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. […]
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 […]
“All words have a place in the dictionary, even the offensive ones” José João Almeida, better known as “JJ” to everyone, Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics at the School of Engineering at the University of Minho, has been compiling slang and idiomatic expressions from the north to the […]
At the “Braga – The Gateway to Global Connections” event, AEMinho and IPBN (Ireland Portugal Business Network) opened a vital dialogue on co-innovation. Moderated by AEMinho’s Director General, Margarida Rossi, the last panel highlighted the “power of technology transfer and innovation” as a pillar for business advancement. Raul Fangueiro, Vice-President […]
Manuel Padrão, Inês Silva, Beatriz Silva and Marta Ribeiro, students from EEUM’s Industrial Engineering and Management degree programme, won the JUMP competition, an ideas competition for new businesses promoted by the Municipality of Famalicão, in partnership with UPTEC, which aims to promote an entrepreneurial culture for the development of new […]
Oscar Carvalho and his team are developing an innovative line of research that integrates mechanical engineering knowledge into the field of medicine. With a revolutionary approach, the team is analysing the human body from a mechanical point of view, investigating all the body’s mechanisms and modes of operation as if […]
On May 10, UMinho School of Engineering professors João Monteiro and Adriano Tavares visited the Zhuhai Institute of Science and Technology in Singapore, China, together with another delegation from an Italian university. The aim of this visit was to deepen inter-school cooperation and continue to promote a new round of […]
The LAR@Home team from the Automation and Robotics Laboratory at the University of Minho’s School of Engineering in Guimarães has secured first place in the RoboCup@Home league This was achieved at the RoboCup Portuguese Open 2024, which took place between 2nd and 5th May in Paredes de Coura. In one […]
Twenty years ago, the first Bioinformatics course was taught at UMinho, in the Biomedical Engineering course at the School of Engineering. Taking advantage of this date, the Master’s Department and the Student Group (NEBIUM) organized a session entitled “20 years of Bioinformatics at U. Minho”, which took place on 30 […]
José António Silva de Carvalho Campos e Matos, Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, was unanimously approved by the members of the Jury, in the Habilitation Exams in the branch of knowledge of Civil Engineering. The public exams for Habilitation in the branch of […]
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 […]
Whether physical or virtual, you can learn a little more about the history of computers and smartphones in two museums that are unique on the national and even international scene. They clearly bring together objects with a history! Preserving history, promoting equipment and giving them the real importance they had […]