Mestrado em Gestão de Engenharia

Course Description

Cursos básicos obrigatórios (12 unidades de crédito)

This block aims to develop a basic understanding of engineering management, to provide a broad range of knowledge and to enhance professional practices in engineering management. It includes the following courses:

• Engineering Management Principles and Concepts
• Operations Management
• Project Management
• Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Cursos eletivos (18 unidades de crédito)

• Asset and Maintenance Management
• Business Process Improvement and Innovation
• Contemporary Occupational Safety and Health Management
• Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence for Systems Engineering
• Data Analytics for Smart Cities
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Dissertation
• Energy Conservation and Management
• Engineering Economic Analysis
• Estimation and Control of Random Dynamic Systems
• Financial Engineering for Engineering Managers
• Global Human Resource Management
• Industrial Case Study
• Industrial Marketing Management for Engineers
• Intelligent Manufacturing for Engineering Managers
• International Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship
• International Organizational Behaviour
• Linear Systems Theory and Design
• Managerial Decision-making Systems with Artificial Intelligence
• Managerial Economics
• Managing International Business
• Managing Strategic Quality
• Predictive Modeling and Forecasting for Business
• Process Modelling and Control
• Quality and Reliability Engineering
• Quality Improvement: Systems and Methodologies
• Queueing Theory with Telecommunications Applications
• Risk and Decision Analysis
• Semiconductor Manufacturing and Management
• Statistical Data Analysis
• Supply Chain Management
• Systems Modelling and Management
• Transportation and Logistics Management

Remarks: Course offering is subject to sufficient enrollment.

Remarks

• MSc Degree in Engineering Management (30 credit units)

The full MSc degree award requires 30 credit units, with the completion of taught courses only, or taught courses plus the dissertation project.

Distinct Features of the Programme

• The programme is highly multi-disciplinary.
• The programme adopts action learning and team-based experimental learning approaches.
• The programme requires students to work in small groups in different courses with a view to developing solutions for a set of engineering management problems which are derived from the professional experiences of the students or sponsored by local companies.

Teaching and Learning

The programme utilises a variety of learning methods including :

• Action Learning
• Experimental Learning
• Team-based Learning
• Lectures & Tutorials
• Seminars / Panel Discussions

Resultados de Aprendizagem Pretendidos do Programa (PILOs)

Após a conclusão com sucesso deste Programa, espera-se que os alunos:

• Refletir sobre conhecimentos alargados em gestão de engenharia no apoio à identificação de problemas, resolução de problemas, tomada de decisão e análise;
• Aplicar as competências de gestão, nomeadamente comportamentais e de comunicação, necessárias à transição efetiva do papel de engenheiro para o de gestor de engenharia;
• Integrar e aplicar conhecimentos de engenharia e gestão na gestão de projetos de engenharia, operações, produtos e serviços em empresas e departamentos de engenharia/fabricação;
• Ser capaz de gerar ideias inovadoras no processo de gestão de engenharia e transformar as inovações em implementação prática;
• Refletir sobre a responsabilidade e sensibilidade para as preocupações ambientais e societais, questões interculturais e desenvolvimento global.