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NTNU Research Education Innovation Dissemination 2005
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NTNUResearch Education Innovation Dissemination
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The Norwegian University of Science andTechnology (NTNU) in Trondheim representsacademic eminence in technology and thenatural sciences as well as in other academicdisciplines ranging from the social sciences,the arts, medicine, architecture and the finearts. Cross-disciplinary cooperation results inideas no one else has thought of, and creativesolutions that change our daily lives.
This brochure provides a taste of NTNU’sdiverse activities.
Read more at www.ntnu.no
NTNU:
The front page shows medical technology. Photo: NTNU Info/Ole D. HesledalenPhoto back page: NTNU SA/GT Nergård. Photo above: NTNU Info/Rune Petter Ness.Photos, pages 3, 8, 14 and 19: NTNU SA/Lars Martin Kræmer, Statkraft, ENGAS/Morten Grønli and NTNU Info/Rune Petter Ness.All photos p. 24: NTNU Info/Rune Petter Ness
Education 3Cross-disciplinary experts 4Musical jubilee 4A Master’s of the fit kind 5Student assignment caused uproar 5How to create better researchers 5Super recruiting at the NST faculty 6Laboratory master 6Satellite signed NTNU 7Technology testing 7
Research 8Telling Trøndelag’s history 9The fastest at sea 9Major nano research 10How heavy is knowledge? 10Hydrogen in focus 11Advanced successor 11Energetic pool 11Focus on globalization 12Away with paper files 12Laparoscopy – the surgery of the future 13
Innovation and industry 14Hand in hand with Hydro 15Patented pain 15Sitting on a gold mine 16Most modern in Europe 16Atmospheric freeze-drying 17Correct transfer from NTNU 17The idea boiler 17Business in culture 18Shortening the wait 18
Dissemination 19Ready made fillets 20A popular museum 21The publicity-craving faculty 21Research out to the world 21Active research days 22New style 22Between town and university 23Award winning research dissemination 23A university of innovation and creativity 23
Organisation 24Contact information 25Key financial data 25Organisational chart 26The Departments in brief 27
Produced and published by NTNU’s Information Division, April 2005. Text: Beate Horg, English edition: The EDIT project. Graphic design: Hege Wedø. Print: Tapir Uttrykk. Print: 7,500.
www.ntnu.no
Innovation andCreativity
NTNU is responsible for technological educationnationwide, awarding approximately 80% of allMaster of Science/advanced engineeringdegrees in Norway.
We specialize in technology and the naturalsciences, but we also offer a wide selection ofprogrammes in arts and aesthetics as well asthe humanities, social sciences, economicsand business and public administration.
We also award degrees in medicine, psycho-logy, fine arts and music, and offer a compre-hensive teacher education programme as wellas a Master’s programme in entrepreneurship.
In 2004, based on the Quality Reform, wefurther developed our programme structure.We revised the grading system, and establis-hed more study programmes and fields ofstudy to make the alternatives clearer.
Eight out of ten graduate engineers in Norway are educated here at NTNU.
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53,000 applicants for university entrance
8,500 primary applicants
20,000 students were registered in total
2,800 graduated
190 doctorates awarded
1,100 foreign students at NTNU
1,000 NTNU students studying abroad
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Cross-disciplinary expertsBy mixing creativity and humour with anything from history to maths, NTNU creates Experts in Team (EiT).
Experts in Team cooperate with children from Singsaker School. •Photo: Rune Petter Ness.
Musical jubilee
Since then, the «Jazz Course», which isa part of the Music Conservatory atNTNU, has been a concept inNorwegian musical life. This studyprogramme may have had more influ-ence on Norway’s music than any otherinstitution during the past 25 years.
The Jazz Course has attracted talentedstudents and provided a unique training
environment where personaldevelopment is central. Several oftoday’s prominent jazz musicians have their background from the JazzCourse. In 2004, jazz students fromTrondheim released a concert CD withChick Corea.
The Jazz Course on the web: www.jazzlinja.noPhoto: NTNU Info/Rune Petter Ness.
