Pedro Domingues awarded with Sustainability 2020 Best Paper Award

Pedro Domingues, PhD Senior Researcher at the Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence (RG-QOE), has been awarded with Sustainability 2020 Best Paper Award (First Place).

Pedro Domingues is co-author of the awarded paper, entitled “Mapping the Sustainable Development Goals Relationships”, which was published at the Sustainability journal in 2020.

The full reference of the paper is: Fonseca, L. M., Domingues, J. P., & Dima, A. M. (2020). Mapping the sustainable development goals relationships. Sustainability, 12(8), 3359. doi: 10.3390/su12083359

Sofia Barbosa Pereira @ Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL)

Sofia Barbosa Pereira, PhD Student at the Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence (RG-QOE) was visiting Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) last July.

This visit was focused on the exploration of a possible joint research related to Sofia PhD project and to strengthen the cooperation between Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho (EEUM) and UniKL.

RG-QOE organized the 5th International Conference on Quality Engineering and Management

The fifth edition of the International Conference on Quality Engineering and Management (ICQEM) took place at the University of Minho on July 14 and 15.

This conference is an international forum to present and discuss the progress and recent evolutions in the fields of Quality Management, Quality Engineering and Organizational Excellence.

This edition was focused on “Quality in the digital transformation”. Nicole Radziwill (Digital Quality Leadership: The Long Game), Carlos Ribas (Quality4.0 @ Bosch), Josef Oehmen (Quality in the Age of Uncertainty: What we can learn from resilience thinking) and Mareike Möhlmann (Algorithmic Management of Work on Online Labor Platforms: When Matching Meets Control) were the keynote speakers of the conference.

Nicole Radziwill (Digital Quality Leadership: The Long Game)

Carlos Ribas (Quality4.0 @ Bosch)

Josef Oehmen (Quality in the Age of Uncertainty: What we can learn from resilience thinking)

Mareike Möhlmann (Algorithmic Management of Work on Online Labor Platforms: When Matching Meets Control)

More than 100 proposals were submitted and almost 90 were accepted for presentation, after revision by the Conference Scientific Committee.

The best paper award was "The Challenges of Remote Work to the Development of a TQM Culture" by Patrícia Moura e Sá.

The best student paper award was "Product complexity and quality in assembly processes: state of the art and challenges for industrial HRC" by Matteo Capponi (PhD student), Luca Mastrogiacomo, Dario Antonelli and Fiorenzo Franceschini.

Further, the novelty of this edition were two masterclasses performed on July 13 by Jorge J. Roman (Building a Quality & Digital Transformation Strategy) and the Obeikan Investment Group (Experience the Future of Smart Manufacturing…Obeikan Digital Product for Industry 4.0) by Abdallah Obeikan, Saber Atiyeh, and Khaled Hassan.

Jorge J. Roman (Building a Quality & Digital Transformation Strategy)

Experience the Future of Smart Manufacturing…Obeikan Digital Product for Industry 4.0 by Abdallah Obeikan, Saber Atiyeh, and Khaled Hassan

This event was a great opportunity for learning, knowledge sharing, and networking!

What a success!