Industry Panel

 

Sustainability in Engineering Education for Sustainable Engineering Practice

Abstract

Engineers must be able to develop their professional activities in order to be able to deal with a large variety of different problems, using different competences. They should be able to mobilize adequate knowledge, methods and abilities, both in industrial and service business contexts. Furthermore, future engineers must be able to address real problems in practice and come up with solutions that integrate simultaneously economic, environmental and social needs. Developing competences during the initial training phase requires that the curriculum and learning methodologies are adapted to that purpose. Moreover, it is not enough to develop learning processes centred in knowledge transfer, but it is necessary to go one step further and apply active learning methodologies, like peer instruction and problem and project-based learning. The members of this panel and the audience will discuss the fundamental professional competences required for future engineers, and the best approaches for developing those competences in interaction with industry partners.

Participants:

Marta Catarino (Moderator)

Clementina Freitas

Nuno Barros

Estevão Silva

Jorge Rodrigues

Augusto Gomes

Tecminho

Latino Group

Leica Portugal

Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal, S.A

Nanium S.A.

IKEA Industry Portugal, Lda.

 

Marta Catarino

 

Marta Catarino is the Director of the Technology Transfer Office of University of Minho - TecMinho, where she manages a team of 12 professionals in 3 business units: Industrial Property Management, Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship. With an academic background in Engineering and post-grad studies in Industrial Property, Marketing and Strategic Management, Marta has managed more than 20 European projects and overseen exploitation of more than 100 research results, through licensing, venturing and collaborative research. Marta has delivered seminars, workshops and training in more than 25 countries, and is regularly invited as an expert by the World Intellectual Property Organization and as an evaluator of proof-of-concept projects for the European Research Council, the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, the Finnish Academy of Science and the Generalitat de Catalunya. Since 2016, Marta is President of ASTP-Proton, the European Knowledge Transfer Association, that represents knowledge transfer professionals and offices in Public Research Organizations throughout Europe.



Estêvão Silva

Estêvão Silva is a mechanical engineer (15 years at Bosch Car Multimedia).Detailed Tasks Assigned: Center of Competences for Manufacturing of Human Machine Interfaces; Innovation in HMI area. Key Qualifications: Industrial Processes development; Manufacturing technologies in the electronics sector. Education: Currently PhD student in PhD course “Advanced Engineering Systems and Information” at UMinho. Currently leader of a team of process experts, responsible for industrial process development in the area of image processing and displays processing since 2012. Contributing in the Bosch-UMinho partnership innovation project for future car HMI technologies. From 2008 to 2012, responsible for the Center of Competence for final assembly processes, function transferred after a 2 years allocation in Germany. Previously, industrialization engineer at Blaupunkt Autorádio Portugal from 2001 to 2006.



Jorge Rodrigues

Jorge Rodrigues is an Industrial and Management engineer from Minho University. He started his career at Cablinal Portuguesa and joined Siemens in 97 when the semiconductor company started at Vila do Conde . Throughout Siemens, Infineon, Qimonda and Nanium, gained experience in several functional areas, like Production Supervisor; Industrial Engineering; Lean manufacturing; Project Management, and at this moment he is responsible for all production area as Manufacturing Manager at Nanium S.A.



Augusto Gomes

Graduated in Production Engineering at Minho University, has more than 20 year of professional experience. His large experience in automotive industry, enable him to develop different competencies and knowledge, due to his different responsibilities. Since the last 12 years has developed the responsibility of Plant Manager, Managing director and Operations Manager for South Europe. In IKEA Group, and during 2 years was managing director, of a unit with more than 450 employees and a turnover of 60 M €, being directly responsible for finance, human resources, engineering, logistics, quality and manufacturing. Actually, assumes the position of Technical & Site Deputy Manager at IKEA Industry Portugal, a unit with 1 400 employees, with a turnover near of 200 M €, being directly responsible for product development, program management, industrial engineering & investments, Environmental & sustainability and Property.