Career and future

The demand for engineers in maintenance technology is growing and after the training you will have very good opportunities for work as a maintenance technician, maintenance engineer and service technician.

Former students work both in small consulting companies or in large world-leading companies in, for example, mining, infrastructure and the process industry.

EU Regional Social Progress Index Looks Beyond GDP

Regionen Övre Norrland i norra Sverige är den mest socialt utvecklade i EU för andra gången sedan 2016.

In the media: This is how students should be attracted to work in the north

studenter i a-huset Photo: Petra Älvstrand

You can become a researcher in maintenance engineering

This Master program is designed to fulfill both industrial and academic demands so that you can pursue a career in a technical and competitive industry or academia.

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Next trip to Mars

NASA visited Luleå University and Dr. Kai Goebel lectured on everything from the moon landing to mice in weightlessness. "What does NASA do? An insider's view" was the title of the seminar that attracted a mixed audience of students, chemists, engineers, geologists and mathematicians.

CRRC LTU PHM (Prognostics and Health Management) Center

Predictive technologies and engineering solutions for high-speed trains in China

Researchers from Operation and Maintenance Engineering at Luleå Railway Research Center, Luleå University of Technology have initiated projects to develop a maintenance and technology framework for Prognosis and Health Management (PHM) for high-speed trains in China. The system will make the high-speed railway system more robust and reliable by the use of state of the art predictive and prescriptive technologies and solutions.

Jan Lundberg, professor in Operations and Maintenance Engineering at Luleå University of Technology.

Digitized control for future railway switches

With a large number of sensors and the collection of large amounts of data, researchers at Luleå University of Technology will, using smart algorithms, produce more reliable analyzes for the health of railway switches. This technology aims to find a method for more efficient maintenance and less interruptions and delays, which costs society a lot of money today.