Aneta Kucinska-Landwojtowicz at QOE-RG as a Visiting Scholar

Aneta Kucinska-Landwojtowicz is a Visiting Scholar at the QOE - research group and at the University of Minho during this month of April. She is a Assistant Professor at Opole University of Technology and develops her research in the quality management and innovation fields of expertise.

In the QOE monthly meeting several possibilities were discussed in order to the development of future didactic and scientific partnerships between University of Minho and Opole Univesity of Technology (Poland).

QOE @ SHO 2018, Guimarães

The Quality and Organizational Excellence Research Group (QOE–RG) was represented at the International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SHO) 2018. The event took place in Guimarães, Portugal between March 26-27. 

The QOE-RG was represented by Pedro Domingues, as a chair of the session ‘Safety Management’. Further, Catarina Saraiva (picture), presented the paper ‘Latest effortts aimed at upgrading the IMS-MM’ by Catarina Saraiva, Pedro Domingues, Paulo Sampaio, and Pedro Arezes. This work is the result of Catarina Saraiva master dissertation Quality Engineering and Management that was supervised by Pedro Domingues and Paulo Sampaio.

Paper published in Revista Qualidade

A paper related to the integrated management systems evolution in the Southern European countries, by Mónica Cabecinhas, Pedro Domingues, and Paulo Sampaio from the Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence members, has been recently published in Revista Qualidade (Portuguese Association for Quality).

The paper could be downloaded in the following link: http://publicacoes.apq.pt/revista-qualidade-2017-edicao-4/

RG-QOE January news

The first month of 2018 was very active for the Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence (RG-QOE).

Dalilis Escobar, a PhD student from the University of Girona, Spain, just arrived as a Visiting PhD Student for the next three months. Her research is focused on customer delight topic applied to service environment.

Rui Estrada, MSc in Quality Engineering and Management from the University of Minho, also started to work at the RG-QOE in the “Supply Chain Quality Management” project, which is one of the UMinho and Bosch Car Multimedia partnership projects.

The monthly meeting took place on January 12. This monthly meeting is an event where each Researcher does present the ongoing developments of his/her project.

A farewell dinner was organized in order to celebrate the next phase of André M. Carvalho PhD project. During the next year André will be at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA, US, as a Visiting PhD Student to proceed with his PhD thesis.

Julião Mussa got his PhD

Julião Mussa, PhD Student at the Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence - University of Minho, got his PhD with a thesis entitled "A sectorial-essencial-model for quality management systems implementation at higher education institutions".

Congrats Julião!

André Carvalho @ PubhD Braga

André Carvalho, MPP PhD Student at UMinho | Research Group on Quality and Organizational Excellence, will participate in the next PubhD UMinho - Braga. He'll be presenting his thesis “Operational Excellence Programs influence on organizational culture change” in 10 minutes, in a bar, over a drink.

PubhD is a science communication event that challenges PhD students to present their work to a non-specialized audience in just a few words. The innitiative begun in Nottingham, and reached Portugal in 2015. Events take place in Braga, Guimarães and Lisbon. 

In Braga, the event will take place at Sé la Vie, Rua Dom Paio Mendes, 37.

The "Future of Quality" Congress @ Brussels, Belgium

Paulo Sampaio is delivering a keynote speech entitled "Supply Chain Quality Management: a new organizational paradigm" in the Congress "The Future of Quality" organized by the Flemish Quality Management Center.

 

October 29, 2015 @ Brussels, Belgium

Congress Program