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The Information System of the Faculty of
Engineering of Porto University (SiFEUP)
Lígia Ribeiro
Gabriel David
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Agenda

• Introduction
• A Guided Tour
• For a Professor
• For a Manager
• Conclusions.

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FEUP Engineering Faculty

• FEUP is the largest faculty within the University
  of Porto
• 5,500 students, 435 teaching staff (283 with a
  Ph.D.) and 200 administrative, technical and
  auxiliary staff
• 8 undergraduate courses, 23 MSc degree courses
  and 8 areas for Ph.D. studies, as well as other
  specialized post-graduate courses.

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SiFEUP The Information System

• The SiFEUP is an integrated information system,
  built in-house, since 1995.
• Initiative FEUP direction board.
• Main objectives
• Enable faster access and dissemination of
  information
• Stimulate stronger collaboration
• Increase the interaction with external
  institutions
• Support to decision management.

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SiFEUP - Architecture

• Information access
• Web browser.
• Data
• Structured
• Relational DB (Oracle).
• Non-structured
• HTML.

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SiFEUP - Impact

• Before
• A multiplicity of autonomous and disconnected
  subsystems
• Incompatible data models
• Different technologies and formats
• Many functions not automated

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SiFEUP - Impact

• SiFEUP
• A coherent data model
• Compatible technologies
• Systematic automation of functions
• Induction of new integrated application
  development

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SiFEUP - Impact

• Pedagogical and Research Activities
• Planning the teaching service
• Student performance
• Course performance
• Scientific productivity
• Administration and management procedures
• Systematic record of intrastructure information
• Efficiency and productivity of services
• Programme assessment reports

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A Guided Tour for a Professor.
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A Guided Tour for a Manager.
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Service Control Map
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Current Developments

• Access control.
• Based on dynamic user profiles.
• Resource allocation.
• Rooms, computers, equipments, ...
• Computacional resources.
• Management of hardware software.

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SiFEUPs Contribution

• Support for organized communication.
• Improved management.
• enabling the self-assessment feedback loop.
• timeliness of information.
• low cost institution-wide availability.
• triggers spontaneous changes.
• situation awareness paves the way to acceptance
  of corrective measures.
• enables participation in the innovation process.
• increases transparency.
• eases correlation of indicators.

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The Information System of the Faculty of
Engineering of Porto University (SiFEUP)
Lígia Ribeiro
Gabriel David
gtd_at_fe.up.pt
lmr_at_fe.up.pt