Experts in Team is a compulsory subject in most Master’s programmes at NTNU.Through cross-disciplinary challenges thestudents are trained in creative thinkingand problem solving, and not least; theyget a glimpse of how working life could be once their studies are finished. Theexperience from EiT is highly important as cross-disciplinarity spreads within
research, industry and the public.
The cross-disciplinary sphere often produ-ces new methods and ideas, and the stu-dents are taught how to take advantage ofthis. They are split into cross-disciplinaryteams called «villages», and each villagehas its own team leader, or so-called«village chief». The groups deal with
different themes and try to solve differentproblems, which could be anything fromfinding new methods for teaching scienti-fic subjects in primary school to construc-ting hover trains in Trondheim.
EiT on the web: http://www.eit.ntnu.no/
Twenty-five years ago somebody had a bright idea: What if we esta-blish a separate study programme for jazz musicians in Trondheim?
This new offer has many positive sides. It is not just a separate educationfor those who want to be researchers – it also provides the students with amore practical introduction to aresearcher’s everyday life. In addition,the time spent completing the PhD isreduced by a year.
The candidates are admitted to the PhDprogramme before they have completedtheir Master’s, i.e. after the fourth yearon the advanced engineering study. The
final year is a combination of the ordi-nary study programme and a PhD.
The arrangement has been approved for the following faculties:
Programme for Marine Technology(Faculty of Engineering Science andTechnology), and Department ofComputer and Information Science(Faculty of Information Technology,Mathematics and ElectricalEngineering).
Several NTNU students choose to spend their final year on an «integrated PhD degree» – an offer which involvesslashing a year off a completed PhD study.
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Pier stability – inspection of wave breaking. •Photo: Rune Petter Ness.
International Master of Sciencein Exercise Physiology andSport Science is the title of thenew Master’s degree at TheFaculty of Medicine.
Scientists from exercisephysiology environments areconstantly producing sensatio-nal results regarding bothexercise methods and preventi-on of injuries. This knowledgeis now to be continued throughthis new study programme. Thesubject is aimed at studentswith a solid background ofphysiology from health studies– such as nursing, occupationaltherapy, physiotherapy, biologyor physical education subjects.
The students who graduate willbe updated on research relatedto exercise and exercise effects,which equips the candidates tooffer updated exercise guidanceto athletes. The educationincludes exercise and exerciseeffects with the main focusbeing on the muscles’ uptakeand transportation of oxygen.The subject also includestheories and exercise methodsin connection with diseasessuch as diabetes type II,osteoporosis, and COPD.
Several reputable coaches from Norwegian and inter-national athletics have theirbackground from this professi-onal environment.
A Master’s of the fit kindA new Master’s degree could be of great importance to the sports environment in Norway.
Photo: NTNU Info/Rune Petter Ness.
Student assignment caused uproarA student assignment from a group of architect students caused emotional and political uproar, both within and outside the university.The cause for the storm was that manypeople missed the fact that a brochurefrom the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art was a student assignment. Theythought it was a real plan from theuniversity’s management.
But they were wrong. The assignment,which was aimed at designing an overalldevelopment plan for Gløshaugen, was
part of a new project at the faculty: The students’ work was organized toresemble a normal architectural office.The result was a description ofGløshaugen with outdoor areas andbuildings, analysed in detail.
Over the past year, the discussion on howthe entire NTNU could be localized atGløshaugen has been a hot topic at the
university. The so-called «co-localizationdebate» deals with a possible re-localiza-tion of the faculties of humanities andsocial studies from Dragvoll toGløshaugen, which already houses thetechnological and scientific faculties.
Despite the uproar – the students wereawarded an A for their project.
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Super recruiting at NST facultyActive co-operation with the Norwegian industry has attracted more and betterstudents to the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology.In 2001, 69% of the materials technologystudents and 50% of the chemistry stu-dents failed in mathematics. Last year, thefigures had dropped to 8% and 4% respec-tively. The reason behind this positivedevelopment is «Forum for Co-operation»,a binding, co-operative project betweenthe faculty and 22 enterprises.
