Wednesday, 10/25/2017
Manuel
Parente, former student from the School of Engineering of the University of
Minho (EEUM), was granted the “José Folque – Jovens Geotécnicos” award. This
award was received during the 1st Seminar on Transportation
Geotechnics, in Lisbon, on the 13th October 2017.
Manuel Parente, former student from the
Doctoral Programme in Civil Engineering of the EEUM, was granted the “José
Folque – Jovens Geotécnicos” award, in the scope of the work developed during
his PhD project entitled "Intelligent Earthworks Optimisation
System". This work counted on the supervision of António Gomes Correia,
Full Professor from the Department of Civil Engineering and researcher at ISISE
– both from the EEUM –, and Paulo Cortez, Associate Professor with Habilitation
from the Department of Information Systems and researcher at the ALGORITMI
Research Centre, also from the EEUM, and focused on the integration of soft
computing technologies, such as metaheuristics and machine learning, as well as
geographic information systems. This work also aimed the multi-objective
optimisation of earthmoving tasks in road and railway works.
To Manuel Parente, this
distinction means “a significant added value, because it happens in the scope
of Geotechnics in Portugal. It is also important for me – in personal and
professional terms – and for the School of Engineering of the University of
Minho, where the project was carried out and awarded, as it certifies the
quality of the research produced in the Academy”.
The “José Folque – Jovens Geotécnicos”
award aims to recognise works that will contribute to the progress of technical
and scientific knowledge and to the resolution of national problems as far as
geotechnical specialties contemplated by the International Society for Soil
Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) are concerned.
The award was granted at the 8th
Meeting of Young Geotechnics, which took place during the 1st
Seminar on Transportation Geotechnics, in the Auditorium of the Congress Centre
of the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering, in Lisbon. As a result of this
distinction, the researcher will represent Portugal at the next International
Conference of Young Geotechnical Engineers, through the Portuguese Geotechnical
Society (SPG).
+ info [in Portuguese]: http://www.spgeotecnia.pt/content.asp?startAt=2&categoryID=893&newsID=3291
