The researcher of the Center of Biological Engineering and professor and Vice-Dean of the School of Engineering innovates in eco-packaging, functional and bioactive compounds, and nano-systems for food. António Augusto Martins de Oliveira Soares Vicente was born in Porto 49 years ago. He grew up in the city, but from […]
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Helena Leite, alumna of Systems Engineering and IT and Chief Operating Officer of Inetum, a multinational company specialized in the development and implementation of software solutions for e-commerce, digital banking, insurance market, among others, was elected one of the 25 leading women in software in Europe. In professional terms, alumna […]
Sérgio Miguel da Silva Coelho is a student of the Integrated Master in Industrial Electronic Engineering and Computers at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, where he is working on the thesis “Development of a Micro-Inverter for Renewable Energy Systems in Distributed Micro-Networks”, which earned him an […]
A team composed by Maria Gonçalves and Mariana Costa, students of the Integrated Master in Biomedical Engineering, and professor Susana Catarino, won the public vote in the Angelini University Awards 2019/2020, with the project “EpisKey – The key to a better life”, a multidisciplinary device for the pre-diagnosis and treatment […]
Pedro Machado and João Azevedo, students of the 4th year of the Integrated Master in Informatics Engineering at EEUM are part of the winning team of the 2nd edition of Eurekathon, promoted by Porto Business School, LTPlabs and NOS and which took place last 14th November. The challenge involved more […]
Three students from the School of Engineering of UMinho were recognized and awarded with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s New Talent Scholarships, an elite and highly competitive program that aims to create a new generation of successful researchers in Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Technologies and Mathematics. Mafalda Alves, a 5th year student […]
The platform that was born in the School of Engineering of the University of Minho converts industrial waste into new products, from furniture to footwear was one of the finalists for the European prize. The Portuguese platform Fibrenamics Green was one of the 25 finalists for the European Commission’s Regiostars […]
Rui Almeida and Sofia Paiva (DTx) led by professor and researcher Jorge Cabral and supported by Sérgio Branco (all ALGORITMI researchers) have just won a podium position in the local final of the EDP University Challenge. This podium rewards the best groups, with no differentiation between 1st, 2nd and 3rd […]
The American Society of Ergonomics and Human Factors (HFES) awarded a team from the Engineering and Architecture Schools of the University of Minho for the best article of 2019 in the journal Ergonomics in Design, with a system that identifies surgical instruments left in patients. This is the first time […]
The SPM Prize on World Materials Day 2019 was awarded by the thesis of Ana Carina Ferreira Lopes, student of the Integrated Master in Polymer Engineering at EEUM, with the title “Study and evaluation of different combinations of virgin and processed PA material for Selective Laser Sintering technology”. This thesis […]