Rita has an Integrated Master in Civil Engineering, given by Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon), where she mainly focussed in the field of Urban Planning, Transportation and Systems. After finishing her degree she worked for about three months working at a Transportation Systems company and, for the rest of the year, she collaborated with her University to develop and revise the Municipality of Sines’ Master Plan. For her final project, she studied the development and modelling of Smart Cities and if, for that, the opened standard CityGML could be used. With this she realised that technology and innovation alone cannot move the world forward, cities need to keep up and be prepared to receive these current developments. Through AAPS she hopes to keep exploring the concept of smart cities (transportation and urban planning) and investigating how they can develop alongside the current advancements in the automotive industry. She enjoys lifelong learning to approach collaboratively new challenges in a team, working towards collective goals for the public good.
| Name | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| AAPS ITT2 | AAPS ITT2 took place in collaboration with external partners from Horiba Mira virtually. Academics, students and industry representatives work collaboratively in groups throughout the week to describe and formulate real-life industrial problems into research proposals. During the ITT Students gained research distillation, presentation and group working skills. |
01/06/2020
- 05/06/2020 |
| AAPS ITT3 | AAPS ITT3 took place in collaboration with external partners from Horiba Mira virtually, on the theme of Cybersecurity in the Automotive Industry. Academics, students and industry representatives work collaboratively in groups throughout the week to describe and formulate real-life industrial problems into research proposals. During the ITT Students gained research distillation, presentation and group working skills. |
18/01/2021
- 22/01/2021 |
| RRI Training - Cohort 2 | Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is an important part of the AAPS CDT’s training programme, so each student undertakes an introduction into RRI to be able to understand and explain the concept of RRI, the importance of RRI and to illustrate how RRI principles can be implemented. |
11/05/2021 |
| AAPS ITT4 | AAPS ITT4 took place in collaboration with external partners from National Express. Academics, students and industry representatives work collaboratively in groups throughout the week to describe and formulate real-life industrial problems into research proposals. During the ITT Students gained research distillation, presentation and group working skills. |
07/06/2021
- 11/06/2021 |
| Summer Masterclass - LCA | AAPS CDT Students attended a summer masterclass on the topic of LCA, where they gained an overview of sustainability and learn the theory of LCA (attributional, consequential, use in existing and emerging technology/materials) and looked into different case studies. |
06/07/2021
- 14/07/2021 |
| Peer Mentor Training - Cohort 2 | Each student is assigned a peer mentor when they join the programme, and then subsequently become a peer mentor to the following intake of students. Peer mentoring training is delivered by the Student Union to provide students with key insights on how to be a good mentor such as being a good active listener and a set of psychological models that can be used to encourage reflective discussions. |
11/08/2021 |
| WECA Local Mobility Planning Workshop | This workshop, hosted by WECA (West of England Combined Authority), provided an opportunity to work with a local authority and to discuss solutions and improvements to the surrounding mobility and transportation infrastructure while utilising the CDTs multidisciplinary pool of knowledge. This session gave an oversight to WECA's Future Transport Zone (FTZ). |
02/05/2021 |
| AAPS CDT Student Podcast Organising Committee | Part of the student organising committee for the AAPS CDT Podcast series |
16/07/2021
- 31/10/2022 |
| Map Academy: Get mapping quickly, with QGIS | Udemy online course |
09/03/2022
- 21/03/2022 |
| AAPS ITT6 | AAPS ITT6 took place in collaboration with external partners from SHELL in the centre of Bath. Academics, students and industry representatives work collaboratively in groups throughout the week to describe and formulate real-life industrial problems into research proposals. During the ITT Students gained research distillation, presentation and group working skills. |
05/06/2022
- 10/06/2022 |
| Public Engagement training 2022 | Training session for engaging with the public with Science made simple |
26/04/2022
- 31/05/2022 |
| Poster Skills session | Session that address how to write eye catching and informative posters as well as how to present them. |
20/05/2022
- 20/05/2022 |
| Research Incubator: Hydrogen | Research Incubator: Hydrogen took place in the centre of Bath. Academics, students and industry representatives work collaboratively in groups throughout the week to describe and formulate real-life industrial problems into research proposals. During the Research Incubator, students gained research distillation, presentation and group working skills. |
23/01/2023
- 27/01/2023 |
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