Given the current context in which students of higher education live, Hélder Puga, professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, considered that the time had come to create a “disciplinary laboratory that brings together the study of the classroom with the collaboration of the Industrial partner, in a perspective of […]
Initiatives
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The School of Engineering launched a campaign to collect food to support needy families in Braga and Guimarães, through Refood Associations, as part of the social responsibility initiative “Tomorrow Needs Kindness”, which took place between 29 November and 15 December and resulted in several kilos of food already being delivered […]
TO-BE-GREEN, a spin-off of the School of Engineering, joined CTT to promote the recycling of used disposable masks, extending the useful life of these products by giving them a new life. This project aims to reduce the environmental impact associated with the use of masks for protection against the Covid-19 […]
The second edition of the Guimarães Marca Fashion Festival took place on December 4th, at the ASA factory facilities, with the Fashion Film Festival and the Guimarães Marca Parade & Showcase, in a co-organization between the Municipality of Guimarães and the Fashion Selective Association. The Parade & Showcase included projects […]
The agenda “Tomorrow Needs You” is back with sessions that seek to promote the career building of the School of Engineering students, with themes dedicated to company recruitment, soft skills and entrepreneurship. To start well the academic year, on October 20th a Recruitment Session was held by the Junior Enterprises […]
The most prestigious university car competition, held annually in several Formula 1 circuits around the world, came to the University of Minho, through the 5th year students of the Integrated Masters in Mechanical Engineering of the School of Engineering, Diogo Mota da Cunha and Paulo Leão, FSUMinho project leaders. With […]
The 13th edition of “Summer on Campus” took place from July 20th to 23rd. In the School of Engineering, 14 high school students got to know the courses and scientific areas taught, in the activities “Engineering at the service of Biomedicine”, “Discover Engineering” and “Multi-Engineering”, accompanied by professors, monitors and […]
From March 22 to 24, 350 students from the 11th and 12th years, from 59 secondary schools from all over the country, “travelled” to UMinho to participate in the national edition of the Best Student at UMinho. Of these, 167 enrolled in the sessions promoted by the research centres of […]
The “Green Santa Claus” project proposes to reduce the environmental footprint at this season, as in the wrapping paper, the little lights and the shopping mall race, via free online sessions, reaches more than 10,000 students from 100 primary schools in the country. The director of Betweien, Narciso Moreira, explains […]
Manuel Galvão, Mechanical Engineering student at the School of Engineering at the University of Minho, and Tiago Fernandes, from the Physical Engineering course at the University of Aveiro (UA) want to cross the Atlas mountain range and the Sahara desert, in Morocco, integrated in UNIRAID 2021, an automobile test for […]