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Project management practices to direct and control the project planning and exe...
Rocha, António Miguel Sousa; Romero, Fernando; Miranda, Daniel Abreu; Amorim, Marlene; Lima, Rui M.Projects lead organisations create utility, value and capabilities, by delivering innovative outcomes. Project managers must foster collaboration and people commitment in a coordinated effort involving feasibility and viability assessments and the application of project management practices and processes to kick off, direct, and control its execution. To know and better understand which project management pract...
Value and main opportunities in hospital operations management
Souza, Thiago Antonio; Lopes, Erik Teixeira; Lima, Rui M.This paper explores the definition of value in healthcare and discusses the main challenges and opportunities in hospital operations management through semi-structured interviews. The participants included seven professionals working in hospitals and two experts with research experience on the theme. On average, they had ten years of experience in a variety of roles. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, a...
Using a chatbot for student onboarding and learning in projects: technology as ...
Lopes, Erik T.; Altoé, Yasmim Bezerra Oliveira; Prazeres, Pedro Gonçalves; Araujo, Luiza Oliveira de; Monteiro, Simone Borges Simão; Mesquita, DianaUsing technologies as enablers of active learning methodologies is a recurring topic in the scientific literature. Various tools have been developed and applied in engineering education, yielding promising results. The rapid development and widespread adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) language models have recently sparked discussions on their use, regulation, and evaluation in the teaching and...
Use of indoor location technologies in healthcare contexts: A scoping review
Lopes, Erik Teixeira; Lopes, Derek Chaves; Pedrozo, Gustavo; Alves, Igor Oliveira; Käfer, Gustavo Alan; Medeiros, Pedro Henrique Santos deThe adoption of healthcare technologies has grown significantly, with real-time location systems (RTLSs) gaining particular attention. Despite decades of research, gaps persist in understanding the current state of the field and its future directions. This scoping review, conducted by PRISMA guidelines, identified 1718 articles retrieved from six databases, from which 83 were included. The findings reveal a dom...
Analysis of the carbon footprint of a textile company for the automotive industry
Silva, Beatriz; Malheiro, David; Júnior, Dinis; Nunes, Francisca; Santos, Joana; Guimarães, Liliana; Socorro, Maria; Carvalho, Mariana; Silva, MarianaThis study aims to develop a process to calculate the carbon footprint of a company in the textile sector for the automotive industry, thus addressing a research gap identified in this sector. Based on a structured calculation model, the project aspires to innovate by quantifying not only the greenhouse gas emissions at different stages of the company’s operations, including those generated by the consumed elec...
Mapping the implementation of active learning approaches in a school of enginee...
Lima, Rui M.; Villas-Boas, Valquíria; Soares, Filomena; Carneiro, Olga S.; Ribeiro, Paulo; Mesquita, DianaThis study aims to propose a method for mapping the implementation of active learning approaches by quantifying engineering teachers’ self-perception. It also seeks to examine the correlations between the implementation of active learning approaches and training, as well as publications focused on active learning. To conduct the study, active learning concepts were defined, and a set of approaches were selected...
Workshop: how to plan an interdisciplinary Project-Based Learning (PBL) approach
Lima, Rui M.; Mesquita, DianaThis workshop aims to support participants to be able to plan an interdisciplinary Project-Based Learning (PBL) approach, exploring several dimensions of PBL. The conceptual fundamentals, such as framing PBL in the Active Learning continuum, PBL principles, project typologies, and PBL models, will be briefly discussed, serving as a basis for the workshop. During the practical part of the workshop, the participa...
Exploring eXtended-based Learning approaches in Portuguese higher education: a ...
Alves, Anabela C.; Lima, Rui M.; Diana Mesquita; Malheiro, M. T.; Leão, Celina P.This paper presents a comprehensive study of what is named in this study as eXtended-Based Learning (xBL) approaches within the Portuguese educational landscape, including Problem-Based Learning (PBL), Project-Based Learning (PjBL), Challenge-Based Learning (ChBL), Service-Based Learning, and others. The study will contribute to characterizing different approaches being implemented by educators in Industrial En...
Developing a Chatbot for process modelling learning: contributions for active l...
Lopes, Erik T.; Mesquita, Diana; Lima, Rui M.Technological advancements such as generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have gained popularity, partly due to their ability to provide iterative access to extensive information. This has impacted the education field, introducing new opportunities and challenges in learning, teaching, and assessment. This article intends to present the development and deployment of a chatbot designed to foster studen...
Adopting industry 4.0 and lean practices in heavy metalworking: impact of human...
Jesus, Cristiano; Pontes, Eduardo; Lima, Rui M.; Lopes, Sérgio IvanLean Manufacturing culture is enshrined as an industrial management policy. Moreover, production planning and manufacturing operations management tools, such as Work Sampling (WS), has long been successfully used. WS is known for its ability to support decision-making, especially regarding production capacity and delivery times. This paper presents the results of a pilot study developed in a heavy metalworking ...