Ana Marinho won the national university indoor track championship in the 3,000 metres with a time of 9:40:89 minutes, representing the University of Minho, on 3 February. The 3rd year engineering student also took 4th place in the 800 metres with a mark of 2:17:03 m at the National University […]
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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 the afternoon of 5th March, the Collaboration Protocol between the Municipality of Guimarães and CEiiA, which lays the foundations for the commitment to set up the Guimarães Space Hub, was signed in the auditorium of the Jordão Theatre. The “New Space” was the main theme of the speeches made […]
UMinho presented its Sports Merit Awards on 6 March. Combining sporting excellence with academic success earned 71 students the award. The University of Minho (UMinho) once again honoured students who combined sporting excellence with academic success in 2022/2023. A total of 71 student athletes who achieved excellent results in 13 […]
Afonsina – Tuna de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho brought the Cidade Berço – Festival of Academic Tunas back to the city of Guimarães. Since its first edition in 1999, Cidade Berço – Festival de Tunas Académicas has made it possible to present to the Guimarães and Minho communities the […]
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 […]
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, […]