The programme main goal is to provide technological training with a rather strong professional approach. This will allow the intervention in areas which link the primary and secondary sectors, providing new accomplishments namely in the field of microbial technology and plant biotechnology. This study cycle is lectured in cooperation with CIMO (The Mountain Research Centre, www.cimo.esa.ipb.pt), a Research & Development unit of the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT).
Profil du programme
Le profil du programme est structuré autour de deux grands domaines de spécialisation : la biotechnologie microbienne (physiologie et génétique microbienne ; associations microbiennes et biofertilisants ; biomasse et bioénergie ; microbiologie industrielle) et la biotechnologie agricole (associations microbiennes et biofertilisants ; organismes génétiquement modifiés ; production de biomasse et de bioénergie ; méthodes de diagnostic moléculaire ; biopesticides et lutte biologique ; bio-usines, bioproduits et innovation).
Un ensemble d’enseignements fait le lien entre ces deux domaines (biomasse et bioénergie ; technologie des biocatalyseurs ; ingénierie des procédés biotechnologiques), apportant la composante d’ingénierie nécessaire à ce cursus.
Enfin, les disciplines qui fournissent les bases de la statistique et de la conception expérimentale (analyse multivariée et conception expérimentale), ainsi que celles relatives à la sécurité et à la réglementation dans l’industrie biotechnologique (sécurité et réglementation en biotechnologie), complètent le plan d’études.
Biologie et biochimie.
Key learning outcomes
The programme in Biotechnological Engineering, is awarded to those students that demonstrate, in this field, the ability to:
a) develop and enhance the knowledge obtained in the first cycle, in order to develop and apply that knowledge to original situations often in the context of research;
b) apply their knowledge and understanding and problem solving capacities to new and unfamiliar situations in wide multidisciplinary situations, although related to their area of studies;
c) integrate knowledge, deal with complex matters, develop solutions or put forward opinions on situations of limited or incomplete information, including reflecting upon the implications and ethical and social responsibilities that result from both those solutions and opinions or indeed that condition them;
d) communicate their conclusions and the knowledge and reasoning that underlay them, both to experts and non-experts, clearly and unambiguously;
e) develop competences that will enable them to benefit from self-oriented or autonomous lifelong learning.
To complete the qualification, the student is required to pass all compulsory course units of the study plan.
Occupational profiles of graduates
The programme in Biotechnological Engineering belongs to the education and training area of Technologies. Graduates are specialized to develop a professional activity within the agrarian and industrial sectors of production associated with biotechnology; act at the level of new plant/animal production technologies and screening and diagnosis of plant/animal health; intervene in areas of connection between the primary and secondary sectors, bringing new skills to the two productive sectors; undertake business activities to bring the added value of the products obtained.