Escola Secundária Arco-Íris visits us twice!
On March 10 and 11, we received several students from the Escola Secundária Arco-Íris in Portela. The visits began with a presentation of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering by Professor João Fernandes, who spoke about the courses and extracurricular activities available, emphasizing the importance of students joining student organizations to develop more skills for the professional world.
On both days, the students visited the Energy and Sustainability module and the Multimedia and Telecommunications module.
O primeiro módulo foi também apresentado pelo professor João Fernandes. Os alunos conheceram o The first module was also presented by Professor João Fernandes. The students got to know the Electric Machines Laboratory and observed experiments demonstrating the mechanisms used in the technology of magnetic levitation trains.
Além de observarem a levitação de supercondutores, os In addition to observing the levitation of superconductors, the students also saw how motors using electromagnetic induction work, transforming energy into mechanical movement.
O módulo de Telecomunicações e Multimédia foi The Telecommunications and Multimedia module was presented on the first day by Professor Custódio Peixeiro, who discussed the contributions of Maxwell, Hertz, and Marconi in the study of electromagnetic waves and taught how to send an SOS message in Morse code.
On the second day, this module was presented by Professor Carlos Fernandes, who also introduced the history of this area of research and conducted experiments with the students. He demonstrated how radio waves propagate in different media through music experiments.
As visitaThe visits ended with photographs on the staircase of the north tower.