Two finalist students of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Minho have created cork mask holders, which value sustainability, innovation and health. The project was born during the pandemic and as an alternative to plastic bags. From the size of a credit card, the structure folds in half and tightens […]
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A team composed by Maria Gonçalves and Mariana Costa, students of the Integrated Master in Biomedical Engineering, and professor Susana Catarino, won the public vote in the Angelini University Awards 2019/2020, with the project “EpisKey – The key to a better life”, a multidisciplinary device for the pre-diagnosis and treatment […]
The article GreenHub: A Large-Scale Collaborative Dataset to Battery Consumption Analysis of Android Devices, written by Rui Pereira and Marco Couto from High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab), presents a thorough analysis of more than 23 million of samples of data from Android smartphones, in order to understand the efficiency of battery […]
The To-Be-Green spin-off and the CVR – Centre for Waste Valorisation interface are part of a new project that was launched in Guimarães, during the European Week for Waste Prevention, entitled “Collecting and Valuing” and that foresees a strong campaign of awareness, collection and valuation of masks. This is an […]
Pedro Machado and João Azevedo, students of the 4th year of the Integrated Master in Informatics Engineering at EEUM are part of the winning team of the 2nd edition of Eurekathon, promoted by Porto Business School, LTPlabs and NOS and which took place last 14th November. The challenge involved more […]
José António Teixeira and António Vicente on the “Highly Cited Researchers 2020” list. José António Teixeira and António Vicente, from the Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB) of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, are among the most cited scientists in the world by other researchers. The confirmation […]
Three students from the School of Engineering of UMinho were recognized and awarded with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s New Talent Scholarships, an elite and highly competitive program that aims to create a new generation of successful researchers in Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Technologies and Mathematics. Mafalda Alves, a 5th year student […]
Equipment was presented on 13 November and promises to be a solution for difficult cases, hitherto referred to wheelchairs. The School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM) presented an intelligent walker online on 13 November to improve the locomotion of patients and physical rehabilitation therapy. The innovation, already […]
The app Smart Pedestrian Assistant (SPA) is a pedestrian navigation tool developed as part of the project SPN: Smart Pedestrian Net – Smart cities are walkable: SPN – a model to plan a pedestrian network and a pedestrian navigation system. This app allows the users to define daily or occasional […]
GermiSafeBOX54 is a product created by the company Thermopista from Braga, accompanied and tested in partnership with the Centre of Biological Engineering of EEUM and the Physics Department of UMinho. It is a technologically advanced sterilization box that allows the complete elimination of bacteria, viruses or fungi that cling to […]
The thesis of the student of the PhD Programme in Sustainable Built Environment, Mário José Dias Meireles is entitled “Sustainable Urban Mobility centred on the use of bicycles. A digital, integrated, shared and intelligent system” was recently reported by some media, as it indicates that almost seven out of ten […]
Researchers from EEUM and INESC TEC participate in the ENSICO initiative, Association for the Teaching of Computing, which aims to invest in the teaching of Computer Science in Portuguese schools, supporting the creation of innovative practices in the digital age through new teaching tools, materials and learning software. José Nuno […]