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 […]
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The platform that was born in the School of Engineering of the University of Minho converts industrial waste into new products, from furniture to footwear was one of the finalists for the European prize. The Portuguese platform Fibrenamics Green was one of the 25 finalists for the European Commission’s Regiostars […]
Rui Almeida and Sofia Paiva (DTx) led by professor and researcher Jorge Cabral and supported by Sérgio Branco (all ALGORITMI researchers) have just won a podium position in the local final of the EDP University Challenge. This podium rewards the best groups, with no differentiation between 1st, 2nd and 3rd […]
The American Society of Ergonomics and Human Factors (HFES) awarded a team from the Engineering and Architecture Schools of the University of Minho for the best article of 2019 in the journal Ergonomics in Design, with a system that identifies surgical instruments left in patients. This is the first time […]
The SPM Prize on World Materials Day 2019 was awarded by the thesis of Ana Carina Ferreira Lopes, student of the Integrated Master in Polymer Engineering at EEUM, with the title “Study and evaluation of different combinations of virgin and processed PA material for Selective Laser Sintering technology”. This thesis […]
Paulo Novais, Full Professor of the Department of Informatics, received the Medal of the São Torcato Village for professional and academic merit. The medal was awarded in the Commemoration Ceremony of the 25 years of the elevation of São Torcato to Vila, in the past 21st. The session was attended […]
The position is recent and has now been created to boost the Research and Development area of the European Organization for Qualiy, with the School of Engineering, Paulo Sampaio, invited to coordinate it. The professor will now become a consultant of this organization for the R&D area, also coordinating the […]
Catarina Macedo, a Computer Engineering student at the School of Engineering was elected one of the most promising young women in the “Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe” ranking, in the “Sports & Games” category. Catarina Macedo lives in Washington, where she is a program manager at Xbox, at Microsoft, and […]
Diana Priscila Pires receives 15 thousand euros to develop alternative therapy to antibiotics Diana Priscila Pires was distinguished this Wednesday, in Lisbon, with the L’Oréal Portugal Medal of Honor for Women in Science. The scientist will receive 15,000 euros to improve the effectiveness of phage therapy in combating the bacterium […]
This was the first participation of the University of Minho in the competition. Régis Puppim, Luisa Mendes Arruda, Pedro Negrão de Lima and Patrícia Azambuja are the four researchers from the School of Engineering who received an honorable mention in the 13th edition of the International Design Awards (IDA 2019), […]
João Rebelo, student of the Integrated Master in Engineering and Management in Information Systems, received the Best Technical Paper Award at the EMCIS’2019 conference, which took place on December 9-10, in Dubai. EMCIS is one of the leading conferences in Europe and the Middle East for Information Systems academics and […]
EEUM researchers Flora Ferreira, Weronika Wojtak, Paulo Vicente, Ankit R. Patel, Sérgio Monteiro, under the guidance of Estela Bicho (ALGORITMI) and Wolfram Erlhagen (Mathematics Center), received the Best Poster award within the Workshop “Towards Cognitive Vehicles: perception, learning and decision making under real-world constraints. Is bio-inspiration helpful? “, with the […]