A team from the Centre for Microelectromechanical Systems (CMEMS) of the UMinho School of Engineering develops promising technology for the removal of brain tumours. The team led by researcher Hugo Dinis is responsible for the development of a light-based ultrasound system for tumour resections. This technology promises to provide neurosurgeons […]
Students Sandra Costa, Maria Pereira, Maria Inês Torres and Francisca Falcão, from the 1st year of the Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management, won the ACA Innovation Student Challenge. This ACA Group challenge aimed to learn about innovative approaches applicable to the construction sector, such as new business proposals, new […]
Rita Dias, master’s student of the Quality Engineering and Management Course, and member of the Quality and Organisational Excellence Research Group at the University of Minho, was awarded the Best Paper Award at the Graduate Student Paper Competition, at the Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Conference held in Lisbon, from […]
Rosa Vasconcelos, professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho was honoured by the Order of Engineers Northern Region – OERN in the celebration of the Regional Engineer’s Day, July 8. The professor of the Department of Textile Engineering, current Student Ombudsman, was recognised for her contribution […]
Francisco dos Santos, Lino Costa and Leonilde Varela, researchers from ALGORITMI Research Centre/LASI, received the Best Paper Award with the paper “Multi-objective optimisation of the job shop scheduling problem on unrelated parallel machines with sequence-dependent setup times”, at the 23rd International Conference on Computational and Applications (ICCSA 2023) that took […]
The XII edition of the Symposium of the Group of Energy and Power Electronics (GEPE) took place last June 29th, in hybrid format (online and in the Azurém campus of the University of Minho). The program of this edition included the presentation of the Power and Energy Electronics Group and […]
A team of High Assurance Software Laboratory (HasLab – EEUM) / INESC TEC researchers participated in the creation of a solution that aims to improve railway safety through the automatic validation of transport networks. The solution, developed within the scope of the DigiLightRail project – and in partnership with Efacec […]
Isabel Afonso, director-general of Novartis Oncology China, is graduated in Systems Engineering and Informatics by the School of Engineering of UMinho and appears in the list published by Forbes, of the “50 most powerful Portuguese women in business”, in 9th place! Access the article and list of these 50 Portuguese […]
The PhD student of CMEMS – Center for MicroEletroemechanical Systems of the School of Engineering of UMinho, Vítor Magalhães, won the “Best student paper award” in the 7th IEEE Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG 2023) that took place on the 22nd and 23rd of June, at Fundação de Serralves and […]
A work of the School of Engineering of UMinho, presented by Dalila Durães, professor of the Department of Informatics and researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, “A Conversational Agent for Smart Schooling: A case study on k-12 dropout risk assessment” was […]
The Civil Engineering Scholarships and Merit in Civil Engineering Ceremony took place on 21 June, in the meeting room of the Department of Civil Engineering. The scholarships and merit scholarships are awarded to the students of the Integrated Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering by the companies Casais – Engenharia e […]
What if it were possible to increase the production of biogas, a sustainable energy source, from waste or wastewater? Researchers from the Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB) of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho are studying the effect of different conductive materials – such as activated carbon […]