2011 - Luleå University of Technology

Industrial image analysis

The industrial image analysis group is a group within signal processing with a focus on both applied and theoretical image analysis. The group has a strong focus on industrial measurement projects particularly within the mining, aggregates and metallurgy industries, and theoretical advances in morphological image processing.

Arrived from Slovakia to judge SM Yukigassen

Draknästet at LTU

Sweden's most powerful woman took her Master degree at Luleå University of Technology

The students were given high ratings by film effect companies

Research on high-performance steel for wind turbines and other products

High-strength steel in the towers for wind turbines is one of several research projects presented at a seminar at Luleå University. It is the university's Center for High Performance Steel - CHS - that arrange the seminar. At the same time CHS corporate projects and future vision will be highlighted.

Future ores sought kilometers underground

- What we want to do now is a little more sophisticated methods to understand where they go in depth and build a three dimensional model of it, says Pär Weihed Professor of Ore Geology, Luleå University.

LTU's research saves big money for mining companies

Lulea declaration was welcomed on mineral Conference

LTU host Sandvik International Mining School

Sandvik employees worldwide receive two weeks of intensive instruction by researchers from the university in the field of Hard Rock Underground Mining. The training is part of a two-year training which Sandvik engages mining expertise from various universities around the world.

Without assured raw material supply stop EU

Luleå University of Technology organizes, under the Swedish EU Presidency, a conference on the European Union's long-term raw material supply. Access to mineral raw materials at reasonable prices is necessary for the EU economy to run smoothly, which in turn affects the welfare and jobs in Sweden and Europe.

Crucial industrial cooperation with LTU

Swedish mining elite and university researchers in collaborative projects of the future mine

The entire Swedish mining small, the dominant global suppliers to the mining industry and Luleå University of Technology, today signed a cooperation agreement to develop a joint strategy for the mining industry must be developed to ensure future growth. Luleå University alone representing the academic research skills in the powerful consortium that together will work out a future and successful concept for the Swedish mining industry.

LTU's mining expertise on TV

Swedish only

11 million for research on safer mines

In the media about From hard rock to heavy metal

Carro drives the LTU student's car at the competition in Germany

New

Backyard Porsön won again SM Yukigassen

60 million in strategic investment at university

New pan-Nordic EU projects in avalanche research

/ RESEARCH / Our winter holidays in ski resorts around the country is imminent and it was a time of year when avalanches are most frequent in Sweden. Meanwhile, a new pan-Nordic three-year EU project under way to better calculate the risks of avalanches and save lives.

New technology can produce cheap biofuel

New

Too late to give up

Pär will make business of the university's research

New Swedish research center for innovation inaugurated

Green light for the University's secondary teacher education

Scientists warn of health risks of carbon nanotubes

Approved research grants from the Kempe Foundations

Sitaram and Staffan Andersson has the Kempe Foundation awarded 900,000 for a so-called DVS instrument. It is an important technique for studying absorptionsbeteendet for moisture / solvent in pharmaceuticals, foods, polymers and inorganic materials. This instrument will be of great value in several ongoing projects. DVS will minimize costs and time to pursue projects and provide better knowledge of materials science at the research group at the university.

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Funds allocated from the SFF

Associate Professor Sitaram Velaga has been granted funds to 1.225 million SEK from the Foundation for Strategic Research SSF for the project: Development of industrially useful samkristallisation.

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Funds allocated from STINT "Sweden-Korea Research Cooper programe"

STINT has granted Sitaram Velaga 95 000 SEK in the Foundation program of personal exchanges with South Korea - Sweden-Korea Research Cooper Plantation Programme.

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Research on tourism in Antarctica

Competition over engineers from LTU - even before graduation

Åsa Engström gave lectures

On March 24 to 27 conference held in Denmark, it was organized by the largest association of Intensive Care Nurses, (EfCCNa or the European Federation of Critical Care Nursing Association). The number of participants at the conference were about 700 representatives from almost all European countries and the United States and Australia. The number of oral lectures were about the 135th Associate Professor Åsa Engström, Department of Nursing, presented two talks, "Close Relatives experiences of transitions When Living with a person with traumatic brain injury and &quot Follow-up visits to an ICU: Critical Care Nurses experiences.

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New step in Nobelprice research using LTU

Professor Alexander Soldatov and his team of researchers at Luleå University has been able to add another piece to the development of the lightweight and super strong material graphene. Two researchers in England received 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on the graphene, and one of them gets help with high-pressure tests by researchers at LTU.

LTU touches all-time high in the recruitment

More and more students are continuing to apply to Luleå University of Technology and that is a positive trend. 3236 students have applied for LTU primarily for fall semester 2011, which is almost 5% more than in autumn 2010. Luleå University has this year received more than 14% more applicants to the engineering programs.

