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 […]
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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 […]
Two students from the University of Minho won awards in the 15th edition of the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge ideas competition, the final of which took place on 25 September at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Diogo Martins, from the BiRDLab laboratory in the Industrial Electronics Department […]
The University of Minho has 66 scientists in the group of the 2% most cited in the world over the last year, according to a study by Stanford University (USA) and the Elsevier publishing group. The list, called ‘World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024’, includes 223,000 researchers, 889 of whom are […]
The ERA Chair REACTORS_5.0 project, coordinated by António Vicente, vice-president and full professor of the School of Engineering at the University of Minho and researcher at the Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB), has been funded with 2.5 million euros from the Horizon Europe Programme for the next five years. The […]
Saghir Amin, Joao Rocha, Vitor Monteiro and Nuno Costa are the co-authors of “Three-Level Zero-Voltage Transition Interleaved Buck Converter with DC Transformer-based Isolation for EV Fast Charging Stations”, which won the Best Paper Award at the Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems – DoCEIS 2024, which took […]
“A Machine Learning Approach for Points of Interest Extraction and Event Classification” won the Best Student Paper Award at the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations – AIAI 2024, which took place from 27 to 30 June in Corfu, Greece. This was a joint project between the […]
167 students were honoured with a scholarship equal to their tuition fee at the UMinho Excellence Scholarship Award Ceremony The University of Minho’s Excellence Scholarship Award Ceremony took place on 19 June at 3.30pm in the medieval hall of Largo do Paço in Braga. 167 students were honoured for their […]
The University of Minho is one of the institutions with the most PhD students awarded Fulbright Commission grants this year to carry out research in the United States of America. The students honoured are from the fields of Psychology, Neurosciences, Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Engineering. Four of the scholarships […]
Manuel Padrão, Inês Silva, Beatriz Silva and Marta Ribeiro, students from EEUM’s Industrial Engineering and Management degree programme, won the JUMP competition, an ideas competition for new businesses promoted by the Municipality of Famalicão, in partnership with UPTEC, which aims to promote an entrepreneurial culture for the development of new […]
The LAR@Home team from the Automation and Robotics Laboratory at the University of Minho’s School of Engineering in Guimarães has secured first place in the RoboCup@Home league This was achieved at the RoboCup Portuguese Open 2024, which took place between 2nd and 5th May in Paredes de Coura. In one […]
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 […]