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 […]
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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% […]
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 […]
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 […]