with many strong divisions and personalities. Our divisions, each of which maintains a high international standard, cooperate successfully in basic education, post-graduate education, and research. The breadth of the department means that we can together build up strong theoretical competence over the whole of our field of activity.
The strength is that research problems can be divided up into their components by subject area and studied with the acuity of expertise while maintaining a focus on the whole and the context.
Together, the department’s many excellent researchers create an intellectual environment with a great power of attraction in the research world. It is easy to form research groups of precisely the right composition.

In year 2010 Nordtrib was held at Storforsen, Sweden, 8 - 11th June. The conference was arranged by Luleå University of Technology.
Nordtrib2010 gave you an opportunity to combine high class scientific discussions with wonderful natural scenery since the conference hotel was situated close to Sweden’s most powerful waterfall.

The second international conference on the topic of hot sheet metal forming of high-performance steel took place on June 15-17, 2009 in Luleå, Sweden, where the technology of press hardening was invented and industrialized. The conference was organized within the Swedish-German cooperation Centre of Excellence for Hot Sheet Metal Forming of High-Performance Steel, CHS², Luleå / Kassel.

2009-06: Division of Functional Product Development, in collaboration with Solid Mechanics, Material Mechanics, and Volvo Aero have been granted 4.4 MSEK over two years for "METOPIA - METhodology for OPtimization, Integration and Automatization". The project intends to develop methodologies for analysis of whole engine concepts in aerospace applications using Systems Modelling and Simulation Driven Design and Product Development. One step on the road towards "greener" engine technologies.

The Kempe Foundations show their continued strong support for the Division of Functional Product Development through a 1 MSEK grant for the proposal "Redesigning Innovation", a collaborative project together with the Center for Design Research at Stanford University.

“brilliant” lasers

Luleå TU is about to install the second brightest laser in the world for research into industrial materials processing.

The 15 kW fibre laser can be focused to a spot size of less than 200 micrometers – making it one of the world’s most powerful tools for laser welding and cutting.

This new addition to the laser application laboratories at Luleå TU will allow the university to continue its leading edge research in the rapidly developing field of industrial laser applications

Through the Centre for Automotive Systems Technologies and Testing, Luleå University of Technology aims to first of all support automotive winter testing in Northern Sweden. This means to support the local automotive test entrepreneurs and through them their customers: the car manufacturers and their suppliers.
To succeed in this task, the centre relies on the university's areas of leading research and most importantly on the cooperation between those areas.