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Master in Digital Advanced Manufacturing Engineering

Education objectives

Digital Advanced Manufacturing Engineering master´s degree aims to:

  • Prepare engineering professionals to work in the next generation of industrial environments, supported by new digital technologies, manufacturing and logistical processes.
  • Train graduates in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics Engineering,  and Materials Engineering, with the competencies to meet the challenges of the digital transformation of the industry.
  • Give the skills to investigate, conceive, design, optimize, design, implement, operate, maintain, evaluate and manage advanced manufacturing systems supported by digital technology and high added value, in multidisciplinary collaboration environments in a volatile, uncertain environment and complex.

Career Opportunities

At the end of the master´s degree, students will be able to:

  • Design complex work processes and methods, based on digital technology, that allow industrial companies to be more effective and efficient, and to produce goods in the defined quantity, quality, time and place and in safe conditions.
  • Manage and control processes and projects for industrial technologies, automation and robotics in manufacturing, in interdisciplinary environments.
  • Propose solutions for industrial technologies and automation, technically and economically competitive.
  • Design, coordinate and execute projects for industrial technologies and automation.
  • Develop R&D projects.
  • Have an entrepreneurial spirit, be able to identify ideas and opportunities and understand the challenges of undertaking new technological projects.
  • Have the capacity for critical analysis and leadership.
  • Know how to work in a team and communicate effectively in a professional and academic environment.

General characterization

DGES code

1112

Cicle

Master (2nd Cycle)

Degree

Mestre

Access to other programs

Access to a 3rd cycle

Coordinator

José Manuel Cardoso Xavier

Opening date

September

Vacancies

25

Fees

National students: 1250 Euros/year

International students: 7000 Euros/year

Schedule

Daytime

Teaching language

Available soon

Degree pre-requisites

Duration: 2 years

Credits: 120 ECTS

Scientific Area Acronym ECTS
Mandatory Optional
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering EMI 30 0
Industrial Engineering EI 27 0

Mechanical Engineering

 EM 21 0

Electrical and Computer Engineering

 EEC 21 0
Informatics I 12 0
Transferable Skills CC  3 0
Any Scientific Area   QAC 0  6 a)
TOTAL 114 6

(a) 6 ECTS in courses chosen by the student on a list approved annually by the Scientific Council of NOVA FCT, which includes the unity of all scientific areas of NOVA FCT.

Conditions of admittance

Admission rules:

Candidates must fulfil at least one of the following specific entry requirements:

  1. To hold a bachelor''''s degree or legal equivalent in undergraduate degrees in the areas of: Industrial Engineering and Management; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Physics Engineering; Materials Engineering; and similars.
  2. To hold a bachelor''''s degree or legal equivalent in undergraduate degrees in the areas of Engineering or Engineering sciences in general, with admission to the program subject to curricular appreciation and interview.
  3. To hold a foreign higher academic degree conferred following a 1st cycle of studies in accordance with the principles of the Bologna Process in the areas referred above.
  4. To hold a school, scientific or professional curriculum, which is recognized as attesting the capacity to carry out this cycle of studies.

Proficiency in English is mandatory.

Ranking:

Candidates will be ranked and selected according to the following criteria:

           1. Course classification;
           2. Academic and scientific curriculum;
           3. Professional resume.

Candidates may be required to have an interview with the selection committee.

Evaluation rules

The evaluation of all UCs is continuous for all the components that integrate it, and it must be completed by the last day of the school term of the academic semester.

The continuous evaluation of a UC must include a minimum of three elements in the set of evaluation components, on dates adequately spaced throughout the period of classes.

All UCs with a theoretical-practical evaluation component must provide, in addition, a form of evaluation of this component by exam, to be carried out after the period of classes (Examination of Appeal).

All requirements and conditions related to the evaluation of the UC, namely the minimum weights and classifications, if any, of each component, as well as the Frequency conditions, are defined a priori and, mandatorily, published in the Discipline Form.

For each UC, combinations of three evaluation components are allowed: (i) Theoretical-practical evaluation; (ii) Laboratory or project evaluation; (iii) Summative assessment.

The final Dissertation (or Project) involves a public discussion with a Jury.

Regulamento de Avaliação de Conhecimentos (Licenciaturas, Mestrados Integrados e Mestrados.)