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Bachelor in Engineering Sciences

  • Organisation: Universidade dos Açores
  • Type of Course: Initial education
  • Language(s):
  • Place: Ponta Delgada, S. Miguel Island, Azores (French Regions: Europe)
  • Prepared diploma/grade/title: French Bachelor degree
  • Level of entry: French Baccalaureat + 0

Course Details

Objectives: Mechanical Engineering: a) To train mechanical engineers with skills to conceive, design, manufacture and operate mechanical engineering systems and products; b) Foster a creative, critical, autonomous and interdisciplinary approach, incorporating the most recent technological innovations. Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering - To enable for conception, including analysis, specification, design, industrialization, commercialization and use of products and services that use electricity, along with other forms of energy, in the field of Electrotechnical Engineering and Information Technologies.

Intended for: students

Degree Level (EU) : 6 - (EQC level or equivalent)

Admission requirements: Secondary Education / EU Level IV or V Vocational Education

Targeted careers : Mechanical Engineer: Project offices; Manufacturing industries for mechanical and thermal equipment; Energy production and air conditioning companies; Maintenance and operations management activities; Project evaluation and consultancy tasks in service companies (banks and insurance companies); Technical and commercial activities; Research and industrial development laboratories. Electrical and Computer Engineer: Services and industries in the technological areas of telecommunications, energy, electronics, computers (hard and soft perspectives), robotics, decision and control; Technological support for the development of systems and products for medicine, biotechnology, space, oceans and the environment; Consulting and software development.

Duration and terms: 3 years

Dedicated web site: https://www.uac.pt/ensino/curso.php?id=4088&l=EN&a=2021/2022&f=FCT

Disciplines

  • Engineering Sciences

Topics

  • 3 - Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Solid Mechanics, Structural Dynamics, Composites, Metallurgy, Forming, Additive Manufacturing, Metamaterials, Processes, Plastics, Chemistry, Polymers, Surface Treatment, etc.
  • 4 - Thermodynamics, Propulsion, Energy: Thermal Machines, Thermal Transfer and Control, Cryogenics, Pyrotechnics, Engines, Green Fuels/SAF, Hydrogen, Renewable Energies...
  • 5 - Fluid Physics: Fluids, Aerodynamics, Aerothermodynamics, Acoustics, Hydraulics...
  • 6 - Electrical Engineering: Generation and Storage of Electrical Energy, Conversion, Regulation, Power Electronics, Actuators, Electric Propulsion, Microsystems, Mechatronics...
  • 7 - Embedded/Cyberphysical Systems: Embedded Networks, Real Time Systems, Formal Methods, Embedded Software, Avionics, Instrumentation...
  • 8 - Electronics Systems : Analog and digital functions, Components, Microelectronics, Integrated Circuits, Samplers, ASIC/FPGA, Digital Signal Processors, Nanotechnologies
  • 9 - Microwave and Photonics: Radiofrequency Functions, Propagation, Antennas, MIMO, Metasurfaces, Terrahertz, Optics, Optoelectronics, Laser, Photonic Circuits, Plasmonics, Quantum Technologies...
  • 12 - Information and Communications Technologies: Telecommunications, Modulation/Coding, Software Defined Radio (SDR), Multimedia, Networks and Protocols, Internet, IoT/Connected Objects, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Information Systems, Teleservices,....