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 dur-ing the sprdur-ing.
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 In-formation 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 respec-tive 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.
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February 2011
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: www.mdh.se/internt/idt
Information in English, please contact Caroline Runius.
The recruitment of students for the fall 2011 is in full swing! Most of our pro-grams 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 stu-dents are visiting MDU.
In april MDU will have a campaign on Spotify to highlight IDT:s following pro-grams: Production, Design and Logistics, Robotics, Computer Network Engineering, Indus-trial Design, IT-Entrepreneur and Hello IDT APP.
An extra effort has been made for Hello IDTAPP 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 informa-tion will come via the Division of Public Relainforma-tions.
EDUCATION
A big change for us all is the new system of course evaluations. Course evalua-tions are strongly linked to student participation that we can read here:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&lay out=2&eotf=1&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hsv.se%2Freglerocht illsyn%2Freglernaikorthet%2Fstudentinflytande%2Fkursvardering.4.539 a949110f3d5914ec800061404.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 under-graduate 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.
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NEW VISUAL IDENTITY
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 (13.000 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 135.000 SEK for a cooperation project with Västmanlands läns mu-seum. Congratulations!
Kick-off within ITEA2 and Artemis
This year ITEA2 PO days took place in Paris Feb 15-16. IDT has started up a con-sortium 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 2010. 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 17 2012)
ICT proposers day, Budapest May 19-20
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 MarcusBjelkemyr.
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
REWARDIvica Crnkovic, Sasikumar Punnekkat, Cristina Seceleanu, Radu Dobrin, Jan Carlson
COVERTPaul Pettersson, Cristina Seceleanu
ASSEPTHelena Jerregård, Kristina Lundqvist, Dag Nyström
Giraffe++Maria Lindén
OICSTRESSPeter Funk
PERCHIPGiacomo Spampinato
PRIMIGiacomoSpampinato
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,StefanCedergren, PhD: Performance in Product Development – The Case of Complex Products
March 18,HåkanGustavsson, PhD: Lean Thinking Applied to System Architecting
March 18,PeterWallin, PhD: Identifying and Managing Key Challenges in Archi-tecting Software-Intensive Systems
May 11,ShahinaBegum PhD: Case-based Personalized Stress Diagnosis Systems Using Physiological Sensor Signals
June 14,MobyenUddinAhmed 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. NiklasHolsti 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 MalinRosqvist 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 Prod-uct Realization.
The mission is to cooperate even more with the surrounding society and compa-nies. We have a focus on the manufacturing industry and effective infrastructure for co-production in four focus areas. MatsJackson 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 2011. 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.
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.
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Regards
Åsa Lundkvist, Annika Havbrandt, Baran Cürüklü, Damir Isovic, Lisa Gustafsson, Jan Carlson, Carina Andersson, Mikael Ekström och Bjarne Hindersson.
