Engenharia, Decisão e Políticas Públicas

Objectives

This unit aims to develop students’ understanding of how engineering and decision tools - including risk assessment, data analysis, decision analysis, statistical analyses, optimization, participatory modeling, communication and scenario planning - can help improving policy analysis and policy making in real settings.

Syllabus

1. Introduction to decision-making in public policy contexts. Market failures and public policy intervention. Policy-making processes, paradigms and analytical frameworks for policy analysis. The scope for innovation in public policy-making. 2. Policy-making challenges and needs in sectorial contexts (yearly defined): - Environment policy-making - Health policy-making - Science and technology policy-making - Finance policy-making - Infrastructure policy-making - Economics policy-making - Defense policy- making - Cross-cutting policy-making 3. Engineering and management approaches and case studies to enable decision-making in public contexts (yearly defined): - Analytics for policy-making - Evidence-based policy- making - Decision engineering for policy analysis - Statistical approaches for policy analysis - Participatory modeling within policy-making - Optimization for policy-making - Scenario planning and risk assessment - Behavioural policy analysis

Cross Competence Component

The unit contributes to enhance team building, leadership, communication, and critical thinking soft skills.

Ethical Principles

All members of a group are responsible for the group's work. In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used. In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.