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FEUP and OCC GmbH celebrated a cooperation agreement regarding research studies for publication of international articles, in the field of foundry practice, image analysis for cast iron, material science and the automotive industry. The agreement also covers the testing of new products for the foundry industry; the possibility of internships for young engineers at OCC, customers in Germany and abroad.
“Agile Portugal 2012” was the third edition of the premier international conference in Portugal, when the agile community got together with invited leading experts. The two-day programme included relevant topics, as well as Agile methods (Scrum, Lean, XP, etc), Collaboration, Culture & Teams, Business & Project Management, Customer Relationships, Development Practices, Testing & Quality Assurance and Agile Adoption & Transformation.
The announcement of the winner was made in Chengdu, China, during the 9th World Congress of Biomaterials. Inês Gonçalves, 30, a researcher at the National Institute of Biomedical Engineering (INEB), is the first author of the article “Platelet and leukocyte adhesion to albumin binding self-assembled monolayers”, accorded the “Best Paper 2011 Award “ by the European Society of Biomaterials, following its publication in the “Journal of Materials Science - Materials in Medicine”.
André Meireles, Jose Nuno Leitao, Maria Joao Gomes, Mariana Osswald, and Paulina and Sofia Carvalho Santos, students in the 5th year of the Masters in Bioengineering at FEUP, created the “N2FIX”, a project that won the Startup Program 2012 prize. The honour earned them a trip to the city of Skopje, Macedonia, where they had the opportunity to represent Portugal in the JA-YE Europe Enterprise Challenge 2012. The Portuguese participation was accorded the “TTK Responsible Leadership Award”, a Signature Award presented by the TTK Bank of Macedonia.
FEUP HIGHLIGHTS 2012 FACULTY OF ENGINEERING - UNIVERSITY OF PORTO
The first phase of the Health Data Platform was officially “opened” during the international conference on information sharing architectures in [the área of ] healthcare “eHealth Information Sharing Architectures” (eHISA). The project has been developed by FEUP, in partnership with the Ministry of Health, and will improve the health of citizens by giving them more autonomy and supporting health professionals in providing better health care anywhere in the country.
The play “Chronicles of Parallel Universes” is the result of a theatrical project that involved the FEUP community, directed by Ricardo Alves. Part of the programme of activities of the Faculty’s Cultural Committee, this play proves that the daily life of a FEUP student does not merely consist of mathematical calculations and engineering principles.
The cooperation protocol signed between FEUP and PT Communications proposes to award research grants on the part of PT to FEUP Masters and PhD students, for the development of research projects in the Sapo/ University of Porto laboratory, situated in FEUP’s Department of Computer Engineering.
The ICEM15 - 15th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics was organized by the Faculty of Engineering, in partnership with the Portuguese Association of Experimental Stress Analysis (APAET), and brought together experts in the field of Testing and Diagnostics, Surface and Interface Engineering, Civil Engineering Applications, Sensors and Instrumentation, the Teaching of Experimental Mechanics, Failure Modes, Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials, [and] Biomechanical Applications: Thermo-Fluid Systems, Optical Techniques and Impact and Crashworthiness.