The XI Secil Civil Engineering Award was attributed by Secil and by the Order of Engineers to Marisa Ferreira, engineer of the structures project of the company Fase- Estudos e Projectos SA, for the authorship of the Lisbon Cruise Terminal project. For the first time in almost 30 years of […]
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Braga Municipality has distinguished Keep Solutions, a technological spin-off linked to the School of Engineering of UMinho, for adopting “Good Practices of Equality and Inclusion”. The diploma delivery took place on February 23rd, in a public session at Paços do Concelho (Town Hall), in Braga, chaired by the town councillor […]
Fábio Rafael Santos de Freitas, Pedro Domingues, Lino Costa, André M. Carvalho, researchers of the ALGORITMI Centre are the authors of the article “Development of a predictive model of performance indicators in integrated management systems supported in artificial neural networks”, winner of the Best Article Award of the magazine Qualidade […]
EARLY – PhagE towARds initiaL amYloide-beta was one of the three big winners of the Financing Contest for Proof of Concept – iProof . This project, led by Ivone Martins, researcher at CEB, developed a tool based on bacteriophages (bacterial viruses), for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, with high therapeutic […]
Edgar Xavier Carvalho Pinto, 3rd year student of the Degree in Biomedical Engineering, and Catarina de Abreu Felgueiras were two of the fifteen UMinho students competing for the 3rd edition of the UMinho Award for Initiation in Scientific Research 2022. The students from the School of Engineering presented on December […]
António Gomes Correia, retired Professor from EEUM and Professor Emeritus from UMinho, was awarded the title of Honorary President of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society (SPG) in the evocative session of the 50th Anniversary of SPG, and integrated in the commemoration programme of the 75th anniversary of the Laboratório Nacional de […]
Beatriz da Silva Simões and Beatriz Silva de Freitas, Master’s students in Industrial Electronics and Computer Engineering were awarded merit scholarships by the E-REDES Top Women Scholarship Programme. This E-REDES initiative aims to attract young women finalists of master’s degrees in the areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering, by awarding […]
“Endowing Intelligent Vehicles with the Ability to Learn User’s Habits and Preferences with Machine Learning Methods”, by ALGORITMI researchers Carlos Fernandes, Estela Bicho, Flora Ferreira, Paulo Barbosa, Pedro Guimarães, Sérgio Monteiro, Weronika Wojtak, and also CMAT researcher Wolfram Erlhagen, was published in the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering […]
Paulo Novais, professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, was awarded the “Career Recognition Award” by the Ibero-American Society of Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA), for his scientific contributions to artificial intelligence and to the development of the community in this area. The distinction was awarded during the […]
Two students from the School of Engineering of UMinho were distinguished with grants from the New Talents Programme of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. These awards annually recognise the value of exceptional students in Portuguese higher education, promoting talent and stimulating their path of initiation into research. In this year’s edition, […]
Sílvia Fernandes, researcher at the BIOSYSTEMS Group of the Centre of Biological Engineering, and undertaking her PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, was awarded at the international conference European Biotechnology Congress 2022, held in Prague, Czech Republic. She won the 3rd place of the best oral presentations with the topic: […]
The University of Minho has 57 scientists in the group of the 2% most influential in the world over the last year, 35 of which belong to the School of Engineering, according to a study by Stanford University (USA) and the Elsevier publishing group. The list, called “World’s Top 2% […]