Portugal no longer competes on price - It competes for engineering
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Engineering news in Portugal
Latest news and stories about engineering in Portugal for expats and residents.
Latest news and stories about engineering in Portugal for expats and residents.
The airline is recruiting engineering staff to work at its Portuguese bases.
The president of the Order of Engineers, Fernando Almeida Santos, argues that it will not be feasible to execute the works announced by the Government without importing qualified technicians.
Luís Silva is preparing to enter Aerospace Engineering. David Moura finished the course with a perfect grade of 20. Two perspectives on the expectation and experience of the course with the highest entry grade in the country.
Aerospace Engineering leads entry grade averages in higher education. Albertino Arteiro, course coordinator at the University of Porto, explains the growing attraction and the opportunities available in the market.
The quality and quantity of engineering graduates in Portugal are highlighted.
While commercial aviation has prioritised cost-cutting, sustainability, and efficiency over speed—leading to a stagnation in passenger travel times—the pursuit of extreme velocity has shifted entirely to the military sector. With commercial flights now limited to subsonic speeds, cutting-edge engineering, such as the Eurofighter Typhoon, represents the last bastion of high-speed aeronautical innovation. The article discusses the irony of this technological shift and highlights the significance of the potential acquisition of Eurofighter Typhoons for the Portuguese Air Force as a means of embracing European engineering excellence.
It was the course with the highest minimum entry grade at the universities of Porto, Minho and Lisbon. Students opted for the new places in Coimbra and Nova de Lisboa, leaving five unfilled in Évora.
Aerospace Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) is the course with the highest entry grade for the last admitted student in the first phase of the 2026 National Higher Education Access Competition. The last student admitted through the general quota entered with 19.50 points, according to data from the Institute for...
The Aerospace Engineering course in Porto maintains the highest entry requirement average in the country.
For generations, Coimbra trained engineers who left the city the day they received their diplomas. In September, a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering opens at the University of Coimbra
Russia shot down a Portuguese drone and its military personnel were surprised by the device's technology.
The head of the Order of Engineers has warned of the lack of labour required for major infrastructure projects and advocated for public policies to attract workers and talent to the construction sector. Speaking to Lusa, Fernando de Almeida Santos stated that while Portugal has the necessary business capacity, it needs to strengthen its engineering teams.
By mid-November, the professional body representing engineers will propose new legislation to the Government to ensure that only senior computer engineers, recognised by their peers and with an appropriate track record, can be responsible for projects of significant public importance.
The Formula Student Portugal competition gathers international university teams to showcase their engineering and racing projects.
Engineers Júlio Appleton and António Costa won the Secil Prize for the rehabilitation of the Duarte Pacheco viaduct, which is now “capable of resisting a high-magnitude earthquake”. But their list is quite long.
The airline Lufthansa has implemented the BEN system, which was created in Portugal by the engineering centre CEiiA.
The new undergraduate degree from Técnico is born from a simple conviction: basic engineering training must prepare students for a more international, digital, and interdisciplinary world.
Engineering needs everyone's talent. And the future will certainly be richer the more diverse the group of people who help build it.
Mutares is exploring options for the future of Efacec, which could include a sale or an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in Lisbon, reports Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter. The fund, which completed the acquisition of the Portuguese engineering company in 2023, is reportedly already working on the process.
The national competition showcases the skills of young students in the fields of engineering and technological innovation, held in the town of Ponte de Lima.
He was the author of the most beautiful Portuguese bridges. His muse? Engineering. Today, Edgar Cardoso's estate is on display at the Resende Municipal Museum, donated by his family, reports Inês Correia.
Inspired by the Valkyrie, the Furia is a sports car designed in Portugal by Portuguese engineers. It features a 750hp 3.5 V6 twin-turbo engine, reaches a top speed of 310 km/h, and accelerates from 0-100 km/h in 3.5 seconds. It will cost 1.6 million euros, with only 60 units being produced.
On the factory floor of the Famalicão-based Ysium – Advanced Engineering Solutions, the noise of CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machines is a constant, in sync with the movements of mechanical robotic arms, where everything is measured, calibrated and repeated with absolute precision. Work here is done to the micron and there is no room for error when...
We continue to train excellent computer engineers with strong technical skills without investing, with the same intensity, in their preparation for leadership. Leadership does not happen by chance. Opinion by Ana Teresa Freitas
A team from the Porto School of Engineering has developed a drone for industrial environments. It will begin to be used at Autoeuropa starting in July.
Mota-Engil has signed a 113 million euro contract in Brazil with Petrobras to provide engineering services for subsea oil production systems, according to a statement sent to the CMVM. The contract, reported to the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM), has an estimated duration of 1,825 days and includes the integrated execution of decommissioning activities involving approximately 305 kilometres of subsea lines and the removal of subsea equipment and anchoring systems abandoned on the seabed. “With the award of this contract, Mota-Engil Brazil strengthens its strategic positioning in the growing offshore decommissioning market, once again demonstrating its technical, operational, and management capacity to execute complex projects in deep waters,” the statement reads.
Tiago Mendonça, president of the Construction Foundation, says it is time for Portuguese engineering to demonstrate its capability and take advantage of high-speed rail projects to gain strength.