Fewer delays with better switches

Costs of tunneling underestimated

Successful first test drive of “sighted” wheelchair

Research on an electric wheelchair that can sense it´s environment and transmit information to a person who is visually impaired, has been tested at Luleå University of Technology. Daniel Innala Ahlmark, a prospective graduate student in the research project, and himself visually impaired, dared to make the first public test

Student car Skilži was tested at Arcus

Rewarded for Braille-Box

On May 4, you could see Jens Kallin and Max David Erikson live on SVT Good morning Sweden. They told about their award-winning product in Industrial Design Engineering at LTU.

LKAB is investing 50 million extra on research - Urban transformation of Kiruna and Malmberget

Technology championships won by students at LTU

LTU students Fredrik Häggström, Harald Hernnäs and Andreas Nordin, became Sweden's best engineering students when they won this year's edition of Technology SM. The students team "All the pieces of byte" managed to reach 208 points and beat last year´s winners from Lund with five points.

CDT received IT prize at industry gala in Lulea

Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology (CDT) belonging to Luleå University of Technology, received on Friday the award "Best ICT organization in 2010" It is the Computer Society Norrbotten which have nominated the CDT and the prize was awarded in the industry gala at the house of culture in Lulea

LTU - Nordic platform for dance and learning

Luleå University of Technology, LTU, is the only University in Sweden with the right to award both music and dance teachers. With the new dance halls at the Academy of Music in Piteå it strengthened the cultural status of LTU both nationally and internationally.

Students make hybrid auto-rickshaw for India

The goal for Student project auto-rickshaw at Luleå University of Technology is to create a eco-friendly, three-wheeled, hybrid car for the Indian market in collaboration with companies such as Gestamp HardTech and TVS Motor. The project that started during the spring semester includes LTU-courses Sirius, Mechatronics etc. and auto rickshaw is a popular initiative among the students.

Sucess for new LTU-website

Right now you are in the middle of a world premiere! May 17 was the start of our new website at Luleå University of Technology, a fresher, more modern and straight forward web.
-The new web design should feel refreshed and becomes the leader of LTU´s brand, says Paul Kastensson, Marketing.

Art meets technology - to see the heat around our hands

For the first time it was organized a full day for artists about Technology at Luleå University of Technology in Lulea. The initiative comes from Bengt Frank, a Norrbotten consultant of art and from scientist Hans Engström at the Department of Engineering Science and Mathematics. The 17 participating artists could study among other things, the laser technology and optical metrology, and it brought entirely new and exciting questions to the researchers.

Spontaneous Tribute to SM Technology Winners

Fuel from biomass focus of new research center

Luleå University of Technology will lead a new research center named Swedish Gasification Centre (SFC) The focus is to conduct research on biomass gasification, which is a key technology for the production of "green" fuels from biomass. SFC is a center where a number of academic stakeholders interacts with industry and has a total budget during 10 years of 540 million SEK (>60 million Euro

Eight graders from the county participated in the LTU-hunting

Second best Swedish team in the Shell Eco Marathon

Release of CDTs showroom

International recognition for Associate Professor Sitaram Velaga

Sitaram is designated as a reviewer of the application to the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA. NSF corresponds Research Council in Sweden and announces financial allocations for research projects. This is another recognition of the excellence of research conducted at the university.

LKAB invests 75 million in education

LKAB invests 75 million through the newly established LKAB Academy with a focus on secondary schools in Kiruna and Gällivare. In addition, LKAB is strengthening their cooperation with Luleå University of Technology. The focus on LTU from LKAB Academy means that the university can bridge the transition from secondary education in Malmfälten to further university study.

Inger received municipal equality prize

Björklund, Minister of Education visited LTU

Third Internet Revolution

A hot IT trend is particularly in focus in the international mobile data conference IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management at LTU. It is the development of that we get more and more Internet information from thousands of tiny sensors using advanced technologies communicate large amounts of data with each other and to us - the third-Internet revolution.

LTU students to the finals of the Ericsson Application Award

Two students from Luleå University of Technology in cooperation with the firm Neave in Luleå moved on to the finals in the competition Ericsson Application Award. They have developed an application to a mobile phone that provides automated alerts when eg a car accident occurs and it has been selected by a global jury with thousand of users.

Strong interest in FALF Conference at LTU

On Thursday, the fourth working conference was inaugurated that is organized by FALF (Forum for Working Life Research). The theme this year was The new working life. The keynote speaker who opened the conference was Svend Erik Mathiassen, Professor and Research Director CBF, University of Gävle.

Model for testing noise in cars developed by LTU

Swedish and international automotive industry will benefit from a new simulation model to locate annoying noises in cars. The model has been developed within the competence center CASTT at Luleå University of Technology, in close collaboration with the automotive testing industry in Norrbotten.

130 new student housing in Luleå

On Klintbacken, just five minutes by bike from the Luleå University and ten minutes from the center of Luleå grows two new towers up. This is the place for a brand new student area for the students who come to Luleå University of Technology.

