The UMinho School of Engineering was present at the 1st edition of the Alto Minho Science Fest, a three-day event open to Science and Technology, which inspired schools, families and all curious people! From 20 to 22 March, the AltoMinho Science Fest took place at the Centro Ciência Viva dos […]
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INESC TEC and the University of Minho (UMinho) consolidated their cooperation for the coming years, by formalising the INESC TEC hub at UMinho, in Braga. The protocol signing ceremony took place on February 10, with João Claro, Chairman and CEO of INESC TEC, and Rui Vieira de Castro, Rector of […]
On International Women’s Day, the national agency Ciência Viva launched the fifth edition of the book ‘Women in Science’, which includes 107 more female researchers. Ten of the faces are from the University of Minho, from the Schools of Science, Engineering, Medicine, Psychology and the Institute of Social Sciences. […]
UMinho’s School of Engineering is working on a hybrid artificial intelligence model for Singapore and is developing the project for the European Green Capital. It was revealed at the 2nd International Meeting on Environmental Education, held on 27 February at the Landscape Laboratory in Guimarães, that the award for European […]
The School of Engineering at the University of Minho (EEUM) has created a programme of suborbital launchers to develop and test systems that climb to an altitude of up to 100 kilometres at the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere. In a statement, UMinho said that the project hopes to launch […]
Sampaio da Nóvoa signs the foreword to the book that was launched on 19 February and brings together testimonies from friends and family. António Guimarães Rodrigues, former rector of the University of Minho (UMinho) and a unique figure on the academic scene, was honoured on 19 February with the launch […]
Rui Lima honoured with the Teaching Merit Award For the first time, the University of Minho has awarded the Teaching Merit Prize to Rui Lima, a professor at the School of Engineering. The award was announced at the institution’s 51st anniversary ceremony, held on 17 February. This annual award aims […]
Hugo Novais, Inês Morais, Inês Presa, Mariana Cruz and Rômulo Souza, 2nd year students on the Master’s programme in Aerospace Engineering, presented a solid fuel rocket as their final project. The work was carried out in the second edition of the Launcher Design and Engineering Curricular Unit (CU) and is […]
To round off a week full of initiatives dedicated to interaction with the business community, innovation and the integration of School of Engineering students into the labour market, on 8 February the Graduation Ceremony was held for the 1,700 or so students who completed their courses in the 2023/2024 academic […]
School of Engineering student Vipin Richhariya has developed a high-performance shoe sole for icy surfaces with ‘Biomimetic anti-slip adhesion, based on the capillarity of water’, and inspired by the animals Gecko and frog. This could be a solution to injuries caused by slips and falls on ice. The plantar pads […]
64 students from the 3rd year of the Industrial Electronics and Computer Engineering degree at the University of Minho’s School of Engineering publicly presented 16 projects and prototypes developed during the semester as part of the ‘Integrating Project’ course, at an exhibition held on 6 February in the hall of […]
On 6 February, the ‘Polímeros Open Day’ took place, an initiative promoted by the Department of Polymer Engineering that included the signing of protocols between the University of Minho and around 20 national reference companies operating in the plastics sector, to finance tuition fees for students of the Degree in […]