The UMinho Scientific Research Initiation Award 2023 ceremony took place on 12 December at the Gualtar campus in Braga. Twenty-seven undergraduate and first-year integrated master’s students have been developing their scientific projects over the last few months, involved in teams of recognised merit at UMinho, and then presented their results […]
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Researcher Clarisse Nobre, from UMinho’s Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB), won the National Innovation Agency’s Born from Knowledge Award for her project cLabel+: Clean Label, which aims to transform calorific sugars (sucrose) into healthy sugars with high functional value (prebiotics) in finished foods. The winners of the various categories of […]
E-REDES has signed a protocol for the Top Women Scholarship mentoring programme with 11 higher education institutions, including the UMinho School of Engineering. This initiative is aimed at final-year students from 23 master’s programmes in electrical and computer engineering from the north to the south of the country. In total, […]
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, […]
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% […]
Marisa Ferreira, an engineer who graduated from UMinho’s School of Engineering, was awarded the Engineer of the Year prize at the Contruir 2023 Awards, an initiative that honours the best in engineering, architecture and construction in Portugal. Born in São João da Madeira and currently working with the company Afaconsult, […]
Luís Filipe Cunha, Ricardo Campos and Alípio Jorge won the Best Student Paper Award at the 22nd Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA’23), with the article “Event Extraction for Portuguese: A QA-driven Approach using ACE-2005”. EPIA’23 took place between 5th and 8th September 2023 in the Azores, on the island […]
The Formula Student Portugal competition took place from 1 to 5 August at the Castelo Branco Motorsport Park (PDMCB), a unique facility in the country that includes several circuits for motorsport. Formula Student Portugal is a new Formula Student event taking place in Portugal. Its aim is to stimulate the […]
A team from the Algoritmi Centre of the School of Engineering of UMinho was distinguished with one of the “Best Paper Awards” of the international conferences MIS4TEL, PAAMS, DCAI, BLOCKCHAIN, ISAmI, PACCBB and DECON, held from 12 to 14 July in Guimarães. The events brought together more than 300 experts […]
Students Sandra Costa, Maria Pereira, Maria Inês Torres and Francisca Falcão, from the 1st year of the Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management, won the ACA Innovation Student Challenge. This ACA Group challenge aimed to learn about innovative approaches applicable to the construction sector, such as new business proposals, new […]
Rita Dias, master’s student of the Quality Engineering and Management Course, and member of the Quality and Organisational Excellence Research Group at the University of Minho, was awarded the Best Paper Award at the Graduate Student Paper Competition, at the Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Conference held in Lisbon, from […]
Rosa Vasconcelos, professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho was honoured by the Order of Engineers Northern Region – OERN in the celebration of the Regional Engineer’s Day, July 8. The professor of the Department of Textile Engineering, current Student Ombudsman, was recognised for her contribution […]