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  • Among the cornerstones of engineering education – CDIO

    Steel sculpture on Reykjavik’s waterfront called The Sun voyager
    ‘Solfar’ or ‘Sun Voyager.’ The artist Jon Gunnar Arnason created the striking landmark.
    Published Jun 21, 2022

    KTH (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan) faculty and representatives from The Department of Learning in Engineering Sciences visited the Reykjavik University in Iceland for the 18th CDIO International Confer...

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  • KTH hosts doctoral school within the DimanD project

    researchers with skyline in the background
    Participants in the doctoral school within the project DimanD visiting Stockholm.
    Published Jun 20, 2022

    14 talented young researchers from across Europe participated in a doctoral school named “Challenge driven research for digital manufacturing” in mid June. The Department of Production Engineering arr...

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  • A summer event at EGI – in real life

    Brännboll players
    A brännboll session at Uggleviksparken where both faculty and students participated.
    Published Jun 20, 2022

    After two years of pandemic and Zoom happenings, the Sustainable Energy Engineering program was finally able to make the SEE summer event a reality. On June 3, the master students could enjoy brännb...

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  • Professor from INDEK on Swedish Radio

    Published Jun 20, 2022

    Lightning-fast Swish transfers have competed out cash - but it has also benefited criminal activities such as sex purchases, drug trafficking and robbery. The police are chasing the digital tracks and...

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  • IV2022 Best Student Paper Awards

    Published Jun 16, 2022

    Focusing on safety in the field of autonomous driving: "Foresee the Unseen: Sequential Reasoning about Hidden Obstacles for Safe Driving" and "Uncertainty Aware Data Driven Precautionary Safety for A...

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  • 'A futuristic production node that we all believe in'

    Staff of the new department
    On June 9 there was a kickoff for the new department and the staff gathered at Campus Valhallavägen. The department's future activities will be located on both Campus Södertälje and Campus Valhallavägen.
    Published Jun 15, 2022

    A brand new department is launched at KTH. It is a merger of the ITM school's two previous departments in the field of production. ‘I see this as a unique opportunity to create mutual reinforcements b...

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  • EHE - Enhancing Higher Education

    Published Jun 14, 2022

    The Department of Learning in Engineering sciences in collaboration with the International Relations Office hosted a weeklong program called EHE (Enhancing Higher Education) for 26 participants. The p...

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  • Neutron and X-ray competence spinned off

    Two men working together in a lab.
    Peter and Ahmet at the D33 small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) beamline at the Institut Laue–Langevin in France.
    Published Jun 09, 2022

    More and more companies want to use neutrons and synchotron X-rays to develop materials, but not all have the in-house know-how and capacity for doing it. Former KTH PhD student Ahmet Bahadir Yildiz a...

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  • Lihui Wang curates international AI forum

    Image: Unsplash.
    Published Jun 07, 2022

    Professor Lihui Wang at the department of Production Engineering will curate a forum for AI and Manufacturing. In a series of webinars, high-profile researchers, practitioners, and politicians will sh...

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  • Energy research helps boost heat pumps in the U.S.

    Man on a roof top with solar cells.
    Nelson Sommerfeldt is a small-town kid working as a researcher in exotic Stockholm.
    Published Jun 07, 2022

    Researcher Nelson Sommerfeldt is spreading the impact of Swedish energy research. With the U.S. University Michigan Tech, KTH now helps decarbonize home heating on a new continent.

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  • Professor Niklas Arvidsson comments on vulnerability in payment systems

    Published Jun 01, 2022
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  • Meet ITRL’s new vice-director

    Published May 30, 2022

    This month we welcome our new vice-director! Jens Hagman is joining the team to further develop ITRL 2.0.

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  • Digital resources to match students' prior knowledge

    Published May 23, 2022

    Patricia Diaz, a PhD student at Digital Learning, and Kristina Alexanderson, head of the Internet Foundation's school initiatives, give examples of digital resources for checking students' prior knowl...

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  • Adjustable visors with 4D printing method

    Visors in different sizes
    Researchers at KTH suggest a new post-processing method for visors, enabled by closed-loop controlled 4D printing that further can shape the printed visor to any size.
    Published May 17, 2022

    3D printed protective visors are often uncomfortable for the user. With a new printing method – closed loop controlled 4D printing – the visors can be shaped to any customized size to make them more c...

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  • Driving the shift – Long-term partnerships for sustainable innovation

    Group photo
    Representatives from KTH and Scania gathered outside for a quick group photo before the event.
    Published May 13, 2022

    ITRL is a center located in the heart of the KTH campus in Stockholm. The center studies the sustainability transformation of the transportation system in the light of automation, digitalization, conn...

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  • Research from ITRL on IVA’s 100-list

    Group photo of Frank Jiang, Elisa Bin, and Mustafa Al-Janabi.
    Elisa Bin, Frank Jiang and Mustafa Al-Janabi, founders of ABConnect.
    Published May 12, 2022

    The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) recently presented its 100-list with research projects that are expected to contribute to society and business. One of the people included is Fr...

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  • New forum makes INDEK stay relevant

    Published May 11, 2022

    Last week, the newly established INDEK Advisory Board had its first meeting on a sunny campus.

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  • Comparing public policies in Higher Ed to bring women to the board

    Photo by Library of Congress on Unsplash
    Published May 10, 2022

    The purpose of this study is to compare academic leadership prospects for women in four countries: Germany, Poland, Norway, and Sweden.

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  • Unexpected bonds between covid and inorganic surfaces

    A coin, a corona virus and a detail of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and inorganic surfaces.
    Quantum mechanical modeling predicts strong interactions between glucosides of the tip of the S1 subunit of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and inorganic surfaces. These interactions depend largely on the type of surface and on the presence of surface bound water.
    Published May 04, 2022

    By using quantum mechanical modeling KTH has revealed how the covid virus interacts with inorganic surfaces. And the virus reacts a little bit different than expected.

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  • The university as Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

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    Published May 04, 2022

    The authors use Tönnies' twin concepts of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft to analyze what early career academics (ECAs) gone through when they were recruited as assistant professors to gain tenure.

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