Organization and Management

Not applicable

Teaching methods include formal lectures as well as the discussion of short cases and exercises. The questioning process is widely used to incentive students to reflect about covered topics. Students must develop a project outside classes, on relevant topic covered in the course, resulting in a monography. Class participation is strongly recommended and valued. The final grade will be the weighted average of the final exam and the group work, and there is a minimum score for each component

Understand the basic principles of business management capital investment decisions and operation/quality management in several aspects, developing shared domain knowledge between engineers and managers. At the end of this course students should be able to: Understand management principles and framework theories; Analyze the business environment and apply some of the main business analysis tools and frameworks; Propose marketing policies for a given case study; Understand and analyze the financial statements; Analyze capital investment decisions; Understand and apply techniques and methods for production planning and scheduling and inventory management; Understand and apply methods of production design, focusing on both technical and human aspects; Understand the basic principles of quality management and the requirements of the reference standard; Evaluate various alternatives and justify the proposed solutions; Prepare a written report and an oral presentation, working in a group

1. Introduction to management and organizations.

2. Business analysis and Marketing concepts.

3. Financial statements

4. Capital investment decisions. Economic evaluation of investment proposals

5. Production processes planning and management

6. Procurement and inventory management

7. Quality management and the NP EN ISO 9001: 2015 standard

• - média ponderada entre o exame final e o trabalho - 100.0%

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