Awards and recognitions – Product Development Research Lab

Here we present awards and other notable achievements related to the research, education and collaboration work at PDRL.

Thesis works in Mechanical Engineering recieve stipends of 50 + 50 ksek from Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan (2025)
The paper “Merging agent-based simulation and vehicle dynamics: a hybrid approach for value exploration in the mining industry" by Carl Nils Konrad Toller Melén, Raj Jiten Machchhar, Alessandro Bertoni was chosen as Reviewers Favourite award at the Design 2024 conference. (2024)
External evaluation of research show high specialisation and that strategy work pays off (2024)
Thesis work in Mechanical Engineering recieve stipend of 50 ksek from Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan (2023)
Two thesis works in Mechanical Engineering recieve stipends from Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan (2022)
Research on digital product development on the IVA-100 list for 2022. 2nd time on the list!
The paper “PSS Value Transformation: From Mass-Manufactured Vehicles to Provision of Mass-Customized Services – A Case Study of Designing and Prototyping Customized Digital Services for SAIC Motor in China" by Zhang Yan, Tobias Larsson, Andreas Larsson was chosen as Reviewers Favourite award at the Design 2022 conference. (2022)
BTH Mechanical Engineering alumni Johan Bruce and Eduard Chernyshov on “Venture Cup Top 20" list 2021 with their Hulder startup (2021).
Three thesis works in Mechanical Engineering recieve stipends from Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan (2021)
The 2021 ALMI SKAPA awards goes to two teams of former mechanical engineering students
The paper “The Influence of Industry 4.0 on Product Design and Development: Conceptual Foundations and Literature Review" by Sravan Tatipala, Johan Wall, Christian Johansson, Tobias Larsson was chosen as distinguished paper at the International Conference on Research into Design, ICoRD’21. (2021)
Profile “Model Driven Development and Decision Support" on IVA-100 list for 2020.
4 thesis works in Mechanical Engineering receive stipends from Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan (2020).
ReGlove ends in Global top 20 with their student project!
One thesis work in Mechanical Engineering receive stipend from Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan (2019).
One thesis work in Mechanical Engineering receive stipend from Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan (2018).
The paper “Value-driven simulation: thinking together through simulation in early engineering design" authored by Panarotto M., Wall J., Bertoni M., Larsson T. and Jonsson P. received the reviewer’s favourite award for being in the top 10% of the International Conference of Engineering Design (ICED) 2017.
The paper “Value-Driven Engineering Design: lessons learned from the road construction equipment industry”, authored by Bertoni M., Panarotto M. and Jonsson P., received the reviewer’s favourite award for being in the top 10% of the International Conference of Engineering Design (ICED) 2017.
The paper “Maturity of Models in a Multi-Model Decision Support“, authored by Johansson C., Wall J. and Panarotto M. received the reviewer’s favourite award for being in the top 10% of the International Conference of Engineering Design (ICED) 2017
2 thesis works in Mechanical Engineering receive stipends from Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan (2017).
Marco Bertoni, “Best Reviewer" at the 2016 8th CIRP conference on Industrial Product Service Systems.
One thesis work in Mechanical Engineering receive stipend from Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan (2015).
4 thesis works in Mechanical Engineering receive stipend from Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan (2014).
2 thesis works in Mechanical Engineering receive stipends from Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan (2013).
Marco Bertoni finalist in Forskar Grand Prix after winning Blekinge final. 2013.
Massimo Panarotto, Tobias Larsson, 2013 – “Reviewers favourite" top 10% award, ICED’13, Seoul, Korea.
2 thesis works in Mechanical Engineering receive stipends from Sparbanksstiftelsen Kronan.
Sharon Kao-Walter, 2012 – Oversea Scholar, Shanghai Education Department 2012-2016
Tobias Larsson, 2011 – Best paper award at the International Conference on Research into Design – ICoRD’11, for “Towards open innovation practices in aerospace industry: challenges and opportunities".
Wlodek Kulesza, 2009 – Andy Chi Best Paper Award, IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society for “An Adaptive Quality Assessment System – Aspect of Human Factor and Measurement Uncertainty"
Kjell Ahlin, Martin Magnewall, Andreas Josefsson, 2004 – Henry Pursey Best Paper Award for “On the use of digital filters for mechanical system simulation".
Mats Walter, 1993 – Oscar II stipend for best PhD thesis at Lund Unviersity