The School of Engineering celebrated its 49th anniversary on 4 October with a programme that aimed to pay tribute to those who have marked EEUM’s past, recognise those who currently contribute to its success, and plan for the future with the involvement of the entire academic community. At the ceremony, […]
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The new board of the ALGORITMI centre took office on 3 October in the meeting room of the School of Engineering’s President’s Office, with Paula Fernanda Varandas Ferreira, a lecturer in the Production and Systems Department, as Director, and António Carlos da Silva Abelha, from the Computer Science Department, Paulo […]
The start of the academic year took place in the first week of September and the University of Minho’s ‘Welcome Programme’ activities took place on its campuses. This programme, organised by UMinho in collaboration with the UMinho Academic Association (AAUMinho), was designed to welcome and integrate the 3,000 or so […]
The Student Ombudsman of the University of Minho, Rosa M. Vasconcelos, was re-elected as president of the Portuguese Network of Higher Education Student Ombudsmen (RPE). This network brings together representatives from 60 national universities and polytechnic institutes, both public and private. The inauguration took place last Friday, at the end […]
The new head of the Department of Information Systems for the 2024-2025 biennium took office on 29 July at 2.30pm in the department’s meeting room. Rui João Peixoto José, Associate Professor with Aggregation, is the new Department Director, with João Varajão, Associate Professor with Aggregation, and Maria João Nicolau, Associate […]
The new head of the Department of Biological Engineering for the 2024-2025 biennium took office in the department’s meeting room on 29 July at 12 noon. Joana Azeredo, Associate Professor with tenure, was elected director of the department, with Isabel Belo, Assistant Professor, and Mariana Henriques, Assistant Professor with tenure, […]
The University of Minho’s School of Engineering, represented by its President, Professor Pedro Arezes, was awarded the Guimarães City Council Medal of Honour on 24 June for its exemplary work in training, research and the transfer of knowledge and technology to society. Paulo Novais, full professor at the School of […]
167 students were honoured with a scholarship equal to their tuition fee at the UMinho Excellence Scholarship Award Ceremony The University of Minho’s Excellence Scholarship Award Ceremony took place on 19 June at 3.30pm in the medieval hall of Largo do Paço in Braga. 167 students were honoured for their […]
Mário Jorge Machado, an alumnus of UMinho’s School of Engineering, is the new president of Euratex, which represents a sector with around 143,000 companies, 1.3 million workers and more than 50 billion euros in exports. With a degree in Polymer Engineering, the businessman who chairs Adalberto Textile Solutions has also […]
Full professor founded the first national parallel computing service 30 years ago The jubilation ceremony for Alberto Proença, full professor at the Department of Computer Science of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho (DI-EEUM), took place on 14 June in auditorium B1 (building 2) of the Gualtar […]
The Centre of Biological Engineering at UMinho’s School of Engineering has been developing excellent science in Portugal for 30 years and celebrated its anniversary at an event held on June 13 at the Gualtar campus. The CEB currently has more than 300 researchers, 123 of whom are PhDs, and has […]
On May 28th, in the DEP/IPC meeting room, the new management team of the IPC – Institute for Polymers and Composites took office, attended by the President of the School of Engineering, Professor Pedro Arezes, the Vice-President of the School of Engineering, Professor António Vicente, and the School Secretary, Dr. […]