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The dissertation is a semester-long project or study that may fall within one of three modalities: 1. Scientific thesis, 2. Company project and 3. SCOPE project. Learning objectives will depend on the specific thesis project, but in general students should:
develop Critical and Innovative Thinking, Intrapersonnal and Interpersonal Skills. – write and orally present and discuss a dissertation document.
The dissertation is initialy defined by the supervisors or under the supervisor’s guidance. The dissertation can take place at IST or outside IST (universities, research centers or companies, in Portugal or abroad). The followingmodalities are possible:
SCOPE project: multidisciplinary team work based on real and complex problems/challenges posed by compamies or other institutions that require inputs from students from different courses of IST or the University of Lisbon.