The School of Engineering of UMinho participated for the first time in the European Rocketery Challenge (EuRoC), the annual rocket launch competition for European university teams. The 7th edition of the Portuguese Space Agency’s initiative took place from 15 to 21 October, in Constância, district of Santarém, with 25 teams […]
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The first team of EEUM students dedicated to designing, developing, manufacturing and testing prototypes of electric motorcycles was born, with a view to participating in the international university competition MotoStudent. Called MSUMinho, the new project brings together two dozen students from various courses, is based on the Azurém campus (Guimarães) […]
SI-PASS UMinho – Supplemental Instruction-Peer Assisted Study Sessions – is a collaborative learning program for academic success, based on collaborative study sessions promoted by student leaders, previously selected and trained, and accompanied by a supervisor. The University of Minho is the first higher education institution in Portugal to implement SI-PASS, […]
As part of the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the DPS, on September 25th, IDEATHON began, an initiative that places students and companies at the center of a challenge of innovation, collaboration and solving real problems. The opening session was attended by the Director of the DPS, Paulo Sampaio, […]
Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP) transformed 1630 kilos of end-of-life uniforms into 362 new items, as part of a project developed in partnership with ToBeGreen, a spin-off of the School of Engineering of UMinho dedicated to the circular economy. The process made it possible to give a new use to textile […]
The “Summer on Campus” programme includes 21 activities and runs from 20 to 24 July in Braga and Guimarães From 20 to 24 July, around 400 young people, from Year 9 to sixth form, travelled from all corners of the country to ‘live’ at the University of Minho and in […]
As part of the “Engineering & Art” initiative and also part of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the School of Engineering, the photographic exhibition “The New Fools”, by Leonor Lapa, senior technician of the School of Engineering, is on exhibition in the months of June and July, in the central nave […]
About 90 undergraduate and master’s students in Aerospace Engineering at the School of Engineering of UMinho made their first flight in an academic context on June 27, at the Alto Minho aerodrome (Cerval), in Vila Nova de Cerveira. The “flight window” ran from 12:45 pm to 3:30 pm. In the […]
As part of the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of Biological Engineering, the FNAC Gathering cycle continues, a space for conversation and sharing dedicated to the multiple professional paths that can be followed in this area of knowledge. The session “What does a Biological Engineer do” took place on June […]
On June 20th, the 1st DPS Alumni Meeting took place at the Pança Restaurant – Clube Industrial de Pevidém, in Guimarães. In the words of the Department Director, Professor Paulo Sampaio, the event “intended to celebrate 50 years of Production and Systems with rediscovered hugs, stories that came back to […]
To-Be-Green, a spin-off of the School of Engineering of UMinho, has partnered with the El Corte Inglés group in the initiative “Solidarity Bags, which transform textile waste into aid against cancer, combining circular economy, sustainability and social responsibility. The bags are produced from the recycling of post-consumer textiles collected in […]
About 200 engineering students expected in Guimarães The School of Engineering of the University of Minho hosted on May 27 the “Race Party®”, considered the largest European academic festival of custom minicar races. The 11th edition of the initiative had about 200 engineering students in design, speed and distance tests, […]