CTT won the CSR Coups de Coeur 2022 award, from PostEurop, in the Environmental category, with the mask recycling project against Covid-19, an initiative of the UMinho spin-off To-Be-Green, which the company joined in July 2021. According to João Bento, CTT’s CEO, “giving a second life to protective masks is […]
Awards
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José Campos e Matos, professor of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, was distinguished with the European Union Merit Award, attributed by the EU Young Entrepreneurs Organisation and by the Portugal-China Young Entrepreneurs Association. The diploma was delivered within the scope of the FIN2022 International Conference and […]
Thinking of people who want to change a habit of life within 30 days, such as smoking or losing weight, monitoring the progress of this change, the startup “Pocket Change” is being created in the European Innovation Academy (EIA). The team, with foreign and Portuguese students, counts with the participation […]
Helena Pereira, MIT Portugal student from the PhD Program Leaders for Technical Industries at the University of Minho (UMinho) awarded the third prize in the VI Research Pitches Contest, a competition of scientific video presentations, promoted by the Compostela Group of Universities. The prize was awarded, yesterday, September 8th, during […]
Thiago A. Souza received the best paper award in Mexico City, during the IJCIEOM – International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management event. The article “Application of Heijunka for Surgical Production Leveling” has the co-authorship of Thiago A. Souza, Guilherme L. R. Vaccaro, Rui M. Lima, Erik T. […]
It is a decision support system that calculates and suggests the optimal safety stocks of a company, minimizing costs and ensuring the level of customer service. This innovation created by a team from the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, in partnership with Bosch Portugal, has just won […]
André Lima, Cátia Silva, Ana Catarina Martins Miranda, António J. Pontes, researchers from the School of Engineering (Department of Polymer Engineering/Institute of Polymers and Composites), and Álvaro Sampaio (School of Architecture, Art and Design of UMinho) received the Best Paper Award in AHFE 2022 International Conference (Applied Human Factors and […]
The researcher Vipin Richhariya, PhD student at CMEMS – Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Minho, was awarded at IMFAHE’s VIII International Conference, on May 30, 2022. This conference, organized annually by the IMFAHE Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts, placed the referred researcher in first place, as the best oral presentation […]
The finalists of the 6th edition of the Food Eco-Innovation Prize, promoted by PortugalFoods, are already known. The aim of the prize is to distinguish entrepreneurship, good ideas and competitiveness in the national agro-food sector, bringing together and challenging students, teachers, researchers and industry professionals to reflect and create the […]
Carlos Borges, José Ribeiro, Luís Louro, Paulo Vicente, Carlos Faria, Sérgio Monteiro and Estela Bicho received BEST PAPER AWARD in recognition of their paper “Trajectory tracking for the inspection of deformable objects considering manipulability of a 7-DoF serial manipulator” at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and […]
The paper “Schema-guided Testing of Message-oriented Systems“, by Alcino Cunha and Nuno Macedo, researchers at School of Engineering of the UMinho and INESC TEC, and André Santos, engineer at CoLAB VORTEX, was the winner of the Best Paper Award at the 17th edition of the international conference ENASE – Conference […]
The biggest case study competition in Industrial Engineering and Management took place until April 13th in Vienna, Austria. Catarina Novais dos Santos, David Ribeiro, Miguel Paula and Rafael Couto, first year Master’s students in Industrial Engineering and Management, are representing the University of Minho in the final of TIMES, largest […]