World Materials Day; Master thesis

On the 2nd of November, at NOVA-FCT, Campus da Caparica, the celebration of another European Materials Day took place. This year, the theme chosen for the lectures was Materials in the Global Health Ecosystem, with three presentations of great interest. Rodrigo Martins (FCT NOVA) - Materials and the Challenges of the Future; João Conde (NOVA Medical School) - The Lanscape of Precision NanoMedicine at Nova Medical Research, and Cláudia Ranito (CEO of MedBone) - Turning Biomaterials into Medical Devices. The quality of what is done in Portugal in Materials Science and Engineering was... Read more

World Materials Day was celebrated on the 7 of November, in Portugal in an event organized by the SPM – Portugal Materials Society.

This year, the chosen place to hold this celebration was the Faculty of Engineering of Porto University (FEUP).
During the morning session we had the presentation of the thesis competing for Best Master Thesis in Materials Engineering award.
In the afternoon we had the presence of materials experts from two companies, that delivered talks on the following topics:

“It's all about materials, process and people” by... Read more