Organização do Curso de Mestrado
The courses of the Academic Master’s Program in Automation and Systems Engineering are organized as:
- basic: offered in the first semester,
- specialized: offered in the first and second semester,
- complementary and advanced: offered in the second semesters, and
- general courses.
A full-time Master’s student should undertake a course workload of at least 12 credits (e.g. 6 courses with 2 credits each) in the first semester, and 8 credits in the second semester, adding up to 20 credits. For students that are admitted without a research project, the research topic and supervisor will be defined at the end of the first semestre.
For enrollment in thesis work, the completion of 20 course credits with a grade point average (GPA) of at least 3 (equivalent to a “B” grade), as well as a research project and a supervisor are required. In the case of part-time Master’s students, the thesis project is submitted together with the application forms, and it should be further explained and developed during a Supervised Research Work course.
The Scientific Methodology course is mandatory to all students, either full-time or part-time. This course is offered in the second semester with a workload corresponding to 2 credits.
The full-time students funded by governmental agencies are required to complete a Teaching Practicum for one semester in the undergraduate program.
