Cândida Vilarinho, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minho and Chair of the Board of Directors of the CVR – Centre for Waste Recovery, received the Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Polido Pires, at the facilities of the Technology and Innovation Centre on […]
Daily archives: 28/02/2024
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Cláudio Coutinho, a student on EEUM’s Biomedical Master’s degree – Biomaterials branch, carried out his master’s thesis project at IPO-Porto’s Radiotherapy service, in which, under the guidance of researchers from the School of Engineering, Vanessa Cardoso and Óscar Carvalho (CMEMS), he developed new materials using organic/inorganic waste to produce phantoms […]
The Jubilation Ceremony for Professor Goran Putnik, Full Professor at the School of Engineering’s Production and Systems Department, took place on 6 February at the Azurém campus. The programme began at 5pm, with the reception of guests and the audience, and the opening included speeches by Rui Vieira de Castro, […]
The AEROS Constellation (AEROS) project aimed to develop a nano-satellite platform as a precursor to a future constellation to leverage scientific and economic synergies between space and the ocean. The project is made up of a consortium of Portuguese companies, research institutes and universities, which in addition to the University […]
PIEP – Polo de Inovação em Engenharia de Polímeros, in partnership with the School of Engineering at the University of Minho, has created the PIEP Academy to qualify the plastics and polymers sector in Portugal. The aim is to affirm the competitiveness and visibility of this sector, which has 43,000 […]
The University of Minho in Braga hosted the public session to present the White Paper “Artificial Intelligence (AI): social concerns, ethical proposals and political guidelines”. The initiative, organised by the National Ethics Council for the Life Sciences (CNECV), featured a round table with experts José Manuel Machado (Director of EEUM’s […]
Researchers from the CMEMS Centre of the UMinho School of Engineering have co-authored a review article in the prestigious journal Chemical Reviews. Vanessa Cardoso, Margarida Fernandes and Vítor Correia, Assistant Researchers at the CMEMS Centre of the UMinho School of Engineering are co-authors of a review article in the prestigious […]
It received 250,000 euros for a project to reconcile privacy and transparency in digital services. A team from the University of Minho’s School of Engineering and the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) won 2nd place in the “IN3+ Prize, One Million for Innovation”, with […]
On 16 February, the skies over Azurém witnessed the launch of a rocket developed by students from the Aerospace Engineering master’s degree course. This project was carried out as part of the Launcher Design and Engineering course. In this first edition of the course, the lecturers proposed a water jet […]
The Advisory Board of the Department of Production and Systems (DPS) met for the first time on 21 February 2024 at UMinho in Azurém. This meeting, chaired by the Director of the DPS, Paulo Sampaio, was attended by the members of the Council, which provided an opportunity for constructive debate […]
A team of professors and eight students from the Production and Systems Department of the School of Engineering at the University of Minho took part in the Waste Summit Brasília 2024 from 22 to 26 January. During this week, students from four countries (Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal and Brazil) worked […]
On the period February 26th – March 01st is running, at Mechanical Engineering Department from school of Engineering of University of Minho, coordinated by Prof. José Machado, the new project Blended Intensive Program (BIP) entitled as: Cyber-Physical Systems Design in the context of Industry 4.0 BIP are short physical learning, […]