On 22 October, the Department of Civil Engineering took office in the meeting room at EEUM, with the re-election of Professor Rui Ramos as director and Professor Jorge Branco as deputy director. The ceremony was attended by the President and Vice-President of the School of Engineering, Professor Pedro Arezes and […]
On 18 October, the Advisory Board of the School of Engineering met in the meeting room of the Presidency of the EEUM. The agenda included a brief presentation of the EEUM’s activities over the last year, namely the integration of the School into various courses of the Alliance Project (postgraduate […]
“Engines of the New Economy – Net Zero, Creativity and Collaborative Innovation” was the theme of Economy Month in Guimarães, with a monthly agenda promoted by Guimarães City Council, full of initiatives, many of which involved members of the School of Engineering. For this edition of Economy Month, a programme […]
It’s already the third edition and it will continue to be a tradition for the aerospace engineering programme. The first lecture to mark the start of the academic year once again had a special guest. Carlos Batalha, a Colonel in the Air Force, spoke about the transformation that is taking […]
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 […]