The “Engineering Olympics” competitive event organised by the IEEE Uminho Student Branch took place on 6 and 7 February at the Azurém Campus. The Engineering Olympics brought together students from the most diverse areas of Engineering at the University of Minho for two days to compete against each other and […]
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Cândida Vilarinho, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minho and Chair of the Board of Directors of the CVR – Centre for Waste Recovery, received the Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Polido Pires, at the facilities of the Technology and Innovation Centre on […]
The Jubilation Ceremony for Professor Goran Putnik, Full Professor at the School of Engineering’s Production and Systems Department, took place on 6 February at the Azurém campus. The programme began at 5pm, with the reception of guests and the audience, and the opening included speeches by Rui Vieira de Castro, […]
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 […]
The Advisory Board of the Department of Production and Systems (DPS) met for the first time on 21 February 2024 at UMinho in Azurém. This meeting, chaired by the Director of the DPS, Paulo Sampaio, was attended by the members of the Council, which provided an opportunity for constructive debate […]
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, […]
On 21 February, the School of Engineering prepared a Graduation Ceremony for its students, which took place in the central nave of the Azurém campus and featured guest speakers Ricardo Costa and Beatriz Oliveira. Almost 1,000 recent bachelor’s and integrated master’s graduates, 300 recent master’s graduates and 72 recent doctoral […]
Another Employment Day – Tomorrow Needs You – took place on 20 February, one of the biggest employment and career initiatives not only in UMinho, but in the region. More than 75 companies and institutions gathered in the Azurém campus Nave – which has limited the number of participants in […]
José Manuel Pereira Vieira and Paulo António Alves Pereira, full professors at the School of Engineering’s Civil Engineering department, received the title of Professor Emeritus of the University of Minho on 31 January. José Vieira was director of the Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) and the Civil Engineering […]
Driven by the SEMAG Research Group of the Algoritmi Centre and the EPMQ R&I department of the UMinho CCG/zgdv Institute interface, the first SERIW of 2024 took place on 10 January in the Noble Auditorium of the University of Minho. Speakers at this scientific knowledge-sharing session included Leopoldo Silva and […]
The seventh session of Books with RUM took place on 30 January at the Department of Informatics, with Luís Soares Barbosa, director of this department at UMinho’s School of Engineering. As part of the celebrations for UMinho’s 50th anniversary, Rádio Universitária do Minho (RUM) is running a special cycle of […]
On 16 January, a delegation from Western Michigan University (WMU) went on an institutional visit to the School of Engineering, coordinated by UMinho Vice-Rector Professor Filomena Soares, to explore possibilities for collaboration. The visit was attended by Paulo Zagalo-Melo from Western Michigan University (WMU), Steve But, president WMU College of […]