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Building Services Engineering
School: Coimbra Engineering Institute
Teaching language: English
Mission and goals: The present study cycle that enclose and connects different specialties,
recovers and enhances the benefits of interdisciplinarity, particularly in the areas of heating,
ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), fluid networks, electrical installations, home
automation, data communications, among others, from the stage of design to construction and
maintenance. The main objectives of the Master in Building Services Engineering are:
- Ensure a professional specialization, capable of allowing an interdisciplinary intervention in
various specialties of the area;
- Train professionals able to contribute to the improvement of the quality of buildings and their
equipments, in operation, comfort, safety and rational use of energy requirements;
- Addressing an urgent need of the market, by training professionals with a comprehensive and
appropriate profile in engineering-related facilities and equipment in buildings.
Career opportunities:
Programme duration: 2 years
Study Plan
1st year/1st semester
Curricular Units
Applied Mathematics
Informática Aplicada
Heat Transfer and Combustion
Medidas e Instrumentação
Instalações Elétricas e
Luminotecnia
Duration
Semestral
Semestral
Semestral
Semestral
Working
Hours
156
156
156
156
Contact Hours*
T-28; TP-28
T-28; PL-28
T-28; TP-28
T-14; TP-14; PL-28
ECTS
**
6
6
6
6
Semestral
156
T-28; TP-28
6
Obs.
***
1st year/2nd semester
Curricular Units
Thermal Equipment
Redes de Fluidos
HVAC-R Plants
Information Transmition and
Networks
Special Technical Instalation I
Duration
Working
Hours
Semestral
156
Semestral
156
Semestral
156
Contact Hours*
T-28; TP-14; PL-14
T-28; TP-14; PL-14
T-28; TP-14; PL-14
ECTS
**
6
6
6
Semestral
156
T-28; TP-14; PL-14
6
Semestral
156
T-28; TP-14; PL-14
6
Obs.
***
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2nd year/1st semester
Curricular Units
Production and Management of
Energy
Home Automation and
Inteligent Buildings
Instalações Técnicas Especiais II
Segurança Contra Incêndios
Dissertation/Internship/Project
Duration
Working
Hours
Contact Hours*
ECTS
**
Semestral
104
T-28; PL-28
4
Semestral
130
T-28; PL-28
5
Semestral
Semestral
Semestral
130
104
312
T-28; PL-28
T-28; TP-28
OT-42
5
4
12
Obs.
***
2nd year/2nd semester
Curricular Units
Dissertation/Internship/Project
Duration
Working
Hours
Semestral
780
Contact Hours*
OT-42
ECTS
**
30
Obs.
***
Legend:
*Contact Hours: E – Internship; P – Practical; PL – Laboratory Practices; OT – Guidance Tutorials; S –
Seminar; T – Theoretical; TP – Theoretical-Practical
**ECTS – European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
***Observations: O – Optional; M – Mandatory
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