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CURRICULAR UNIT - RESEARCH METHODS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 560011

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The aims for students acquire skills in of research methodologies, including:

• - Organize a research process;
• - Choose scientific methods appropriate to the research desired;
• - Analyse real-world problems and develop formulations and solutions supported by scientific methods;
• - Prepare the report (dissertation) research
• - Present the results in the investigation

And also, acquire skills in statistical analysis of data, including:

• - Describe statistical principles;
• - Apply statistical methods;
• - Formulate and test hypotheses;
• - Use a statistical analysis tool;
• - Develop analytical skills;
• - apply statistical methodsCritically in different contexts;
• - Develop the capacity of processing and analysis data;
• - to Compare different approaches.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction

• 1.1. the scientific method
• 1.2. the steps of the research
• 1.3. theories, models and paradigms
• 1.4. applied research

2. research project

• 2.1. phases of the research project
• 2.2. issues and research objectives
• 2.3. research methodology

3. Descriptive statistics

• 3.1. population and sample, sampling techniques
• 3.2. important tools for producing surveys / interviews
• 3.3. Measurement scales: nominal, ordinal and numerical (continuous and discrete)
• 3.4. Synthesis of data in tables and graphs
• 3.5. measures of central tendency, position and dispersion
• 3.6. Relationship between variables: correlation and linear regression
• 3.7. notion of probability. Distribution

4. statistics Inferential

• 4.1. estimation and modeling
• 4.2. Hypothesis, parametric and non-parametric tests
• 4.3. Analysis of Variance
• 4.4. Contingency tables. Chi-square test

5. Research report

• 5.1. structure, organization and content of the report
• 5.2. references

6. Oral presentation of research

7. Ethical aspects of research awareness

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CURRICULAR UNIT - CHEMISTRY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 9021203

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The course of Chemistry has 4 objectives:

• 1- to provide relevant information from chemical point of view on aspects related to the area of ​​specialization.
• 2- to provide comprehensive knowledge about some fundamental concepts in chemistry.
• 3- to encourage the use of new technologies for learning.
• 4- to allow direct contact with reagents, laboratory techniques and instrumentation.

The student should develop the following skills:

• 1- understand the constitution of matter and the relationship between the structure of matter and its properties.
• 2- dominate the calculations leading to the preparation of solutions and calculations of chemical and acid-base equilibrium.
• 3- dominate the specific concepts addressed in the course.
• 4- understand and use the relationship between research / experience / observation and knowledge.
• 5- report and explain experimental results reporting to modern techniques and theoretical aspects discussed.

Student must get the following competencies:

• understand the dynamics of management, its methodologies and the main tools used in companies;
• know the main tools of strategic management, especially at the strategic diagnosis;
• evaluate the inherent characteristics and aspects of the different functions and functional areas of management;
• help in the interpretation of the main constraints in the organizations and in the decision making capacity by the application of the different concepts related to the management;
• understand the impacts arising from the law of supply and demand and their effects on the equilibrium of the market (s).

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Matter at the microscopic level

• 1.1. atomic theory of matter
• 1.2. atomic structure of atoms

2. molecules, ions and solutions

• 2.1. concept of molecule, ion and ionic compound
• 2.2. concept of mole and molar mass
• 2.3. solutions and concentration units
• 2.4. preparation of solutions and mixtures

3. chemical equilibrium

• 3.1. writing and balancing chemical reactions
• 3.2. incomplete reactions. Notion of limiting reagent and reaction yield
• 3.3. definition and calculation of the equilibrium constant, problems involving the equilibrium constant

4. acid-base equilibrium

• 4.1. concept of acid and base
• 4.2. concept of pH and pOH and determination the pH of the solutions
• 4.3. acid-base titrations. Indicators. Solving problems involving titration curves

5. oxidation-reduction equilibrium

• 5.1. oxidation reduction concept
• 5.2. oxidizing and reducing substances
• 5.3. electrolysis

6. organic chemistry

• 6.1 carbon and the covalent bond
• 6.2. structure of organic molecules
• 6.3. functional groups
• 6.4. electronic effects
• 6.5. types of organic reactions
• 6.6. mechanism of reaction: homolytic and heterolytic reactions
• 6.7. nomenclature, structure, physical properties and reactivity of alkanes and cycloalkanes, alkenes and alkines, alcohols and phenols, ethers, amines and aldehydes and ketones

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CURRICULAR UNIT - HYDROLOGICAL RESOURCES

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8383118

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The course of Water Resources covers fundamental concepts in the training of students in the area of ​​hydrological risks. This course covers topics related to the study of the management, operation and sustainability of Portuguese water resources, and in this context promotes social and environmental awareness and responsibility.

Students must:

• - Learn to position as a future agent of civil protection within the national water systems, serving as interlocutor between the water managers (and their management options) and technical civil protection (and the actions of prevention and intervention);
• - Internalize the principles of linking water resources to support basic sciences (hydrology, hydraulics, meteorology, geology, statistics, chemistry) in order to mobilize them permanently in the assessments of the status of hydrological risk situations, acting preventively;
• - Have ideas about the implications of the diverse uses of water resources exploitation and its degree of sustainability, and thus develop attitudes and values ​​of social and environmental responsibility;
• - Use knowledge of water resources to mitigate excesses alarmism in populations caused by news reported, for example, by the press on extreme hydrological events (floods and droughts) or pollution accidents (in surface water or groundwater)

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introductions to Water Resources

2. Key issues and concept of sustainability

3. Hydrology - General Concepts

4. Hydrological Cycle and Watershed

5. The importance of Metrology

6. Surface water and groundwater

7. Basic parameters

• 7.1. Rainfall
• 7.2. Evapotranspiration
• 7.3. Runoff - Modules

8. Natural and anthropogenically modified regimes

9. Curves of Average annual average daily flow

10. Rainfall Extreme - checking the degree of exceptionality

11. Floods - notions of drainage and verification of scaling hydraulic passages

12. Droughts - scarcity - climate change