Wednesday, 10/25/2017
António
Gomes Correia, Full Professor from the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC)
and Vice-Dean of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM)
was granted in the USA. The distinction took place on the 27th September
2017.
António Gomes Correia, Full Professor
from the DEC and Vice-Dean of the EEUM, was granted the Technical Achievement
Award, during the International Intelligent Construction Technologies Group 2017
Conference – ICT (Intelligent Construction Technologies) Past and Future – held
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, from 26th to 28th
September 2017. During this conference, he presented the Keynote Lecture
entitled “Intelligent Compaction in Europe: Harmonisation, standardisation
& management”.
The distinction – handed over by the
President of the International Intelligent Construction Technologies Group,
George K. Chang, – aimed to recognise the technical and practical contributions
of Prof. António Gomes Correia to the Geotechnical and Pavement Engineering
Community of Intelligent Construction Technologies.
António Gomes Correia
is very much honoured to have this international recognition from a group he is
a co-founder, and to see that his vision of “connecting systems for intelligent
construction” anticipated what become nowadays part of the fourth industrial
revolution, or ‘Industry 4.0’.
António Gomes Correia is
graduated in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon - IST in
1977, and received his PhD by École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris) in
1985. In 1987 he received the Doctor degree in Civil Engineering by the
Technical University of Lisbon – IST and also in 1998 the Habilitation in Civil
Engineering. He is Full Professor at the University of Minho from 2003 and from
2010 to 2013 Director of the Research Centre of Territory, Environment and
Construction (CTAC). He is also chair of the Doctoral Programme in Civil Engineering
since 2010 and Vice-Dean of the EEUM since 2013.
He is involved in
research, teaching and consulting in the general field of geotechnics and
pavement engineering for 38 years. His work embraced transportation
geotechnics, particularly soil and pavement geo-material properties and
modelling, compaction, soil improvement, foundations, geotechnical design and
management.
+ info: http://www.iictg.org/2017-conference/