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They didn’t manage to complete the project as intended, but the summer job at Newton Nordic still exceeded their expectations. “Now I’m sure that the education I chose was exactly right for me”, says LiU student Viktor Uvesten.

The ten-year, highly productive collaboration between Linköping University, ABB Corporate Research, ABB Robotics, Saab Aeronautics and Scania is to be continued and extended in the Vinnova-funded competence centre, LINK-SIC.

Linköping University is one of several universities around the world working together to improve engineering education. Taking inspiration from LiU, several engineering programmes in Brazil are undergoing radical change.

What can an engineering career involve? First-year master’s students of applied physics and electrical engineering are gaining experience through their first development project – programming the Yumi collaborative robot from ABB.

Professor Svante Gunnarsson of the Division of Automatic Control at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY) has been awarded the Institute of Technology’s prize for outstanding teaching.