woman to study engineering in Portugal and the first woman to teach chemical engineering (1939) Mariano Gago, Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, electrical engineering (1960) Nuno Maulide, full professor of organic chemistry at the University of Vienna at the age of 33 (2013) and Austria's scientist of the year (2018) Pedro Domingos, researcher in machine learning, professor at University of Washington, author of The Master Algorithm Pepetela, Angolan writer, sociology professor (did not graduate) Paulo Branco, film producer and distributor, chemical engineering (did not graduate) Raul Pires Ferreira Chaves, inventor, former Director of Public Works in Cape Verde and Portuguese Guinea, former president of Associação Industrial, Comercial e Agrícola da Guiné Stephan Morais, first Portuguese to be nominated a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, civil engineering (1996). Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira, General and Governor of Macao, civil engineering See also University of Lisbon Rádio Zero FenixEdu Air Cargo Challenge References External links Instituto Superior Técnico Home Page Universidade de Lisboa Home Page Mobility and International Cooperation Office (NMCI) "Study at IST" Rádio Zero Instituto Superior Técnico Radio Diferencial Instituto Superior Técnico Newspaper CinemaParaIST Instituto Superior Técnico Film Club Projecto FST Instituto Superior Técnico Formula Student Team University of Lisbon Engineering universities and colleges in Portugal Educational institutions established in 1911 1911 establishments in Portugal Modernist architecture in Portugal Estado Novo (Portugal) architecture