NYHETSBREV IDT February 2011

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1 NYHETSBREV IDT February 2011 ADMINISTRATION IDTs management team will work on a plan to improve our work processes and suggest a new organization structure so that we all can work more efficient and in a long-term sustainable way. You will all be able to take part in the work during the spring. Staff New employees: Afshin Ameri Ekhtiaiabedi, labb assistent CSN Robert Suurna, adjunkt Netcenter Stig Larsson, forskare, SE Stefan Cedergren, bitr lektor, SE Jakob Axelsson, professor On the 1st of March 2011 Inger Orre will end her assignment as head of the Information design department. She will continue her work as senior lecturer and docent in Information design. Thank you Inger for all your fantastic efforts as head of the department. No successor has been appointed yet. Salary review If you want a salary negotiation before the coming salary rewiew, contact your nearest principal. More information about the salary rewiew, please contact Annika Havbrandt. Train travel between Eskilstuna and Västerås, and to Stockholm As from 28 february we will provide so-called bill of short journeys on these routes. Simply summarized, the traveler must sign for a bill card in the respective office (with Carola or Ingrid A). Use the card to buy a ticket in the machine at the station, then leave it back to the office after your travel. We (= IDT) will have 10 cards per location. 1:5

2 The opening ceremony of the IDT Västerås became a very successful event, with cutting a blue and yellow tape, bubbles, entertainment and games and good food! Thanks to all the enthusiastic participants and organizers! MARKETING AND RECRUITMENTS The communication plan of 2011 is completed. There are communication efforts described separately for IDT s education, Embedded Systems and Innovation and product realization. There is only a Swedish version: Information in English, please contact Caroline Runius. The recruitment of students for the fall 2011 is in full swing! Most of our programs will make several visits to high schools during the spring semester. And closest in time are the Högskoledagarna 8 and 10 march, when high school students are visiting MDU. In april MDU will have a campaign on Spotify to highlight IDT:s following programs: Production, Design and Logistics, Robotics, Computer Network Engineering, Industrial Design, IT-Entrepreneur and Hello IDT APP. NEW VISUAL IDENTITY An extra effort has been made for Hello IDT APP with advertisement in the Metro and a press release in early April. A new visual identity will soon be presented. There is an update to the existing profile. Fonts and logo are retained while the arch disappears and is replaced by the bubble you see on the left. You will soon be able to take advantage of new templates and also see new fresh colors in our printed materials! More information will come via the Division of Public Relations. EDUCATION A big change for us all is the new system of course evaluations. Course evaluations are strongly linked to student participation that we can read here: out=2&eotf=1&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hsv.se%2freglerocht illsyn%2freglernaikorthet%2fstudentinflytande%2fkursvardering a949110f3d5914ec html In autumn 2011, we are launching a new master s program. The program is called Innovation and design and will be the link between education at undergraduate level (first 1-3 years) and research. We hope the program will contribute to the IPR environment by providing it with prospective doctoral students. The second major initiative is the one-year long course package Hello IDT APP which will be the largest investment by MDH in education at Sickla/Nacka. Many of our colleagues are working with these two initiatives at this very moment to develop courses. INTERNATIONALIZATION A new semester has started, and the good trend with Erasmus exchange students continues we have registered about hundred exchange students at IDT, more that even at the beginning of the year. Despite extremely cold weather and all the snow they seem to have good time at MDH, with all the courses and other student activities. The selection of outgoing IDT exchange students is in progress, so we will come back with the statistics in a forthcoming newsletter. 2:5

