ANNUAL REPORT
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, LTH
2009
LUND UNIVERSITY
Lund university
Content The Dean
4
Undergraduate Studies
6
Student Intake
7
International Collaboration
11
International Student Exchange
12
Postgraduate Studies
14
Research
16
EU-funded Research
17
Personnel
18
LTH in media
22
Honorary Doctors
23
Awards and Grants
24
Finance
27
Key Facts and Figures
32
The Board
34
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Faculty of Engineering is booming Lund University in business terms: Lund University as the corporation, the faculties as subsidiaries. If the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) were a company listed on the stock exchange, I would be buying a few extra shares in it right now. In the wake of the financial crisis, many people predicted that 2009 would be a really bad year. For some this was indeed the case but not for LTH. Not quite everything went our way but many things did go fantastically well. The year’s results show solid finances with potential for strategic investments. We succeeded in obtaining external research funding on an unprecedented scale. This meant that we didn’t have time enough to take on as many researchers and doctoral students as we would have liked. This created a surplus that we are now going through as we acquire new coworkers. So these are all positive concerns. The subsidiary is in fine shape!
WE SOMETIMES DESCRIBE
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Four development areas The University is working strategically on four development areas: attractive learning environments, strong research and innovation environments, increased visibility and investments in infrastructure. As far as attractive learning environments are concerned, we have invested in improving the laboratory activities within first cycle studies. We believe that this is a determining factor in the quality of technical education and in the achievement of good final qualifications in laboratory and experimental working methods for our students. We are making efforts to develop strong research and innovation environments in several ways. Through the recruitment of a top-level expert in materials chemistry, we have strengthened the environment and created conditions for links to nanotechnology research, ESS and Max IV.
The subject of physics is also being consolida- Relations with other higher education ted to ensure successful research. institutions We believe that increased visibility can generate There is a lot of talk about ranking as a part success in various ways, such as improved recru- of the benchmarking of higher education instiitment and exposure to external funding bodies. tutions. There are numerous different ranking lists. Lund University usually figures among the In September we inaugurated the Vattenhaltop hundred out of around 8000 universities in len Science Centre at LTH. Here, school pupils the world. LTH is normally not ranked alone as from the region will be able to come into conwe are a part of Lund University. tact with science and technology in an attractive way, as they meet our students and lecturers. We “Högskolerankingen 2009”, the ranking of believe this will be very significant for the future higher education institutions published by the South Skåne Chamber of Commerce and Induof LTH. stry, puts Lund University in 7th place. If ofWe put a lot of effort into producing good inficial KPIs are used to evaluate LTH, we end formation for the internet. Catalogues and visits up in 2nd place as the highest ranking technical to fairs are still important ways of generating higher education institution in Sweden. visibility. Our new catalogue of study programmes and the brochure “Life after LTH” have We draw great advantages from being part of received a lot of praise both from professionals Lund University as we can easily link medicine, technology, natural sciences and economics and from readers. through cross-boundary research projects During the year we launched three new research within the university as a whole. Elsewhere, portals: the Sea Portal (Havsportalen), the Food cooperation is required between three or more and Medicine Portal (Livs- och läkemedelsporuniversities in order to achieve the same objectalen) and the Innovation Portal (Innovationstive. portalen). All three will become important meeting-places for researchers from different With the conditions set for us by 2009, we can departments, thereby facilitating across-boun- look towards 2010 with confidence. One of the dary working method while highlighting this factors of our success is cross-boundary work: between the departments within LTH, between research. the faculties within Lund University, between That the infrastructure is being reinforced and universities and between countries. I am thereneeds yet further reinforcement is obvious from fore happy to quote a Europolitician: the fact that LTH will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2011. Over the past few years we Unity is our strength have therefore put a lot of money and effort Diversity is our wealth into renovating, modernising and renewing the buildings on campus. During the year our students’ union building turned 15 at the same time as the union itself turned 25, events which were celebrated with a Anders Axelsson jubilee week as a warm-up for LTH’s 50th anni- Dean LTH versary.
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Undergraduate Studies IN THE AUTUMN OF 2009,
the number of first choice applicants to LTH grew by 29 % compared to the previous year. Competition for places has increased on all programmes. A combination of demographics with large age groups, economic recession, an increased interest in science and technology together with LTH and Lund University’s good reputations have generated a lot of applicants per place. LTH is popular! LTH could not admit as many students in the autumn of 2009 as in previous years because the student quota is already filled. Instead, the qualifications of the admitted students were higher, so they should have better chances of successfully completing their studies. It is very positive that the proportion of female students enrolled in the Master of Science programme in Engineering has increased considerably.
for marketing Lund University in view of the introduction of fees for overseas students from 2011. The work to ensure the highest quality in education has gained additional traction this year from the new evaluation system drawn up by the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education. In the new system, the quality of degree projects will be highlighted as an indicator of good quality for the educational programme as a whole. Inspired by this, we at LTH have extended our faculty-wide evaluation system with the possibility for students to assess their experiences of the degree project. In the Higher Education Agency’s evaluation system, links to professional life and employability are also emphasised. This has also emerged from alumni surveys as something that students felt was lacking in their education. We have taken note of these views and, among other measures, we have invested in combined study and careers guidance early on in the programmes.
This year, the Faculty’s arts programmes, Architecture and Industrial Design, have operated in their new forms as schools. The new master’s programme in Industrial Design has been validated and established in the course of the year The Bologna agreement work has now been and the plan is to admit the first students to the applied throughout the educational system at programme in the autumn of 2010. LTH. The planning of the final, specialising, At Campus Helsingborg, among other things, two years of the Master of Science in EngineLTH runs Bachelor of Science programmes ering programme is now complete. After comin engineering, as well as foundation year and prehensive work on formulation, there are now foundation semester programmes in techno- many possibilities for common access to specialogy. There is a demand in industry for qualifi- lisations for many different programmes. cations in automation technology and this has led to LTH’s decision in 2009 to establish a new undergraduate engineering programme, starting in 2010, in electrical engineering with automation technology.
In summary, one can say that LTH has many students with high expectations and that all the staff share the major responsibility of providing them with the prerequisites for a good education and a promising start to their career.
