Anabela Carvalho Alves’s main research interests are in the areas of Production Systems Design and Operation; Lean Production (Lean Healthcare, Lean Services, Lean Product Development, Lean & TRIZ, Lean-Green, and Lean & Ergonomics); Production Planning and Control, Project Management and Engineering Education, with a particular interest in active learning methodologies, Project-Led Education (PLE), Project/Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and Lean Education. She is Author/co-author of more than 130 publications in conferences publications or communications, 2 books, 2 co-edited books, 4 editions of conference proceedings, 21 book chapters, and 30 international journal articles. She supervised two Ph.D. and supervising 5 PhD, supervised one post-doc, 61 Master dissertations in the areas of Industrial Engineering and Management. Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of the International Symposium on Project Approaches in Engineering Education (PAEE), (http://paee.dps.uminho.pt). She organizes of the topic of Curriculum Innovations, Pedagogy, and Learning Methodologies in the ASME conference IMECE. She has been organizing workshops about Lean Education and PBL.