Design, Develop, Deploy: Engineering for Tomorrow

The Symposium on Mechanical Engineering, 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 Mechanical Engineering (PRODEM) at FEUP.

The Symposium Organizing Committee is pleased to invite everyone interested in expanding and sharing their knowledge and expertise in the field of mechanical engineering 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):

  • Adhesive Joints
  • Automation and Control
  • Biomechanics
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Dynamics of Structures and Mechanical Systems
  • Energy Systems
  • Experimental Mechanics
  • Fatigue
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Friction and Tribology
  • Industrial Design
  • Maintenance
  • Manufacturing Processes
  • Materials
  • Mechanics of Composite Materials
  • Non-linear Mechanics
  • Optimization
  • Robotics

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 Mechanical Engineering (PRODEM) will cover the registration costs for any PRODEM 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 up201306329@edu.fe.up.pt (Pedro Silva Campos).

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:

  • Pedro Manuel Leal Ribeiro, FEUP

Symposium Organizing Committee:

  • Pedro Manuel Leal Ribeiro, FEUP
  • Catarina Magalhães Rocha, PhD Student PRODEM, FEUP
  • Maria Carolina Fernandes, PhD Student PRODEM, FEUP
  • Pedro Silva Campos, PhD Student PRODEM, FEUP

Symposium Scientific Committee:

  • Abílio Manuel Pinho de Jesus, FEUP
  • Albertino José Castanho Arteiro, FEUP
  • Alexandre Miguel Prior Afonso, FEUP
  • Ana Isabel Palmero Marrero, FEUP
  • Andry Maykol Gomes Pinto, FEUP
  • António Manuel Ferreira Mendes Lopes, FEUP
  • Ana Rosanete Lourenço Reis, FEUP
  • Armando Carlos Figueiredo Coelho de Oliveira, FEUP
  • Carlos Alberto da Conceição António, FEUP
  • Carlos Miguel da Costa Gomes Fernandes, FEUP
  • Carolina Furtado Pereira da Silva, FEUP
  • Dulce Alves de Oliveira, FEUP
  • Eduardo André de Sousa Marques, FEUP
  • Fernando Gomes de Almeida, FEUP
  • Fernando Jorge Lino Alves, FEUP
  • Francisco Galindo Rosales, FEUP
  • João Daniel Pereira Soares, FEUP
  • João Manuel Ribeiro da Silva Tavares, FEUP
  • Jorge Humberto Oliveira Seabra, FEUP
  • Joaquim Gabriel Magalhães Mendes, FEUP
  • Laura Campo Deaño, FEUP
  • Luís António de Andrade Ferreira, FEUP
  • Luís Jorge Lima Ferrás, FEUP
  • Marcelo Francisco de Sousa Ferreira de Moura, FEUP
  • Marco Paulo Lages Parente, FEUP
  • Maria Ascensão Ferreira Silva Lopes, FEUP
  • Mário Augusto Pires Vaz, FEUP
  • Pedro Manuel Ponces Rodrigues de Castro Camanho, FEUP
  • Pedro Manuel Leal Ribeiro, FEUP
  • Renato Manuel Natal Jorge, FEUP
  • Rui Jorge Sousa Costa de Miranda Guedes, FEUP
  • Szabolcs Varga, FEUP

Contact: up201306329@edu.fe.up.pt (Pedro Campos)