«In brief, industry tells us which qualifica-tions and students they need, and then weact on that,» says Fredrik Steineke,Project Coordinator. He believes havingstudents alongside industry representati-
ves on the board of the Forum is one ofthe success factors.
The project has led to a renewed focus onrecruitment and the drafting of a recruit-ment plan with clear objectives. In practice,students from the faculty go back to theirold schools where they know the teachersand perhaps some of the students, and talkabout the study alternatives.
In addition, the faculty takes very goodcare of its freshmen. They are offeredextra lectures in mathematics and follow a
programme that evidently pays off.
Forum for Co-operation activities include:• Initiatives aimed at the educational
system where the goal is long- and short-term recruitment;
• Participating enterprises taking part in the guidance and support for theimplementation of PhD degrees, Master’stheses and projects;
• Participating enterprises hiringstudents for summer jobs.
Educational exhibition at Oslo Spektrum, 20—21 January. Kari Støre Gulliksen is Head of the NTNU stand. •Photo: NTNU Info/Arne Asphjell.
After the mapping of the human DNA, theneed for qualified personnel in laboratorieshas exploded. Researchers discover evermore about molecules in living organisms,and to keep up the pace, they need up-to-date knowledge from various fields.Students from this Master’s programmequalify for management responsibilities in
molecular biology laboratories.The establishment of the Master’sprogramme in Molecular Medicine is afurther development of the long-standingco-operation between the Faculty ofMedicine and the undergraduateBioengineer programme at Sør-TrøndelagUniversity College.
Within certain fields, rapid development creates a constant needfor new experts. That is why a Master’s degree in MolecularMedicine has been established at NTNU.
Laboratory Master
Photo: Damon Biotech/Dept. of Biotechnology
Technology testing
Sometimes, new technology adopted byhospitals is less than optimal. The met-hod «technology improvisation» is a toolused to map technology «vacuums».
The basic principle is simple: Realdoctors and nurses play out a hospital
scenario until a need arises or thepotential for new technology or newways of using existing technologyemerge. When this vacuum appears,the scene is frozen and the specificneed is visualized through drawingsand explanations.
Improvisation and role playing yield answers to whichtechnology the hospital world needs.
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Photo: NTNU Info/Tore Oksholen
Hopefully, the student satellite NCUBE1-Rudolf will shortly be sent into orbit. It will keep an eye on wild reindeer on the Hardangervidde from space.
Satellite signed NTNUNCUBE1-Rudolf, who got its curiousname after a competition for pupils from fifth to tenth grade last year, will be launched from Baikonur in Kazakstanat the end of May. It will be followed by the somewhat larger NCUBE2 in July, launched from Plesetsk nearArchangelsk, Russia.
Norway’s first student satellite will watch the wild reindeer on theHardangervidde from above. In co-operation with the Norwegian Universityof Life Sciences, a collar has beendeveloped that finds the reindeer’sposition via a GPS receiver. A transmitterin the collar broadcasts the position atregular intervals, and these signals aretransferred to the satellite. In addition,the satellite can be used to improve shiptraffic safety. A GPS receiver «sees» theship’s position and adds informationabout the ship’s speed, course, cargo,name, and destination.
The satellite project, which started withan Experts in Team assignment in 2002,has become highly cross-disciplinary.The need for specialised transmittersand receivers, as well as stabilizing andpositioning systems, has speeded upseveral professional environments atNTNU: the Department of EngineeringCybernetics, the Department of Mechanics,Thermo and Fluid Dynamics, and theDepartment of Telecommunications haveall been involved with this work.
Today, two students and three staffmembers (one at NTNU and two onAndøya) work on the satellite project.One of them is Bjørn Pedersen at theDepartment of Electronics andTelecommunications.
«This project is not only cross-disciplina-ry. It has also been necessary to
exchange knowledge across educationalinstitutions and countries. The mainingredient, which is the satellite'smechanical structure, was the result ofco-operation between CaliforniaPolytechnic and Stanford University,»says Pedersen.
