Este Grupo está direcionado para a gestão e utilização de tecnologia com vista ao benefício humano. Os projetos de investigação salientam a integração de novas tecnologias na otimização de processos ou serviços onde se requere ou ambiciona uma gestão de recursos melhorada.

O trabalho de investigação é integrado em duas principais linhas de pesquisa: uso otimizado de recursos em operações – metodologias lowcost para obter os objetivos sustentáveis de desenvolvimento, eficiência energética de sistemas de aquecimento, design e desenvolvimento de dispositivos médicos para propósitos de reabilitação; e o uso otimizado dos recursos nos serviços – investigação no desenvolvimento e a aplicação de Sistemas Integrados de Gestão (SIG).

Seleção dos Principais Documentos Publicados até 2019

• Amaral, L. P., Araújo, A., Mendes, E., & Martins, N. (2014). Economic and environmental assessment of renewable energy micro-systems in a developing country. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 7, 101–110. 

• Araújo, A., & Martins, N. (2015). Monte Carlo simulations of ambient temperature uncertainty determined by dual-band pyrometry. Measurement Science and Technology, 26(8), 085016.

• Domingues, M. S. Q., Baptista, A., & T., D. M. (2017). Engineering Complex Systems applied to Risk Management in the Mining Industry. International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, (27), 611–616. 

• Ferreira Rebelo, M., Santos, G., & Silva, R. G. (2014). A generic model for integration of Quality, Environment and Safety Management Systems.TQM Journal, 26(2), 143– 159. 

• Ferreira Rebelo, M., Silva, R. G., & Santos, G. (2017). The integration of standardized management systems: managing business risk. International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 34(3), 395–405. 

• Ferreira, N., & Oliveira, M. M. (2016). Portfolio efficiency analysis with SFA: the case of PSI-20 companies. Applied Economics, 48(1), 1–6.

• Martins, J. H., Camacho, A. S., Oliveira, M. M., & Gaspar, M. B. (2013). A System Dynamics model to support the management of artisanal dredge fisheries in the south coast of Portugal. International Transactions in Operational Research, (22), 611–634.  

• Oliveira, M. M. (2013). The influence of catch quotas on the productivity of the Portuguese bivalve dredge fleet. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 70(7), 1378–1388. 

• Oliveira, M. M., Camacho, A. S., & Gaspar, M. B. (2014). Enhancing the performance of quota managed fisheries using seasonality information: the case of the Portuguese artisanal dredge fleet. Marine Policy, 45(3), 114–120. 

• Quinteiro, P., Dias, A.C., Araújo, A., Pestana, J. L. T., Riddout, B. G. & Arroja, L. (2015). Suspended solids in freshwater systems: characterization model describing potential impacts on aquatic biota. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 20(9), 1232-1242.  

• Rebelo, M. F., Santos, G., & Silva, R. G. (2014). Conception of a flexible integrator and lean model for integrated management systems. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 25(5–6), 683–701 .

• Rebelo, M. F., Santos, G., & Silva, R. G. (2016). Integration of management systems: towards a sustained success and development of organizations. Journal of Cleaner Production, 127, 96–111. 

• Resende, V., Alves, A. C., Batista, A., & Ângela, S. (2014). Financial and human benefits of Lean Production in the plastic injection industry: an action research study. International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, 5(2), 61–75. 

• Santos, G., Barros, S., & Rebelo, M. F. (2014). Quality, Environment and Safety: From Individual Systems to Integration - A Portuguese Case Study. In Annals of Industrial Engineering 2012 (pp. 283–290). London: Springer London.

• Santos, G., Rebelo, M. F., Barros, S., Silva, R. G., Pereira, M., Ramos, G., & Lopes, N. (2014). Developments About the Integration of the Occupational Safety and Health with Quality and Environment. In Occupational Safety and Health (pp. 113–146). New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc. 

• Santos, G., Rebelo, M. F., Lopes, N., Alves, M. R., & Silva, R. G. (2016). Implementing and certifying ISO 14001 in Portugal: motives, difficulties and benefits after ISO 9001 certification. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 27(11–12), 1211– 1223.  

• Silva, S., Soares, I., & Afonso, O. (2013). Economic and environmental effects under resource scarcity and substitution between renewable and non-renewable resources. Energy Policy, 54, 113–124.

• Silva, S., Soares, I., & Afonso, O. (2013). Economic growth and polluting resources: Market equilibrium and optimal policies. Economic Modelling, 30, 825–834.