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Asun Valiente is looking for a permanent residence for herself and her family. She came to Sweden from Barcelona for the first time in 2013, as a visiting researcher in welding at University West. She has until now been here at various times but has now decided to move ...
This June, the 20th WACE (World Association for Cooperative Education) World Conference was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The theme for the conference was "New Challenges for CWIE in the 21st Century".
On 15-17 June, University West organized the international research conference Uddevalla Symposium for the twentieth time. The focus of the conference is research on regional development and entrepreneurship and around a hundred researchers from around the world partici...
Emile Glorieux investigated how to plan robot motions for material handling in order to make them perform perfectly, “right-first-time”, before production start. Thanks to his research results, companies like Volvo Cars are able to produce sheet metal parts faster, more...
Since August 2016, Sven Goecke works as international guest professor in welding automation at University West. A year off from teaching at the University in Brandenburg, allows him to do research about how a new tool can optimize material control in welding processes. ...
For the seventh time the diploma ceremony Global Swede was arranged in Stockholm. The initiative comes from the government and the Swedish Institute with purpose to build long term relations with outstanding international students studying in Sweden within the areas inn...
In about little more than a month - the 15-17 June - the research conference Uddevalla Symposium is held for the 20th time with University West as host. The focus of the conference is regional science and entrepreneurship.
Just recently University West published the Annual Report 2016 concerning the research environment in Production Technology. Most welcome to take part of the preface from manager Professor Per Nylén as well as highlights from the different research areas. Enjoy your r...
Being able to quickly turn new technology into production within the industry is important in order to be a globally competitive company. By building a new lab for the testing and development of automation equipment University West hopes to contribute to a stronger west...
Everyone was excited when the new Gleeble machine was inaugurated at the Production Technology Centre (PTC) at Innovatum Tuesday. The new machine enables researchers and industry unprecedented opportunities to develop and test materials in a sophisticated and efficient ...
There is a mix of Swedish and international students at the new Master’s programme in Political Science. One of them is Marc Dunnink from South Africa. He chose to study here for many reasons; getting to know Swedish Public Policy is one of them.
Welding is the common field for both doctoral students Edvard Svenman and Vahid Hosseini. Recently they both earned their licentiate degree by presenting theses that aim to improve the competitiveness of the production industry.
The industry in Västra Götaland is environmentally damaging, but through additive manufacturing, known as 3D printing, can be both resource utilization and environmental impact drastically reduced. Chalmers and University West will now be able to concentrate efforts to ...
A very large part of all the structures around us are built together by welding. To develop welding procedures and make them better and cheaper is an important part of, for example, the heavy vehicle industry. With new research from the University West can welded struct...
There is no doubt that it is important with international elements in the research environment Production Technology West. Recently, University West has recruited three new top researchers – and there is more to come.