3 Theadmission of master students is now closed and we have received the first preliminary numbers. Unfortunately, as we expected due to the introduced high study fees ( EUR/year), the number of first-choice applicants is heavily reduced; 65 applicants compared with 390 that we had last year. However, there is still chance to get more applicants, since Swedish and EU students stillhave a couple of months to apply. Furthermore, the number does not include all the student that we admit in alternative ways, e.g., through the agreementsthat we have with some international partners. Finally, we can mention that we have already visited a couple of international student recruitment fairs, and we have hosted several teachers from e.g., Korea, Croatia, Kina and Spain, and we are expecting many more in the spring. FORSKNING New projects starting 2011 MAMACELL: KKS HÖG, Magnus Otterskog MESSI: KKS Strategisk rekrytering, Jakob Axelsson ITS EASY: KKS industry research school, Ivica Crnkovic MBAT: ARTEMIS, Paul Pettersson SafeCer: ARTEMIS, Hans Hansson Invisible Navigation: Oguzhan Özcan and the Interaction Design group have been granted SEK for a cooperation project with Västmanlands läns museum. Congratulations! Kick-off within ITEA2 and Artemis This year ITEA2 PO days took place in Paris Feb IDT has started up a consortium in cooperation with SICS and Luleå Technical University; SITAC Social internet of things; apps by and for the crowd. Contact person is Stefan Cedergren. Artemis brokerage event took place in Barcelona in December IDT:s result from that event is the DECISIVE consortium which recently had its first meeting to reach the deadline for the Project Outline March 28. Contact person is Kristina Lundqvist. Up-coming calls and events FP7 ICT call 8 will be published on July 26 (deadline January ) ICT proposers day, Budapest May Swedish Science Council, Natural sciences and technical sciences: deadline 13/4 New applications January was a busy month when counted in applications. Lars Asplund submitted one Eurostar application regarding cooperation with Israel. KKS ProSpekt, the Knowledge Foundation, received five applications from IDT: Shahina Begum, Ella Olsson, Holger Kienle, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed and Marcus Bjelkemyr. To EU FP7 ICT we submitted 9 applications: BECOME coordinates by MDH: Ivica Crnkovic, Sasikumar Punnekkat, Radu Dobrin I2CARE STREP coordinates by MDH: Peter Funk REWARD Ivica Crnkovic, Sasikumar Punnekkat, Cristina Seceleanu, Radu Dobrin, Jan Carlson COVERT Paul Pettersson, Cristina Seceleanu 3:5

4 ASSEPT Helena Jerregård, Kristina Lundqvist, Dag Nyström Giraffe++ Maria Lindén OICSTRESS Peter Funk PERCHIP Giacomo Spampinato PRIMI Giacomo Spampinato Ivica Crnkovic also submitted a Tempus application, ICT.IN, in the beginning of February. We keep our fingers crossed and hope that all hard work will pay off! Defences Jan14, Stefan Cedergren, PhD: Performance in Product Development The Case of Complex Products March 18, Håkan Gustavsson, PhD: Lean Thinking Applied to System Architecting March 18, Peter Wallin, PhD: Identifying and Managing Key Challenges in Architecting Software-Intensive Systems May 11, Shahina Begum PhD: Case-based Personalized Stress Diagnosis Systems Using Physiological Sensor Signals June 14, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed PhD: Mulimodal Approach for Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment You are more than welcome to attend the IDT defences; your participation helps improve the research environment at the department. Industrial seminars We continue to invite our industrial partners to activities at IDT. Niklas Holsti from Tidorum In Finland held a seminar about Building control-flow graphs from machine code that contains dynamic jumps and calls on February 15and in the series IxD World Lecture Koray Tahiroglu from Media Lab, Aalto University, held the seminar Sonic Interaction on February 17. Do you have industrial partners who want to be invited? Contact Malin Rosqvist who is in charge of the mailing list. MITC - Mälardalen Industrial Technology Center The project MITC-Mälardalen Industrial Technology Center, started 1 January 2011 and for MDH s part, it means more energy surrounding the Centre of Product Realization. The mission is to cooperate even more with the surrounding society and companies. We have a focus on the manufacturing industry and effective infrastructure for co-production in four focus areas. Mats Jackson is project leader from MDH. EQUALITY AND MULTITUDE We are currently evaluating the action plan from last year, and planning a new one for year If you have any suggestions for actions, activities or projects within this area, please contact one of the equality coordinators (jan.carlson@mdh. se or [email protected]). WORK ENVIRONMENT In the area of work environment, it happens a lot. In information design there is an ongoing process with Previa in the spring to improve the working climate. 4:5

5 We have also had an inspection from the Work Environment Authority at IDT. They chose Mdh and IDT randomly. The inspection went well and we had a small note that the studio in Eskilstuna may be safer. Regards Åsa Lundkvist, Annika Havbrandt, Baran Cürüklü, Damir Isovic, Lisa Gustafsson, Jan Carlson, Carina Andersson, Mikael Ekström och Bjarne Hindersson. Redaktör: Caroline Runius 5:5