LTH offers eight two-year master’s programmes which are mainly aimed at students from outside the EU/EEA. In the autumn of 2009, 162 new students were recruited to these programmes, representing a strong increase compared to the previous year. As the programmes function well with a high throughput there are now hundreds of satisfied alumni around the world. These alumni will come to be an important channel Ingrid Svensson Assistant Dean for Education 6
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Student Intake Number of full-time student equivalents (FTE), annual performance equivalents (APE) and degrees awarded (DEG) in the calendar years 2007, 2008 and 2009 2009
2009
FTE
APE
Biotechnology
265
240
Chemical Engineering
416
346
Civil Engineering
221
Computer Science
2009
2009
2008
2008
DEG
FTE
APE
2008
2007
2007
DEG
FTE
APE
91
42
252
230
83
58
374
314
91
70
265
233
88
41
84
61
374
323
86
195
88
38
208
70
192
92
46
208
191
92
286
225
79
45
41
249
211
85
63
261
236
90
Electrical Engineering
485
407
84
80
53
446
396
89
76
402
340
85
Environmental Engineering
117
93
71
79
18
105
95
90
26
115
103
90
Engineering Mathematics
175
16
157
90
45
166
151
91
31
169
157
93
Engineering Physics
37
241
233
97
43
231
218
94
32
217
184
85
Industrial Management & Engineering
32
700
663
95
120
700
595
85
115
702
608
87
116
APE/FTE(%)
2008 APE/FTE(%)
2007 APE/FTE(%)
2007 DEG
Master's degrees in
InfoCom
84
81
97
47
71
67
94
45
84
78
93
18
Mechanical Engineering
377
332
88
69
361
328
91
71
375
325
87
56
Nanoscience
146
112
77
19
142
128
90
23
141
111
79
11
Risk Management
202
182
90
33
185
157
85
15
171
137
80
1
Surveying
490
446
91
70
456
412
90
78
453
424
94
78
4 206
3 713
88
700
3946
3494
89
752
3937
3450
88
668
Architecture
260
231
89
55
271
231
85
60
253
226
89
56
Fire Protection Engineering
149
137
92
53
150
139
93
45
151
145
96
29
Industrial Design
117
97
83
15
126
101
80
12
130
112
86
14
Total Arch, FPE & ID
526
466
89
123
547
471
86
117
534
483
90
99
278
242
87
59
249
86
26
200
188
94
19
79
71
90
8
63,8
55
86
14
51
44
86
6
-
0
1
0,5
1,8
360
5
0,6
2,5
417
8
1,2
3
1
1
1
1,25
6,5
520
7,5
11,9
3
0,1
0,1
Other Total Master's degrees
Bachelor's degrees in Biotechnology Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Science
3
1,05 214
4
3,7
8
Electrical Engineering Geomatics Multimedia Engineering
2 8
Production Engineering Software Engineering
-
1
1
0,5
0,65
130
1
0,5
2,5
Total Bachelor's degrees
358
315
88
73
315,05
279
89
60
259,7
253,9
98
51
International Master's programmes
278
206
74
69
178
151
85
56
127
107
84
45
51,5
66
128
27
Continuation course for BSc graduates Vocational Food Technology
4
1 42
44
104
19
45
63
140
16
2
Foundation year
111
81
73
70
30,5
44
39,5
38
96
Separate course modules, etc.
432
338
78
389
295
76
380
303
80
15
19
131
31
30
97
36
35
97
TM (Economics students)
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Where do our students come from?
Skåne
Gothenburg
Stockholm
Central Sweden
Northern Sweden
2009
2008
2009
2008
2009
2008
2009
2008
2009
2008
Lund total
54%
56%
10%
8%
10%
8%
8%
8%
2%
2%
Helsingborg total
79%
78%
6%
5%
3%
5%
3%
4%
2%
1%
Electrical Engineering
70%
60%
3%
9%
7%
3%
3%
7%
2%
0%
Computer Science
66%
78%
1%
9%
10%
1%
7%
7%
1%
0%
InfoCom
63%
61%
4%
8%
11%
5%
13%
3%
2%
0%
Engineering Physics
46%
48%
13%
11%
14%
11%
9%
4%
0%
4%
Chemical Engineering
69%
61%
7%
2%
2%
7%
5%
4%
0%
0%
Architecture
57%
54%
9%
6%
9%
15%
9%
7%
6%
4%
Biotechnology
53%
56%
11%
6%
10%
9%
5%
9%
1%
0%
NanoScience
64%
53%
6%
9%
8%
9%
11%
13%
0%
0%
Mechanical Engineering
56%
59%
10%
6%
10%
6%
7%
7%
2%
2%
Enginering Mathematics
40%
61%
5%
8%
15%
8%
20%
13%
5%
0%
Civil Engineering
56%
51%
14%
10%
7%
6%
8%
8%
2%
4%
Environmental Engineering
38%
42%
19%
10%
10%
8%
11%
2%
3%
2%
Industrial Management & Engineering
45%
44%
17%
17%
16%
17%
11%
7%
1%
3%
Industrial Design
58%
55%
19%
5%
16%
20%
3%
5%
0%
0%
Surveying
35%
34%
14%
5%
9%
10%
8%
17%
6%
9%
Fire Protection Engineering
32%
37%
13%
10%
13%
10%
13%
15%
3%
7%
Computer Engineering HBG
94%
100%
2%
0%
2%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Civil Engineering HBG*
71%
74%
9%
7%
4%
0%
4%
8%
1%
3%
Foundation Year
81%
76%
4%
6%
4%
12%
4%
0%
5%
0%
* Previously, the three construction engineering streams - Traffic and Roads, Railway Engineering and Architecture and Built Environment - were measured separately. For the year 2009, the students from all three programmes were surveyed together, which means that the figures for each individual programme cannot be compared with previous results. The comparison is made with Architecture’s earlier figures, as they had most respondents in previous surveys.
Source of Information leading to choise of LTH 2009
2008
2007
Close to home
Good reputation
City of Lund
LTH prospectus
14%
18%
17%
2009
39%
73%
61%
Friends
21%
19%
17%
2008
37%
72%
58%
Internet
30%
30%
27%
2007
39%
73%
67%
Family
21%
17%
17%
2006
34%
72%
65%
Visit to LTH
13%
13%
11%
2005
37%
67%
68%
Other LTH students
8%
7%
8%
2004
39%
67%
68%
VHS* Directory
4%
4%
5%
2003
40%
70%
68%
Teachers
3%
3%
3%
2002
35%
67%
68%
School Career Advisors
3%
3%
3%
2001
37%
65%
72%
2000
40%
58%
67%
1999
40%
54%
65%
1998
41%
53%
65%
1997
37%
34%
47%
1996
48%
37%
27%
1995
54%
26%
39%
*VHS = National Agency for Higher Education
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Source of information leading to choise of LTH programme 2009
Prospectus
Friends
Internet
Family
Visit to LTH
LTH-students
LTH totalt
15%
23%
28%
22%
14%
8%
Engineering Physics
11%
24%
26%
24%
17%
7%
NanoScience
19%
19%
31%
22%
19%
8%
Enginering Mathematics
5%
5%
29%
24%
24%
10%
Electrical Engineering
16%
18%
29%
15%
22%
10%
Computer Science
9%
23%
31%
20%
13%
3%
InfoCom
18%
13%
27%
20%
9%
13%
Mechanical Engineering
14%
30%
21%
25%
12%
8%
Civil Engineering
16%
19%
23%
28%
9%
9%
Environmental Engineering
24%
20%
41%
11%
8%
11%
Industrial Management & Engineering
11%
34%
24%
26%
11%
11%
Surveying
30%
23%
32%
18%
9%
6%
Biotechnology
14%
20%
27%
23%
23%
5%
Chemical Engineering
27%
11%
29%
29%
16%
7%
Fire Protection Engineering
10%
22%
40%
18%
12%
2%
Architecture
9%
25%
35%
25%
9%
11%
Industrial Design
0%
21%
24%
21%
28%
7%
Proportion of women admitted
MSc programmes
2009
2008
2007
2006
32,5%
28%
28%
27%
BSc programmes
21%
24%
18%
20%
Architecture
53%
60%
55%
59%
Fire Protection Engineering
29%
22%
24%
21%
Industrial Design
42%
50%
69%
56%
International Master’s Programmes
26%
28%
26%
25%
Electrical Engineering*
14%
10%
8%
11%
* One of the programmes which succeeded in recruiting more female students in 2009 is Electrical Engineering, which increased its share of women by almost 30% between 2008 and 2009.
