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Profile of the programme
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The main objective of the Degree in Web, Mobile and Cloud Computing is to qualify human resources with solid basic training that allows graduates to respond to the needs and challenges in the IT sector, with a focus on Web development, mobile devices, and in cloud services. The course also values the interconnection between the functionality of applications and their design, guaranteeing graduates specific skills in software development at the presentation layer level, essential for creating usable and intuitive technological solutions.
The future graduate will have multidisciplinary skills that allow him to develop teamwork, always bearing in mind the social, economic and legal implications resulting from the use of computer science and technology and design.
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Key learning outcomes
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This cycle of studies will produce graduates with knowledge in the area of IT applied to the development of applications and services around the web. The skills of these graduates include, among others, problem-solving skills using the multiple tools at their disposal in this area, including the skills to implement applications and services that extract knowledge from social networks, interact with the user via mobile systems, provide services via the web, make online multimedia content available, develop web-based games, build interfaces for applications that are user-friendly and facilitate human-machine interaction, take advantage of cloud computing, among others. Graduates will have adequate skills to perform tasks such as integrating and directing web-based systems development teams, managing e-commerce or multimedia platforms on the web, managing or moderating online communities. |
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Occupational profiles of graduates
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Technological startups
Development and maintenance of Web sites and applications
Server-side development and programming (backend)
Programming of applications for mobile devices
Development of applications for cloud computing
Development of software
Marketing and multimedia content management in web applications companies
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Learning facilities
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Students have at their disposal a vast set of infrastructures, both support, such as the Central Library (with 200 computer terminals, open on weekdays from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm) and laboratories for classes:
- 3 laboratories for practical software classes (with 30 computers per room)
- 1 laboratory for practical classes on computer networks and the Internet (with routers, switches, copper and fiber optic cabling and wireless).
Furthermore, students have access to the infrastructures provided by the various research groups: INESC-TEC, IT-Covilhã, HULTIG, MediaLab, Regain, Release, Secure and Intelligent Networked Software Systems (sins-lab), SEGAL, SociaLab, NOVALINCS - UBI Hub (see www.di.ubi.pt).
Students also have permanent wireless access to the Internet and its services throughout the university campus, including in university residences. |