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International Conference on Engineering Design 2015

ICED was back to Italy this summer, 34 years after it kicked off in Rome in 1981. PDRL was well represented with 6 papers, covering a range of topics under the common denominator of supporting innovation and engineering activities “in real life”. See below for more info on our contributions to ICED’15.   MODEL BASED DECISION […]

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Designing with Priorities and Thresholds for Health Care Heterogeneity

Research paper published at International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2015, Design for Life, Milan, Italy, 27-30 July, 2015. Abstract Designing systems working in health care needs complying with the heterogeneous, overlapping, non-overlapping, competing, or even contradicting requirements expressed by the various actors of the health care complex environment, including regulatory bodies. The unification method […]

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Book contribution

PhD candidate Babak Kianian, Professor Tobias Larsson, together with Sam Tavassoli (of Industrial Economics) will appear in the new book “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy – Knowledge, Technology and Internationalization” from Edward Elgar Publishing. The contribution is entitled “Manufacturing Renaissance: Return of Manufacturing to Western Countries”. S. Tavassoli, B. Kianian, T.C. Larsson. (2015) Manufacturing Renaissance: Return […]

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Andre Benaim presented his Licentiate thesis

June 12, Andre Benaim, PhD candidate in Innovation Engineering, presented his Licentiate thesis. The title of the thesis is: “Innovation Capabilities – Measurement and Assessment“. Minna Saunila of Lappeenranta University of Technology was the licentiate opponent and delivered an enjoyable session for the audience. Andre started out by presenting his work for some 40 minutes, whereafter Minna continued […]

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Research Funding | 2 ECTS | PhD Course

Next course start November 2022. Application declaring your intention to participate and a short abstract of your research profile to grantsoffice@bth.se before October 1, 2022. Target groups (20 seats): 1 ) PhD students, preferably in their second half of doctoral studies 2) Post docs, if seats are available, are also welcomed. Background Learning how to plan, market […]

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Expanding Value Driven Design to meet Lean Product Service Development

ABSTRACT The paper presents a discussion about gaps and opportunities for cross-pollination between Value Driven Design and Lean Product Service Development to promote the use of value-driven method and tools since the preliminary design stages. In particular the paper discusses how methods and tools developed in Value Driven Design have the potential to be applied […]

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Licentiate defense in Mechanical Engineering by Eskil Andreasson

On May 8th Eskil Andreasson, PhD Candidate, presented and successfully defended his Licentiate thesis in Mechanical Engineering. The title of the work is “Realistic Package Opening Simulations: An Experimental Mechanics and Physics Based Approach”. The Holy Grail for any designer is to be able to determine the correctness and efficiency of a design before the […]

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B. Broberg 5th Symposium on Mechanics of Materials

24th and 25th of August 2015 Karlskrona, Sweden  The organizers of the fifth symposium to honour the memory of Professor Bertram Broberg have the pleasure to announce a meeting with the focus on theoretical, experimental and computational mechanics. This year will be held at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden (BTH). Professor Broberg was the first professor […]

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