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Elin Östman free radicals, metabolic syndrome and glycemic index. These fashionable words in the media and key terms for the health-conscious are concepts no one knows better than Elin Östman, reader in industrial nutrition at LTH. As people around the world are increasingly affected by adult-onset diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases, interest in understanding how different ingredients in our food affect us is growing. ANTIOXIDANTS,
Together with other medical and food researchers and a number of food companies, she has been part of the Antidiabetic Food Centre, AFC, at Lund University for several years. “Thanks to this type of interdisciplinary platform, we have good chances of getting results from our projects as everyone contributes with different qualifications”.
She is involved in several other projects, among them the EU “Healthgrain” project in which re“Though unfortunately the term ‘glycemic in- searchers ascertain what it is that makes whole dex’ has been so misused that we researchers grain foods so healthy. In another project, she sometimes hesitate to use it. People refer to the is studying whether certain undesirable substan‘GI method’ and they mean that one should eat ces are present in processed foods, for example a lot of fat and protein and few carbohydrates. in baby foods. In between all this, lectures, But those of us researching GI think that one supervisions, report writing, research applicashould indeed eat carbohydrates, but mainly one tions and other administrative tasks take up a should choose the ones with a low GI, that is lot of her time. food that makes blood sugar levels rise slowly and leads to a lesser increase in insulin”, ex- A memorable event last year was when Elin Östman and two colleagues from LTH won the plains Elin Östman. first round in the business development comThe discoveries of the past few years have me- petition, Venture Cup. They were commended ant that the GI is no longer studied as an iso- for their business idea to study beta-glucans, a lated phenomenon but in its interaction with coveted blood sugar-reducing substance which other factors, such as the composition of the is present in oats and barley. Beta-glucans vary intestinal flora and the dietary fiber present in somewhat in appearance and can work in slightfood products. Here, the fact that Elin Östman ly different ways. But with the researchers’ new finds herself in a university with a broad and method, food companies can establish whether varied range of research on food in which dif- the beta-glucans that are present in their specific ferent projects can be of use to one another is food products have the right properties. an advantage. As a functional food researcher she is not short of a market for her new findings. Just now she and Professor Inger Björck are working on a patent. “Whey contains amino-acids that control insulin to give constant blood sugar levels. We have succeeded in identifying the optimal composition of these amino-acids. The plan is to sell the license to companies who want to add them to drinks or dairy products for example”, says Elin Östman. Elin Östman Docent, Industrial nutrition
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International Collaboration WITHIN LUND UNIVERSITY, internationalisation is
a leading strategy aimed at achieving the highest quality in education, postgraduate studies and research. This applies not least to the Faculty of Engineering, LTH. This is why it was so encouraging when, in its major review of the quality assurance work within Lund University, the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education observed that “in some faculties, for example the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), internationa-lisation is also a central part of the activity” (Report 2009:30 R).
In 2009, the Swedish Parliament pushed through a law making joint degrees possible. This opens up major opportunities for more in depth international cooperation, not least in the area of postgraduate research studies. An internal mapping of international research cooperation was carried out in 2009 and showed that informal, joint supervision of doctoral students is already a reality in practically all departments at LTH.
LTH’s activities in China and Japan continue to grow. In the autumn of 2009, the first batch of 23 students in LTH’s China specialisation stream Two important conditions for successful inter- studied for a term in Hangzhou, and a joint denationalisation are effective communication and gree agreement was signed between LTH and integration. An important tool for this is the Keio University, Tokyo. A large, highly qualified, Language Policy for LTH which was established top-level delegation from the Chinese Academy in February 2009. of Engineering, CAE, visited LTH in June. A central feature of internationalisation is student exchange. The number of outgoing exchange students increased by 15% in 2009. On the other hand, the number of degree projects carried out abroad decreased, which meant that altogether the volume was largely unchanged compared to 2008. The number of incoming exchange students dropped noticeably, a phenomenon which affected Lund University as a whole. This may depend on the global financial crisis, but it serves at the same time as a reminder that even LTH and Lund University must market themselves actively as a top class study destination. In principle in 2008 LTH achieved the objective of 25 % of students on its longer study programmes having studied abroad. In 2009 the objective will not be reached, largely due to the decrease in exchanges within the architecture programme. But the interest for exchange studies does seem to be growing fast once more; in the November 2009 round of applications, the number of requests for study abroad had risen by 50%! The upturn most probably depends on increased, more coordinated and better targeted information efforts aimed at LTH’s students.
Two internal projects have also begun on the quality assurance and simplification of administrative work. The first project affects the processes up to selection and nomination for overseas studies. The second project affects all the following stages from nomination, via credit transfer, to the issuing of a degree. These will be reported on during the spring of 2010.
Per Warfvinge Assistant Dean for International Affairs
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International Student Exchange France Germany Spain Scandinavia Övriga Europa North America Asia South America Australia & New Zealand
2009 81 83 54 13 120 45 31 18 12
2008 80 98 58 6 121 53 20 22 26
2007 91 80 64 10 112 54 9 27 25
Foreign students studying at LTH
2006 86 77 72 12 154 55 9 4 2
Diagram 6 160
2009 2008 2007 2006
140
120
100
80
60
40
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Inkommande studenter Utresande studenter Master studenter 258 208 273 176 321 178 0 France Spain Scandinavia 64 Övriga Europa 390 Germany 198 436 237 75 426 292 72 469 330 61 472 312 111 484 304 117 Balance of foreign exchange294 at LTH 2000 - 2009 419 162 20
North America
Asia
South America
Australia & New Zealand
500
375
250
125
0 2000
2001
2002
Incoming students Outgoing students* International Master students
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2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
* The considerable increase in the number of students studying abroad is due to the fact that since the autumn semester of 2005 information on those carrying out their Master’s projects in other countries i availible.
