Admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo – who was Chief of Staff of the Navy, coordinator of the task force against covid-19 and candidate for the Presidency of the Republic – delivered this Friday, the 23rd, the inaugural class of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Minho for the 2026/27 academic […]
Monthly archives: October 2026
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The School of Engineering of UMinho participated for the first time in the European Rocketery Challenge (EuRoC), the annual rocket launch competition for European university teams. The 7th edition of the Portuguese Space Agency’s initiative took place from 15 to 21 October, in Constância, district of Santarém, with 25 teams […]
The ceremony took place on October 17, in Braga, and included tributes, a lecture by Isabel Rocha and testimonies from some of the 2000 students who have already graduated, who are spread around the world The commemorative session of the 40th anniversary of the degree in Biological Engineering at the […]
On October 15, in a ceremony held in Barcelona, the “la Caixa” Foundation distinguished Miguel Gama, from the Center for Biological Engineering (CEB) of the School of Engineering of UMinho, awarding a sum of 150 thousand euros from the “CaixaImpulse for Innovation in Health”. Miguel Gama will lead a project […]
The group of friends is gathered, hunger begins to tighten and someone asks the inevitable question: where are we going to eat? Almost always dozens of searches on the cell phone, comparisons and a lot of discussion follow. Carlos Beiramar knew this routine well and, from there, decided to find […]
The University of Minho has 71 scientists in the group of the 2% most cited in the world over the last year, 40 of whom belong to the School of Engineering, according to a study by Stanford University (USA) and the Elsevier publishing group. The list, called “World’s Top 2% […]
Vanessa Cardoso, assistant researcher at the Center for Research in Electromechanical Microsystems (CMEMS) at EEUM, was at the Tec2Med Summit, representing the University of Minho. The congress had as its theme “Action over Reaction | Building Preventive Healthcare Systems” and took place on the 10th and 11th of October, at […]
She will be the first Portuguese to lead this international society of reference in engineering and technology education Professor Rosa Vasconcelos, Student Ombudsman at the University of Minho, will be the first Portuguese to preside over the IEEE Education Society, one of the leading international scientific societies in the areas […]
The ceremony of the UMinho Award for Initiation in Scientific Research 2026 took place on October 9, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, in auditorium B1 (building 2) of the Gualtar campus, in Braga. The opening was attended by the Vice-Rector for Education and Academic Organization, Cristina Dias. Two dozen […]
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 […]
Researchers Sandro Pinto and Tiago Gomes, from the Embedded Systems Research Group (ESRG) of the ALGORITMI Center of the University of Minho, organized this week an international workshop dedicated to RISC-V technology, which brought together experts from some of the world’s leading companies in the semiconductor and computer systems sectors, […]
The first team of EEUM students dedicated to designing, developing, manufacturing and testing prototypes of electric motorcycles was born, with a view to participating in the international university competition MotoStudent. Called MSUMinho, the new project brings together two dozen students from various courses, is based on the Azurém campus (Guimarães) […]