Publicação de Notas

10 fevereiro 2025, 16:48 • António Pedro Dias Alves de Campos

Dear all, Please find your final grade in the section "NOTAS/MARKS". If there's something wrong with it please reach out to me via email. Congratulations on your course performance, and I wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

Grades Quiz #1

26 novembro 2024, 21:47 • António Pedro Dias Alves de Campos

Grades of the first quiz are out! Find them on PDE 2024/2025 > Grades

Weekly update

14 novembro 2024, 20:07 • António Pedro Dias Alves de Campos

Dear students,

This is the first of a series of weekly emails severing the following purposes:

A.  General notes, updates, and actions to take

B.  Review the theory: What we’ve learned this week

C.  Review the practice: What we’ve done this week

D.  Next practical steps: What is expected to be done next [including what is supposed to be delivered]

Let’s jump into it:

A.01) Practical and Theoretical Classes Attendance: This is a continuous evaluation course, you will be evaluated by what you do, deliver, and present every week. Missing practical classes, i.e., the only real interaction with faculty to share and guide your progress, will negatively impact your work as a group. I kindly ask that all Team members be always present.

A.02) I’ve just uploaded on the course’s webpage under “PDE 2024/2025>PDE Teams” the updated version of the Teams. Under “PDE 2024/2025>PDE Course Material”. I’ve uploaded an Excel file with all the necessary information relative to the course (Including my office hours).

A.03) Please, if you haven’t done so, get in contact with your Teammates and work as a team on the first deliverable, “D1 - Identification of Market Problems & Opportunities”. In Monday’s class, I will tell you exactly what is expected of this deliverable.

B) Yesterday, we learned opportunity identification, the first step of the product development process you should focus on. To understand a problem and identify an opportunity, one should conduct a thorough opportunity identification where you exhaustively define the problem, the route cause of the problem (5 whys!), the associated market pains, the impact of the pains, characterization of your market, identification of the stakeholders and benchmarking your competitors. All these assessments are knowledge sources for you to learn more about the problem and identify the opportunity.

C) Keep developing your opportunities. In the next practical class, you are supposed to bring an extensive list of well-described opportunities, from which we will start screening.

[ACTION REQUIRED] Complete Your DPE Team Formation Questionnaire

6 novembro 2024, 15:02 • António Pedro Dias Alves de Campos

Dear students,

SUBJECT #1: As I stated in the previous email (and the announcement on the UC Fenix webpage) we aim to form balanced, dynamic, and highly effective teams that will enhance your learning experience and project outcomes.

To achieve this, we kindly ask you to complete the DPE Student's Background & Skill Set Assessment questionnaire. This form is designed to gather information about your academic background, as well as your soft and hard skills, to help us understand your unique strengths and experiences. Please note that this is not a bidding process; it simply allows us to create well-rounded teams that leverage each member's expertise.

Link for DPE Student's Background & Skill Set Assessment questionnaire:

https://forms.gle/ZtSYS6Aca9GqDtbg9

SUBJECT #2: Please do so for those who haven't enrolled in groups relative to the PB shifts.

Any questions please reach out by email.

[ACTION REQUIRED] Enrolment in Problem/Practical Shifts.

5 novembro 2024, 10:05 • António Pedro Dias Alves de Campos

Dear students,

DPE is a continuous evaluation course in which students are challenged to identify a real problem and tackle it by developing an innovative product. A key part of the product development process is your Product Development Team. To form dynamic, multidisciplinary teams with a broad skill set, faculty will form Teams based on each student's background and skill set.

Before forming the groups, students must enroll in a Problem/Practical (PB) class shift. This should be the shift the student attends from day one since Problem/Practical classes serve for group members to get together, discuss, and communicate advances and future steps with faculty.

To enroll in a PB shift please complete the following steps:

Go to Fenix > DPE course > Groups > PB shifts AND enroll in ONE of the THREE available groups. Each GROUP corresponds to a PB SHIFT, this is the correspondence:

GROUP 1: SHIFT DPE11PB02 ( Thu. 13:00 - 14:30 - V1.12 ; Tue. 10:30 - 12:00 - V0.07 ) 

GROUP 2: SHIFT DPE11PB03 ( Tue. 10:30 - 12:00 - P8 ; Thu. 15:30 - 17:00 - P13 ) 

GROUP 3: SHIFT DPE11PB04 ( Thu. 13:00 - 14:30 - V1.26 ; Tue. 12:00 - 13:30 - V1.11 )

Note: Previous Fenix enrolment in shifts has no practical effect.

This action is mandatory. Students who do not register for any of the available shifts by November 13, 2024, at 6:00 PM, will not be assigned to a Team and will be assumed that the student will not take the course.

Please notice that there's a maximum capacity of 32 students per shift. After that, no more students will be admitted. If you have any hard restrictions please be fast enrolling.

If you can't enroll in a GROUP/SHIFT,  for any reason, please let me know by email.

Soon, I will provide you with a form to fill out and submit, allowing the faculty to form teams based on the distinct backgrounds and skill sets of students who attend the same problem shift.