LTH students studying abroad
2009
2008
2007
2006
Architecture
24
34
40
29
Industrial Design
1
2
2
3
Fire Protection Engineering
4
7
7
14
Biotechnology
23
11
12
17
Chemical Engineering
0
2
3
4
Computer Science
4
2
4
6
Electrical Engineering
70
38
40
67
Engineering Mathematics
14
11
21
18
Engineering Physics
6
8
6
5
Environmental Engineering
4
6
3
6
Industrial Management & Engineering
20
25
22
27
InfoCom
0
0
2
4
Mechanical Engineering
19
10
26
30
Nanoscience
9
7
10
9
Risk Management
12
17
9
8
Surveying
11
4
13
15
Arkitekter Brandingenjรถrer Civilingenjรถrer Civil & Traffic Engineering 12 12 2002 58,3 9,4 14,9 2003 6,3 10,1 Master's projects 57,6 37 73 2004 9,8 11,5 Internship course62,5 26 35 2005 50,0 0 13,3 Total 296 304 2006 41,7 4,8 15,7 2007 48,2 3,4 17,2 2008 46,7 14,9 22,5 2009 32,7 7,5 19,0
Totalt 82,612 74,080 83,8 63,3 312 62,2 68,8 84,0 59,2
9 62
333
Proportion of graduates having studied abroad
Diagram 3 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0
2002
2003
Architecture
2004
2005
Fireengineer
2006
2007
2008
MSc in Engineering
2009
Total
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Postgraduate Studies OVER THE PAST YEAR,
Lund University has established a plan of action for quality assurance regarding third cycle studies for 2009-2010. The plan is based on Lund University’s policy for quality assurance in education for 2009-2012.
The doctoral students’ section within the students’ union has contributed to ensuring that all three research boards and the research drafting committee today have very active and committed postgraduate representatives.
During the year, the number of doctoral students to pass their PhD examinations at LTH has decreased, which is of course an effect of the decrease in the number of newly admitted doctoral students during 2004 and 2005. The proportion of newly admitted female doctoral students during 2009 increased to 39%. As the proportion of women in our undergraduate programmes is around 30%, this is very encouraging. During the year, a survey of doctoral students was carried out, showing that the majority of doctoral students are satisfied with their situation but that there is a lot of room for improvement when it comes to information about the range of postgraduate courses available.
During the year, the basic rules and regulations governing third cycle studies have been reviewed. Shortly, the study handbook for postgraduates will be updated. The information available on the Faculty’s home pages has also been made clearer.
Ulla Holst Deputy Dean
Postgraduate students 2009 - 2001 2009
14
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
Total number enrolled
114
134
105
121
86
107
167
139
167
Women (%)
39
30,5
34
26
34
33
30
27
35
PhDs awarded
94
112
121
117
135
127
114
95
81
Women (%)
27
30
32
34
24
28
29
33
26
Licentiates awarded
42
43
38
59
73
63
91
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Anders Rantzer Head of the Department of Automatic Control, looks back over 2009, he sums it up as a successful year characterised by strong growth. WHEN PROFESSOR ANDERS RANTZER,
“In the manufacturing industry the field of built-in systems is growing fast. More and more products feature small built-in computers that help to control parts of the product”.
“For us, 2009 was a year of expansion in which we were able to take on new doctoral students and post doctoral researchers; now we will soon be announcing vacancies for permanent posts”.
Another important event during the year was when the Department was assigned strategic research funds for the Excellence Centre at Linköping/Lund in Information Technology (ELA large part of the growth at the Department LIIT.) An active guest programme is also planof Automatic Control comes from the Linnaeus ned with a series of workshops at the Pufendorf Grant which was awarded in 2008. It means an Institute which are kicking off now in 2010. additional SEK 7.5 million per year from the “We have 10 office spaces which we fill with Swedish Research Council plus a further SEK 1 guests during the whole year, divided into four million from Lund University. periods with different themes and a conferen“The Linnaeus Grant is a ten-year grant which ce in the middle of each period”, says Anders makes it possible to build up a strong research Rantzer. environment around the management of complex technological systems. This gives us the opportunity to think in a more long term perspective”, says Anders Rantzer. “It is quite unique, even in an international context, to have ten-year grants. There are not many places where one can have such a long term perspective”. Three research areas have grown fast during the year: medicine, energy and the manufacturing and processing industry. ”Cooperation with the Faculty of Medicine has increased sharply during the year. Among other things, we have a project in which diabetes patients can get support from mathematical models in controlling their blood sugar levels”. In the field of energy we are working with Danish partners on wind power, to coordinate our wind turbines together so as to use the wind more efficiently. If the wind drops we want to coordinate with other wind turbines so that they can quickly adjust their energy production”.
Anders Rantzer
Head of the Department of Automatic Control
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Research Faculty of Engineering (LTH) continues to develop in a very positive way. LTH has the major advantage of being an important part of Lund University’s strong research environments in which multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary cooperation continues to grow. RESEARCH AT LUND UNIVERSITY’S
In recent years we have also witnessed an increase in cooperation between different higher education institutions. This became particularly evident in applications to obtain a share of the long-term strategic funding which was announced in the government bill on research and innovation. The bill included a major investment in technological research and research in medical and life sciences. During the first half of the year, a lot of work was dedicated to writing applications which were evaluated by the Swedish Research Council, FORMAS, VINNOVA and the Swedish Energy Agency in collaboration. When the evaluations were complete and the results were out, it emerged that research groups from LTH are taking part in 11 of the 12 fields that were allocated to Lund University. For LTH, the biggest areas are nanoscience and nanotechnology, IT and mobile communications, e-science and production technology.
The news that ESS (European Spallation Source) is to be located in Lund and that MaxIV will be built came out in 2009. Both these investments will be of major significance for LTH and require long term investment in research connected to these areas. During the course of the year, LTH has received grants for established researchers amid very tough competition from the European Research Council. Research funding from the EU constitutes a very important and growing part of LTH’s external research funding. A new and prestigious research programme, “Wallenberg Scholars”, was introduced in Sweden during the year and a researcher in nuclear physics from LTH was among the ten first to be awarded the distinction.
