B u l l e t i n Number 60, March 2006 - Year VI

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Students visit INESC Porto in FEUP Open Week

As a partner of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), INESC Porto was an active part of the Open Week. The objective was to get the young ones to become more interested in engineering.

From 6th to 10th March, INESC Porto was visited by students and teachers from: Escola Secundária (ES) António Nobre, Colégio Teresiano, ES of Rio Tinto, ES of Maia, EB 23 Dr. José Lopes de Oliveira, ES Fontes Pereira de Melo, ES of Cerco do Porto, ES Aurélia de Sousa, ES Augusto Gomes, ES Gonçalves Zarco, EB23 Dr. Nuno Simões, ES Diogo de Macedo, ES of Castelo da Maia, EB23 of Nogueira and ES of Vilela.

During the five days of the event, the visitors were introduced to the institution and to the respective R&D areas, by the director José Carlos Caldeira and by the President of the Scientific Board Manuel Matos.

In the area of optoelectronics and electronic systems, Ireneu Dias emphasised the implementation and testing of electronic circuits, design of printed circuit assemblies and the projects of programmable logic devices. There was still a reference to field experiences in the area of optical fiber sensors, in applications of civil and environment engineering.

Cláudio Monteiro and Mauro Rosa presented the most recent achievements in the area of power systems related with the planning of renewable energies using Geographical Information Systems highlighting innovative projects in Portugal, in the area of the renewable energies and electrical networks of the future.

Representing the area of telecommunications and multimedia, Sílvio Macedo and Luís Gustavo Martins presented multimedia tools, focusing on the annotation of video. Some of the achievements in the area of automatic analysis of audio signals, considering the management, research and access to great collections or files of audio documents have motivated the research and development of research based on content.

Luis Carneiro, César Toscano and Luis Guardão presented projects in the area of industrial management and automatisation of internal logistics of industrial companies. These projects were responsible for substantial gains of productivity in companies of several industrial sectors and they include the automatisation of movement and temporary storage of the products in course of manufacture.

Finally, in the area of information and communication systems, José Lino de Oliveira showed GIS applied to autarchies. Using GIS technology integrated with technology of debates forum, it was possible to create a bidirectional system based on the interconnection of the two technologies and to offer a new channel of communication on the Web enriched with a geographical component, acting as a support for themes of public debate placed in the autarchies. Some of those themes are, for example, the discussion of Municipal Master Plans and Territorial Planning Master Plans.



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