UMinho’s School of Engineering holds Europe’s largest university festival of personalised minicars Around 300 students from six universities gathered in Guimarães on 22 May. On 22 May, the University of Minho in Guimarães hosted the “Race Party”, considered to be the largest academic festival of customised minicar racing in Europe. […]
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Another edition of STEM LABS: Engineering and Technology Laboratories took place on 22 May at the Viana do Castelo Cultural Centre, with the support of the Viana do Castelo City Council. This year, 2C2T – the Centre for Textile Science and Technology, the Department of Textile Engineering and the Textile […]
At the School of Engineering you have the freedom to be whoever you want to be. Freedom to choose your path, to express your perspective as an engineer, freedom to innovate and to learn everything you can. The School of Engineering was born in Freedom and we can only conceive […]
On April 19, the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the School of Engineering collaborated in the UPA – University of Open Doors program with a lecture dedicated to Energy and Sustainability. Professors Luís Barreiros Martins and Francisco Brito spoke to an audience of primary and secondary school students, enlightening them […]
The UPA – Open Doors UMinho took place on May 18, 19 and 20 at UMinho’s Gualtar campus, with the School of Engineering welcoming around 1,200 pre-university students over these three days, from various schools in the Braga district, but also from Viana do Castelo, Porto, Aveiro, Viseu and Vila […]
The Automation and Robotics Laboratory (LAR) of UMinho’s School of Engineering and botnroll.com organised RoboParty 2024 from 21 to 23 March, with 111 teams from all over the country, as well as teams from Brazil and Spain. The educational event teaches how to create/build autonomous mobile robots in a simple […]
Alfonso Valencia, who co-founded and led the International Society for Computational Biology (the only one of its kind in the world), gave the inaugural lecture of the XIII Bioinformatics Open Days at the University of Minho on 14 March, at the Gualtar campus in Braga. The director of the Bioinformatics […]
On 15 March, the Presidency of the School of Engineering at the University of Minho awarded the first scholarship as part of the AcTex – Academia do Têxtil (Textile Academy) vocational training project. AcTex is run by large companies in the textile sector and arises from the need for specialised […]
On 16 February, the skies over Azurém witnessed the launch of a rocket developed by students from the Aerospace Engineering master’s degree course. This project was carried out as part of the Launcher Design and Engineering course. In this first edition of the course, the lecturers proposed a water jet […]
On the period February 26th – March 01st is running, at Mechanical Engineering Department from school of Engineering of University of Minho, coordinated by Prof. José Machado, the new project Blended Intensive Program (BIP) entitled as: Cyber-Physical Systems Design in the context of Industry 4.0 BIP are short physical learning, […]
The Braga District Office and the Regional Council of the College of Computer Engineering organised the event “Today’s solutions and tomorrow’s questions” at the Computer Science Department of the UMinho School of Engineering on 28 November. As part of the Computer Engineering Month organised by the Braga District Delegation, the […]
Between 20 and 25 November, the Centre for Biological Engineering and the Department of Biological Engineering at the University of Minho (CEB-DEB-UMinho) opened their doors to the 2023 edition of Science and Technology Week, an initiative promoted by the Ciência Viva Programme. This initiative is aimed at the school public […]