Bruna Aurélia Oliveira Sá Couto (171B-2014-F6DE)

Curriculum Vitae

Bruna Aurélia Oliveira Sá Couto

Bruna Sá Couto has a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. The Master's included a research on the development of a tool to assess the level of sustainability integration in different engineering study cycles. Since October 2023, she has been a Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy (LEPABE), having previously participated in the same project as a Scientific Initiation Fellow. Her main research focus currently revolves around sustainability, specifically in the development of an assessment tool to measure the integration of sustainable development in engineering education and facilitate effective changes.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Bruna Aurélia Oliveira Sá Couto

Citation names

Sá Couto, Bruna
Oliveira, Bruna

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 171B-2014-F6DE

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Environmental Engineering - Environmental Engineering

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023/10/02 - 2027/07/06 Ongoing	Programa Doutoral em Engenharia do Ambiente (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/10/12 - 2023/07/06 Concluded	Engenharia do Ambiente (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Baseline for the development of a sustainability assessment tool for engineering degrees" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2018/09/12 - 2021/07/02 Concluded	Engenharia do Ambiente (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	15

Affiliation

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/10/03 - 2024/10/03	Research (Project Grant)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Laboratorio de Engenharia de Processos Ambiente Biotecnologia e Energia, Portugal
2022/07/11 - 2022/09/11	Summer Internship	Câmara Municipal de Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/10/04 - 2024/10/03	EDS@FEUP EDS@FEUP Research Fellow Universidade do Porto Laboratorio de Engenharia de Processos Ambiente Biotecnologia e Energia, Portugal	Ongoing
2023/04/27 - 2023/09/26	EDS@FEUP EDS@FEUP Scientific Initiation Fellow Universidade do Porto Laboratorio de Engenharia de Processos Ambiente Biotecnologia e Energia, Portugal	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Journal article

Nobre, Maria L.F.; Tavares, Daniel; Fraga, Carolina; Sá Couto, Bruna; Dias, Mafalda; Mesquita, Sara; Oliveira, Catarina M.; Pires, José C.M.. "Techno-economic analysis of a circular microalgal approach for enhanced wastewater treatment and resource recovery in Northern Portugal". Journal of Cleaner Production 434 (2024): 140389. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.140389.
Published

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2025/06/18	Categorising Sustainability Learning Outcomes in Engineering	Twelfth International Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development King’s College London (London, United Kingdom)
2024/10/18	Crafting a Sustainable Development Assessment Framework in Engineering Education: The Education Offering Dimension	6ª Conferência Campus Sustentável Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2024/09/08	A Collective intelligence workshop entitled "Assessment framework to improve integration of sustainable development in engineering education" was conducted to get feedback and different perspectives on how to improve the assessment framework.	Higher Education Summit 2024

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025/02/18 - 2025/06/05	Assessment Tool for the Integration of Sustainable Development in Engineering Education – Application to Engineering Programs at FEUP Co-supervisor	Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering (Degree) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal