Universidade do Minho  

 
  CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION
2005  
 

Habilitation in Industrial and Technology Management, University of Minho, Portugal.

1986  
  Ph.D. in Production Engineering, Department of Production Engineering, University of Birmingham, U.K. Thesis

title: Economic Planning in Portuguese Industrial Wastewater
.
1983  
  M.Sc. in Industrial Management, Department of Production Engineering, University of Birmingham, U.K.
1977  
  Graduate degree in Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
   
PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL SHORT COURSES
1985  
  NATO Workshop “The Role of the Ocean as a Waste Disposal Option”, Vilamoura (Portugal), April 1985 (supported by NATO/INVOTAN).

Risk Applied to Water Resources Management”, University of Arizona, Tucson (E.U.A.), May-June 1985 (supported by NATO/INVOTAN).
1990  
  Course “R & D Evaluation”, University of Twente, Enschede (Holland), 29th October till 1st of November 1990.
1996  
  NATO ASI on “Reliability and NATO Workshop “Managing and Modelling Complex Projects”, Kiev (Ukraine), 13th-15th November 1996 (invited participation, supported by NATO/INVOTAN).
1998  
  “ERCP98”, Lisbon, October 1998.
2005  
  Case Workshop Series - Introduction to the Case Method, Case Teaching and Case Writing, by specialists of the European Case Clearing House (ECCH), UM, 7th-9th June 2005.
2008  
  Engineering Systems Short Course, restricted access to the EDAM_MIT program team, conducted by MIT professors, Lisbon, 26th -27th September 2008.


UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES


Department (Head of Department 11 years. Last period – October 2005 till January 2010; 2 years as Deputy Head)

Research Centre (Director 6 years; last period – September 2010 till December 2014)

Graduate and Master Courses (pre Bologna) (Course Director 3 years)

School of Engineering (Vice-Dean 3 years, until January 2013)