This program is fully lectured in English and seeks to provide technological training for professional purposes in the several fields covered by Informatics, including: audit, control, and management of information technology projects; development of processes of quality, security, innovation, and entrepreneurship in information systems; business process engineering and web semantic technologies; development of mobile and single-page applications supported by service oriented architectures; machine learning, big data, and cloud computing.
Profile of the programme
The profile of the programme comprises the development of the technical-scientific knowledge and professional specialized skills in the study areas of Informatics: Information Systems; Computing Sciences; Computer Engineering.
Key learning outcomes
The degree of "mestre" (master) in Informatics 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 underly 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 Informatics belongs to the education and training area of Technologies. Graduates are specialized to develop a professional activity within the profile of the programme.