The 2nd Meeting of Civil Engineers was attended by 400 people in Guimarães On 10 October, the University of Minho hosted the II Meeting of Civil Engineers ‘Somos Globais’ (We are Global), which aimed to show how Portuguese civil engineering has projected itself in the world and with excellence. The […]
The ‘Optimisation and Wildfire’ conference, organised by the O3F project team – ‘An Optimisation Framework for Reducing Forest Fire’ (funded by FCT, Principal Investigator: Filipe Alvelos), in which the University of Minho, Aveiro and Lisbon participate, took place in Luso from 1 to 4 October. The conference had 58 participants […]
The School of Engineering celebrated its 49th anniversary on 4 October with a programme that aimed to pay tribute to those who have marked EEUM’s past, recognise those who currently contribute to its success, and plan for the future with the involvement of the entire academic community. At the ceremony, […]
Bruno Miguel Pereira Guimarães, a recent PhD student from the Mechanical Engineering doctoral programme at the University of Minho, research centre CMEMS – Center for Microelectromechanical Systems, won the prestigious competition for the ‘Best PhD thesis in the European Union 2024 in the field of Powder Metallurgy’, a prize awarded […]
The new board of the ALGORITMI centre took office on 3 October in the meeting room of the School of Engineering’s President’s Office, with Paula Fernanda Varandas Ferreira, a lecturer in the Production and Systems Department, as Director, and António Carlos da Silva Abelha, from the Computer Science Department, Paulo […]
The world’s largest exercise dedicated to drones took place in Troia, and the Vice-President of the School of Engineering, Professor Raúl Fangueiro, was there representing EEUM. Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping Augmented by Maritime Unmmanned Systems (REPMUS) is the world’s largest operational experimentation exercise with unmanned systems (aka drones) and was […]
Over the weekend of 27-29 September, the University of Minho hosted Greenfest for the first time, ‘the biggest sustainability event in the country’. There were three days full of activities for kids and adults, such as conferences, workshops, showcookings, shows, ecomarket, nature activities and wellness sessions. The programme was free […]
Bruna Oliveira, a Master’s student in Chemical and Biological Engineering at EEUM, was the student with the best classification out of the 80 applications received. The full list of EEUM students honoured also includes: Rita Maria da Costa Miranda Bruno Miguel Oliveira Pereira Eva Miriam Pires de Castro Diana Abreu […]
Two students from the University of Minho won awards in the 15th edition of the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge ideas competition, the final of which took place on 25 September at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Diogo Martins, from the BiRDLab laboratory in the Industrial Electronics Department […]
The University of Minho has 66 scientists in the group of the 2% most cited in the world over the last year, according to a study by Stanford University (USA) and the Elsevier publishing group. The list, called ‘World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024’, includes 223,000 researchers, 889 of whom are […]
It’s a showcase for the best of what’s being done at the University of Minho’s School of Engineering (EEUM). On 19 September, the main hall of the Azurém campus in Guimarães hosted four dozen spin-offs, start-ups and interfaces in the areas of engineering, technology and design, as well as inspiring […]
Could a single filamentous fungus transform the food and cosmetics industries, making them more environmentally friendly and economically competitive? Work carried out by scientists from the Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB) at the University of Minho has been analysing the use of a microorganism to produce natural flavours from simple […]