Ulla Holst Deputy Dean
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EU-funded Research became entitled to participate in the EU’s research programmes in the early 1990s, Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering (LTH) has been active in European research cooperation. The seventh framework programme (FP7) has been ongoing since 2007 and during 2008 the first contracts were signed and the projects started. EVER SINCE SWEDEN
LTH’s groups of researchers are involved in around 30 ongoing projects and coordinate three major cooperation projects which include a number of European partners. The thirty projects are expected to bring in EUR 15 million (around SEK 157 million) in EU grants. LTH accounts for just over 30 % of the University’s participation in the EU’s framework programme and takes home about 45 % of the total EU subsidy. LTH increased its income from the EU’s framework programme by 15 % between 2008 and 2009. Besides the contracts that have already been signed, 10 project contracts involving researchers from LTH are currently being negotiated. LTH’s researchers participate in several of the FP7 programmes, above all in Information & Communication Technologies, Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials & New Production Technologies, Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Biotechnology and Transport.
The European Research Council (ERC) The European Research Council’s individual research grants, the ERC Starting Grant and the ERC Advanced Grant, are applied for and awarded amid very tough international competition. It is therefore particularly gratifying that up to and including 2009, three researchers have been awarded these grants: Fredrik Kahl, Mathematics, Anne L’Huillier, Nuclear Physics and Bengt Sundén, Heat Transfer. In 2009 another researcher, Professor Marcus Aldén, was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant but the contract will come into force during 2010. The EU’s sixth framework programme The EU’s sixth framework programme (FP6) ended in 2006. The last contracts in the framework programme, however, were signed as late as 2007 and around twenty projects are still ongoing, with the last of them expected to end in 2012. Other EU-funded programmes Besides the EU’s framework programmes, researchers also take part in other research programmes such as the environment and energy programme Intelligent Energy Europe and the Public Health programme.
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Personnel Current human resources situation IN 2009, an increased influx of external funding resulted in more appointments of younger researchers and lecturers than in previous years. This also applies to the proportion of doctoral students which is now growing after several years of reduced recruitment to research studies. A considerable share of the recruited senior lecturers is made up of associate senior lecturers, often recruited from among the younger researchers. 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 Doktorandtjänst 374 352 349 391 400 477 Administratör/Tekniker/Övriga 227 218 228 238 254 285 Lektor 191 194 176 164 181 184 Annan undervis. och forsk. pers. 212 175 185 162 165 192 Professor 153 157 161 164 167 166 Adjunkt 53 54 62 67 73 84 Forskarassistent 35 36 37 37 40 41 Gästlärare 20 18 22 13 9 9 Totalt 1 265 1 204 1 220 1 236 1 289 1 438
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Younger researchers IN THE CONTEXT of the University’s special investment in younger researchers, LTH has selected six subject areas for the appointment of assistant senior lecturers: Industrial Marketing , Community Safety and Preparedness – Multilevel Risk and Vulnerability Analysis, Innovation Technology, MatProfessor Lektorfocusing Adjunkt Gästlärare F o U Adm. personal Biblotekspersonal Tekniskto Totalt hematical Statistics onAnnan Stochastic Systems applied Energy, Environment and Climate, Personal 2015-2019 Kvinnor 24 % 2 % 18 % 27 % 6 % 19 % 8 % 23 % 16 % Biomechanics and Food design for12 % Metabolic Benefits. 2015-2019 Män 19 % 10 % 20 % 11 % 20 % 33 % 23 % 16 % 2010-2014 Kvinnor
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Equality and equal treatment of students During the year, five women got the opportunity to dedicate themselves partly to working assignments which further their qualifications through financial support for the underrepresented gender. The professorship in Computer Science at LTH was awarded to Hedda Andersson, which means that a female visiting professor will be engaged for a year. LTH was also assigned RQ 08 funds to invite visiting lecturers of the underrepresented gender. The funds are used to invest in activities that are in need of female role models. In addition, LTH RQ08 funds were used to carry out a study regarding the psychosocial working environment of doctoral students. The holders of the Lise Meitner* visiting professorship for 2009 were Professor Marjatta Lyyra, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA and Dr Gunilla Wieslander, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Uppsala.
During the year, LTH coordinated 12 LTH-wide research studies courses in which 167 doctoral students accumulated 650 LADOK-registered higher education credits. These are made up of courses within the framework of the Breakthrough initiative’s training activities in teaching and learning in higher education, courses to support the scholarly production and communication of doctoral students and courses in the theory of science and ethics. Moreover during the year, 31 university lecturers completed 65 weeks of participation in training courses for readers and research supervisors arranged at LTH, in compliance with the requirements of the Higher Education Ordinance and Lund University.
During 2009 a mapping and information project financed by the delegation for Equality in Higher Education (DJ) was launched, in which supervisors, doctoral students and recent PhD graduates at LTH were interviewed about conThe working group for equality and equal treatditions for men and women in research and rement issues has continued its work on the recrusearch studies, among other things against the itment project “Girls in Engineering” (“Flickor background of Lund University’s survey of supå Teknis”) which is a collaboration project with a large number of upper secondary schools in the pervisors, doctoral students and alumni 2007south of Sweden involving several of LTH’s de- 2008, among other things. The project’s results will be reported and communicated during partments. 2010. During 2009, LTH and the School of Economics and Management in cooperation with our E-recruitment partner companies carried out the Female Ac- During 2009, the university-wide E-recruitment celerate Programme, which meant that a female project was based in the Student Union building engineer and a female economist won an 18 and in LTH’s Faculty Office. Its main activity month traineeship programme at three of our consisted in developing the application and infour partner companies, Alfa Laval, AstraZe- stalling it in a test environment. The E-recruitneca, Sony Ericsson and Tetra Pak. Just over 30 ment application builds on the same platform female engineers took part in the competition. and is integrated with the University’s document In the autumn of 2009, an information folder registration system. The ambition is to replace was also distributed, containing guidance on is- all paperwork within Human Resources with disues of discrimination and the working environ- gital management while improving quality and ment for students embarking on their studies. traceability, increasing flexibility, reducing processing time and making the recruitment proLTH’s common third cycle studies and cess at LTH more efficient. A pilot project was lecturer training activities in 2009 All co-workers at LTH and the LTH Break- carried out in the autumn in which LTH particithrough initiative as well as visiting lecturers pated together with staff from Human Resourfrom the Faculties of Medicine and Social Sci- ces and three departments. The E-recruitment ences are regularly involved in education and application was approved for delivery on 18 training with a focus on third cycle studies, November and will be installed live in the whole of LTH during spring 2010. research supervision and readerships at LTH. 20
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Academic Development Unit 2009 Academic Development Unit’s teacher training and support functions at LTH cover teaching and learning in higher education, educational consultancy support, evaluation work, practicebased research in teaching and learning in higher education, knowledge dissemination and meeting places as well as assessment of teaching qualifications (teaching academy and assessment of teaching skills).
