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DEGI Roots<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Everything started back in 1975, when the Mechanical Engineering Department created the new\u00a0\u201cSection of Economy, Organization and Management\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong>Following this decision, Rui Guimar\u00e3es was \u201csent\u201d to the Lancaster University to complete a MSc. and a PhD. in Operations\u00a0 Research (1975- 1980). Later in 1982, Rui Guimar\u00e3es, Bernardo Calafate and Carlos Moreira da Silva founded the\u00a0Industrial Management Unit (GEIN)<\/strong>\u00a0at the Mechanical Engineering Department, to address the need and the importance of management-related topics in the academic training of mechanical engineers. The goals were clear: to improve the quality of teaching in the field of management, to develop links with the industrial world, and to carry out applied research projects.<\/p>\n

When Rui Guimar\u00e3es returned from Lancaster in 1982 after doing his PhD, he taught Operational Research in the Electrical Engineering degree with Jorge Pinho de Sousa as a teaching assistant. A few years later, Jos\u00e9 Soeiro Ferreira, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Mendon\u00e7a and Jorge Pinho de Sousa made up the Industrial Engineering and Management core within the Systems area of the Electrical Engineering Department.<\/p>\n

In the academic year 1983-84 GEIN launched the Production Management branch of the Mechanical Engineering 5-year Programme. Later in 1990, GEIN launched the 5-year Industrial Engineering and Management Programme (today MEGI and LEGI). The Master in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship (MIETE) started in 2005\/06, followed by the Doctoral Programme of Industrial Engineering and Management (PRODEGI) in 2007\/08, and the Master in Services Engineering and Management (MESG) in 2007\/08.<\/p>\n

Conversations on the opportunity to establish a new Department were led by Rui Guimar\u00e3es and other professors from GEIN (Sarsfield Cabral, Alcib\u00edades Guedes, Falc\u00e3o e Cunha and Ant\u00f3nio C. Brito) and the Electrical Engineering Department (namely Jorge Pinho de Sousa, Jos\u00e9 Fernando Oliveira and Maria Ant\u00f3nia Carravilla). In November 2007 the Board of FEUP approved the creation of the\u00a0INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT \u2013 DEGI<\/strong>. Our first Director \u2013 Sarsfield Cabral \u2013 headed the department from 2008 to 2018. To respond to the need to improve the research quality and increase its visibility, in 2009 started the so-called DEGI Club Sessions. Soon after, the first yearly IEMS conference took place in January 2010. Meanwhile, the Engineering and Management Research Unit (UGEI) moved from IDMEC to INESC TEC, joining the other research units linked to DEGI.<\/p>\n

The foundations were well established by extraordinary people that left a priceless legacy! The best is still to come!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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