In addition, students at Narvik UniversityCollege designed parts of the power sup-ply and developed two ground stations fordownloading data from the satellite. One
ground station is in Narvik and the otheron (Spitzbergen) Svalbard. The Universityof Oslo designed and produced themechanical structure, and theDepartment of Energy and ProcessEngineering and the University of Bergen designed the solar panels. The project was initiated and financed by Andøya Rocket Range and theNorwegian Space Centre.
On the web: www.ncube.no
Photo: NTNU Info/Nina Tveter
NTNU is at the forefront of technological rese-arch and education in Norway, with its founda-tion in the natural sciences. Our goal is toensure that Norwegian technological compe-tence remains at a high level internationally.
In 2004, the Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology was evaluated by the ResearchCouncil of Norway, and the results rangedfrom positive to very positive. The evaluationreveals that NTNU’s research activities are atinternational levels.
NTNU puts a premium on interdisciplinarycooperation across academic disciplines andhopes to facilitate creative teamwork in all itssubjects: Technology, the arts, the humanities,medicine, social science, architecture, andnatural science.
The academic disciplines at NTNU and SINTEFcooperate on research, innovation and busi-ness development at ten Gemini centres.
Interdisciplinary cooperation keeps NTNU at the top
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6,000 scientific publications
1,300 research projects with external financing
30 research projects in the EU’s 6th framework programme
13 Marie Curie training sites in the EU’s 5th framework programme
6 strategic areas
10 Gemini centres in cooperation with SINTEF
3 Centres of Excellence
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The fastest at seaAt the Ship and Ocean Laboratory they are currently giving the finishing touch to a ship 300 metres in length and slender like a pen.
Modern propulsion technology,advanced calculation program-mes and creative engineers areall it takes to create a pentama-ran – the super-fast cargo shipof the future.
Seabridge is the name of theship, constructed and designedat MARINTEK (part of SINTEF)in close cooperation with theBritish consultancy companyNigel Gee and Associates Ltd.The ship has five hulls – becau-se the main hull is so long andnarrow, it needs four supporting
hulls to maintain its stability.Seabridge crosses the Atlanticin less than a week - even fullyloaded.
The unique shape allows theship to reach a speed compa-rable to that of land transporta-tion: The cruising speed is ashigh as 40 knots (46 mph). Once the ship is launched, theplan is for it to transport heavycargo along the North Americancoast, in the Mediterranean and between Northern andSouthern Europe.Illustration: MARINTEK.
Illustration: Tapir Akademisk Forlag
The story of Trøndelag is a long one.Contributions from eleven writers werenecessary before the work was complete. A great amount of Trøndelag's history isincluded in Norway's national history, in peri-odicals and numerous local history books,but this is the first time the entire region ispresented in its entirety. Chief editor Ida Bullat the Department of History and ClassicalStudies promises her readers several gemsand stories never previously told.
The first volume is called «Landskap blirlandsdel» (Landscape becomes region) anddeals with as much as 9000 years ofTrøndelag's history. The book opens with anintroduction to the hunter groups who firststarted using this landscape after the last IceAge, and rounds off in the Middle Ages.Volume two, «Fra pest til poteter» (Fromplague to potatoes), presents the period fromthe late Middle Ages and the great plague upuntil the end of the 1700s. At that time,Trøndelag was drawn into an internationaltrading economy, which became one of theregional industry’s characteristics. The finalvolume, «Grenda blir global» (The villagegoes global), begins with industrialism andclass differences, and ends in the present.
These books were written in cooperation bet-ween NTNU and the counties of Trøndelag.Picture editor is Kirsti Moe from NRK.
Telling Trøndelag’s historyNTNU Archaeologists and historians have gathered Trøndelag’s history intothree volumes.
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Major nano researchThe nano research at NTNU is extremely promising. So we are building our own laboratory.Nano researchers can move atoms andgive materials certain qualities we havenever seen before. So it doesn’t takemuch to realize that the new NTNU Nanolab is but the start of something big.
