Description
The Master’s in Engineering Project Management (MEPM) aims to train professionals of various profiles, prepared to manage technology development and implementation processes of highly complex engineering projects. The training endeavored by MEPM enables specialization into three engineering project areas: construction (building and civil engineering works), industrial engineering (manufacturing industry and services) and information systems (information technology and information systems). Training through the MEPM program enables competent and scientifically informed professional performance in engineering project management, through the combination of scientific and technological knowledge with the abilities to plan, control and manage those projects economically and with adequate standards.
The MEPM involves a learning effort corresponding to 120 ECTS credits, spread over four semesters: The first two correspond to general training in the various themes associated with project management and specialized training in each of the specialization fields; the third is dedicated to seminars and the beginning of the dissertation development; the fourth is entirely dedicated to the dissertation.
Key learning outcomes
1. Know how to define the preliminary plan of an engineering project
2. Know how to plan and implement the way the project will be executed, covering the domains of scope, time, cost, quality, resources, communication, risk, changes and acquisitions.
3. Know how to implement the defined global management plan.
4. Know how to organize, control and lead human resources, equipment and materials within an engineering project.
5. Know how to implement the stakeholder management plan.
6. Know how to close the project, evaluating the fulfillment of the associated objectives, producing and/or providing formal documentation that indicates that it is complete.
Access to higher education
This Master degree provides basic training to carry out a course of 3rd cycle (PhD) in the same scientific area, or other areas.
Careers
The sectors of activity with potential employability of trainees are all the productive sectors that carry out their activity through projects or that use project structures to develop new products, implement new technologies or introduce new work approaches in their current operations. These sectors of activity are distributed over the three areas of specialization covered by the master's program, namely, construction (buildings and civil engineering public works); industrial engineering (projects within the manufacturing industry and manufacturing and services); and information systems (projects in the field of information technologies and information systems).
