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Innovations in Construction Equipment and Trucking using a Biomimicry Approach – EXPE 2023

Recently, students from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden and Stanford University collaborated on a project focusing on innovations in construction equipment and trucking through the application of Biomimicry principles. Over a span of nine months, four students from Blekinge and six students from Stanford embarked on an exciting journey to explore innovation opportunities in […]

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Smarta soptunnor lyfter världsarvet!

Det började som ett studentprojekt i kursen Value Innovation där studenter från maskinteknik fick använda sig av metodiken Design Thinking för att tillsammans med Karlskrona Kommun under 8 veckor skapa lösningar för “hållbar turism”. Prototyper togs fram och presenterades (https://www.productdevelopment.se/?p=13272) Kommunen fann resultaten intresanta och tillsammans med BTH gick man vidare för att utveckla en […]

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Big thinking in Blekinge: How do you build a Moonshot?

To celebrate the fact that the Building Moonshot book was released the event “Big Thinking in Blekinge” was held with Blue Science Park and Blekinge Institute of Technology as organisers. Authors Tamara Carleton and  William R. Cockayne, both researchers and senior lecturers at Product Development Research Lab / Mechanical Engineering, started out with sharing nuggets […]

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Elektriska entreprenadmaskiner utanför elnätet?

Karl-Henrik, Hedvig, Stefan och Ludwig skapade tillsammans med Stanfordstudenter Nomad och Oasis – två enheter som tillsammans kan generera och distribuera energi till eldrivna maskiner utanför elnätet, till exempel vid katastrofarbeten. Projektet är en del av kursen ME310, en årlig kurs och ett globalt samarbete med Stanford University där bland annat Volvo Construction Equipment utmanar […]

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Value Innovation projects 2022

In 2022, the students from the Value Innovation course partnered with the municipality of Karlskrona in the quest for innovative designs under the theme ‘sustainable tourism’, going on to develop 3 complementary solutions under the theme ‘intelligent waste’.

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Systems Engineering students designing the future of compaction equipment

After two problematic years for physical collaboration, the systems engineering course has finally had the opportunity to revamp the traditional university-industry collaboration that has characterised it for several years. On the 30th of May five groups of students have presented the work done in collaboration with Dynapac Compaction Equipment AB (Fayat Group) during the last […]

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Student based startup: Seroponics

Seroponics is the startup of Anton Sterner, Marika Blad and Carl Sixtensson, alumns from BTH Mechanical Engineering. Seroponics aims to offer efficient and self-watering cultivation systems. We want to make it possible for customers to eat salad and spices without maintenance, every day, all year round. With a striving for low climate impact and which […]

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