In the lab, experiments at atomic levelwill be conducted – and we are reallytalking microscopic levels here: The pro-
portion of a nanometre to an ordinarymetre is the same as that of a marble tothe Earth, and the size of an atom is 1/10of a nanometre.
NTNU’s efforts within nanotechnology are cross-disciplinary: Both chemistry,physics, biology, electronics, and medicaltechnology contribute to this work. The
building of the laboratory has alreadystarted, and this new resource providesnew opportunities for a relatively youngfield within science. Some of the subjectschosen for further research are nano-electronics, bio-nanotechnology, andnanostructured materials.
Thomas Tybell looks into an optic thermometer to check the temperature. •Photo: NTNU Info/Rune Petter Ness.
In short, the main task of Forum for theHistory of Knowledge is to twist and turn,weigh and measure the term knowledge:What is knowledge? How does it come intobeing? How can we maintain it, organize it and renew it?
The forum is open to all academic discipli-nes, and the purpose is to initiate discussi-on, analyse and interpret the shapes and
mixtures of knowledge – from both historicand contemporary perspectives. The themesfor the forum are globalisation, bioinforma-tics/bioethics, the technical room of mobili-ty, knowledge history and creative groupprocesses in cross-disciplinary teams.
Knowledge history on the web:http://www.ntnu.no/ffk/
The mystery behind the term knowledge is the core of one of NTNU’s priority areas for cross-disciplinary research.
How heavy is knowledge?
Photo: NTNU Info/Ole D. Hesledalen.
Energetic pool
Wave energy, hydropower, wind energy,solar energy, biomass, waste, hydrogen,and salt power are now gathered underone roof, even though the Centre forRenewable Energy (SFFE) is not aphysical organization. It is rather a«superstructure» across departmentsand faculties.
For several years, both NTNU andSINTEF have made important
contributions within this type of re-search, but the need to gather all looseends has been obvious. One of thecooperation objectives is to arouseinterest in the industry. The structure ismade up of a close network of resear-chers and a very modest administrationand management team.
SFFE on the web:http://www.ntnu.no/sffe/
Energy sources are sometimes difficult to keep track of, but now at least NTNU and SINTEF have pooled theircompetence in this field.
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Solar panels for demonstration. •Photo: NTNU Info/Elin Fugelsnes.
NTNU’s research vessel Harry Borthenwill be taken out of service, and itssuccessor has already been ordered. Thesize of the new vessel will be modest, butin return it is equipped with state-of-the-
art marine technology. The ship isdesigned to accommodate a maximum oftwenty students for teaching purposes.The vessel will also form the basis for oce-anographic research, marine technology,
marine geology, fisheries research andmarine biology. The ship is being built in Ålesund and the plan is to put it intoservice in February 2006.
Advanced successorA brand new «tailored» marine research vessel will shortly be docking at NTNU.
Hydrogen in focusThe discovery of hydrogen’sproperties at low tempera-tures and high pressureawarded Professor AsleSudbø the cover story ofthe prestigious periodicalNature.Asle Sudbø, Professor at the Departmentof Physics, has become a pioneer in thework on metallic hydrogen under extre-me conditions. Some claim that hisresearch represents a change of para-digm within this field of physics. So far,Sudbø and his PhD students have onlymade theoretical calculations of the new super fluid, by using NTNU’s super-computer.
The hydrogen atom is the simplest atom as it consists of only one proton and one electron. At normal pressureand temperatures it is a gas. The disco-veries made by the Department ofPhysics show that when hydrogen isexposed to extreme conditions, the gas istransformed into a metallic liquid – aliquid consisting of superconductiveprotonic and electronic liquids.
Sudbø’s team discovered that the doublesuperconductive property only occur at
minus 250º Celsius and at a pressure of4 million atmospheres. And where arethese conditions found? Well, resear-chers at Cornell University in USA aregetting there by compressing hydrogen
into a small diamond cube. In cooperati-on with the NTNU team, the researchteam at Cornell hope to reach their goalwithin five years.
