Informatics Engineering

One of the top schools of technology in Portugal, ISEP has been pioneering education and research in Engineering since 1852.

Our goal is to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development, by creating and transmitting applied knowledge. As future engineers, we believe our students can produce creative solutions for present or upcoming challenges, becoming agents of global progress.

ISEP offers a wide range of programmes in different fields of Engineering. With more than 6000 students, we believe each one is unique and has the ability to excel. Our job is simply to channel their potential with the spirit of entrepreneurship, team work, out-of-box thinking and technical expertise - key competences for a successful international career.

The School is also a trademark of Porto. This modern European city, known for its beauty, booming cultural agenda and strong traditional roots, is the Portuguese academic capital. Porto is also known for the friendly and cosmopolitan environment, which helps explain the large attraction of international students.

Along with renowned institutions, such as MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), ISEP is a member of the international consortium CDIO (Conceive - Design - Implement - Operate) and has more than a hundred partnerships within the European Space of Higher Education.

Informatics Engineering at ISEP takes a distinctive approach to learning, in order to produce high quality software engineers that are highly sought by the market. ISEP it is a member of the MIT lead CDIO consortium (www.cdio.org) and Informatics Engineering is the CDIO flagship program at ISEP. Engineering is about making things, thus students at ISEP have a solid practical experience, with a group project at the end of each semester and a capstone project/internship at the end of the program.

The Masters in Computer Engineering aims to deepen the knowledge in Computer Engineering, from a scientific and technological base conferred by a Degree in Computer Science or similar.

The course aims to train qualified professionals to practice as an Informatics Engineer with high scientific quality, technical, ethical and human relations in the broad spectrum of job profiles identified for Informatics Engineering. The course still provides an education that, by its cohesion and solidity, enables those who wish to pursue careers as Phd researchers.

In order to align this MSc with the market demand, the course offers a flexible and heterogeneous curriculum structure organized in three branches of specialization:-Architecture, Systems and Networks-Graphics and Multimedia Systems-Knowledge and Decision Technologies.

GECAD is a research unit settled in the Institute of Engineering - Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP/IPP) having as mission the promotion and development of scientific research in the Knowledge and Decision Sciences domains, with Information Technologies as support.

It involves 2 research groups: Intelligent Systems and Power Energy Systems.

GECAD is known worldwide in its areas of research, leading some research domains.