Dr. António P. Vale Urgueira, graduated in Mechanical Engineering from IST-UNL in 1977, obtaining his Msc in Mechanical Project Engineering in 1985, at the same institution. In 1989 he received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College, University of London, and the title of Doctor in Mechanical Engineering at UNL in 1990. He has been an Associated Professor of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department (DEMI) of the FCT-UNL since 1995 and also its President since 2007.