Maria Gabriela Jordão Oliveira, a final-year student on the Master’s in Physical Engineering, is the winner of the 2025 Alcino Lavrador Award, which recognises the best final-year student on any Master’s programme taught by the School of Engineering at the University of Minho. This is an annual award with a […]
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Fernando Ribeiro, a researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre of the School of Engineering at the University of Minho, was honoured with the Gerhard Kraetzschmar Award at RoboCup 2025, which took place from 15 to 21 July in Salvador da Bahia. In Brazil, the professor from the Department of Industrial Electronics […]
On 22 July, the Dean of the School of Engineering welcomed Professor Harish Cherukuri, Director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UNCC, and Professor José Outeiro to the Azurém campus, with the aim of strengthening existing institutional collaboration and exploring new opportunities for academic and scientific cooperation. Among other […]
Students from the EEUM Master’s in Mechanical Engineering presented demonstrations of technologies related to clean energy and terrestrial and aerospace propulsion First-year students specializing in Energy and Environmental Technologies applied the knowledge acquired in the Thermochemical Processes course, building four prototype demonstrators of technologies geared toward sustainability and propulsion. To […]
Pedro Loureiro, a researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre, was awarded the Best Paper Award at the International Young Engineers Forum on Electrical and Computer Engineering (YEF-ECE 2025), an event held on 4 July in Lisbon. The master’s student in Industrial and Computer Engineering, who is developing his dissertation at GEPE, […]
At the invitation of the Mayor of Barcelos, Dr. Mário Constantino, the President of UMinho’s School of Engineering, Professor Pedro Arezes, has joined the Advisory Council for the Economic Development of the Municipality of Barcelos. Over the last two years, in the context of preparing its strategic development plan, the […]
Two projects developed by students from the Department of Production and Systems (DPS) and the ALGORITMI Centre, at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, were awarded international prizes at the PAEE/ALE 2025 – International Conference on Active Learning in Engineering Education, which took place between 25 and […]
MarUMinho – the University of Minho’s Multidisciplinary Research Programme in Marine Science and Technology – was presented to the public on 2 July at the Rectory’s Noble Hall in Largo do Paço, Braga. The project is funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The session included speeches by the President and […]
The public session to swear in the new bodies took place on 1 July at 4.30pm in Auditorium 0.20/Ed.2 (B1.10) on the Azurém Campus. In view of the election results, the following representatives from the lists were elected to the School Council: Representatives of Teachers and Researchers Filomena Maria Rocha […]
The Staff Week University Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems took place between 16 and 20 June at the University of Minho, organised by the EEUM Department of Production and Systems. The main objective of the Erasmus+ Staff Mobility week on Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems is to provide participants with the knowledge […]
What if quantum computers could be used to discover new medicines, develop stronger materials, or simulate chemical reactions with unprecedented accuracy? Luís Paulo Santos and Mafalda Ramôa, researchers at INESC TEC UMinho, have been working with the Virginia Tech Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering (VTQ) to develop an […]
PIEP’s VALORNATURE project stood out for its innovation component and for promoting cross-border dynamics between the business fabric of the Euro-Region of Galicia and Northern Portugal. PIEP – Pólo de Inovação em Engenharia de Polímeros, a technology and innovation centre based in Guimarães, was distinguished by the Northern Regional Coordination […]