Friday, 10/7/2016
Professor from the
Department of Textile Engineering (DET) was reelected for the Board of
Governors of IEEE’s Education Society (EdSoc IEEE) for a second three-year
mandate. Rosa M. Vasconcelos is currently President of the Pedagogical Council
and Vice-Dean of the EEUM.
Rosa Maria Vasconcelos, President of the Pedagogical
Council and Vice-Dean of the EEUM, was re-elected for a new mandate as a Member
of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Education
Society's Board of Governors (EdSoc). The
election for the Board of Governors is carried out among all members of
Education Society. The professor from the Department of
Textile Engineering (DET) of the EEUM was re-elected on the 7th
October for a new mandate from 2017 to 2019. Rosa M. Vasconcelos had been elected
in October 2013 for a three-year mandate, from January 2014 to December 2016.
Member of the Board of the Portuguese Society for
Education in Engineering, Professor Rosa Maria Vasconcelos has supervised
several scientific studies on education and organization of Engineering in
Portugal, employment and transition to the marketplace, the relationship
between universities and secondary level schools, and encouragement of higher
education in Engineering - themes which are being studied and monitored by the
Dean’s office and the Pedagogical Council of the EEUM.
The re-election as a member of the Board of Governors
of the IEEE’s EdSoc confirms the recognition of the work developed by Professor
Rosa Maria Vasconcelos in the framework of Education for Engineering.
Rosa Maria de Castro
Fernandes Vasconcelos is an Associate Professor at the Department of Textile
Engineering (DET) of the EEUM since 2005. She holds a degree in Textile
Engineering by the University of Minho. She is a professor at the University of
Minho since 1984. She holds a PhD in Engineering – Technology and Textile
Chemistry by the University of Minho, completed in 1993. She received the
Rieter Award in 1993. She is responsible for several curricular units in the
integrated study cycles in Textile Engineering and Engineering and Industrial
Management, in the 1st cycle course of Design and Fashion Marketing,
and also in the 2nd cycle courses of Fashion Design and
Communication, Textile Chemistry, Advanced Textiles and Design and Marketing.
Head research and research member of several R&D projects, has presented as
main author or co-author many dozens of scientific journal papers and
communications in international conferences. She is the President of the
Pedagogical Council of the School of Engineering since 2011. She is Vice-Dean
of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho since 2013.
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