Blekinge Institute of Technology

A YOUNG INSTITUTE  Founded in 1989  One of three independent institutes of technology  Three campuses

THE INSTITUTE´S PROFILE  One of the country’s most distinctly profiled institutes of technology  Applied IT  Sustainable development in industry and society

NEW PROGRAMMES AUTUMN 2008  Security Engineering  Computer Engineering with emphasis on Sound and Image Processing  Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, with emphasis on Telecommunication  Marine Technology  Master of Science in Game and Software Engineering

HISTORY Merges with the Baltic International School of Public Health Campus established in Karlshamn The institute is renamed Blekinge Institute of Technology The istitute is founded University status in engineering The right to run MSc programmes The right to award MSc degrees Lars Haikola becomes Vice- Chancellor General right to award MSc degrees University application Ursula Hass becomes Vice- Chancellor 2007

NOT JUST IT  Spatial planning, the humanities, health sciences, management, social sciences  Basic IT expertise

SUCCESS  83 per cent of the students at the institute get an employment directly after graduation.  BESQ, Research Center  Swedish Waterjet Lab has been inaugurated

EDUCATION IN FIGURES  Around 40 undergraduate programmes and 470 single subject courses  3685 full time students  37% of the students are female  1000 international students  16 MSc programmes  Approx 22% of the students take part in internet-based teaching Health Sciences 11% Medicine 3 % Natural Sciences 8% Social Sciences and Management 15% Humanities 4 % Engineering 59 %

GROWING RESEARCH  Engineering is the ”authorised area of research”, in which BTH is entilled to award postgraduate degrees  14 PhD programmes  Collaboration with other universities  26 professors  112 doctoral students registered at BTH

Ph.D. PROGRAMMES  Applied signal processing  Computer science  Computer systems engineering  Digital game development  Interaction design  IT and work practice  Mechanical engineering  Software engineering  Spatial planning  Technoscience studies  Telecommunications  Telecommunication systems  Mathematics and its applications

RESEARCH AREAS  Applied signal processing  Business administration and economics  Caring and nursing science  Computer science  Computer systems engineering  Human work science  Humanities  Digital game development  Interaction design  Mathematics and statistics  Mechanical engineering  Public health science  Software engineering  Spatial planning  Spatial development and planning  Technoscience studies  Telecommunication systems  Radio communication

INTERACTION LEADS TO DEVELOPMENT  One of the most successful universities in Sweden when it comes to collaboration with industry and society  Highest number of employees in ”seed” companies  From stagnation to growth  3000 new jobs

WE ARE WHERE THE COMPANIES ARE

Board of governors Vice-Chancellor Provost Pro-Vice-Chancellor School of Health Science School of Management School of Engineering School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning ALGA Blekinge College and Vocational School CTUP Library External Relations Office Administration OPERATIVE UNITS MANAGEMENT SUPPORTING UNITS Faculty board Board of education Board of staff recruitment & appointment

FINANCING BODIES  Funding bodies include the Foundation for Strategic Research, the EU, NUTEK, VINNOVA, the Swedish Research Council, the KK Foundation and partners in industry  Research is often conducted in the form of projects with industry