Create innovative and advanced solutions that meet a sustainable, circular and neutral economy, joining the best of biotechnology and bioengineering to microelectromechanical systems. This is the mission of LABBELS, one of the most recent associated laboratories in the country, whose Objectives and Strategic Plan were disclosed last June 9 in […]
Given the current context in which students of higher education live, Hélder Puga, professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, considered that the time had come to create a “disciplinary laboratory that brings together the study of the classroom with the collaboration of the Industrial partner, in a perspective of […]
Keep Solutions, UMinho spin-off from the School of Engineering, which develops advanced solutions for information management and preservation, has distributed 78 thousand euros from 2021 profits to its 25 employees, an average of 3,130 euros each. In a statement, the company said that it has been developing this profit distribution […]
The finalists of the 6th edition of the Food Eco-Innovation Prize, promoted by PortugalFoods, are already known. The aim of the prize is to distinguish entrepreneurship, good ideas and competitiveness in the national agro-food sector, bringing together and challenging students, teachers, researchers and industry professionals to reflect and create the […]
In November 2019, the School Council set up four of working groups, each typically made up of about three to four advisors, with the aim of stimulating discussion and proposing initiatives regarding some of the topics considered as strategic for the functioning of the School of Engineering, in particular: i) […]
The full professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho takes the place of Helena Pereira, who ended the mandate at the end of 2021. Madalena Alves, professor and researcher at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, is the new president of the Foundation […]
On the 9th and 10th of May, took place the Habilitation Exams of the Knowledge Area in Science and Engineering of Polymers and Composites of Ana Vera Alves Machado Nóbrega, professor of the Department of Polymer Engineering of the School of Engineering. Ana Nóbrega was unanimously approved by the members […]
The School of Engineering was present at the 5th Economy Week – Economy and Sustainability, which took place at the Altice Forum Braga and brought together until 27th May various initiatives, personalities and entities of reference from industry, teaching, technology, associations and politics. On 25 and 26 May the School […]
A new edition of Race Party – Mechanism Dynamics Festival took place on 27 May, in the central hall of Building 1 of the Azurém Campus. Around 120 participants gathered around several tests (envelope test, design test, speed test and surprise test). The programme, organised by Leonor Saraiva, Mariana Silva, […]
The President of the School of Engineering, Pedro Arezes (right in the photo), as well as the Director of 2C2T, Raul Fangueiro, (second from left) received on 27 May in Azurém the entrepreneur, entrepreneur, technologist and famous international speaker Lisa Lang (centre). With the aim of combining technology with fashion, […]
Last May 26, the School of Engineering received a delegation of idD Portugal Defence and the Portuguese Navy with the purpose of knowing the EEUM research centres, as well as some interfaces of UMinho and, simultaneously, disclose some opportunities in the Defence Economy, especially in NATO and in the European […]
At the request of the United States Army and Navy, the Chair of the School of Engineering met with some of their representatives, in order to analyse the possibilities of research collaboration between the School and both branches of the American Armed Forces. The opportunities discussed included funding for research […]