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The mission of Instituto Superior Técnico,
IST, is to contribute to the development of society
by promoting a higher education of outstanding quality
in the areas of Engineering, Science & Technology
at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and the Research
& Development activities essential to ensure the
highest standard of education. The mission of IST thus
reflects the activities that define the concept of modern
Research Universities, namely, Education and Research
& Development, which are undertaken to create knowledge,
to train knowledgeable professionals and to transfer
and disseminate knowledge. With a faculty of nearly
1,000 teachers, of whom approximately 70% have a PhD
degree, in 1997 IST provided 16 undergraduate programmes
(5 -years degree) to about 8,250 students, 22 master
programmes to about 1,000 students in a wide range of
engineering and technology related areas, and 20 doctorate
areas. In addition, a range of research & development
(R&D) activities, mainly under European contracts,
have been performed in recent years and the scientific/technological
results achieved have been reported in a number of well-known
publications.
The linkage of IST's activities to the perceived demands
and expectations of society has been a constant feature
of IST's role in society. In fact, IST has had a strong
impact on development in key scientific and technological
areas in Portugal, and has, with its graduates, provided
the Portuguese society with a group of highly visible
people. With its internal critical mass, extensive network
of contacts (both national and international) and a
distinguished history of over 85 years, IST holds a
unique position in the context of Portuguese higher
education.
CEHIDRO - CENTRO DE ESTUDOS DE
HIDROSSISTEMAS OF INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO
CEHIDRO - Centro de Estudos de Hidrossistemas
- is a research Centre of the Instituto Superior Técnico
(IST), Technical University of Lisbon. CEHIDRO carries
out basic and applied research on the areas of hydraulics,
water resources and environment; it participates in
the establishment of science and technology policies
of the Civil Engineering and Architecture Department
(DECivil) of the IST. The studies carried out in the
Centre are scientifically relevant and benefit the teaching
activities of the IST, namely of the DECivil and the
Hydraulics and Water and Environment Resources Division.
The activities of the CEHIDRO are directed towards several
objectives and needs with relevant importance for the
society. Thus, the main strategic objectives of the
Centre are:
- hydraulic and hydrologic security;
- support to the design and management of hydrossystems;
- water resources and society challenges;
- hydraulics and water resources for an improved environmental
quality.
The above strategic objectives constitute
the framework for the activities carried out within
the five research groups of the CEHIDRO. These research
groups follow an equal number of research lines:
- applied hydrodynamics and hydro-transients;
- hydraulic structures and fluvial systems;
- maritime hydraulics and works;
- hydrology, water resources and environment;
- water quality and pollution control.
The studies carried out in the Centre are based on
mathematical modelling, experimentation and field work.
The Centre is equipped with hardware and software and
uses facilities such as the Laboratory of Hydraulics
and Water Resources and the Laboratory of Environment
of the Civil Engineering Department. It also works in
partnership with the Laboratório Nacional de
Engenharia Civil (National Laboratory of Civil Engineering),
this way contributing to the use of some of its large
facilities, and it is inserted in several european research
networks and projects.
CEHIDRO disseminates its scientific and technologic
results in the society by continuously improving the
teaching activities of IST, particularly in the Civil
Engineering, Territory Engineering and Environment Engineering
undergraduate programmes and in the masters programme
on Hydraulics and Water Resources. This dissemination
activity includes the support and supervision of dissertations
and theses. The members of the Centre participate regularly
in the organisation of scientific national and international
meetings and promote specific dissemination actions
directed to the staff of the public administration as
well as of private entities working in the water industry
and in environmental planning and management.
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Full Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico
(IST) since 1989. He has been a Consulting Engineer,
in several institutions, since 1974. He has participated
in several important projects concerning Dams, Hydroelectric
Power Plants, Irrigation and Water Systems and River
Hydraulics in Portugal and abroad. During 17 years,
he was the Director of the Research Centre on Water
Resources (CEHIDRO) of the Civil Engineering Department
of IST.
Until September of 2002 was the head of the Civil Department
of IST. He was supervisor of several M.Sc. and Ph.D.
theses. His fields of interest are Hydraulics, Hydrodynamics,
Water Resources, Hydrotransients, Environment, Hydraulic
Structures, Safety and Risk. He is the Director of the
Investigation Project "Dam Break Flood Risk Management
in Portugal" financed by the "NATO Science
and Society. Science for Stability Programme",
since 1994. He organised several scientific international
meetings. He is the author of several publications including
several books.
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António Heleno Cardoso concluded the Licence
in Civil Engineering in 1978 at the Instituto Superior
Técnico (IST), the M.Sc. in Hydraulics and Water
Resources at the same school in 1985 and the Ph.D. at
the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in 1989.
During 12 years he was a research officer at the Hydraulics
Department of the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering.
He is presently Associate Professor at the Civil Engineering
Department of IST, where he teaches basic Hydraulics
as well as River Hydraulics. He was the Director of
the Research Centre on Water Resources (CEHIDRO) of
the Civil Engineering Department between 2000 and 2002
and he his presently the Deputy Director of the same
Department.
He has worked mainly in the field of River Hydraulics,
covering subjects from resistance to flow, sediment
transport or turbulence in open channels to local scour,
scour countermeasures or flood wave propagation on mobile
bed open channels. Within this field, he has been in
charge of several research projects financed by the
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and
several consulting actions. He has authored one book
on River Hydraulics and about eighty publications in
national and international journals and national and
international conferences.
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Email: ahc@civil.ist.utl.pt
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António
Betâmio de Almeida
