Project Management

Recommended Prerequisites

Frequency of the courses of the first year of the Master in Ecology

Teaching Methods

Preparation of the thesis project (under tutorial supervision) and its defense.

Learning Outcomes

Close monitoring of the progress carried out by the student by specialists in the area of investigation (supervisor(s) included), particularly in relation to the development of scientific writing, synthesis and communication skills. This course complements the course “Seminar in Ecology” (second semester of the first year) - where students perform an oral presentation/discussion of their project. In this course they will submit a detailed written report about their thesis project, including the state of the art, objectives, hypotheses and detailed experimental design and the analysis of the results obtained so far.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

In this course students will submit a detailed written report on the thesis project (variable depending on the topic of the project), including the state of the art, goals, working hypotheses, experimental design and data obtained to date. They will have also to defend the project within their host research group that must include the supervisor or supervisors. The grade and a justification statement shall be provided by the supervisor(s) to the coordinator of the Master Course. The grade will be registered by the coordinator in the official document of the curricular unit.

Head Lecturer(s)

Ruben Huttel Heleno

Assessment Methods

Assessment method
Project presentation: 40.0%
Project: 60.0%

Bibliography

Variável, dependendo do tema da investigação.

 Variable, depending on the research topic.