GOVERNANCE AND REGULATIONS
GOVERNING BODIES
The governing bodies of the Department, responsible for leading the Department and managing its resources, are:
DEPARTMENT COUNCIL
The Department Council operates in plenary sessions and in the Coordinating Committee.
Full-time PhD faculty members of the Department: This encompasses the group of faculty members of the DPS.
Representative of non-teaching and non-research staff: Acácio Rui Santos Costa
Representative of invited faculty members with a PhD (collaboration less than 50%): Ana Sofia Pinho Colim
COORDINATING COMMITTEE
- Department Director: Paulo Alexandre da Costa Araújo Sampaio
- Deputy Director of the Department: Nélson Bruno Martins Marques Costa
- Representative of the ESPI Disciplinary Area: Ana Cristina Silva Braga
- Representative of the GIT Disciplinary Area: Jorge Miguel Oliveira Sá Cunha
- Representative of the SEOR Group: Elsa Marília Costa Silva
- Representative of the IEM Group: Rui Manuel Sá Pereira Lima
- Director of the Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management - LEGI: Carina Maria Oliveira Pimentel
- Director of the Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management - MEGI: Anabela Carvalho Alves
- Director of the Master's Degree in Human Engineering - MEH: Paula Machado Sousa Carneiro
- Diretora de Mestrado em Engenharia de Sistemas - MES: Ana Maria Alves Coutinho Rocha
- Director of the Master's Degree in Operations Engineering and Management - MEGO: Ana Cristina Silva Braga
- Director of the Master's Degree in Engineering and Quality Management - MEGQ: Maria Leonilde Rocha Varela
- Director of the Master's Degree in Engineering Project Management - MGPE: Anabela Pereira Tereso
- Director of the Doctoral Program in Industrial and Systems Engineering - PDEIS: Rui Manuel Alves Silva Sousa
DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR
Department Director: Paulo Alexandre da Costa Araújo Sampaio
In order to advise its governing bodies and promote the connection between the department and the community, the Department also has an advisory body known as:
ADVISORY BOARD
COMPOSITION OF THE ADVISORY BOARD
Department Director: Paulo Alexandre da Costa Araújo Sampaio, Professor Associado com Agregação
Faculty members of the Department:
Carina Maria Oliveira Pimentel, Assistant Professor, Course Director of LEGI
José Manuel Vasconcelos Valério Carvalho, Full Professor
Maria Madalena Teixeira Araújo, Emeritus Full Professor
Nélson Bruno Martins Marques Costa, Assistant Professor, Deputy Director of DPS
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