The “Green Santa Claus” project proposes to reduce the environmental footprint at this season, as in the wrapping paper, the little lights and the shopping mall race, via free online sessions, reaches more than 10,000 students from 100 primary schools in the country. The director of Betweien, Narciso Moreira, explains […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
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José Vieira, full professor of the Department of Civil Engineering, was admitted as an Associate Member of the Pan American Academy of Engineering. This decision was taken on December 2, at the annual meeting of this Academy. The Pan American Academy of Engineering (API), founded in Panama City in 2000, […]
The article GreenHub: A Large-Scale Collaborative Dataset to Battery Consumption Analysis of Android Devices, written by Rui Pereira and Marco Couto from High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab), presents a thorough analysis of more than 23 million of samples of data from Android smartphones, in order to understand the efficiency of battery […]
Joana Cunha, Master student in Industrial Engineering – Logistics and Distribution, and athlete from SC Braga, won last November 24th the bronze medal in the -57KG taekwondo women’s competition at the European Open in Zagreb, Croatia. In the competition that marked her return, the SC Braga athlete eliminated the Spanish […]
The To-Be-Green spin-off and the CVR – Centre for Waste Valorisation interface are part of a new project that was launched in Guimarães, during the European Week for Waste Prevention, entitled “Collecting and Valuing” and that foresees a strong campaign of awareness, collection and valuation of masks. This is an […]
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 […]
José António Teixeira and António Vicente on the “Highly Cited Researchers 2020” list. José António Teixeira and António Vicente, from the Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB) of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, are among the most cited scientists in the world by other researchers. The confirmation […]
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 […]
On 13 November last, in the meeting room of the Presidency of EEUM, the new direction of the Department of Mechanical Engineering for the biennium 2020/2022 took office. Raúl Fangueiro is the new department director, with Cândida Vilarinho as deputy director. In his speech, Raúl Fangueiro said that the direction […]
Equipment was presented on 13 November and promises to be a solution for difficult cases, hitherto referred to wheelchairs. The School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM) presented an intelligent walker online on 13 November to improve the locomotion of patients and physical rehabilitation therapy. The innovation, already […]
The app Smart Pedestrian Assistant (SPA) is a pedestrian navigation tool developed as part of the project SPN: Smart Pedestrian Net – Smart cities are walkable: SPN – a model to plan a pedestrian network and a pedestrian navigation system. This app allows the users to define daily or occasional […]
GermiSafeBOX54 is a product created by the company Thermopista from Braga, accompanied and tested in partnership with the Centre of Biological Engineering of EEUM and the Physics Department of UMinho. It is a technologically advanced sterilization box that allows the complete elimination of bacteria, viruses or fungi that cling to […]