Simone Moraes, member of the Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence (RG-QOE) and student of the Master Program in Quality Engineering and Management (MEGQ) presented her Master Dissertation last February 27. The dissertation entitled “Uma nova Implementação de um Sistema de Gestão da Qualidade no âmbito da Norma ISO 9001:2015 – em uma Vidraria” was supervised by Professor Paulo Sampaio. The examination was performed by Professor Pedro Domingues (Senior Researcher at the ALGORITMI Research Centre ..read more

Sofia Barbosa Pereira, PhD Student at the Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence (RG-QOE), attended the Kick-off Meeting of the Erasmus + project entitle STEAMigPOWER. This project is coordinated by the School of Engineering of the University of Minho and involves several research centers. Photo retrieved from EEUMinho STEAMigPOWER news. “The project will focus on the development of the STEAM courses to be offered to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, namely women and pupils in upper secondary school (15 – 18 years old), who are particularly vulnerable to being marginaliz ..read more

Pedro Domingues, PhD, Senior Researcher at the Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence (RG-QOE), visited the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, between February 06 and 10, through the International Credit Mobility UMOVE (ME) program ..read more

Pedro Domingues, PhD Senior Researcher at the Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence (RG-QOE), has been awarded with Sustainability 2020 Best Paper Award (First Place). Pedro Domingues is co-author of the awarded paper, entitled “Mapping the Sustainable Development Goals Relationships”, which was published at the Sustainability journal in 2020. The full reference of the paper is: Fonseca, L. M., Domingues, J. P., & Dima, A. M. (2020). Mapping the sustainable development goals relationships. Sustainability, 12(8), 3359. doi: 10.3390/su12083359 ..read more

Sofia Barbosa Pereira, PhD Student at the Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence (RG-QOE) was visiting Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) last July. This visit was focused on the exploration of a possible joint research related to Sofia PhD project and to strengthen the cooperation between Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho (EEUM) and UniKL ..read more

The fifth edition of the International Conference on Quality Engineering and Management (ICQEM) took place at the University of Minho on July 14 and 15. This conference is an international forum to present and discuss the progress and recent evolutions in the fields of Quality Management, Quality Engineering and Organizational Excellence. This edition was focused on “Quality in the digital transformation”. Nicole Radziwill (Digital Quality Leadership: The Long Game), Carlos Ribas (Quality4.0 @ Bosch), Josef Oehmen (Quality in the Age of Uncertainty: What we can learn from resilience thinking ..read more

Paulo Sampaio, Coordinator of the Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence, delivered a webinar entitled “Quality and the Digital Transformation” last June 30.  This seminar was organized by the Faculdade de Motricidade Humana – FMH, from the University of Lisbon ..read more

Pedro Domingues, PhD Senior Researcher at the Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence (RG-QOE), visited the Universidad de Monterrey – UDEM, Mexico, between June 06 and 10, through the International Credit Mobility UMOVE (ME) program. Pedro Domingues had the opportunity to network and deliver lectures to the UDEM academic community. Furthermore, he delivered two workshops, entitled “Shortcomings of traditional Quality approach and the Emergence of Quality 4.0” and “Skills and competencies of the Quality Leader of the 21st century ..read more

The Doctoral Program in Industrial and Systems Engineering (DPISE) Workshop took place on May 31, in Guimarães, Campus of Azurém, University of Minho. This annual event intends to share the work that is currently being developed by the PhD students of this doctoral program. For the second time, participants were also invited to submit a virtual poster to the DPISE best poster award. The RG-QOE was represented by Catarina Cubo. Catarina Cubo presented “An integrated vision of quality measurements ..read more

Pedro Domingues, PhD, Senior Researcher of the Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence (RG-QOE), was visiting the University of Gabes, Tunisie, between May 23 and 27, through the International Credit Mobility UMOVE (ME) program. Pedro Domingues had the opportunity to share some insights and to attend some meetings. Further, he delivered two workshops, entitled “Shortcomings of traditional Quality approach and the Emergence of Quality 4.0” and “Skills and competencies of the Quality Leader of the 21st century ..read more