Oncampus + live streaming
Oncampus + live streaming
Four oncampus courses taught in English specializing in the following areas. These courses will also be broadcast online so that they can be followed from anywhere in the world:
Healthy Active Breaks in the University communityLifestyle today is highly sedentary in many walks of life. Sedentary jobs means long working hours in a sitting position, which are a barrier to physical activity. Although physical activity should be recommended as a leisure activity, sedentary behaviour poses serious health problems related to the metabolic syndrome, and increased risk of depression and anxiety. A valid strategy is to include breaks during sedentary periods, which can reduce their harmful effects at the metabolic level.
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Optimization Techniques in Microsoft ExcelOptimization techniques (the science of better) are scientific approaches with the aim to obtain the solution of problems for complex systems that enables decision makers to make better decisions such as increasing income, reducing costs, improving efficiency, decreasing time consumption… Optimization can be applied to many areas such as energy, agricultural economics, chemical engineering, finance, management, military, physics, mathematics…
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The role of engineering in the new European innovation frameworkEuropean innovation projects aim to build the EU that we all want to live in. This course sets out to acquaint engineers with the singularities of innovation projects, innovation project workteams, consortia formation, the rules of the game of major European calls, as well as the roles of engineers, the national contact points and the evaluating experts. The EELISA project and Discovery Community will serve as an example.
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Smarter Health Caring for Smarter Cities (SC2)Smart cities aim to improve the quality the life of citizens by improving urban infrastructure, fostering innovation and enhancing the healthcare system. Smart healthcare uses the latest mobile and digital technologies to make advances in health systems. The course aims to bring together representative ofall health ecosystem stakeholders to meet students from different branches of knowledge taught at UPM to discuss possible solutions to unsatisfied urban healthcare needs.
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