Mandatory

 

ESP001 – SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS PROJECTS I (56h – 4 credits)

Concept of systems and types. Products concept. Product life cycle and product development phases. Definition of projects and types. Transforming an idea into a project. Strategic issues in designing a project. Design of projects for financing. Canvas Business Model. Practice in the development of innovative projects.

 

ESP002 – SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS PROJECTS II (56h – 4 credits)

Informational Project. Elaboration of the product life cycle. QFD Matrix. Conceptual Design. Morphological Matrix. Search for solutions. Agile Project Management. Specificities of projects in health, computing, control and communication and aspects of integrated development in interdisciplinary teams.

 

ESP004 – SEMINARS ON SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS ENGINEERING (28h – 2 credits)

Seminars on the research areas of computing, control, communication and biomedical systems.

ESP003 – PRODUCTION AND DISSEMINATION OF TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE (56h – 4 credits)

Economic theories of technology. Innovation Systems. The division of labor of innovation. Open innovation. Innovation incentive mechanisms. Intellectual property. Valuation and technology transfer. Technological gaps. Prospecting and integrating technologies. Diffusion and adoption of innovations.

Optional

 

ESP208 – SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS (56h – 4 credits)

Time Invariant Linear Systems; Fourier Analysis for Continuous and Discrete Signals and Systems in Time; filtering; Modulation; Sampling; Laplace transform; Z Transform and Linear Feedback Systems.

 

ESPA02 – ADVANCED METHODS IN DIFFERENTIAL AND TRANSFORMED EQUATIONS (56h – 4 credits)

Existence and uniqueness of solutions; Linear differential equations; Classical solutions and Fourier and Laplace transforms; ODE with constant coefficients; ODE variable coefficients; Sturm Liouville; Spectral analysis; Qualitative theory; Phase space; Nonlinear equations and usual analytical or numerical methods of solution; Singularities, stability, bifurcation.

 

ESP207 – COMPUTER NETWORKS (56h – 4 credits)

TCP/IP architecture (Physical, link, network, transport and application). Service quality. Future Networks and their challenges (NGN, NWGN and Future Internet).

 

ESPA05 – DEVELOPMENT AND PROTOTYPING OF TECHNICAL SYSTEMS (56h – 4 credits)

Fundamentals of methodology for developing technical systems. Types and Properties of Materials, Selection of materials according to the performance index and functionality of technical systems. Rapid prototyping technologies (FDM; Sintering and material removal). Product development practice. Prototyping practice. Printed circuit practice. Integration and assembly tests. Pilot batch.

 

ESP102 – METROLOGY IN HEALTH (42h – 3 credits)

Metrology and its areas. Basic concepts in metrology. Measurement uncertainty. Features of metrology in health. Brazilian Network of Analytical Laboratories in Health (REBLAS). Metrology of ionizing radiation. Standards from the 60.601 series and others applied to medical devices.

 

ESP105 – SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (56h – 4 credits)

Biological Systems. Physicochemistry of Biological Interfaces. Biocompatibility. Functional biomaterials. Biological Signs. Molecular foundations of cell signaling. Physiological phenomena and biosignals.

 

ESP204 - SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (56h - 4 credits)

Software processes and agile development, requirements engineering, graphical user interface design, architectural design, object-oriented design and implementation, software testing, component-based software reuse and engineering, software evolution and visualization, quality management , configuration management, experimentation in Software Engineering. Specification of dependable systems, design and architectural patterns for dependable systems, service-oriented architectures, system validation.

 

ESP210 – COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (56h – 4 credits)

Review on Sampling, Quantization and Modulation Techniques. Stochastic Processes and Noise. Performance of Digital Communications Systems in the presence of noise and ISI. Equalizers...; Basic Concepts of Information Theory, Shannon's Channel Capacity Theorem and Channel Coding.

 

ESP103 – RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION (56h – 4 credits)

X-ray production and radioactivity. Medical applications of ionizing radiation. Interaction of radiation with matter. Principles of metrology of ionizing radiation. Biological effects of ionizing radiation. Radiation risk management. National and international standards.

 

ESP202 - PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (56h - 4 credits)

Fundamental Concepts of Distributed Systems; Communication in Distributed Systems; Synchronization in Distributed Systems. Middlewares for Distributed Objects. Event-based communication. Web Services. Name Service. Tuple Space. Group Communication Frameworks. Parallel Processing.

 

ESP206 - DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING (56h - 4 credits)

Concepts of Sampling Theorem, Z-Transform, Stability of Discrete-Time Systems and Fourier Transform (DFT and FFT); Adaptive Digital Filtering. Realization of Digital Filters and Implementation in Digital Signal Processors. Limitations on Word Size and its Effects - Quantization error. Biomedical signals.

