Yesterday, the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), ECE student representatives, and the Department staff had an inspiring meeting at Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), Universidade de Lisboa.

Every year, at DEEC day, ECE faculty discuss subjects related to Electrical and Computer Engineering. This year, the program included honorable national and international guests: Professor Eric Yeatman, chair of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, at Imperial College; Professor João Hespanha, former chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, at University of California Santa Barbara; and Professor Luís Oliveira e Silva, from the Department of Physics, and Chair of IST School Council.

The DEEC Day program included discussion panels, chaired by DEEC professors, on the challenges of Department (DEEC 2030), regarding:

• Training offers
• Organization and Human Resources;
• Science and society.

Program of DEEC Day 2023

9:00 Welcome

9:15 Opening session

• Welcome from the Chair of ISA
• Recent activities of DEEC (Professor José Santos-Victor)

10.15-10h30 Coffee break

• João Pedro Hespanha, University of California Santa Barbara (former Chair of Department)
• Eric Yeatman, Chair of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College
• Luís Oliveira e Silva, Physics Department, Chair of thr IST School Council, IST

11h30 –12h30: DEEC2030 - Training offers
(Professors Pedro Lima, Bruno Martins, Paulo Correia)

12h30: Lunch and DEEC Day 2023 group picture
Cultural activity (organized by Doctor Gonçalo Victorino, ISA)

14h30–15h30: DEEC2030 - Organization and Human Resources
(Professors Leonel Sousa, Nuno Horta, Mário Figueiredo)

15h30 – 15h45: Coffee break

15h45 – 16h45: DEEC2030 - Science and Society
(Professors Luís M. Silveira, Pedro Carvalho, Marcelino Santos, Rodrigo Ventura)

16h45: Closing