LEM11106 - ECTS

- Know how to read and interpret technical drawings;
- Ability to perform technical drawings by the method of multiple-view projections, quick perspectives and schematic drawings;
- Know how to use 2D computer aided design systems;
- Know how to model isolated parts using 3D parametric software and 2D technical drawing generation;
- To develop skills for future developments in computer aided design systems.

LEM11105 - ECTS This curricular unit (UC) is designed to:
- Make known the main skills of the mechanical engineer and his role in society;
- Identify the various functions of the Mechanical Engineer and framing with the specific characteristics.
of each branch of the course;
- Know the real working context of the mechanical engineer through seminars and / or field trips to the
industries of the region;
- Develop communication and writing skills.

LEM11104 - ECTS

Understanding basic concepts and principles of computer operation.

Development of logical and formal thinking skills for complex problems analysis.

Understanding of conceptual foundations related to computer programming:

- Understanding the general principles of software engineering;

- Understanding the central role of Algorithm;

- Ability to code (implement) algorithms in programming languages.

LEM11101 - ECTS

LEM11102 - ECTS

LEM11103 - ECTS The purpose of this course is to introduce the fundamentals of Chemistry, so that the students will be able to further understand other fundamental issues for a Mechanical Engineer, as material constitution, chemical processes, mass and enthalpic balances, corrosion, etc.

LEM12110 - ECTS

Understanding technical drawing knowledge applied to mechanical design. Apply and analyze dimensional and geometric tolerances, adjustments, surface finishes. Analyze and represent mechanical components and assemblies. Create mechanical component designs using advanced CAD tools.

LEM12107 - ECTS

The objective of this curricular unit (UC) is to provide students with basic knowledge of linear algebra and skills to deal with the mechanisms of differential calculus in scalar and vector fields, mathematical tools of great importance in the professional training of a higher technician or engineer.

LEM12111 - ECTS

The student should be able to understand and apply the fundamental laws of newtonian mechanics, in particular: apply Newton's laws; apply a specific methodology for problem solving; perform experiments and analyse the results obtained; identify deviations from expected results critically.

LEM12109 - ECTS In this Engineering discipline, it is intended that students acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge that guarantees the understanding and framework of manufacturing processes. In order to achieve this objective, students will initially have an awareness in the area of Hygiene, Health and Safety at Work. Then, there will be a framework on the most relevant aspects of dimensional metrology. The third point corresponds to an analysis of the different technological processes of material transformation. At this point, particular emphasis will be placed on Welding Technology. Finally, the Non-Destructive Tests will be analyzed.
It is also intended that students acquire the necessary skills to develop the design of parts produced by welding, according to the specifications normally used in the industry and through the most recent technologies available on the market.

LEM12108 - ECTS The domain of fundamental knowledge in thermodynamics, such as: terminology in the area of
thermodynamics, properties of pure compressible substances, first law of thermodynamics applied to closed and open systems, the second law of thermodynamics, entropy, main thermodynamic cycles.

LEM21114 - ECTS

 

Understand the importance of the Economy in the economic system, and in society in general;
Know the main concepts and techniques in the area of Economics;
Know how to define the object and method of savings;
Understand the problem of scarcity of resources;
Understand consumer choices;
Understand the laws of supply and demand;
Understand the macroeconomic context of countries/regions;
Know the evolution of the main indicators of the economic situation and the HDI. 

LEM21113 - ECTS The main objective of this course is that students develop an interest in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transmission and that they get to know the main concepts of statics, kinematics and fluid dynamics and the modes of heat transmission by conduction, convection and radiation to respond to the main practical requests that arise in engineering in these areas.

LEM21115 - ECTS Provide students with an understanding of the importance of automatic control in technical systems.

Provide students with the knowledge and skills to understand the operation of an automatic control system and the function of each of its various components.

Give students an introduction to the main techniques and methodologies used in automatic control, in particular those of classical control.

Give students knowledge about PID controllers and their tuning and the ability to identify the need or opportunity for application in real processes.

LEM21112 - ECTS

LEM21116 - ECTS

LEM22221 - ECTS Na UC de Eletrotecnia pretende-se que os estudantes adquiram competências fundamentais no domínio da Engenharia Eletrotécnica, nomeadamente que permitam compreender os fenómenos de natureza eletromagnética e que permitam analisar circuitos elétricos em corrente contínua e em corrente alternada. Para atingir os objetivos, procura-se complementar os conhecimentos teóricos e a resolução de problemas com a realização de trabalhos de laboratório.

LEM22223 - ECTS

Operations Management curricular unit aims at characterizing the business framework, address the trends in technology use, organizational structure, and approaches to productive systems. 

