
Years 1971-1979
During the 70s, the University is established, the origin of the technical base year is started and the first civil engineers graduate.
1979
- Torbjörn Hedberg is elected Vice-Chancellor.
- Environmental Planning and Design and Higher Technical Vocational Education are made general study programmes.
- A two-year Drama Education programme begins. The programme is given only once.
- Two more professorships are established.
1978
- The MEd programme in Music at Öjebyn according to the SÄMUS model is incorporated into Luleå University.
- The Music Education programme is formally incorporated in Luleå University, giving Norrland its first and, thus far, only School of Music.
- Serious problems recruiting students to the engineering programmes. Only 133 applicants are accepted for the 285 places available. Many of the foreign applicants do not have the necessary qualifications in the natural sciences.
- The Centre Building is officially opened. It houses a restaurant, library and administration.
- The Division of Materials Processing begins using Scandinavia’s largest high-power laser.
- Another professorship is established.
1977
- Lars Nordström is elected the University’s first Vice-Chancellor.
- Göran Rehbinder is the first post-graduate to defend a doctoral thesis at the University with a thesis entitled "Erosion of Rock with a Water Jet".
- The new Higher Education Act and Ordinance come into effect.
- The MSc programme in Environmental Planning and Design is established.
- The SE group is superseded by Qualification Studies in Engineering.
- The Faculty of Engineering is established. Kurt Boström is appointed Dean.
- The School of Education and the Preschool Teachers' Training College are incorporated into the University, which thus acquires four new programmes: Recreation and Leisure Education, Preschool Teacher Education, and Compulsory School Teacher Education for Years 1–3 and Years 4–6.
- SYDUT (Systematised, Decentralised Education) comes to an end and the University acquires a Business Administration and Economics and a Secretarial Programme and a number of single subject courses.
- Three more professorships are established.
- SGU (The Geological Survey of Sweden) moves into the A-building.
1976
- Higher Technical Vocational Education begins in Skellefteå.
- The first two-year engineering programme is established.
- Three more professorships are established.
1975
- The first graduates in Geotechnology receive their degrees.
- The C and F building is ready to move in.
- Lunch-bunch starts i.e. popular science lectures are given in connection with lunch.
1974
- The first engineering graduates receive their degrees.
- The Students' Union building opens in the “Shopping” mall in Luleå city centre.
- The College’s first professors are installed at a ceremony in Gammelstad Church.
- Another new professorship is established.
- Higher Technical Vocational Education begins in Luleå.
- Three more professorships are established.
- Most of the E building is finished.
1973
- The University establishes the forerunner of Qualification Studies in Engineering, the SE Group, that will enable people with a leaving certificate in social studies or economics from upper secondary school to apply for the MSc programme in Mechanical Engineering.
- The first research equipment is put into service. Among other things, material technology receives advanced electron microscopes.
- A research board is established.
- Six more professorships are established.
- Arne Jones’ sculpture "Human Structure" placed in position close to where Teknikens hus stands today, a year later than planned.
1972
- The MSc programme in Geotechnology begins.
- Carl-Göran Nilsson is appointed Professor of Machine Design. He is Luleå University’s first professor.
- Three more professorships are established.
- The entire D building is completed.
1971
- Luleå University is established on July 1, 1971.
- Rune Andersson, Principal Secretary of the Organisation Committee, becomes the new University’s first employee. The University is officially inaugurated on September 1.
- The MSc programme in Mechanical Engineering gets under way with 50 students in the first part of the newly-built D building.
- The Engineering Students’ Union is formed.

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