BTH Maskinteknik prisades i årets utdelning av Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronans stipendieutdelning för bästa examensarbete. Martin Åkesson, VD Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan delade ut totalt sju stipendier (88 kandidater), varav det största om 50 000 kr landade hos BTH Maskinteknik. 50 000 kr: Jakob Nilsson & Isak Olofsson Civilingenjörerna i Maskinteknik Jakob Nilsson och Isak Olofsson vann 50 000 […]
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Our researchers Tamara Carleton and William Cockayne, together with Shaun West (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art) have now launched the new book “Inventing the Almost Impossible – Creating, Teaching, Funding, and Leading Radical Innovation” (SPRINGER: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-36224-8). The book offers practice and policy insights into innovation design by gathering an intergenerational and interdisciplinary set […]
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Utmaningar föder kreativitet och kreativitet skapar innovationer. Detta har varit Karlskronas styrka sedan staden grundades år 1680. Den 26 oktober hölls ett panelsamtal om världsarvets historia av innovation och dess koppling till dagens utmaningar och utveckling. Paneldeltagare var: Tobias Larsson, Professor i Produktutveckling på Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; Ivar Wenster, byggnadsantikvarie och verkställande direktör för Ankdammen […]
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Tamara Carleton is recognised in the American “Women We admire” magazine, in their Top 50 Women Leaders in Education of 2023. Tamara is a professor at the department of mechanical engineering at BTH, among other things Sharing
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Ryan Ruvald successfully defended his PhD thesis “Innovation in a Changing World: Exploring PSS Design through Prototyping” in front of some 50 people in the room and online. Ryan made a popular presentation of his research and took the audience through his findings and experiments and then landed in a summary of his findings. Ryan […]
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Carl Toller Melén presented his licentiate thesis entitled “Exploring non-functional requirements in digital Product-Service System design” in front of an +50 people hybrid audience of physically present people and online listeners. Carl made a popular presentation of the background of his research and the findings up until this point, where the servitization of indystry is […]
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PDRL (Product Development Research Lab) was well represented at the conference with six research papers and hosted a workshop on “Design of Product-Service Systems (Extended Reality technologies for PSS design)”.
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Abstract Autonomous vehicle solutions (AVS) are regarded as a major enabling technology to support the realization of ‘total site solutions’ in the construction equipment industry. Their full-scale deployment is hindered today by the need to test autonomous driving capabilities against the varying conditions an AVS is expected to be exposed to during its lifetime. Therefore, […]
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Abstract Academic institutions are increasingly required to prepare future practitioners to face complex sustainability challenges. The need to foster the development of different skills, attitudes, and multidisciplinary collaboration raised the interest in alternative learning approaches. Game-based learning can be a tool to achieve a variety of desirable learning outcomes, including sustainability and collaborative attitudes change. […]
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Abstract The International Design Engineering Annual (IDEA) Challenge is a virtually hosted hackathon for Engineering Design researchers with aims of: i) generating open access datasets; ii) fostering community between researchers; and, iii) applying great design minds to develop solutions to real design problems. This paper presents the 2022 IDEA challenge and elements of the captured […]
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