2023

Methodologies for the Professional Practice

Name: Methodologies for the Professional Practice
Code: VIS12858L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Design

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Acquirement of knowledge enabling the student to recognize and understand the operational organics of businesses in what comes to managing and organizing the work plans. Control of the conducting methods for a work plan with defined dates and scheduled in phases. To provide students with knowledge enabling them to budget their work to provide services, as well as the ability to edit a product ensuring its economic viability.
Inform and encourage the student to take general procedures inherent to the protection of their work adequately to the market.
Provide the students with knowledge inherent to the understanding and creation of organization skills that support the work activity.

Contents

1. Work Organization.
The business structure.
Work maps.
The development phases of a product. Production and implementation plans. Logistics and quality control.
2. Budgets.
Calculating the cost of creation.
Search for suppliers.
Ensuring the technical aspects of the suppliers.
Request for production and logistics budgets.
Compilation of budgets.
Definition of quantities, production and retail prices, to ensure the strategic relevance of a product. 3. Protection of intellectual and industrial property.
The law of copyright.
Registration of ideas, designs, trademarks and industrial patents nationally and internationally. The sale of patents.
Transfer of production rights.
4. Contracts.
Confidentiality contracts.
Contracts for services.
Contracts with suppliers.
Contracts for sale of product.
5. Organizations supporting the work activity. Individual.
Collective.
Legal aspects and implications. Corporate.
Tax.
Hires.
Implementations.

Teaching Methods

In the NORMAL SEASON assessment students may choose one of two schemes: Continuous or Final Assessment.
The SPECIAL and EXTRAORDINARY assessments are governed by the Final Evaluation scheme.
1. CONTINUOUS EVALUATION SCHEME COMPONENTS
a. Class participation: 20%;
b. Work developed during the period with the aid of the teacher, which must be submitted, at least, to a periodic evaluation with public disclosure of the classifications: 40%;
c. Presentation and defense of the work developed during the classes, which occurs during the "Regular Season Evaluations": 40%.
The student's final grade, which will appear on the Normal Season student’s exams list, is the sum of a), b) and c).
2. FINAL EVALUATION SCHEME COMPONENTS
a. Work developed during the period with the teacher's aid: 40%;
b. Examination based on the contents taught: 60%.
The student's final grade, which will appear on the Normal Season student’s exams list, is the sum of a) and b)."

Teaching Staff