Program Overview

Chemical and Biological Engineering Program

The Undergraduate Programme in Chemical and Biological Engineering at NOVA FCT combines an excellent foundational education with essential skills in the fields of Chemical and Biological Engineering. This comprehensive and integrated training prepares students to address the challenges of the transition to a sustainable economy, promoting innovative and effective solutions.

Education Objectives

The program's education objectives are to provide students with a versatile and multidisciplinary education, preparing them for a wide range of opportunities across industrial and service sectors, both nationally and internationally. The program enables students to lead innovative solutions in the context of the transition to a sustainable economy, an area of growing global importance and value.

General Characterization

• DGES code: 1050
• Cycle: Bachelor (1st Cycle)
• Degree: Licenciado
• Access to other programs: Access to 2nd cycle
• Coordinator: Pedro Miguel Calado Simőes
• Opening date: September
• Vacancies: 67
• Fees:
  • Portuguese students: 697 euros/year
  • Foreign students: 7000 euros/year
• Schedule: Daytime
• Teaching language: Available soon

Degree Pre-requisites

• Duration: 3 years
• Credits: 180 ECTS
• Scientific Area | Acronym | ECTS
  • Mandatory | Optional
  • Biology | B | 12 | 0
  • Chemistry | Q | 27 | 0
  • Biochemistry | Bq | 6 | 0
  • Social Sciences and Humanities | CHS | 3 | 0
  • Industrial Engineering | EI | 3 | 0
  • Chemical and Biological Engineering | EQB | 63 | 3
  • Mathematics | M | 12 | 0
  • Physics | F | 9 | 0
  • Informatics | I | 6 | 0
  • Materials Science | CMt | 6 | 0
  • Transferable Skills | CC | 3 | 0
  • Any Scientific Area | QAC | 0 | 6 (a)
• TOTAL: 171 | 9
• (a) 6 ECTS in courses chosen by the student on a list approved annually by the Scientific Council of NOVA FCT, which includes the unity of all scientific areas of NOVA FCT.

Conditions of Admittance

• Specific exams: 07 Physics and Chemistry + 19 Mathematics A
• Admission formula: 50% of the final grade obtained in secondary school, 50% of the final grade of the specific(s) exam(s)
• Minimum grade of the specific(s) exam(s): 95
• Minimum grade of the application: 95

Evaluation Rules

The evaluation of all UCs is continuous for all the components that integrate it, and it must be completed by the last day of the school term of the academic semester. The continuous evaluation of a UC must include a minimum of two elements in the set of evaluation components, on dates adequately spaced throughout the period of classes.

Structure

1.ş Semester

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • 11505 | Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry | 6.0
  • 13492 | Calculus I C | 6.0
  • 10352 | Soft Skills for Science and Technology | 3.0
  • 10690 | Introduction to Physical Chemistry | 6.0
  • 3690 | General Organic Chemistry | 6.0
  • 12600 | Chemical Structure and Bonding A | 3.0

2.ş Semester

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • 7321 | General Biochemistry B | 6.0
  • 13496 | Calculus II C | 6.0
  • 11146 | Informatics for Science and Engineering B | 6.0
  • 12586 | Introduction to Chemical and Biological Engineering | 6.0
  • 13471 | Mechanics C | 6.0

3.ş Semester

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • 5004 | Mathematical Analysis III C | 6.0
  • 12588 | Molecular and Cellular Biology | 6.0
  • 7289 | Transport Phenomena I | 6.0
  • 12589 | Analytical Methods | 6.0
  • 12587 | Chemical and Biological Engineering Thermodynamics | 6.0

4.ş Semester

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • 13475 | Eletromagnetism Q | 3.0
  • 10678 | Transport Phenomena II | 6.0
  • 12592 | Introduction to Molecular Genetics | 6.0
  • 10363 | Introduction to Probability, Statistics and Operations Research | 6.0
  • 12590 | Physical Chemistry A | 6.0
  • 12512 | Society, Sustainability and Digital Transformation | 3.0

5.ş Semester

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • 12595 | Numerical Analysis A | 3.0
  • 12593 | Materials Science A | 6.0
  • 12594 | Bioreaction Engineering | 6.0
  • 12596 | Chemical Reaction Engineering I | 6.0
  • 10681 | Solid-Fluid Operations | 6.0

5.ş Semester - Opçăo PIIC/PIPP

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • Options
    • 11051 | Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program | 3.0
    • 10691 | Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program | 3.0
• The student must obtain 3.0 credits in this option.

6.ş Semester

• Code | Name | ECTS
  • 12598 | Chemical Reaction Engineering II | 6.0
  • 12561 | Engineering Economics | 3.0
  • 12599 | Separation Processes | 6.0
  • 12597 | Practical Chemical and Biological Engineering Integration Project | 9.0