to the educational programmes at LTH and during the year it has had a number of commissions as a reviewer as well as publishing several articles in scholarly journals and collaborating actively in national and international conferences. Academic Development Unit also hosted the Second Development conference for Sweden’s Engineering programmes on 2-3 December 2009, a national conference specifically dedicaThe qualifying further training for lecturers in ted to engineering and a development meeting teaching and learning in higher education con- place for all higher education institutions and stitutes the core activity of the Academic Deve- universities that train engineers in Sweden. lopment Unit. The range of courses has been The following people were awarded the 2009 ETP developed and new courses have been introdu- distinction, “Excellent Teaching Practitioner”: ced. During 2009, 204 employees took part in »» PER BECKER a total of 476 weeks of qualifying training. All »» ULF NILSSON courses include the presentation of project re- »» ANDREAS NORRMAN ports about various issues in teaching and lear»» NINA REISTAD ning in higher education related to tuition at LTH. Several of these projects have been pre- »» TORGNY ROXÅ sented externally in various contexts, but also »» LARS WADSÖ internally, through the information sheet Lear- The distinction is given to lecturers who conscining at LTH among other things. ously and systematically develop their teaching Academic Development Unit also runs research skills and tuition. and development projects which are significant 2009 14 % 25 % 34 % 19 % 32 % 36 % 30 % 24 % 83 % 36 %
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LTH in media in the media it is usually in the context of research or researchers providing expert commentary; rather more rarely about students and education. WHEN LTH APPEARS
A large number of representatives are visible in the press – not just a few spokespersons. So there is a broad, common responsibility for LTH’s media image. For the university as a whole, however, the Vice-Chancellor Per Eriksson has quickly become a prominent representative. Certain research fields are more profitable to the media than others. Among them are construction, traffic, energy and environment, cars/vehicles, health, medicine and food. LTH appeared in just over 800 articles and media contributions in 2009. This represents a slight drop compared to previous years. In fact LTH appears approximately a third more than this, but is not named specifically in these cases; representatives are mentioned such as Lund researchers, students from Lund, etc. During 2009 LTH sent out just over 40 press releases. Most of them were about new research findings. Many get good results but others pass more unnoticed. A number of press releases are translated into English and sent out to international journalists. About 25 per cent of LTH’s total publicity derives from press releases. LTH is seldom mentioned in negative terms in the media; contrary to what many people believe, the media nearly always write only neutrally or in positive terms about Lund University. As usual, the daily newspaper Sydsvenskan is the source that reports most on the university.
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Honorary Doctors (born 1961) is a well-known theorist in the area of research on atoms in strong laser fields. With his numerical methods and simulations, he completes the experimental studies that have been carried out at LTH. Among other things, his cooperation with LTH has included a sabbatical year in Lund, funded by STINT, and has resulted in around 15 jointly authored articles in recognised Physics journals. PROFESSOR KENNETH J SCHAFER
(born 1949) passed his Bachelor’s degree at Lund University, then continued his studies at UC Berkeley and has mainly been active at the University of Washington. Guttorp collaborates intensively with Mathematical Statistics at LTH and, among other things, he was the Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers’ guest professor in Environmental Studies at LTH and at the University of Linköping in 2004-2005. With his focus on statistical applications for environmental data, Guttorp’s work is very relevant today. LTH’s cooperation with him has also affected a number of programmes of study, in particular Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mathematics. PROFESSOR PETER GUTTORP
(born 1946) played a very central role in the establishment of IDEON and was its CEO for the first 10 years. Ideon’s significance for LTH, Lund University and the Skåne region cannot be overstated. Holm’s career has continued in Teknopol, Teknikbrostiftelsen and Innovationsbron Syd, all of which work on innovative processes that transform knowledge from the University into commercial activity. He has also contributed to important projects at LTH, in the field of food among others.
SVEN-THORE HOLM
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Awards and Grants Professors CARL BORREBAECK and THOMAS LAURELL received the Akzo Nobel Science Award amounting to SEK 500 000. The prizes were handed out at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in Stockholm. Professor MARGARETA NYMAN of the Division for Applied Nutrition and Food Chemistry received the Main Druvan Prize of SEK 600 000 kronor from the Dr Per Håkansson Foundation. HENRIK THELER,
from the Department of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety, received SEK1.05 million from STINT for a project together with two South African researchers: “Southnorth disaster risk reduction network”. Professor ANNE L´HUILLIER, nuclear physicist at LTH, was appointed as a so-called Wallenberg Scholar when Knut and Alice Wallenberg’s foundation handed out ten research grants. She was awarded SEK 3 million per year for five years. A trio from Solid State Physics at LTH, FREDRIK BOXBERG, NIELS SÖNDERGAARD and professor HONGQI XU received the Öhrling Pricewaterhouse Coopers Innovation prize of SEK 150.000 for their discovery of piezoelectric photovoltaic (PZFV) solar cells based on nanotechnology. In an evaluation by the scientific publication “Journal of Systems and Software”, professor PER RUNESON, Software Systems, shared the fifth place worldwide. He is also part of the management of a new centre for industrial excellence, EASE, Embedded Applications Software Engineering, which was launched with funds from Vinnova in cooperation with a number of companies. KARIN JÖNSSON,
Chemical Engineering, was one of six researchers who received an environmental stipend from the Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers, SEK 235 000 for research into “Ozoning – the technology of the future for water purification?” The Ingvar Carlsson award, established by SSF, the Strategic Research Foundation, went to three returning post-doctoral researchers from LTH: PER JOHNSSON, Nuclear Physics, THOMAS MAGESACHER, EIT, and BJÖRN NILSSON, Max-lab. They received a contribution of SEK 3 million of which SEK 50 000 are a personal stipend. a researcher in the aerosol group at Nuclear Physics, LTH, was awarded a Council Research Fellowship by the Swedish Research Council. She also received a research grant of SEK 3 million from the Research Council for research into the significance of surface-active materials for cloud droplets. BIRGITTA SVENNINGSSON,
PÅL BÖRJESSON,
reader at the Division for Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, received the Volvo prize of SEK 250 000 from the Håkan Frisinger Foundation. This award recognised his research into bioenergy and biofuels, as well as the dissemination of knowledge to decision-makers in the public sector and the business world. The Swedish Energy Agency, STEM, also awarded him a research project grant of SEK 4.4 million.
The year’s biggest grant was taken home by the Nanometer Structure Consortium at Lund University, nmC@LU, led by professor LARS SAMUELSON: a new strategic grant from the Swedish government of over SEK 30 million per year. The Söderberg Commerce Prize of SEK 500 000 went to Professor GUNILLA JÖNSON, LTH, and a researcher at Linköping University. Gunilla Jönson was also awarded the Ekman medal for 2009 by the Swedish Association of Pulp and Paper Engineers. This list is not exhaustive.
