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With their prominently displayed poster presentations at the 1st Annual MIT Portugal Conference, “Engineering for Better Jobs,” held at the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon on July 7, 2009, 110 MIT Portugal doctoral students and 30 program researchers demonstrated the breadth of the program’s research and education achievements to date in bioengineering systems, materials and design-inspired products, and sustainable energy and transportation systems.
The researchers who provided posters for display are the Principal Investigators for all of the MIT Portugal research projects funded by the recent open call conducted by Portugal’s Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), as well as many of the program’s original research projects. (The list of researchers is provided below.)
Best Poster Awards
During the course of the day’s events, MIT Portugal Program students attending the conference were invited to submit their votes for the top three student posters. Based on those votes, the Best Poster award was given, during the closing session, to PhD candidate Daniel Livengood of MIT’s Engineering Systems Division and the Sustainable Energy Systems group.
Livengood’s poster, “ The Energy Box: Locally Automated Control of Residential Energy Use,” describes his work with MIT Professors Richard Larson, James Kirtley and Stephen Graves on software that can manage a homeowner’s electricity consumption in response to stochastic and uncertain future conditions better than uncoordinated, “one appliance at a time” control. Livengood has built a dynamic programming structure for automated decision making and has tested that structure on an illustrative set of appliances and devices. Going forward, he will expand the structure to use approximate dynamic programming; this will allow for the inclusion of more appliances and devices. The aim of the Energy Box is to provide better grid control to electricity providers and cost savings to consumers.
(Read Livengood and Larson’s paper, “ The Energy Box: Locally Automated Optimal Control of Residential Electricity Useage,” published in Service Science earlier this year.)
 Image The poster awards ceremony
Second place in the poster competition was awarded to three students: Alexandra Marques of Sustainable Energy Systems and IST (“Environmental Responsibility: Indicators, Improvement and Applications”); Daniel Machado of Bioengineering Systems and the University of Minho (“Novel Modelling Formalisms and Simulation Tools in Computation Biosystems”); and Hana Gerbelová of Sustainable Energy Systems and IST (“Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Implementation into the Portuguese Energy System”).
Ricardo Almeida, a Leaders for Technical Industries PhD student from FEUP, was awarded Third Place (“Flexible Information Technologies for Complex and Non-Hierarchical Supply Chain Networks").
Principal Investigators
The principal investigators whose posters were displayed at the conference were: Eugénio Campos Ferreira (IBB; University of Minho), Lino da Silva Ferreira (CNC; University of Coimbra), Duarte Miguel Prazeres (IBB/IST), Maria Amália da Silva Jurado (CNC; University of Coimbra), Jorge Martins (University of Minho), Arlindo Silva (IST), Miguel Tavares da Silva (IDMEC/IST), Francisco M. Andrade Pires (FEUP), Raimundo Delgado (FEUP), Luis Filipe Galrão dos Reis (IST), V. Cruz Machado (University Nova of Lisbon), António J. Pontes (University of Minho), Paulo M.S.T. de Castro (FEUP), Luis Alexandre Rocha (University of Minho), Carla Silva (IDMEC/IST), Ricardo Simões (University of Minho), Antonio Pais Antunes (FCTUC), Rosário Macário (IST), Luisa Caldas (Technical University of Lisbon), Francisco Camara Pereira (FCTUC), João Barros (FEUP), João Pedroso de Lima (University of Coimbra), José Manuel Viegas (IST), Ricardo O. Louro (ITQB), Carlos Augusto Santos Silva (CSI-IDMEC), and Luis P. Fonseca (IBB/IST).
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