Rui M. Lima is an Associate Professor of the Department of Production and Systems, School of Engineering of University of Minho, Portugal. His current professional activity is centred on teaching and/or researching in Industrial Engineering and Management, mainly in the following areas: Production Management; Lean and Agile Project Management; Lean Services; Lean Production Systems; Engineering Education; Project-Based Learning (PBL); University-Business Cooperation (UBC). He is currently involved in international projects with universities of eight different countries from Europe, Asia and South America. He has more than 120 publications in journals, conferences and book chapters. He have been involved in editorial work in Ind. Engineering and Engineering Education journals.