Anabela Carvalho Alves

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Senior Researcher with PhD

Member of the IEM R&D Group

Member of the LPSL R&D Lab

Academic Degree

PhD

Current Position

Other at Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

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Personal Email

anabela@dps.uminho.pt

Orcid

0000-0002-2926-4187

Researcher ID

B-3330-2008

Ciência ID

1618-5CF5-C78A

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UOhg35UAAAAJ&hl=en

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Publications

161

Editorial

Citations

2299

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About Me

Anabela C. Alves is an Associate Professor in the Department of Production and Systems/School of Engineering/University of Minho. She holds a Ph.D. in Production and Systems Engineering and is affiliated with the Center ALGORITMI/LASI. Her main research interests are in the areas of Production Systems Design and Operation; Lean Thinking applied to Production, Healthcare, Services, Product Development, Systematic Innovation (TRIZ), Sustainability, Ergonomics, Project Management; and Engineering Education, with particular interest in active learning methodologies, Project-Led Education (PLE), Project/Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and Lean Education. She is director of Industrial Engineering and Management Master, School of Engineering; University of Minho since 01/06/2023 and she was director of Industrial Engineering Master and Engineering and Operations Management Master from 01/07/2021 to 31/05/2023. She is author/coauthor of more than 200 publications in conferences publications, or communications, including 3 books, 4 co-edited books, 18 editions of conference proceedings and journal special issues, 46 book chapters, and more than 140 international journal articles (Scopus h-index: 23; WoS h-index: 14). She supervised 5 PhDs, and she is supervising 3 PhDs, supervised one postdoc, more than 100 Master dissertations and co-supervised 15, besides having supervised 22 BSc. degree projects in the areas of Industrial Engineering and Management. She was President of Master´s Jury exams of more than 60 and she was examiner of almost 100 Master dissertations and five national and international PhD. She is "Top Peer Reviewer", reviewed more than 170 papers for international journals and more than 200 for conferences. She is a founder member of the Project Approaches in Engineering Education (PAEE) Association (http://paee.dps.uminho.pt) and a permanent member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Active Learning in Engineering Education (PAEE/ALE). She has been organizing the topic of Curriculum Innovations, Pedagogy and Learning Methodologies in the ASME conference IMECE and the track of Engineering Education since IMECE2021. She was involved in more than 50 Conferences Scientific and Organizing Committees. She was sponsored by FLAD through “Papers@USA" to participate in IMECE in 2013 and 2017. She was visiting scholar at Oakland University, Michigan, US (September 7–December 7, 2014) and at Milwaukee School of Engineering, Wisconsin, U.S. (September 30–29 October, 2023). She was a mobility teacher at the University Polytechnique delle Marche (Ancona, Italy, 2018), Bucharest University (Romania, 2018), Eindhoven University of Technology (Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2022), and Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan) under Erasmus+ program. She was sponsored by SGroup Universities in Europe through an ICON grant for the mobility scheme with Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. She is also a member of the following societies and networks: SOCOLNET - Society of Collaborative Networks; Portuguese Society of Engineering Education (SPEE); Portuguese Institute of Industrial Engineering (IPEI); American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); Lean Education Academic Network (LEAN), European Professors of Industrial Engineering and Management (EPIEM) (being a member of the drive group) and advisor fellow of IEM Care Foundation. She won the pedagogical award of School of Engineering of University of Minho in 2021 and the Dedicated Server Award in 2023 from ASME-Processes Industries Division. She was distinguished in the list of “World’s Top 2% Scientists 2022”, study of Stanford University (EUA) and of Elsevier group. She was selected for the International Mentoring Program, promoted by the International Mentoring Foundation for the Advancement of Higher Education (IMFAHE). She was involved in 4 financed projects and 3 in progress with industry. She is also involved in 2 Project Erasmus+. She has been organizing workshops about Lean Education and PBL. She is collaborating with General Inspectorate of Education and Science (in Portuguese: Inspeção-Geral da Educação e Ciência) as expert external examiner of public Portuguese Schools.

Publications (306)

Game-based learning in engineering education: Using the Goldratt Simulator to learn about the theory of constraints

Revista Gestão da Produção Operações e Sistemas

2024 | journal-article

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