and tutorials. (Manuals and tutorials for software and equipment used in project development.)

Complementary Bibliography

John Campbell; Complete Castings Handbook, Butterworth-Heinemann - Elsevier, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-85617-809-9
American Society for Metals; Casting design and performance. ISBN: 978-0-87170-724-6
Carlos Relvas; Controlo numérico computorizado.. ISBN: ISBN: 972-95794-6-6

Teaching methods and learning activities

This course is developed in partnership with a group of reference companies in the industrial sector that will provide integration projects that allow the use of the knowledge acquired during the course, to the manufacture of goods or equipment for various production technologies. For this purpose, they will have at their disposal various modelling and simulation software that they have already contacted in other courses. The projects are designed for experimental validation. The class is divided into groups of two students who implement the various phases of implementation of the project, in cooperation with the assigned company.

 

Software

Autodesk PowerMILL
QuikCAST da ESI
Autodesk Fusion360

keywords

Technological sciences > Engineering > Project engineering
Technological sciences > Engineering > Simulation engineering

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	80,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	24,00
Estudo autónomo	48,00
Frequência das aulas	45,50
Elaboração de projeto	44,50
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

FEUP absence regulation will be applied.

 

Calculation formula of final grade

20% of the grade with the first presentation and discussion and 80% with the reporting and work and final presentation.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Realization of a project to be delivered on a date to be agreed.

Classification improvement

Reformulation of the final report, with the introduction of the necessary improvements.