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CEMMPRE - Centre for Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Processes is an interdisciplinary R&D Unit of the Foundation for Science and Technology - FCT (nº 285).

The mission of CEMMPRE is to advance scientific and technical knowledge and capabilities, through interdisciplinary collaboration across disciplines and scientific areas that can lead to breakthroughs and innovation, in order to contribute to a more sustainable world.

Members of CEMMPRE have different backgrounds (chemistry, physics, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, physics engineering, electrical engineering, and materials engineering, among others) and all together bring different points of view to bear on joint scientific issues. The majority of the researchers of CEMMPRE belongs to the University of Coimbra and they teach in a considerable number of undergraduate, graduate ad post-graduate programs, mainly MSc and Ph.D., whose curricular structure contains all the CEMMPRE scientific areas (e.g. Mechanical engineering, Materials engineering, Chemical engineering, Biomedical engineering, Industrial engineering and management, Tribology of surfaces and interfaces, Advanced materials and processing, Design for intelligent manufacturing).

The research activity of CEMMPRE is aligned with the four innovation platforms of Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) of the central region of Portugal, that interact with CEMMPRE’s areas of research on Intelligent Manufacturing; Design & Testing, Surface and Interface Engineering, Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Bioengineering, and Advanced Sensor Systems (CEMMPRE keywords).

CEMMPRE’s general policy is based on cooperation between universities and research centres with the business sector and society in general, promoting innovation, dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge, advanced training, and strategies for regional, national and international development. The relationships between CEMMPRE and other institutions, such as Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN) have led to stimulating new ideas for new mechanical processes, materials, technologies, prototypes and products to be directly transferred to enterprises, mainly through its laboratories “LED&MAT - Laboratory for Wear, Testing & Materials” and “LEC - Laboratory for Electroanalysis and Corrosion”, headed by researchers from CEMMPRE. IPN – Incubator is also a strategic partner for starting new enterprises based on strong and promising ideas.

Brief History

In 1991, ICEMS-Institute of Science and Engineering of Materials and Surfaces (Coimbra) was founded; this R&D Unit was focused mainly on materials science and engineering. In 1994, CEMUC-Centre for Mechanical Engineering was founded being focused on mechanical engineering. In 2008, these two R&D Units, with the GMM/IMAT - Metallic Materials Group of the Materials Institute (University of Porto) were gathered together and kept the name CEMUC.

In 2017, a new name (CEMMPRE) was adopted as the result of the restructuring plan implemented, considered the main criticisms of the evaluation panel of the FCT evaluation in 2013; the main objective is to cover, in a consistent way, the different scientific activities of the previous R&D Units: mechanical engineering, materials and processes.

During the period 2013-2017, CEMUC/CEMMPRE comprised three different participant institutions (University of Coimbra - UC as host institution, University of Porto - UP, and University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro - UTAD). It was organized into seven scientific groups: Advanced fabrication systems; Bioengineering and polymer synthesis, Mining and raw materials, Nanomaterials and microfabrication; Sensors and nanoelectrochemistry; Structural integrity; and Surface engineering. In 2017, these seven groups were merged into the two current groups: Mechanical and Intelligent Manufacturing, and Materials and Processes. After 2018, CEMMPRE comprised just one participant institution, the University of Coimbra, although gathering researchers from other research institutions.

In 2021, CEMMPRE with four more R&D Units (CDRSP – Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development, ISISE – Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering, ISR-UC – Institute of Systems and Robotic, and SYSTEC - Research Centre for Systems and Technologies) created the Associated Laboratory ARISE- Advanced Production and Intelligent Systems.

In 2018, CEMMPRE was ranked as “Excellent” in the evaluation of R&D Units by FCT.

Objectives and Strategy

The top 10 General Objectives and Implementation Strategy of CEMMPRE are based on two main pillars:

- Consolidation of the new structure/organization and
- Reinforcement of the scientific guidelines.

Organization

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Scientific Committee comprises all Integrated PhD members

EXECUTIVE BOARD

AC
Albano Cavaleiro
Coordinator
MO
Marta Oliveira
Vice-Coordinator
AR
Ana Sofia Ramos
Vice-Coordinator

Internal Scientific Advisory Board

Composed of the Coordinator, the two Vice-coordinators and the following six integrated PhD members (three from each group) elected by the Scientific Committee:

AR
Amilcar Ramalho
Responsible for Group A
AP
Ana Paula Piedade
Responsible for Group B
AA
Ana Paula Amaro
Group A
LM
Luis Menezes
Group A
BT
Bruno Trindade
Group B
PM
Paula Morais
Group B

External Scientific Advisory

Günter Bräuer
Institute for Surface Technology (IST), Technical University of Braunschweig (previously at Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films), Germany

João Rocha
Centre for Research in Ceramics and Composite Materials (CICECO), University of Aveiro, Associated Laboratories Board, Portugal

Margherita Peruzzini
X-in-the-Loop Simulation Lab, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Mohammad Taherzadeh
Swedish Centre for Resource Recovery, University of Borås, Sweden

Nuno da Silva
Technological Centre of Molding Industry, Special Tools and Plastics (CENTIMFE), Durit group, Portugal

Paulo Ferreira
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), University of Lisbon, Portugal

Paulo Tavares de Castro
University of Porto, Portugal (emeritus professor)

Sandrine Thuillier
Brittany Materials Engineering Laboratory (LIMATB), University of Bretagne Sud, France

Tim Hosenfeldt
Schaeffler AG, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany

Institutions