Description
The MEGSI aims at the advanced training of IS engineers and managers whose main professional functions combine IT, organization and management competencies.
MEGSI graduates should be acquainted with the R&D process to follow the evolution of the area's body of knowledge and participate in its exploration and development, namely in a context of evidence-based professional practices.
MEGSI graduates must also demonstrate: a sense of responsibility and professional ethics; ability to learn and adapt to new situations; analytical, synthetic and critical thinking abilities; creativity; self-confidence; attention to the evolution of IT and the opportunities for its application; reflexive attitude; leadership posture.
The professional functions of EGSI can be performed in any organization, regardless of its size (including small and medium-sized companies) or sector, as well as in management and IT consulting companies.
Key learning outcomes
MEGSI aims at acquiring competencies in functions other than those developed at the undergraduate level (IST or Informatics), at deepening those competences, and at introducing students to R&D.
The learning outcomes focus on proficiency in using IT for the benefit of organizations and aim at competencies, at the specialized level, for the execution of professional EGSI functions, namely:
1. Information management (curation);
2. Exploit IT to enliven informational objects;
3. Develop IT applications;
4. Implant IT applications;
5. Upkeep portfolios of IT applications;
6. Design of IS architectures;
7. Set up of information-centered, IT-enhanceable, enterprise capabilities;
8. Oversee IT infrastructures;
9. Control the fit between the IS architecture and the reality;
10. Study the impact of IT on society;
11. Administer IST units;
12. Carry out R&D in IST.
Access to higher education
This course provides the technical and scientific capacity to access courses of the third cycle (Doctorate).
Careers
- Large companies, where there is a formal IST function. The ISEM graduate will integrate this function, possibly leading it, assuming responsibilities compatible with his/her education, profile and professional experience;
- Small companies, where the IST function is not necessarily autonomous. In these organizations the ISEM graduate is a valuable element given its preparation for the adoption and use of IT;
- Consulting companies, leading or integrating project teams, assuming responsibilities compatible with his/her education, profile and professional experience;
- Software development companies, performing the role of entrepreneur and leading product and service innovation activities, as well as managing software development projects.
