On 13 November last, in the meeting room of the Presidency of EEUM, the new direction of the Department of Mechanical Engineering for the biennium 2020/2022 took office. Raúl Fangueiro is the new department director, with Cândida Vilarinho as deputy director. In his speech, Raúl Fangueiro said that the direction […]
Equipment was presented on 13 November and promises to be a solution for difficult cases, hitherto referred to wheelchairs. The School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM) presented an intelligent walker online on 13 November to improve the locomotion of patients and physical rehabilitation therapy. The innovation, already […]
The app Smart Pedestrian Assistant (SPA) is a pedestrian navigation tool developed as part of the project SPN: Smart Pedestrian Net – Smart cities are walkable: SPN – a model to plan a pedestrian network and a pedestrian navigation system. This app allows the users to define daily or occasional […]
GermiSafeBOX54 is a product created by the company Thermopista from Braga, accompanied and tested in partnership with the Centre of Biological Engineering of EEUM and the Physics Department of UMinho. It is a technologically advanced sterilization box that allows the complete elimination of bacteria, viruses or fungi that cling to […]
The thesis of the student of the PhD Programme in Sustainable Built Environment, Mário José Dias Meireles is entitled “Sustainable Urban Mobility centred on the use of bicycles. A digital, integrated, shared and intelligent system” was recently reported by some media, as it indicates that almost seven out of ten […]
The IEEE -Education Society was founded in 1957 and is one of the oldest technical societies of IEEE – Advancing Technology for Humanity. It is a worldwide society of professionals dedicated to ensuring a high quality education in science and engineering. Its members involve students daily, research and propose new […]
SPEE – Sociedade Portuguesa para a Educação em Engenharia (Portuguese Society for Engineering Education) is a non-profit association which aims to promote engineering education through pedagogical training and personal development of teachers, dissemination and collaboration in projects, exchange between national and foreign people and institutions and problem analysis and resolution […]
Researchers from EEUM and INESC TEC participate in the ENSICO initiative, Association for the Teaching of Computing, which aims to invest in the teaching of Computer Science in Portuguese schools, supporting the creation of innovative practices in the digital age through new teaching tools, materials and learning software. José Nuno […]
The scientist Felismina Moreira, from the BioMark Group of the Center for Biological Engineering of EEUM, in partnership with other universities and a company, is developing innovative, fast and low cost tests to monitor antibodies to Covid-19, in serum or saliva. The major innovation of the TecniCov Project, which received […]
In the 3rd edition of “Engenharia: Falar é Fácil?”, a science communication event organised by the School of Engineering of UMinho, we challenged three teachers and researchers from EEUM to communicate a concept related to their area of knowledge to two different audiences: third cycle of basic education students, aged […]
The School of Engineering now gathers and makes available, in one place, information concerning: – Dissertations in Company; – Summer/Short Term Internships; – Challenges to the Academic Community; – Continuous Training; – Career Activities; – Employment Day; – Entrepreneur RedEE; – Job Search Alumni. The Future webpage, inserted in the […]
Carlos Bernardo, former vice-rector of the University of Minho, and Pedro Arezes, president of the School of Engineering of UMinho, will take on the executive presidency of the Guimarães Office of Crisis and Economic Transition, created by the municipality last March to mitigate the economic impact caused by the Covid-19 […]