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Two INESC TEC researchers receive award for Best Pitch

Sofia Cruz Gomes (Centre for industrial Engineering and Management) and Dario Messina (Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering), researchers at INESC TEC, received the award for Best Pitch at the 8th Industrial Engineering and Management Symposium (IEMS ’17).

Health Parliament project features member of INESC TEC

After three years of existence, the Health Parliament project has now come to Portugal to challenge 60 young people to think about public health policies in the country. The working group, selected from 442 applications, features Mário Amorim Lopes, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI).

Advanced robotics technologies make industrial production more innovative

Optimising industrial production through robotic innovation is the objective of a new project led by INESC TEC's Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE), in partnership with the Centre for Industrial Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIIS) and the Centre for Industrial Management and Engineering (CEGI).

INESC TEC in nursing care project

INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI) is involved in a COST-Action project entitled “Rationing - MISSED CARE: An international and multidimensional problem”, where the goal is to promote discussion about the rationing of nursing care. The project was launched on September 20 in Brussels.

INESC TEC receives prize for most influential paper in journal Transport Policy

The paper “Understanding attitudes towards public transport and private car: A qualitative study”, written by Gabriela Beirão and José Sarsfield Cabral, researchers at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI) has received the Transport Policy Prize.

First researchers in the Iberian Peninsula to be global certified analytics professionals

On 9 April, Bernardo Almada-Lobo, member of the Board of INESC TEC, and Pedro Amorim, coordinator of INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI), took an exam in Orlando (USA) to obtain the CAP®, the global professional certification for premier analytics practitioner. There are only 350 certified people in the world, with the majority coming from the US and Canada.

INESC TEC concludes project on perishable food supply chain management

INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Management and Engineering (CEGI) has recently concluded project “WholeChain: Quantitative Framework for Perishable Food Supply Chain Management”, where the goal was to develop a quantitative framework that would make it possible to better manage the supply chain of perishable foods.

INESC TEC concludes project on perishable food supply chain management

INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Management and Engineering (CEGI) has recently concluded project “WholeChain: Quantitative Framework for Perishable Food Supply Chain Management”, where the goal was to develop a quantitative framework that would make it possible to better manage the supply chain of perishable foods.

INESC TEC researcher is invited speaker in Japanese institute

João Pedro Pedroso, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI), presented the “27th Statistical Machine Learning Seminar”, on 3 December, at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, in Tokyo.

Thesis and paper by INESC TEC researchers awarded

Luís Guimarães, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI), has received the award for best 2013 and 2014 PhD thesis (award given every two years) and best 2015 scientific paper, as part of the APDIO Congress – Portuguese Association for Operational Research (IO2015), which took place between 7 and 9 September at the Management School of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre.

INESC TEC team is finalist of the Wagner Prize in the United States

A team from INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI) is a finalist of the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Operations Research, organised by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in the United States, together with other international researchers and companies, including Ford Motor Company, in partnership with University of Michigan, the French postal services La Poste, in conjunction with the MIT and WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, and CSX Transportation, in partnership with the University of Illinois.

INESC TEC creates decision support tool for pricing in car rental companies

INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI) is developing, in partnership with Guerin Car Rental Solutions, a tool that makes it possible to define the pricing of this car rental company in e-broker websites, intermediaries that represent and compare different competitors. This tool makes it possible to update the company’s profit by updating, several times of day, the prices on the e-brokers for each rental type and date searched by the client, based on the monitoring of the fleet occupation and prices of competitors. The project started in February.

INESC TEC researcher is the best reviewer of the Journal OMEGA

Ana Camanho, senior researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI), received the 2014 award for best reviewer of the journal OMEGA – The International Journal of Management Science.

INESC TEC creates tool that estimates the reliability of wind turbines

INESC TEC’s Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) and Centre For Industrial Management and Engineering (CEGI) are developing a tool to estimate the reliability of wind turbines using advanced statistical models. The goal is to identify the factors that influence reliability.

INESC TEC researcher joins editorial board of TRPRO

Jorge Freire de Sousa, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI), was invited to join the editorial board of the new journal Transportation Research Procedia (TRPRO).

INESC TEC researcher co-edits scientific journal on Operational Research

José Fernando Oliveira, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI), will be one of five co-editors of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) that includes scientific papers on Operational Research.

INESC TEC researcher co-edits scientific journal on Operational Research

José Fernando Oliveira, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI), will be one of five co-editors of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) that includes scientific papers on Operational Research.

INESC TEC coordinates European project on Service Design and Innovation

INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI) will be the coordinator of the European project Service Design for Innovation (SDIN) – Marie Curie Innovative Training Network. Starting in January of next year, the goal with the project is to create an advanced training and research programme in the area of service design and innovation.

INESC TEC optimises transportation of food products

INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI) is currently working on a project called FRESHPACK where the goal is to optimise the Ship-Pack (transportation unit between warehouses and stores), which transports fresh products for Sonae MC, the food retailer of the Sonae Group.

INESC TEC researcher is the new Director of FEUP

João Falcão e Cunha, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI), is the new Director of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), the largest organic unit of the University of Porto.