The School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM) celebrated its 51st anniversary on October 7, with a ceremony that began at 4:30 pm, in the noble auditorium of the Azurém campus, in Guimarães. The session had free admission and live broadcast on the EEUM’s YouTube channel.
The opening was attended by the president of the School, António Vicente, and the closing with the intervention of the rector of UMinho, Pedro Arezes, who stressed that “the School of Engineering has had a very large weight in the development of the University of Minho over the years, not only because of its “scale”, or the number of students it trains, but above all because of the ability it has shown to produce knowledge and to transform it into projects, innovation and results with concrete application outside the University”.
The program included the delivery of diplomas of Recognition of Pedagogical Merit, and diplomas of Recognition of Merit of Scientific Publication, which was followed by the delivery of the Pedagogical Award to Rui Lima, professor at the Department of Production and Systems, and the Scientific Publication Award given to Paulo Novais, researcher at the ALGORITMI Center.
Cristina Santos, researcher at CMEMS and professor at the Department of Industrial Electronics, was recognized with the EEUM Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award, and Sandra Patrícia Melo Lopes, Technical Assistant at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, with the Performance Award for Technical, Administrative and Management Workers (TAG).
The ceremony continued with the recognition of Institutions and Individuals, delivering the Diploma to Eng. João de Oliveira Cortez, CEO and President of Celoplás, and the Diploma to Companies to the Casais Group.
The recognition of students had its moment with the delivery of the Almedina Award, awarded to the best scholarship student of each Organic Teaching and Research Unit of the University of Minho, in this case the School of Engineering, with the student of the Degree in Fashion Design and Marketing, Bruna Pinheiro Alves.
All members of the School of Engineering who retired in the last year were also honored in this session, with the award of the Diploma of Commitment and Dedication, among them professors Olga Machado de Sousa Carneiro (DEP), Francisco Ferreira Martins (DEC), José Carlos Fernandes Teixeira (DEM), Luís Alfredo Martins Amaral (DSI), Fernando Carlos Cabrita Romero (DPS), José Nuno Fonseca Oliveira (DI), Carlos Alberto Baptista Sousa Pinto (DSI), José Carlos Baptista do Nascimento e Silva (DSI) and technical assistants Joel Lopes Figueira de Almeida (DEI) and Maria João Sousa Moreira Lopes Teixeira (DSI).
The closing took place after 18:00, in the auditorium atrium, with the performance of the Engineering tunas and the cutting of the birthday cake.
The delivery of all these recognitions to “those who make magic every day” was interspersed with a surprise prepared for the entire community: the magician Nuno Rodrigues took the stage, questioned the audience, and made some members of the EEUM do magic, including the President of the School of Engineering himself, Professor António Vicente.
EEUM is present in the main international rankings and is the largest School of UMinho, with 6750 students spread over 88 courses in Guimarães and Braga, in addition to 262 career teachers, 98 PhD scientists and more than 100 technicians. It has nine departments (Biological Engineering, Civil, Industrial Electronics, Informatics, Mechanics, Polymers, Production and Systems, Information Systems, Textile) and nine reference research centers (2C2T, Algoritmi, CEB, CMEMS, CTAC, IPC, ISISE, INESC. UMinho, METRICs). Its motto is “Tomorrow needs engineering”.
The ceremony and all information regarding the awards can be seen here
