On March 5, the Alameda campus hosted the Técnico Master’s Day, an event dedicated to showcasing the institution’s second-cycle programmes and other professional and mobility opportunities for students. In addition to the course fair held in the Salão Nobre, the event also featured a poster exhibition presenting some of the DEEC Outstanding Master Theses completed in the previous academic year, together with their authors, at the entrance of the North Tower.

The Salão Nobre featured the participation of Rui Castro, coordinator of the Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Paulo Flores, coordinator of the Master’s in Electronic Engineering, as well as students from the respective programmes. The event also included stands with faculty members and students from the programmes in Aerospace Engineering, Telecommunications and Informatics Engineering, Data Science and Engineering, and Energy Engineering and Management, which include participation from DEEC.

During the event, participants had the opportunity to talk with faculty members and students about several topics, including programme structures, career opportunities, and some of the projects they may become involved in, such as the development and monitoring of satellites like ISTSat-1, which has benefited from the contributions of several Electronic Engineering students. The MEE stand even displayed a replica of the satellite, allowing visitors to learn more about its electronic systems.

Meanwhile, in the North Tower, Inês Simões, Martim Bento and Tomás Glória, alumni of the Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Patrícia Marques, an alumna of the Master’s in Data Science and Engineering, presented their master’s dissertations to students and faculty members in the Outstanding Master Thesis poster exhibition.

Throughout the afternoon, visitors were able to hear the alumni’s perspectives on topics such as the use of neural networks to predict the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (thesis Graph Neural Networks for Multimodal and Longitudinal Analysis for Predicting Alzheimer’s Progression, by Inês Simões) and the use of quantum computing to predict the existence of cancer driver genes (thesis Quantum Computation for Cancer Driver Gene Prediction using Protein Interaction Network Data, by Patrícia Marques). Martim Bento discussed software development for CGRA architectures (thesis A Fast Mapping and Co-Design Toolchain for Stream-Based CGRAs). Finally, Tomás Glória presented his work on voltage control in distribution networks (thesis Voltage Control Interactions in Active Distribution Networks: A Stability Analysis Approach for Piecewise-Linear Local Control Laws).

📷 See the full photo gallery of the Master’s Day here.