Mobile e-services in Swedish-Finnish cooperation

Mobile services and apps for communication with citizens is developed by Skellefteå Municipality, together with researchers from Luleå University. The cooperation is part of an EU project where researchers from Luleå University of Technology, University of Oulu and Lapin Yliopisto, Rovaniemi work together to create a strong Nordic platform for developing mobile and interactive services.

Father of mobile telecommunications who made research at LTU has died

Östen Mäkitalo, called "father of mobile telecommunications" has died suddenly and was active until the end. He was one of the initiators of the competence center CDT at Luleå University of Technology. It was at the Swedish Televerket that Östen Mäkitalo in his research, developed the first effective mobile telephony.

LTU got a new permit from the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education

Luleå University of Technology also received degree condition for subject teacher education grades 7-9 in Swedish language, physics and technology. Today the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education made its final decision before the summer concerning the examination permits that has been tested in a second round.

Improved accuracy in the treatment of prostate cancer

Researchers at Luleå University of Technology are working to develop a tool to better detect prostate cancer. By combining two methods positive properties can bring the best use while the disadvantages can be compensated. In a new dissertation at the university methods for that has been produced

How do you open a file on your computer in fifty years?

CEO new program director for TräCentrum Norr

LTU has appointed four honorary doctorates 2011

Simulation facilitates large-scale production of biofuels

Elderly more prone to fall in their own home in the winter

LTU project winner of the Future Internet Summit Award 2011

At the European summit on the future of the Internet in Luxembourg June 6, 2011, the research project Sense Smart City got First Prize of 5,000 Euro for the best idea. An international jury selected the winners who were invited to Luxembourg to present their ideas on the future Internet.

Successful outcome of the EU project for mobile communications in rural areas

N4C research project, funded by the EU's Seventh Framework Programme - Networking for Communications Challenged Communities - is finished. The project has been ongoing for three years and had a budget of 50 million. It was led by Luleå University of Technology and researcher Maria Udén that are very happy with the results, a new type of Internet access and new applications.

Student-call offers applicants to LTU answers to questions

August 1 is deadline for candidates to respond to admissions after the first selection to university. At Luleå University of Technology sits Theres Andersson and waiting for questions from those who applied to university. She is a student and has worked as chairman for the studentbody at LTU with a good insight into what studies at the university means

Placement of information in the car's windshield investigated

A researcher at Luleå University of Technology has investigated where in the windshield, it is best to view important information for the driver. "Head Up Display" in the front window with information to the driver is well known, but no one before has examined where in the windshield the drivers prefer it to be located. The survey was conducted in three different countries and became an optimized solution based on road safety

Sharp projects in research after studying at the university

This spring Johan Larsson finished his last degree at Luleå University of Technology, and today he works at LTU with Jakob Hultkvist in a sharp business venture. Even Hultkvist has studied at the university and finished his exam in 2009 as an engineer on automotive systems. The two, plus a third ex. student and LTU-employed, are currently testing a car for handicapped on behalf of the company Freno in Piteå

Technology to manage large and expensive space project in focus

Computers, Mathematics and Simulation will dominate an international symposium held in Kiruna, starting Monday, August 15, which Luleå University of Technology is hosting, in collaboration with Lund University. For large space-related, high-tech projects qualified facts is needed before starting, as the projects are becoming larger and more expensive

Tuve disaster in focus when the 83-year-old disputed

Our dynamic reality - Popular Science 2011

Who will win on the international solidarity? It is a question that Jan Eliasson, asks himself, with his background as including Chairman of the UN General Assembly, Ambassador of Sweden in New York, Swedish foreign minister and mediator in international conflicts. He will mark the start of Popular Science lectures that Luleå University gives in the autumn.

Opening Ceremony for Scandinavias longest wooden bridge

The 130 meter long pedestrian and bicycle bridge between Anderstorp and Älvsbacka in Skellefteå is now opened. The bridge is as beautiful as functional and built in a span. The project was funded by the municipality of Skellefteå in cooperation with the European Regional Development Fund and Luleå University of Technology.

Success for computer game created by students at LTU

Students at Luleå University of Technology who created the computer game Magicka has previously received several honors for their game and now the game is a real big seller. Through the company that the students started, Arrowhead Game Studios AB, they have sold more than 800,000 copies and is thus in the gaming elite.

Speech from high level and a giant cake inaugurated LTU 40 years

Lots of students, staff and guests had the opportunity to eat good cake, hear thought-provoking speeches from the roof of the A-house, accompanied by percussion and trumpets. So one can summarize the start of the autumn:s 40th anniversary at Luleå University of Technology. The opening ceremony was the prelude to a series of activities during the autumn which ends at the academic ceremony in November

Published:16 August 2013

By:Presskontakt

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