LEM22222 - ECTS At the end of the course the student should:
- Identify the components of the state of stress and state of strain at a point;
- Know how to represent the axial load, torque, shear and bending-moment diagrams;
- Know how to calculate stresses and deformations in simple structural components;
- Know how to solve statically indeterminate problems using the superposition method.

LEM22220 - ECTS - Apply the concepts of random variable and its distribution;
- Solve problems involving models and probability distributions with discrete variables and with continuous variables;
- Understand the concept of random sample and solve problems involving sampling distributions;
- Characterize and apply estimators;
- Construct and interpret confidence intervals;
- Identify and apply the appropriate hypothesis test;
- Identify the relation between hypothesis testing and confidence intervals;
- Build and analyze a simple linear regression model.

LEM31128 - ECTS

Understand the different of a mechanical engineering design project phases and their interdisciplinarity. Know how to define safety factors. Know the various documents that make up a project. Know the different types of supports and bearings.
Analyze different situations and select supports for different applications. Select, determine the life and design the bearing assembly. Understand the particularities of the design of slip bearings. Design and verify simple components, on yield, with static loading. Determine stress concentration factors. Select and apply failure criteria. Understand the fatigue behavior of materials, namely knowing how to interpret the S-N curve. Design and verify components to fatigue for a given life. Design and verify components to fatigue for failure under complex loads. Design tension bolts. Check bolts to shear failure. Design connecting devices (rivets, pins and keys) for shear and bearing stresses. Dimensioning and verification of weld joints. Adhesive joint design. Select springs. Size and specify springs.

LEM31125 - ECTS

To understand the role, impact and interaction of organizations and companies with their surroundings, as well as their internal functioning in a functional and systemic perspective.

LEM31126 - ECTS

Successfully completing the learning program students will be able to understand the role of sensors and actuators in process automation as well as the fundamentals that underlie the functioning of these devices.

LEM31127 - ECTS Provide students with the necessary knowledge to understand vibratory phenomena in structures and equipment.

Knowledge of the components of a vibrating system consisting of a mass/spring/damper.
Quantification of vibration signals in different quantities: acceleration; velocity; displacement.
Application of vibration measurement techniques in the conditioned maintenance of mechanical equipment.

In the field of noise, it is intended to teach students basic concepts of acoustics. Know and relate the quantities: pressure, intensity and sound power. Represent these quantities on the dB scale. Know how to add and subtract quantities in dB. Know the isophonic curves and the weighting functions (A, B, C and D). Know how to use the most common functions of noise measuring instruments (sound meter and dosimeter). Practical noise elimination solutions.

LEM32238 - ECTS

Have skills in programming automated systems, namely Programmable Automata and Robot Manipulators and know the most used technologies in Automation and Robotics.
Know Automation systems in Industry 4.0.

 

LEM32241 - ECTS

Provide students with a real work context experience where they can integrate knowledge from various areas of the course, appeal to rational and intuition concepts, create a critical spirit and develop work autonomy.

LEM32237 - ECTS

• Know innovation processes and models, sources and obstacles and innovation diffusion processes.
• Knowing the role of innovation in competitiveness and its impact on products and services
• Understand the process of generating, modeling and developing new ideas
• Carry out the diagnosis and feasibility study of a new company
• Develop a business plan
• Understand the process of creating companies and follow the evolution and development of a company.

LEM32240 - ECTS

Develop work autonomously in solving real problems, developing new skills and integrating and consolidating knowledge of various curricular units.

LEM32239 - ECTS This curricular unit is intended to address issues related to the design and design of components, equipment or installations.

LEM21119 - ECTS

LEM22226 - ECTS
Pretende-se dar conhecimentos sobre os diferentes sistemas e tecnologias de aquecimento e energias renováveis

LEM31133 - ECTS

Dotar estudantes de competências matemáticas, científicas e de engenharia para a identificação, formulação e resolução de problemas de dimensionamento de redes de fluidos

Dotar estudantes de competências matemáticas, científicas e de engenharia para a identificação, formulação e resolução de problemas de dimensionamento de bombas e ventiladores

LEM31134 - ECTS

Dotar os alunos de conhecimentos de sobre a importância do sector de edifícios no consumo energético as respetivas legislação nacionais e comunitárias;

Conhecimentos sobre climatização passiva. Dotar os estudantes de conhecimentos sobre simulação energética de edifícios utilizando programas de simulação, compreendendo as bases dos seus algoritmos de cálculo e aprender a utilizá-los para diferentes objetivos, nomeadamente para cálculo de cargas térmicas no dimensionamento de sistemas de climatização, para cálculo de consumos energéticos e estudos de medidas de eficiência energética e para certificação energética de edifícios. Conhecimentos da regulamentação energética de edifícios, Sistema Certificação Energética de Edifícios, aplicação do Regulamento de Desempenho Energético dos Edifícios de Comércio e Serviços. Conhecimentos sobre medidas passivas e ativas para aumento da eficiência energética dos edifícios.

