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University West represents Sweden in an international research project with six other countries where the motivation for mathematics in the previous years of compulsory school will be studied. The project will also study how to increase motivation, especially in the tra...

Sandvik is a high-tech, global industrial group with unique expertise in materials technology. For a few years now, the company has been investing heavily in additive manufacturing and metal powder. They also conduct research in this fast-developing field together with ...

Additive manufacturing comes with many advantages over conventional methods. But how well does it perform in the production of high-performance components that are exposed to continuously changing loads, for example in aircraft engines? This is one of the questions that...

The aerospace industry is very interested in new alternative manufacturing methods. This interest is driven by the desire to produce components using superalloy 718 as efficiently as possible. Research by Jonas Holmberg, an externally employed doctoral student, has show...

Now 2020 year’s GKN award scholarship holder has been decided and it is Arun Ramanathan Balachandramurthi. Arun has recently become doctor in powder bed additive manufacturing at University West, a technology that enables manufacturing of complex geometries almost impos...

Sneha Goel's research shows that it is possible to additively manufacture components in superalloy Alloy 718, that meet the aerospace and energy industry's strict quality requirements. With the right post-processing, components with complex geometries can be manufacture...

How can waste products from the steel industry replace rare earth metals in electric motors? Researchers at University West are investigating this and building full-scale motors in collaboration with Volvo Cars. “The need for metals for electric car motors is cascading...

University West has followed the case of the Swedish-Iranian researcher Ahmadreza Djalali with growing dismay. Djalali is imprisoned in the Evin prison in the Iranian capital Tehran and has been sentenced to death after being accused of espionage.

Rapidly changing technology places completely new demands for expertise on industrial employees. University West is meeting this challenge with 10 advanced courses and programmes in production engineering for both experienced engineers and students.

University West has been working systematically for a few years to change its nursing programmes and improve the ability of students to work in a norm-critical way. Now the University’s expertise is in demand by Uppsala University, where all 700 nursing students and 80 ...

Professor Shrikant Joshi from University West gives his perspective on his move from India to Sweden, work-life balance in Sweden and how, thankfully, things do not always turn out as planned.

This day, exactly 30 years ago, an inauguration ceremony was held in Trollhättan for the region's newest university – University of Trollhättan/Uddevalla. Both politicians and the business community had supported and advocated the need for a university in the region, so...

The digitization of schools and new expectations for knowledge about for example media, entrepreneurship and problem-based teaching create challenges for the way we organize and implement learning and teaching. A new thesis from University West describes how teachers ca...

Interest in the Technical Foundation Year Programme has increased steadily since University West started the program in 1994. More and more foundation year students also choose to study further in one of the university's engineering programmes. "I am happy about this de...

A new dissertation from University West studies how social workers understand and use reflection and the role of reflection in professional learning and knowledge development. The results show that reflection is important for enabling professional learning and knowledge...