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 […]
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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 ESICUP (European Special Interest Group in Cutting and Packing) Meeting will be held in Guimarães from April 17 to 19. This is the 20th edition of this prestigious event, which is extremely important in the area of cutting and packing. ESICUP brings together professionals, researchers and professors of Operations […]
The swearing-in ceremony of the new head of department took place on April 3 in the meeting room of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, in the presence of several members of the department, as well as the President of the School of Engineering, Professor Pedro Arezes, the Vice-Presidents, Professors António […]
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 […]
Paulo Sampaio, Associate Professor at the School of Engineering’s Production and Systems Department and researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre, was elected president of the Portuguese Association for Quality (APQ) last week. A lecturer and researcher in the areas of Quality and Organisational Excellence, Paulo Sampaio, who has received several awards, […]
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 […]
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 […]