On 20 November, the Chair of the School of Engineering hosted Thomas Olsson and Lars Montellius from Lund University. The purpose of the meeting was to share institutional models for recognising and rewarding teaching excellence. The meeting began with an intervention by Professor Pedro Arezes, President of the School of […]
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The University of Minho has three scientists among the most cited in the world by other researchers – António Vicente and José António Teixeira, from the Centre for Biological Engineering (CEB), and Rui L. Reis, from the 3B’s Group. This was confirmed today by the Highly Cited Researchers 2023 list, […]
Diogo Cunha, Pedro Arezes, Rosa Barros, Teresa Monteiro and Victor Soares were the members of the School of Engineering community who took part in the “Poetry on Campus” initiative, organised by groups of students from the Arts and Theatre departments as part of UMinho’s 50th anniversary. On 6 November, the […]
“Engineering for a better Future” was the School of Engineering’s motto for the “VEM 2023 – Come and try Uminho” programme. Reformed from the old “Best Student” programme, VEM brought together 160 students, selected by secondary schools in the Braga and Viana do Castelo region, with the best grade 11 […]
The closing session of Economy Month – Innovation and Factory of the Future took place on 26 October at the Jordão Theatre, with a panel of guests who represent the vibrant dynamics of innovation in the region. The Future Trends session, moderated by alumni José Mendes, Executive Director of the […]
The board of ISISE – Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering – took office on 26 October at the Azurém campus of the University of Minho. José Manuel de Sena Cruz, Associate Professor with tenure in the Civil Engineering Department of the School of Engineering, was elected director […]
On 25 October, the MITH – Minho Innovation and Technology Hub” Public Presentation took place at Sítio.co, with talks on ‘Trends and Technologies of the Future’. More than just a space for entrepreneurs, the MITH – Minho Innovation & Technology Hub is an infrastructure that will connect the academic community […]
Is it possible to innovate even further with a non-alcoholic beer? Researchers from EEUM’s Centre of Biological Engineering in partnership with the Super Bock Group and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto have proved that it is. This partnership is at the origin of the search for […]
The University of Minho has 65 scientists in the group of the 2% most cited in the world over the last year, according to a study by Stanford University (USA) and the Elsevier publishing group, of which 37 are from the School of Engineering. The list, called “World’s Top 2% […]
On 19 and 20 October, the public exams for Habilitation in the branch of knowledge of Mechanical Engineering, requested by Doctor Hélder de Jesus Fernandes Puga, took place in the Sala de Atos of the Azurém Campus of the University of Minho, Guimarães, and were unanimously approved. The jury was […]
The multiple situations in which the transactional system does not ensure isolation to databases, thus compromising their efficiency, were the starting point for the research dedicated to the design and implementation of isolation in the query engine, preparing it for hybrid workloads. Databases that support structures like banking or commerce […]
The headquarters of the Associated Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LASI) – the largest in the country, with more than 500 scientists from 13 R&D centres in seven academies and led by Paulo Novais, from UMinho’s School of Engineering – was inaugurated on October 19 at the Guimarães Business and Innovation […]