LTU Skellefteå visited Balder School to inform about the profession Engineer. Engineers from Plusshus and Outotec talked about their experiences in their profession and about their work. They both agreed that it is a good choice to study an engineering programme. You get a good technical base which opens a whole field of professions.
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120,000 SEK were distributed to students and staff at Campus Skellefteå seeking Sammes Foundation development grant. The purpose of the scholarship is to support business and product ideas.
Olle Hagman and Alice Wang from WPE visited Processum in Örnsköldsvik to establish new contacts. During the visit they presented theirselves and our projects, visited labs and pilot-plants and the full scale Domsjö plant for making raw materials as cellulose for viscose, lignin for improving the concrete process and ethanol for energy or as a base for other chemical processes.
The Student Association in Skellefteå received 67,000 SEK from Skeria-fonden for activities that will improve the student social environment at Campus Skellefteå. This is a contributions to gaming tournament, Ikea trip, laser evening, seating, entertainment, new equipment for rehearsal and to the student puc etc.
On the 30th of October Niclas Björngrim at Wood Products Engineering was awarded 100 000 sek from Frans and Carl Kempe memory foundation. The money will be used to build a laboratory scale bridge in cross laminated timber (CLT). CLT is a type of engineered wood that is gaining in popularity due to high stiffness to weight ratio.