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Mattias Alveteg is a senior lecturer in soil chemistry but works only 40 per cent of the time at his department. Half of his working hours are in fact dedicated to his mandate as chair of one of LTH’s four study programmes boards, UN2. UN2 has the overall responsibility for programmes in chemical engineering, biotechnology, environmental engineering, fire protection engineering and risk management engineering.
working on their degree projects that we lecturers and researchers find out what other departments at LTH are actually busy doing. Perhaps degree projects are a resource that we could exploit more?”
“As chair I have invested a lot of time in the course evaluations that are carried out at LTH. Since 2003, over 100 000 surveys have been answered and if one digs into the results one can find a lot of interesting information, such as positive trends for certain units and programmes and cultural differences between groups of students”.
In his research on soil chemistry, one of Mattias’s goals was to produce documentation to serve as a basis for international negotiations on limiting emissions. Today there is not much time for research in Mattias’s calendar, but he is still assistant supervisor to a couple of doctoral students who are busy with preparative chromatography.
MATTIAS ALVETEG
For a few hours per week Mattias works with pedagogical training and runs a course for university lecturers on academic honesty. Experiences from the courses are built into LTH’s policy on how to counteract plagiarism in student work.
The group which is working on course evalua- “During 2009 I had trouble ‘synching’ the vations has recently started evaluating the stu- rious tasks which led to me working far too dents’ experiences of their degree projects. much. But in 2010 I plan to safeguard my free “This can become an interesting complement to time better. I share a great interest in music with the alumni surveys and the employer interviews my wife and my two children and I sing and play that are done every few years”. a bit of piano, clarinet and guitar. My latest proRunning courses with few students is expensive, ject is to learn to play the keyed fiddle (nyckelso in recent years the study programmes boards harpa, a traditional Swedish string instrument) have been working on reducing the number of that my father built and gave to my daughter. courses and specialisations without restricting And I also want to have time to go running a couple of times per week. freedom of choice for students. “It’s a bit like a 15-puzzle, but one with a thousand pieces, says Mattias, and it’s a tough job for both programme managers and timetable planners to get it all to work for the students”. Mattias sees it as a great strength that Lund University has both breadth and depth in its education and research, but he thinks this advantage is not yet fully exploited: “With 19 departments, just over 1 000 courses and 1 400 employees at LTH alone there is always a risk that working hours are wasted developing a course that is already offered to our students. Sometimes it is thanks to our students
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Finance went up in 2009 to SEK 1 458 Million which repre-sents an increase of around SEK 100 Million compared to the previous year.
The co-financing requirement lies between 15 and 20 % which means that between SEK 75 and 100 Million will be needed for this. The reported profit thus implies that the co-financing Profit for the financial year was SEK 93.6 Mil- funds are set aside at the department level. lion of which SEK 4.6 Mil-lion in education LTH’s total activity is financed up to about 52 and SEK 89 Million in research/postgraduate % by state funds. Of the funds that are destined studies. LTH thereby has a public agency capital for research/postgraduate studies, about 64 % of as much as SEK 194 Million. The surplus come from external backers. The requirement within research/postgraduate studies depends for co-financing of the state grant means that mainly on the fact that the Faculty did not ma- the scope for LTH’s own strategic investments nage to expand its activities at the same rate as is limited. new funding came in. During the year the num- The five major contributors to LTH research ber of employees grew by barely 86 full time during 2009 were the Swedish Research Council equivalents. Many of the new appointments (SEK 150 Million), Swedish companies (SEK took place during the second half of the year, 76 Mil-lion), the EU (SEK 85 Million), VINso their full impact has not yet been felt on the NOVA (SEK 77 Million) and the Swedish Encost side. ergy Agency (SEK 61 Million). LTH’S TOTAL REVENUES
Funds from external backers can be periodised over several years, which is not permitted for government funding. LTH periodises just over SEK 500 Million in funding in its yearly balancing of accounts. When subsidies are utilised, LTH is now required to co-finance them to a Intäkter per verksamhetsområde Grundutbildning not insignificant degree. 467 868 Forskning / Forskarutbildning (anslag) 341 352 Forskning / Forskarutbildning (bidrag) 545 784 Uppdragsverksamhet 102 799 Distribution of revenue according
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Total (excl. depreciation) Profit/Loss before depreciation
Profit/Loss after depreciation Financial income and costs Net financial income/costs
Balance sheet (SEK thousands)
Assets Inventory
122 301
135 314
143 655
161 971
140 186
Accounts receivable, advances and other accounts owing
24 485
30 931
41 822
31 830
22 799
Accrued revenue
87 439
84 182
53 284
63 662
82 962
Other current receivables
23 321
26 932
30 661
5 762
6 582
Cash
691 328
510 286
439 537
373 761
269 322
Total assets
948 874
787 645
708 959
636 986
521 851
105 996
68 742
39 184
15 906
-312
-6 067
-6 067
-5 615
-5 603
Liabilities and agency capital Agency capital Capital brought forward Capital movement Change in capital for the year
93 649
37 254
29 436
21 328
10 490
193 578
99 929
63 005
31 631
10 178
333
0
221
Loans
33 440
40 371
47 709
27 950
Liquidity loan
24 750
35 750
41 250
Total Liabilities Other current liabilities
Accounts payable
30
12 750 21 776
10 516
46 204
17 880
29 926
8 359
Prepaid revenue
657 415
570 881
505 189
467 435
425 872
Other liabilities
28 841
30 260
39 205
38 794
42 916
Total
755 295
687 716
645 954
605 355
511 673
Total liabilities and agency capital
948 873
787 645
708 959
636 986
521 851
2009 • ANNUAL REPORT
Revenue and costs for each activity 2009 - 2004 (before internal eliminations)
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
Total LTH (SEK million) Revenue
1 470
1 389
1 332
1 326
1 328
1 334
Costs
1 376
1 352
1 303
1 305
1 318
1 401
94
37
29
21
10
-67
194
91
63
Revenue
475
470
462
485
459
452
Costs
472
454
453
446
432
448
3
16
9
39
27
4
84
83
67
Revenue
891
809
760
736
751
780
Costs
800
779
737
748
765
841
91
30
23
-12
-14
-61
122
23
-2
Revenue
104
110
110
105
118
103
Costs
104
119
113
111
121
113
0
-9
-3
-6
-3
-10
-6
-6
-1
Profit/Loss Agency capital Undergraduate teaching (SEK million)
Profit/Loss Agency capital Research and postgraduate teaching (SEK million)
Profit/Loss Agency capital External commissions (SEK million)
Profit/Loss Agency capital
Investments (SEK thousands) 2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
Undergraduate teaching Investments Revenue* Investments/Revenue
3 347
4 581
2 956
13 588
5 563
5 475
440 228
418 367
424 367
484 973
458 718
451 808
1%
1%
1%
3%
1%
1%
Research & postgraduate teaching Investments
44 602
39 281
32 902
63 926
38 909
32 063
Revenue*
870 212
790 160
733 149
709 481
724 102
735 481
5%
5%
4%
9%
5%
4%
692
1 556
1 472
2 065
1 732
3 191
147 426
152 356
151 966
105 686
118 299
105 099
0%
1%
1%
2%
1%
3%
Investments/Revenue External commissions Investments Revenue* Investments/Revenue
*Revenue excluding transfers.
