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 […]
On April 12, E-Redes, represented by Nélio Moreira and Bruno Espírito Santo, was at the Azurém campus to present the Open Data Portal to an audience of undergraduate and master’s students in Industrial Electronics Engineering. The use of this portal’s data in the preparation of the School of Engineering’s master’s […]
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 Department of Production and Systems of the School of Engineering received a visit from the consortium of the Erasmus+ project ReCap 4.0 – Reinforcing Non-University at the Tertiary Level in Engineering and Technology to Support Thailand Sustainable Smart Industry , as part of a group meeting that took place […]
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 […]
Keep Solutions, a company specialising in information management and preservation, has created a platform for the Camões Library Network, which has adopted an integrated management solution for the network’s dozens of libraries, spread across 54 countries. Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I.P. aims to be a “reference […]
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 […]
The nationwide “Make Fashion Circular” clothing collection campaign is underway, an initiative promoted as part of the be@t project by MO in collaboration with ToBeGreen. This initiative aims to collect discarded garments to give them a second life through repair or recycling, integrating them back into the market. The “Make […]
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 […]