The University of Minho in Braga hosted the public session to present the White Paper “Artificial Intelligence (AI): social concerns, ethical proposals and political guidelines”. The initiative, organised by the National Ethics Council for the Life Sciences (CNECV), featured a round table with experts José Manuel Machado (Director of EEUM’s […]
Researchers from the CMEMS Centre of the UMinho School of Engineering have co-authored a review article in the prestigious journal Chemical Reviews. Vanessa Cardoso, Margarida Fernandes and Vítor Correia, Assistant Researchers at the CMEMS Centre of the UMinho School of Engineering are co-authors of a review article in the prestigious […]
It received 250,000 euros for a project to reconcile privacy and transparency in digital services. A team from the University of Minho’s School of Engineering and the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) won 2nd place in the “IN3+ Prize, One Million for Innovation”, with […]
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 […]
A team of professors and eight students from the Production and Systems Department of the School of Engineering at the University of Minho took part in the Waste Summit Brasília 2024 from 22 to 26 January. During this week, students from four countries (Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal and Brazil) worked […]
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 […]
Luís Barros, a PhD student in Electronic and Computer Engineering at the ALGORITMI Centre of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, won 2nd place in the APREN 2023 Award, in the category of best PhD Thesis. The work, entitled “Smart Power Conditioners for Electric Railway Power Grids“, […]
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 […]
With the aim of improving the quality of life of patients who are bedridden or have reduced mobility, in hospital and home environments, the 4noPressure project brought together leading organisations and institutions to empower the future of health textiles in response to critical challenges faced by these patients, such as […]