Thermal No. 4 January 31, 2022

Portugal
Member of ICHMT, AIHTC, EUROTHERM(1) Overview(Portuguese Standard Time, PST: UTC+00:00, Population: 10 million)

Thermal No. 4 January 31, 2022
The first cycle education is carried out by using Portuguese or English textbooks, while the second and third
cycles use mostly English textbooks.
- Senior students engage in bachelor theses by doing experimental/theoretical studies under his/hersupervisors.
6. University System

1. Organizations
There are no organizations strictly related to heat and mass transfer, but rather the followinggeneral or Mechanical Engineering associations:Portuguese Engineers Association (Ordem dos Engenheiros)
https://www.ordemengenheiros.pt/pt/
APMTAC – Portuguese Association of Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics
http://www-ext.lnec.pt/APMTAC/welcome_eng.html

EFRIARC - Portuguese Association of Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning
Engineers
https://efriarc.pt/
2. Major meetings
There are no national meetings on heat transfer, but this subject is integrated in the following
congress jointly organized by APMTAC and SEMNI (http://www.cimne.com/semni):
Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering (every two years, from 2002)

Portuguese higher education is organized in a binary system that integrates university education andpolytechnic education and is taught in public and private institutions. The private higher education
institutions have to obtain prior recognition of the Ministry with the authority of the HigherEducation. University education includes universities, university institutes and other university
teaching institutions. Polytechnic education comprises polytechnic institutes and other polytechnicteaching institutions.
University education is guided by a perspective of research promotion and creation of knowledge andaims to ensure solid scientific and cultural preparation and provide technical training to enable for theexercise of professional and cultural activities and promote the development of design capabilities,innovation and critical analysis.
Polytechnic education is guided by a perspective of applied research and development aimed atunderstanding and solving concrete problems and aims at providing a solid cultural and technicaltraining at the higher level, developing the capacity for innovation and critical analysis and providing
scientific knowledge of theoretical and practical nature and their applications for the exercise of
professional activities.

3. Major journals
There are no Portuguese journals on heat and mass transfer
Ingenium (Journal of the Portuguese Engineers Association, issued every two months, in Portuguese)
https://www.ordemengenheiros.pt/pt/centro-de-informacao/publicacoes/revista-ingenium/

Public universities in continental Portugal:
 Minho University - https://www.uminho.pt/EN/Pages/default.aspx
 University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro - https://www.utad.pt/en/ Porto University - https://sigarra.up.pt/up/en/ Aveiro University - https://www.ua.pt/

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4. Foundations of Scientific ResearchCoimbra University - https://www.uc.pt/en
Beira Interior University - https://www.ubi.pt/en/
Lisboa University - https://www.ulisboa.pt/en
Nova University Lisbon - https://www.ulisboa.pt/en
University of Évora - https://www.uevora.pt/en
University of Algarve - https://www.ualg.pt/en

Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education
https://www.portugal.gov.pt/pt/gc21/area-de-governo/ciencia-tecnologia-e-ensino-superiorPortuguese Science Foundation (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia)
https://www.fct.pt/
National Innovation Agency
https://www.ani.pt/

Polytechnic Institutes (https://ccisp.pt/en/home/): one per district, on the average

5. Education (Undergraduate/Graduate School)

7. Major Public/Private Research Institutes

In 2005 a process of reform of the Basic Law of the Educational System was started in order toimplement the Bologna Process (https://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/higher-education/bologna-processand-european-higher-education-area_en), with the introduction of the European Credit Transfer System(ECTS) in study cycles, mobility mechanisms, diploma supplement, among others. Higher education
began to have a new structure of three cycles of studies, leading to the academic degrees of bachelor,master and doctor. This structure was introduced in 2006.

INETI – National Institute of Engineering, Technology and Innovation (Instituto Nacional de Engenharia,Tecnologia e Inovação)https://ineti.pt/
LNEC - National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil)
http://www.lnec.pt/en/

Higher education system with three cycles of studies: First cycle, 3 years, Bachelor's degree (Universities and Polytechnic Schools)
 Second cycle, 2 years, Master’s degree (Universities and Polytechnic Schools) Third cycle, 3 years, Doctor’s degree (Universities)

41by Vítor Costa (AIHTC) and Pedro Coelho (ICHMT, AIHTC, Eurotherm)

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