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Key Facts and Figures Undergraduate studies*
Unit
2009
2008
2 007
2006
2005
440
417
424
439
422
409
5 855
5 223
5 194
5 246
5 498
5 761
%
5 185
4 622
4 583
4 541
4 978
5 009
SEK thousand/FTE
89%
88%
88%
87%
91%
87%
75
80
82
84
77
Government grants (UT)
SEK million
Full-time equivalents achieved*
FTE
Annual performance equivalents achieved*
APE
APE/FTE Government grants/FTE
MScs and Architecture degrees required by gov't 01-04 Number MScs and Architecture degrees awarded 01-04
Number
Success rate
%
2004
71 2 510 2 595
MScs and Architecture degrees required by gov't 05-09 Number
103%
MScs and Architecture degrees awarded 05-09
Number
2 625
2800
2800
2800
Success rate
%
823
812
724
801
2 800 828
External revenue* (UT)
SEK million
31%
29%
26%
29%
30%
External revenue/Government grants (UT)
%
12
16
3
9
13
18
External revenue per FTE
SEK thousand/FTE
3
4
1
2
3
4
Total revenue* (UT) excluding commissions
SEK million
3
3
1
2
2
3
Total revenue (UT)/FTE
SEK thousand
452
433
427
448
435
427
Lecturers
Number
77
83
82
85
79
74
FTE/Lecturers
FTE/Lecturer
198
194
176
164
207
208
Junior Lecturers
Number
30
27
30
32
27
28
FTE/Junior Lecturers
FTE/leaching ass.
57
54
62
67
86
100
Helårsstuderande per adjunkt
Hst/Adj
103
97
84
78
64
58
* Revenue excluding interest and transfers. At LTH departments, excluding activities commissioned to other faculties. * UT = Undergraduate teaching; FTE = Full-time equivalents; APE = Annual performance equivalents
Commissions
Unit
32
2009
2008
2 007
2006
2005
Undergraduate teaching
SEK million
27
22
13
12
11
8
Commissions/appropriation
%
6%
5%
3%
3%
3%
2%
Research and postgraduate education (R&PG)
SEK million
Commissioned R&PG/Appropriation R&PG
%
2009 • ANNUAL REPORT
2004
83
85
95
93
107
97
24%
29%
33%
35%
42%
39%
Research and postgraduate education
2009
2008
2 007
2006
2005
Government appropriation (R&PG)
Unit SEK million
339
294
289
266
252
2004 248
Gov't appropriation (R&PG)/Gov't grant (UT)
%
77%
71%
68%
61%
60%
61%
Science Research Council
SEK million
125
116
93
84
85
78
FORMAS
SEK million
31
29
28
23
28
25
Foundation for Strategic Research
SEK million
56
40
45
42
39
46
EU
SEK million
78
74
100
70
66
58
Swedish Energy Agency
SEK million
56
46
42
48
54
69
VINNOVA
SEK million
67
62
45
41
45
50
Total
SEK million
413
367
352
308
317
326
Total/Gov't appropriation (R&PG)
%
122
125
121
116
126
131
Other external revenues (excluding commissions)
SEK million
187
144
114
99
122
112
Other external revenues /Gov't appropriation (R&PG)
%
55
49
39
37
48
45
Total revenues, R&PG (excluding commissions)
SEK million
939
805
755
673
691
686
Postgraduate FTE
Number
423
414
442
467
436
503
Licentiate degrees
Number
42
43
38
59
73
63
Gov't appropriation (R&PG) per Licentiate degree
SEK million
8,1
6,8
7,6
4,5
3,5
3,9
Degrees/Postgraduate students
%
10
9
13
17
13
Doctorates
Number
94
112
121
117
135
127
Total revenues (R&PG) per doctorate
SEK million
10
7,2
6,2
5,8
5,1
5,4
Gov't appropriation (R&PG) per doctorate
SEK million
3,6
2,6
2,4
2,3
1,9
2,0
Degrees/Postgraduate students
%
27
27
25
31
25
Professors
Number
151
157
161
164
178
180
Gov't appropriation (R&PG) per professor
SEK million
2,2
1,9
1,8
1,6
1,4
1,4
Grants (R&PG)/Professors
SEK million
4
3,3
2,9
2,5
2,5
2,4
Academic staff
2009
2008
2 007
2006
2005
2004
Teachers with doctorates
Unit* Number
349
351
337
328
425
434
Revenue (UT) per teacher
SEK million
1,3
1,2
1,3
1,4
1,0
1,0
Revenue (R&PG) per teacher
SEK million
2,7
2,3
2,2
2,1
1,6
1,6
Revenue (UT+R&PG) per teacher (excl. commissions)
SEK million
4
3,5
3,5
3,4
2,6
2,6
FTE per teacher
Number
17
15
15
16
13
13
Licentiate degrees per teacher
Number
0,12
0,12
0,11
0,18
0,17
0,15
Doctorates per teacher
Number
0,27
0,32
0,36
0,36
0,32
0,29
*NOT The figures given above are based on revenues and costs in research an postgraduate teaching. in contrast to the figures for external income in the financial report. The number of teachers etc. is expressed in full-time equivalents.
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The Board 2009
Ola Troedsson, Chairman IKEA Supply AB
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Anders Axelsson, Dean Professor
Ulöla Holst, Deputy Dean Professor
Carl Borrebaeck Professor
Kerstin Gillsbro CEO NCC Boende AB
Solveig Melin Professor
Agneta Ståhl Professor
Gerhard Kristensson Professor
Lars-Erik Wernersson Professor
Jan Sternby Research Director Gambro Lundia AB
2009 • ANNUAL REPORT
Representatives for personnel organisations
Christer Nilsson Research Engineer (TCO)
Teresa Hankala-Janiec Teaching Assistant (SACO)
Student representatives
Fredrik Lidberg Student
Olof Hägerstedt Postgraduate Student
Per-Göran Nilsson Head of Faculty Office
Beatrice Nordlöf Faculty Coordinator
Olov Petrén Student
Secretariat
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