Class Biomedical Engineering Project

The UC Project in Biomedical Engineering aims at the integrated application of the knowledge acquired throughout the course in the development of projects in the health area. It covers different areas of Biomedical Engineering, such as medical instrumentation, signal and image processing, biomaterials, and diagnostic support systems. This curricular unit is fundamental in the cycle of studies, as it promotes the consolidation of technical and transversal skills, preparing students for professional practice and/or continuation of studies.

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1. Introduction to management: Concept, functions and levels; - Manager: Tasks and skills required; - The organization. - Functional areas of management. 2. The Economic Environment: General Concepts; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics. 3. Financial Information: Fundamentals of Accounting; The Balance Sheet and the Income Statement; Basic notions of costing; Analysis of Economic and Financial Ratios; Cost-volume-result analysis 4. Analysis of Investment Projects: Calculation of current and future values; Analysis of the profitability of investment projects. 5. Strategic planning and management of a project. Identify development objectives and strategy; Analysis of the surrounding environment; Formulation and implementation of the development strategy. 6. Choice of the project to be developed. Development of the project with periodic presentation and discussion of this to the professor(s) advisor(s). 7. Final public presentation of the project and discussion of it.

For this Curricular Unit the methodology to be adopted is: * Oral presentation of curricular contents, supported by audiovisual means; * Presentation of case studies of success and failure. Analysis of the factors that led to success and failure. * Debates to discuss the cases presented. Rating: NF = Evaluation of the presentation and discussion of the project by jury. (The evaluation will follow a quantitative evaluation grid of the group and also of the individual students)

- Samuelson, P., Nordhaus, W. "Economics", McGraw Hill, 19th ed., 2010.  - Capon, C. "Understanding Organisational Context", Prentice Hall, 2nd ed., 2004. - Recent Advances in Biomedical Engineering, Edited by Ganesh R Naik, Publisher: InTech, 2009 - Teixeira, S. "Gestão das Organizações", Verlag Dashöfer Portugal, 2ª Ed., 2010. - Kotler, P., Keller, K. "Marketing Management", Prentice Hall, 14th ed., 2012.  - Handbook of Biomedical Instrumentation, Third Edition,  McGraw Hill Education, 2014