Engineering and Management

Overview

Key facts

The approaches adopted in the Engineering and Management program from Instituto Superior Técnico are applicable to decision and analysis problems in the fields of business management, public policy, and where the interaction between technology, economy and society is required.

Technological development has generated a growing convergence between secondary, tertiary, and even primary sectors in the use of wide application technologies. 

Engineers with higher education who are able to combine technological knowledge, management scientific methods, and organizational factors, tend to play an increasingly important role in business development both in industry and in services.

Objectives

The PhD degree in Engineering and Management aims to enable the students to perform independent scientific research of an internationally recognized quality in management science in the contexts of academia, government, and business.

Employment

Those who have successfully completed the Doctoral Program in Engineering and Management may carry out their activity primarily in higher education institutions, research laboratories, companies and government agencies as well as in public administration.