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 […]
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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 […]
ISIC 2022 took place on September 6-9, in Guimarães. This international conference was rebranded in 2019 by the International Intelligent Construction Technologies Group (IICTG), launched in Guimarães, Portugal, during the 3rd International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics in 2016. ISIC 2022 is the third international ISIC conference, following the first conference […]
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 […]
Create innovative and advanced solutions that meet a sustainable, circular and neutral economy, joining the best of biotechnology and bioengineering to microelectromechanical systems. This is the mission of LABBELS, one of the most recent associated laboratories in the country, whose Objectives and Strategic Plan were disclosed last June 9 in […]
Keep Solutions, UMinho spin-off from the School of Engineering, which develops advanced solutions for information management and preservation, has distributed 78 thousand euros from 2021 profits to its 25 employees, an average of 3,130 euros each. In a statement, the company said that it has been developing this profit distribution […]
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 […]