LEM21118 - ECTS
Esta Unidade Curricular tem como objectivo apetrechar aos alunos com conhecimentos teóricos e práticos sobre o funcionamento, constituição e reparação de Motores de Combustão Interna (MCI) e seus diferentes órgãos e sistemas, através do conhecimento teórico transmitido e do contacto directo com os equipamentos e peças constituintes. Pretende-se também que os alunos conheçam e fiquem aptos a acompanhar as evoluções tecnológicas relativas aos Motores de Combustão Interna. Por outro lado pretende-se que a revisão dos conhecimentos teóricos adquiridos pelo aluno em outras disciplinas ao longo do curso seja realizada gradualmente, usando estes conhecimentos como base para explicação do funcionamento e constituição dos MCI e seus órgãos.

LEM22225 - ECTS

Compreender, interpretar e explicar a influência das diferentes soluções construtivas usadas nos subsistemas de direção, suspensão, travagem e transmissão no comportamento dinâmico do automóvel.

LEM31131 - ECTS

LEM31132 - ECTS
Dotar os estudantes de conhecimentos sobre o controlo e a gestão de sistemas de motorização elétrica e híbrida.

LEM21117 - ECTS

Pretende-se com esta unidade curricular que os estudantes adquiram os fundamentos em oito áreas principais, respectivamente:

i) segurança, higiene e saúde no trabalho;

ii) metrologia dimensional;

iii) processos de corte por arranque de apara;

iv) processos de corte por arrombamento;

v) processos de corte por ação abrasiva;

vi) processos de enformação plástica;

vii) processos de corte por eletroerosão;

viii) comando numérico computorizado (CNC).

LEM22229 - ECTS
Saber analisar problemas que involvam dinâmica de partículas usando métodos energéticos e saber quando é que esses métodos têm vantagens relativamente à aplicação da segunda lei de Newton. Saber identificar o movimento plano de corpos rígidos. Descrever o movimento plano de corpos rígidos usando as equações do movimento. Calcular forças e momentos em corpos rígidos durante o movimento. Saber aplicar as equações da dinâmica ao estudo de vibrações livres. Conhecer os principais mecanismos que compõem uma máquina. Analisar mecanismos simples usando métodos analíticos.

LEM31135 - ECTS
Dotar os estudantes de metodologias simplificadas de cálculo de estruturas. Transmitir os conceitos de carga crítica. Introduzir os fundamentos da análise matricial de estruturas e do método dos elementos finitos.

LEM31136 - ECTS

• Compreender os novos paradigmas da Indústria 4.0 e os benefícios do uso de novas tecnologias, como sejam as Tecnologias de CNC, as de Robótica Móvel e Colaborativa, o Fabrico Aditivo e a Integração de sistemas, no contexto da indústria transformadora
• Fornecer uma sequência de conhecimentos com vista a análise, conceção, planeamento e melhoria dos sistemas produtivos.
• Aprofundar um conjunto de conhecimentos base e utilizar tecnologias avançadas de produção, desde as tecnologias associados ao projeto e ao fabrico de protótipos (CAD e Fabrico Aditivo) até ao fabrico e montagem propriamente ditos (CAD/CAM, CNC, Robótica).
• Desenvolver competências para a utilização de metodologias e softwares de modelação e simulação que permitem otimizar o desempenho dos processos de fabrico e montagem ou conceber sistemas de fabrico flexíveis (FMS).

LEM21117 - ECTS

Pretende-se com esta unidade curricular que os estudantes adquiram os fundamentos em oito áreas principais, respectivamente:

i) segurança, higiene e saúde no trabalho;

ii) metrologia dimensional;

iii) processos de corte por arranque de apara;

iv) processos de corte por arrombamento;

v) processos de corte por ação abrasiva;

vi) processos de enformação plástica;

vii) processos de corte por eletroerosão;

viii) comando numérico computorizado (CNC).

LEM22224 - ECTS
Pretende-se nesta unidade curricular que estudantes desenvolvam o interesse pelo estudo da aeronáutica e que fiquem a conhecer os principais conceitos da mecânica de voo, componentes das aeronaves, aerodinâmica e propulsão para conseguir compreender o funcionamento dos vários componentes, a geometria, os materiais e as técnicas de construção das aeronaves.

LEM31130 - ECTS

LEM31129 - ECTS

A unidade curricular (UC) de "Produção Aeronáutica" está focada ao nível dos processos específicos de produção de componentes para a indústria aeronáutica. Pretende-se com esta UC que os alunos complementem os conhecimentos adquiridos nas UC's de tecnologia mecânica existentes nos semestres anteriores do programa curricular.