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TS2025
The first edition of the conference appears as a joint action by IDMEC and FEUP to disseminate an emerging topic such as Transportation System. It will be held in the Congress Center of Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal, from June 16 to 18, 2025.
TS 2025 focuses on all aspects and scales of transportation systems, from the basics to future trends, covering all types of topics within sustainable transport, logistics, production and productive processes in transportation systems, railway systems, aviation and aerospace systems, urban mobility, energy and efficiency in transportation, health monitoring, reliability, risk, safety, security, and resilience in transportation systems.
This year's theme - "Railways as the backbone of the transportation system" highlights the key role of the railways in the transportation system, in urban mobility and regional transport in passengers and freight transportation.
Hugo Magalhães
The Science Behind Trains
Under the initiative "Engenharia e Ciência vão à Escola" (Engineering and Science go to School), from Instituto Superior Técnico, the researcher Hugo Magalhães has had the pleasure of visiting an elementary school and interacting with 5th grade students, to present the lecture "A Ciência Debaixo dos Comboios" (The Science Behind Trains), as a part of the Science and Technology Week.
The experience proved unique, arising interest and curiosity from the youngsters, while conveying two fundamental messages:
1 - Scientist do not always wear lab coats
2 - Without science, there is no evolution in railways, nor faster or more innovative trains!
The lecture mixed knowledge with fun, which included interactive games and a demonstration using scale model trains, allowing the students to get a better understanding of how railways work and, above all else, to increase the perception and value of public transportation.
CNB2025
The 11º National Congress on Biomechanical (CNB2025) will take place at Sesimbra, 21st and 22nd of February 2025
CNB 2025’s organization encourages the meeting of investigators, from the more seasoned to the less experienced, aiming to promote partnership building at a national or international level, and the multidisciplinary discussion by the Biomechanics scientific community.
A main goal for this congress is to attract the participation of Portuguese investigators, currently enlisted by foreign institutions.
Please visit the conference website for updated information:https://cnb2025.tecnico.ulisboa.pt
Students of Instituto Superior Técnico participate in the "Race Party 2023" competition, held at University of Minho
A group of Mechanical Engineering students under the guidance of Prof. Hugo Magalhães (ACMEC), took on the challenge of building a custom minicar in a competition with hundreds of fellow students.
Prémio ´Melhor Poster’
The University of Minho has been organizing the annual "Race Party" competition where undergraduate students are challenged to design and produce a minicar propelled by the deformation energy of a spring provided by the organization. This challenge is an opportunity for students to consolidate and apply the knowledge learned in several engineering disciplines.
For the first time this year (2023), this competition welcomed 5 visiting teams: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universities of Aveiro, University of Coimbra and University of Porto. All of them are now eager to organize the "Race Party" competition in their respective Universities in the coming years, given the success and positive impact of this competition on the students' education.
The "Race Party" competition has a dedicated Youtube channel where the students' participation can be seen (see: [HERE]). The video of the IST team is available [HERE] and the compilation of the 2023 event is available [HERE].
Prof. Paulo Fernandes is the new Honorary Member of the European Society of Biomechanics
Professor Paulo Fernandes was nominated and accepted as a Honorary Member of the European Society of Biomechanics on the 28th of June during this year’s General Assembly.
The European Society of Biomechanics was founded in 1976 at a meeting in Brussels, with the presence of 20 scientists from 11 countries. It is now the largest Biomechanics society in Europe, with over 1500 members. Its goal is to encourage, disseminate and promote the research in the field of Biomechanics.
Any person who has rendered special meritorious services to the Society or who has performed unusual work evidencing a high degree of achievement in the field of biomechanics may be elected as Honorary Member upon the recommendation of the Council.
Professor Paulo Fernandes joined the European Society of Biomechanics in 2000, having been part of its council between 2012 and 2016. His excellent contribution for the field of Biomechanics has now been recognized with this distinction.
The ICCB2022 – Nineth International Conference on Computational Bioengineering - will take place at Instituto Superior Técncio, 11 – 13 April 2022.
The meeting is part of a meeting series that started in 2003 in Zaragoza, originally conceived by Manuel Doblaré, Helder Rodrigues and Miguel Cerrolaza. It is regularly held every two years and the last edition was in Belgrade in 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 meeting was postponed to early 2022.
Lisbon is the right venue to restart face-to-face conferences and your work and experience on the topics of the conference will be an important contribute to the success of the meeting.
Please save the date in your agenda and visit the conference website for updated information: https://iccb2022.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/
ACMEC Professors among the highly cited scientists in the World
99 Técnico scientists were ranked among the best in the world according to a Stanford University study, 3 of them being ACMEC Professors.
The study was carried out by Stanford University and presented in an article entitled “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, on the subject of authors and citations, published in the Public Library of Science Biology (PLOS Biology) magazine.
In its “Career Impact” list, spanning a few decades, Professor Jorge Ambrósio and Professor Nuno Silvestre are referenced. In another list, that focuses on single-year impact throughout 2019, Professor Pedro Areias is also included.
The study is available at PLOS Biology website.
Clarivate Analytics 2019
We are extremely pleased to announce that Professor Pedro Areias has been added to Clarivate Analytics list of Highly Cited Researchers HCR 2019 (he has also been there in 2018 list) in Cross-Field Category. Highly Cited Researchers are selected for their exceptional research performance, determined by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science. The scientific area of Structural and Computational Mechanics is proud to have one of its members in such a distinguished list.
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