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 […]
The EuroCC2 project started in February; the new European project by INESC TEC aims to identify and address the skills gap in high-performance computing (HPC) in the European ecosystem, and to promote cooperation across Europe, thus ensuring a consistent skills base. This project focuses on establishing and managing a network […]
The School of Engineering of the University of Minho is coordinating the Erasmus+ project STEAMigPOWER “STEAM approaches at higher education for mIGrants, refugees and asylum seekers’ empowerment”. The project involves several research centers of the School of Engineering – ALGORITMI Center, ISISE and CEB – and the Presidency of the […]
Who has never heard of PLUMA? The lightest and most attractive gas bottle in the national market, owned by Galp, had in its genesis, in 2005, a very important contribution of Polymer Engineering from the School of Engineering of UMinho, in a project led by the company Amtrol-Alfa and with […]
José Nuno Oliveira, researcher coordinator of the High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab) of INESC TEC and professor at the Department of Informatics of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, is together with Ana Neri (INESC TEC) and in collaboration with Rui Barbosa, Staff Researcher at the International Iberian […]
120M€ project involves the University of Minho and 15 partners The Lusitano Project was visited by the Prime Minister António Costa on January 13, at Riopele‘s facilities in Famalicão, as part of the PRR Route that is to know in loco three of the Mobilizing Agendas for Business Innovation already […]
In the early morning of November 23rd, a landslide occurred in the parish of Palmeira de Faro, Esposende, Braga district, killing a 22-year-old couple. In this context, the ANEPC – National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection requested support from the University of Minho for technical rescue work and was […]
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 […]