To round off a week full of initiatives dedicated to interaction with the business community, innovation and the integration of School of Engineering students into the labour market, on 8 February the Graduation Ceremony was held for the 1,700 or so students who completed their courses in the 2023/2024 academic […]
School of Engineering student Vipin Richhariya has developed a high-performance shoe sole for icy surfaces with ‘Biomimetic anti-slip adhesion, based on the capillarity of water’, and inspired by the animals Gecko and frog. This could be a solution to injuries caused by slips and falls on ice. The plantar pads […]
64 students from the 3rd year of the Industrial Electronics and Computer Engineering degree at the University of Minho’s School of Engineering publicly presented 16 projects and prototypes developed during the semester as part of the ‘Integrating Project’ course, at an exhibition held on 6 February in the hall of […]
On 6 February, the ‘Polímeros Open Day’ took place, an initiative promoted by the Department of Polymer Engineering that included the signing of protocols between the University of Minho and around 20 national reference companies operating in the plastics sector, to finance tuition fees for students of the Degree in […]
On February 5th, another edition of Tomorrow Needs You – Employment Day at the University of Minho’s School of Engineering took place. This initiative has established itself as one of the main employability events in the region, giving students and alumni direct contact with the job market. This year, more […]
The world’s largest autonomous shop was inaugurated in Leiria, a reality that was born as part of the PT Smart Retail Project, in which the ALGORITMI Centre is integrated. Together with the Jordão company, based in Guimarães, the ALGORITMI Centre has incorporated the process of research and creation of technologies […]
Neryvaldo Galvão, a graduate of the University of Minho’s School of Engineering, was awarded the Cape Verde Prize for Young Scientists for having the best doctoral thesis defended in the last year by a Cape Verdean citizen up to the age of 35. The award, worth 15,000 euros, was presented […]
Daniel Vitorino de Castro Oliveira, Associate Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, was unanimously approved by the members of the Jury in the Habilitation Exams in the branch of knowledge in Civil Engineering. The public Habilitation Exams in the Civil Engineering branch of knowledge, requested […]
The University of Minho’s PROMETHEUS-1 satellite was launched on 14 January from the Vanderberg Spaceport in California, USA, on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket. The space object will remain at an altitude of around 500 kilometres and will collect useful data for the academic and scientific community. The launch […]
UMinho Engineering leads the way in patents in Portugal The University of Minho is the national institution with the most applications for ‘patent families’, according to the ‘Inventa Barometer 2024 – Patents Made in Portugal’, which has just been released by the consultancy Inventa International. The academy’s 29 registrations include […]
Under the theme “Engineering for a Sustainable Future”, the School of Engineering at the University of Minho hosted VEM 2024 – Experience UMinho, welcoming 32 high school students from the Minho region, selected for their outstanding academic performance in the 11th and 12th grades. This year’s activities focused on three […]
On the afternoon of December 19, a solidarity soiree organized by the Biomedical Engineering Student Office (GAEB) took place in Auditorium B1 of Pedagogical Complex 2 on the University of Minho’s Gualtar campus. This initiative involved users of Lar de Santo Adrião and Lar ResiSenior Gold, allowing them to spend […]