 

ESPA03 - TEACHING INTERNSHIP (28h - 2 credits)

Student immersion activity in oriented monitoring for the purpose of supporting the classes of undergraduate courses.

 

ESP104 - HEALTH REGULATION (42h - 3 credits)

Health surveillance and the structure of the National Health Surveillance System (SNVS). Roles of SNVS entities. Regulatory framework for healthcare products and risk characterization. Sanitary requirements for the pre-marketing phase of health products. Sanitary requirements for the post-marketing phase of health products.

 

ESP101 – QUALITY CONTROL IN MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF IONIZING RADIATIONS (56h – 4 credits)

Quality assurance programs. Health quality and safety. The importance of quality control tests in the effectiveness and safety of procedures. Quality control tests and instruments in diagnostic, interventional radiology, radiotherapy and nuclear medicine.

 

ESPA01 – MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS (56h – 4 credits)

Preparation of statistical studies. Characteristic measures of a distribution. Hypothesis and Normality Tests. Multivariate Data: Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis and Aggregate Analysis.

 

ESP209 – CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (56h – 4 credits)

Characterization of Cyber-Physical Systems, Real Time Aspects: Task Models, Scheduling and Communication for Real Time Systems. Dependability Aspects: Concepts, Metrics, Scope, Forecast and Fault Tolerance. Feedback control in computer systems: Modeling; first and higher order systems; Controllers analysis and design.

 

ESP203 - DEVELOPMENT OF UBIQUOUS SYSTEMS (56h - 4 credits)

Introduction to Ubiquitous Computing (Definition, Purpose, Origin, Basic Concepts). Difference between ubiquitous, pervasive and mobile computing. Challenges in Ubiquitous Computing. Examples of Applications in Ubiquitous Systems. Mobile Computing, Use of Sensors, Api's for Device Communication via Network, Storage in small devices.

 

ESP205 - INTRODUCTION TO CONTROL SYSTEMS (56h - 4 credits)

Basic concepts about control systems; time domain and frequency domain analysis; control of first and second order systems; control of time-delayed systems; multivariable systems; sampling and digital control; notions of real-time systems control.

ESP201 – ALGORITHMS AND DATA STRUCTURES (56h – 4 credits)

Algorithm concepts, algorithm analysis and efficiency, NPcompleteness algorithm design, complexity classes. Linear and non-linear data structures. Algorithms in Graphs.

ESPA04 – SPECIAL TOPICS (56h – 4 credits):

ESPA04 - 1 - Special Topics: Guided Research (2 Credits)
ESPA04 - 2 - Special Topics: Active Vibration Control (4 Credits)
ESPA04 - 3 - Special Topics: Mobile Systems Development (4 Credits)
ESPA04 - 4 - Special Topics: Robotic Systems (4 Credits)
ESPA04 - 5 - Special Topics: Integrated Circuit Design (4 Credits)
ESPA04 - 6 - Special Topics: Visual Data Analysis (4 Credits)
ESPA04 - 7 - Special Topics: Sensors and Actuators (4 Credits)
ESPA04 - 8 - Special Topics: Blockchain (4 Credits)
ESPA04 - 9 - Directed Study (1 Credit)
ESPA04 - 10 - Special Topics: Energy Efficiency and Alternative Sources of Energy in Health Services (4 Credits)
ESPA04 - 11 - Special Topics: Radiation Physics and Computational Modeling (4 Credits)
ESPA04 - 12 - Special Topics: Systems Systems (4 Credits)
ESPA04 - 13 - Special Topics: Risk Assessment and Management (4 Credits)
ESPA04 - 14 - Special Topics: Monte Carlo Method Applied to Radiation Physics (4 Credits)
ESPA04 - 15 - Special Topics: Morphofunctional (4 Credits)
Summary: Cardiovascular system. Respiratory system. Urinary system. Nervous system. Digestive system. Immune system / microbiology. Locomotor System (bone, joint and muscle).
ESPA04 - 16 - Special Topics: Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (4 Credits)
Summary: Linear differential equations: exponential matrix, stable and unstable spaces, planar systems, behavior of solutions (flow), Jordan canonical form (and other decompositions). Stability Theory, non-homogeneous systems and frontier value problems. Nonlinear differential equations, existence and uniqueness, flow and linearization. Behaviors of differential equations: stable and unstable manifolds, stability of equilibrium points, asymptotic stability and stability according to Lyapunov. Non-hyperbolic differential equations. Hamiltonian systems, limit cycles (limit sets, attractors, periodic orbits, Poincaré map) and Bendixson criterion for limit cycles. Bifurcations.
ESPA04 - 17 - Special Topics: Cybersecurity on Systems and Products (4 Credits)
ESPA04 - 18 - Special Topics: Health's economic-industrial complex (2 Credits)