Mechanical Maintenance
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Acreditação A3ES
Início / Manutenção Mecânica
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The Higher Professional Technical Course in Mechanical Maintenance aims to train professionals to work in mechanical maintenance processes, carrying out activities in the areas of design, installation, repair and conservation of machinery and equipment.
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Reasons to attend the course
Exemption from national exams for entry into higher education and leading to a Higher Professional Technical Diploma.
Guaranteed internship in a real work environment (1 semester).
High employability courses.
Opportunity to continue your studies to Bachelor’s degrees (with credit transfers/equivalencies.
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Access conditions
Who can apply:
- Candidates with a secondary education qualification or a legally equivalent qualification
- Holders of a Technological Specialisation Diploma or a Higher Professional Technical Diploma
- Holders of a higher education degree who wish to seek professional requalification
Candidates over the age of 23 who have passed the exams designed to assess their capacity for higher education attendance can also apply.
Special access contest
National Applicants or equivalent
International applicants (applicants who do not hold Portuguese citizenship, are not citizens of a EU member state and are not family members of Portuguese or citizens of a EU member state, have not lived in Portugal continuously for more than two years as of 1 January of the application year, are not beneficiaries of equal rights and duties status granted under an international treaty as of 1 January of the application year and who are not applying for higher education admission through special admissions and special entry routes).
All foreign applicants must request the equivalence of their secondary education qualifications from their home country from a Portuguese secondary school. The equivalence of your certificate to Portuguese secondary education is a mandatory requirement for the application.
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Graduate profile
Mechanical maintenance technicians can work in mechanical maintenance processes, performing activities in the areas of design, installation, repair and conservation of machinery and equipment.
Professional outcomes
- Manufacturing industries
- Metalworking
- Automotive mechanics
- Shipbuilding
- Services
Continuing Studies
Graduates of the CTeSP in Mechanical Maintenance are eligible to pursue the following bachelor’s degree courses at the ESTG-IPVC, as they have acquired the knowledge and skills required for further studies:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechatronics Engineering
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Renewable Energy Systems Engineering
- Computer Graphics and Multimedia Engineering
- Network and Computer Systems Engineering
- Food Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Management
Study Plan
| Curricular Unit | Area | Type | Contact hours | ECTS | PUC |
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| Technical Drawing | EMM | S1 | T:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Physics | FEQ | S1 | T:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Fundamentos de Eletrotecnia | ET | S1 | T:16.00 | P:48.00 | 6.00 | |
| Organização e Gestão Industrial | EMM | S1 | T:32.00 | P:16.00 | 6.00 | |
| Chemistry | FEQ | S1 | T:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Tópicos de Matemática | MAT | S1 | T:64.00 | 6.00 | |
| CAD | EMM | S1 | P:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Project Management | EIM | S2 | T:16.00 | P:16.00 | 3.00 | |
| Segurança e Saúde no Trabalho | OLM | S2 | T:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Máquinas Industriais | EMM | S2 | T:16.00 | P:48.00 | 6.00 | |
| Organização da Qualidade | OLM | S2 | T:20.00 | P:40.00 | 6.00 | |
| Eletrónica e Instrumentação | ET | S2 | T:16.00 | P:48.00 | 6.00 | |
| Processos Termodinâmicos e AVAC | EMM | S2 | T:16.00 | P:48.00 | 6.00 |
| Curricular Unit | Area | Type | Contact hours | ECTS | PUC |
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| Automation and Industrial Control | ET | S1 | T:24.00 | P:40.00 | 6.00 | |
| Ensaios de Materiais | EMM | S1 | P:32.00 | 3.00 | |
| Manutenção Mecânica | EMM | S1 | T:16.00 | P:48.00 | 6.00 | |
| Processos de Fabrico | EMM | S1 | T:16.00 | P:48.00 | 6.00 | |
| Segurança em Equipamentos e Máquinas | EMM | S1 | T:8.00 | P:24.00 | 3.00 | |
| Sistemas Hidraulicos e Pneumáticos | EMM | S1 | T:16.00 | P:48.00 | 6.00 | |
| Estágio | EMM | S2 | E:810.00 | 30.00 |
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Employability
(Português) Taxa de empregabilidade
http://infocursos.medu.pt/dges.asp?code=3163&codc=T270
Partnerships and internships
- A Mendes, Vaz e Mendes Lda.
- Atlantitopázio, Lda.
- Browning, Fábrica de Armas e Artigos de Desporto, SA
- Costa & Rego Lda.
- Dalphimetal Portugal S.A.
- Edaetech – Engenharia e Tecnologia S.A
- Europack&C Kraft Viana do Castelo
- Fundilusa Fundições Portuguesas Lda.
- Ilhapor Linhas de Transmissão e Propulsão Lda.
- IMNP – Indústria de Mineração do Norte de Portugal
- Metaloviana – Metalúrgica Viana, S.A.
- MIBAL, Minas de Barqueiros S.A.
- MotaMineral, Minerais Industriais S.A.
- Plasticerveira Transformação de Plásticos, Lda.
- VENAFIL – Cleaning and Gardens Lda.
West Sea – Estaleiros Navais
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