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The Symposium on Industrial Engineering and Management, part of the 6th Doctoral Congress in Engineering (DCE25), will take place at FEUP, Porto, Portugal, on June 30th and 1st of July 2025.

This Symposium is organized by PhD students of the Doctoral Program in Industrial Engineering and Management (PRODEGI) and Doctoral Program in Engineering and Public Policy (PDEPP) at FEUP, with the support of the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC).

The Symposium Organizing Committee is pleased to invite everyone interested in expanding and sharing their knowledge and expertise in the field of industrial engineering and management to submit their work. This invitation is open to PhD and MSc students, as well as other researchers and professionals in this field.

Topics for submission include (but are not limited to):

  • Optimization, Operational Research, and Decision Support Systems
  • Data Science, Machine Learning, and Forecasting
  • Sustainability and Innovation
  • Digital Transformation and Smart Systems
  • Open track

Submissions

Format: Oral or poster communications

Please follow the abstract template (maximum 1 page) according to the Instruction for Authors available under the Registration page. The submission must be done through the SCI-MEET platform.

For more information, please click HERE. 

Registration & Payment

Registration is mandatory for all participants through the SCI-MEET platform.

The Doctoral Program in Industrial Engineering and Management (PRODEGI) will cover the registration costs for any PRODEGI student from FEUP.

A limited number of registration waivers will be granted to other students, researchers or professors from FEUP, depending on the number of attendees. For any questions, please email marcella@fe.up.pt.

Abstracts will be included in the Book of Abstracts only if at least one author of each accepted abstract is registered and has paid the registration fee (attended the event).

Please note that at least one author per submitted abstract (oral or poster communication) must register for the Congress as soon as possible to secure participation.

Program

|| The full program will be available soon ||

Communications

Oral communication:

  • Prepare a PowerPoint presentation to support your talk.
  • An editable PowerPoint template will be available soon.
  • Language: Presentations and slides must be in English.

Poster communication:

  • The poster exhibition will be held in FEUP’s B Corridor, where posters will be displayed on the corridor windows.
  • Posters should be formatted in portrait mode, size A1 (841 mm height × 594 mm width).
  • Language: Posters must be in English.
  • An editable poster template will be available soon.

Publications

All accepted abstracts, with at least one author registered in the Congress with a paid fee, will be included in the event’s program and the Symposium Book of Abstracts.

|| The Book of Abstracts will be available soon ||

Awards

Authors of accepted abstracts presented at the Congress will be eligible for the Best Oral and Best Poster Communication Awards.

Symposium Committees

Symposium Chairs:

  • Marcella Luiza Santos Mendes, FEUP
  • Maria Antónia da Silva Lopes e Carravilla, FEUP

Symposium Organizing Committee:

  • Alessia Serafini, FEUP
  • Bianca Andreea Bănică, FEUP
  • Marcella Luiza Santos Mendes, FEUP
  • Maria Antónia da Silva Lopes e Carravilla, FEUP
  • Anny Mireilles Sarea, PhD Student PDEPP, FEUP
  • João Alexandre Nunes Antunes, PhD Student PRODEGI, FEUP
  • Muhammad Fuzail, PhD Student PRODEGI, FEUP
  • Rui da Silva Pinto de Sousa, PhD Student PDEPP, FEUP
  • Sandra Rafaela Alves Monteiro, PhD Student PRODEGI, FEUP

Symposium Scientific Committee:

  • António Manuel Lucas Soares, FEUP
  • Bernardo Sobrinho Simões de Almada Lobo, FEUP
  • Bianca Andreea Bănică, FEUP
  • Flávia Barbosa, FEUP
  • João Bernardo de Sena Esteves Falcão e Cunha, FEUP
  • Jorge Daniel Grenha Luís Teixeira, FEUP
  • José Pedro Coelho Rodrigues, FEUP
  • Lia Raquel Neto Martins Lima Patricio, FEUP
  • Luís Gonçalo Rodrigues Reis Figueira, FEUP
  • Marcella Luiza Santos Mendes, FEUP
  • Maria Antónia da Silva Lopes e Carravilla, FEUP
  • Maria Beatriz Brito Oliveira, FEUP
  • Marta Campos Ferreira, FEUP
  • Pedro Sanches Amorim, FEUP

Contact: marcella@fe.up.pt (Marcella Mendes)