Launching of the Dual Degree Program Between Porto Business School and Carnegie Mellon
Date: October 23, 2012
Hour: 15:00
Place: Porto Business School, Portugal
Registrations: Helena Pinto: hpinto@pbs.up.pt
Porto Business School and Carnegie Mellon University (USA) have developed a dual degree program which allows participants the possibility to obtain, simultaneously, a Professional MSc in Electrical & Computer Engineering awarded by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and The Magellan MBA diploma, awarded by Porto Business School. The program lasts 2 years: one year in Pittsburgh at CMU and the other in Portugal, Porto, at Porto Business School and FEUP, where the participants, besides their classes at The Magellan MBA, have to take two courses at FEUP to complete their MSc in Electrical & Computer Engineering.
Agenda
15h00 Welcome
Nuno de Sousa Pereira, Dean, Porto Business School
Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo, Dean, Faculdade de Engenharia of the Universidade do Porto (FEUP)
15h10 Presentation of the MS Contents in ECE of the Dual Degree Program
Ed Schlesinger, Director, ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University
Pedro Guedes de Oliveira, Director, ECE Department at FEUP
15h25 Presentation of the MBA Contents on the Dual Degree Program
Jorge Farinha, Vice-Dean, Porto Business School
15h40 Presentation
Alan Katz, Embassador, EUA in Portugal
16h00 Presentation
Carlos Oliveira, Secretary of State for Entrepreneurship*
16h15 Session: “Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management Education”
Moderator : António Murta, CEO, Pathena
– Nuno Carvalho, Director, Cisco Portugal
– Diamantino Costa, Vice-President, Critical Software
– Carlos Melo Brito, Provost, Universidade do Porto for Entrepreneurship
– Pedro Guedes de Oliveira, Director, ECE Department at FEUP
17h45Cocktail
*To be confirmed
