I don't know how far this is from Porto, since the article just stated "Not too far from the northern Portuguese city of Porto", but there's a notable engineeri

I don't know how far this is from Porto, since the article just stated "Not too far from the northern Portuguese city of Porto", but there's a notable engineering university in Porto, FEUP (Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto). The other one (Instituto Superior Técnico) is in Lisbon, around 300km away.