Professor Asle Sudbø (right) and doctoral candidates Jo Smiseth (left) and Eivind Smørgrav. •Photo: NTNU Info/Arne Asphjell.
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Photo: NTNU Info/Rune Petter Ness.
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Five of NTNU’s priority areas are relatedto our technical and scientific profile. The sixth, Globalization, is primarilybased in the humanities and social scien-ces. Some 140 researchers and 150 postsfor recruitment at 28 institutions and sixfaculties, work on problems related toGlobalization. Several of these havealready drawn international attention.
The priority area is split into two:
• Production systems in a globalizedworld: How does the production of goodsand services in one country affect produc-tion in others, and how may individualparticipants differentiate themselveswhen competing with others?Researchers will look for common pat-terns of particular importance to Norway.
• Cultural and social expressions ofglobalization: Which cultural and socialexpressions deal with changes in pat-
terns of cognition and interaction, andwhat is the significance of these changes?
Across these focus areas, threeperspectives are particularly interesting:Historical processes, political andeconomic framework conditions, andethical dilemmas.
Globalization on the web:http://www.ntnu.no/global/
Focus on GlobalizationNTNU has chosen Globalization as a new thematic priority area.
Away with paper filesElectronic patient records are regarded as one of the greatestinformation technology challenges for the health service. That may be the reason why NTNU is in charge of the Norwegian Centrefor Electronic Patient Records (NSEP).The purpose of introducing electronic patientrecords is to replace the current system ofpaper records with a computer-based filingsystem. And it is not just the task of findingnew information technology systems for thehealth service NSEP is going to solve – theywill procure whatever necessary to makesuch a system.
Researchers at NSEP look at how personallyoriented health-documentation systems are designed, realized and used. In addition,they have a laboratory for testing of newtechnological ways of documenting patientinformation.
NSEP on the web: http://www.ehr.ntnu.no/
Laparoscopy – the surgery of the futureWireless and digitaltransmission of information,speech-operated solutions,and extensive use oflaparoscopy give shorterconvalescence periods and reduce the risk ofcomplications.
«The surgery of the future» at St. Olav'sUniversity Hospital houses the newest andmost modern surgical equipment. Wire-less and digital transmission of information,speech-operated solutions, and extensiveuse of laparoscopy and advanced visuali-zing techniques shorten the patient’sconvalescence period and reduce the riskof complications.
The two surgeries are equipped with newand modern technology in addition tosolutions developed by researchers atNTNU and SINTEF through long-lastingcooperation at national competencecentres. One of the surgeries is custom-built for endovascular treatment, and theother for treating abdominal diseases bymeans of laparoscopy.
«By using laparoscopy, we can offer ourpatients better treatment. This new tech-nology allows us to conduct surgical ope-rations with shorter convalescence periodsand reduces the risk of complications. Theincision we operate through is only onecentimetre long. The patients are there-fore often ambulatory the following day,»says Torill Hernes at the Department ofCirculation and Medical Imaging and Headof Research within medical research anddevelopment work at SINTEF.
All information is digitally and wire-lessly transmitted by means of speech-operated solutions with a reduced «brain» in each unit.
In an amphitheatre above the surgeries,an auditorium is under construction forstudents and visitors. Here the studentscan pay close attention to the activitiesdown in the surgeries. They may even askquestions directly to the surgeon duringthe operation and otherwise observe bymeans of advanced display solutions.
Several large, international equipmentvendors have taken a great interest in this project.
Photo: NTNU Info/Kim Nygård.
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NTNU places great emphasis on researchcooperation with Norwegian industry, andoffers several courses on innovation. This workhas produced results - NTNU students havewon several competitions and been awardedprizes related to innovation.
NTNU participates in the project InnovasjonMidt-Norge with industry in Leksvik, Verdaland Orkanger. The students contribute withproject assignments and trainee places for thedevelopment of the enterprises, at the sametime as they gain relevant experience. SIVA,Innovation Norway and the university collegesin the counties Nord- and Sør-Trøndelag arealso involved.
Close cooperation with Norwegian industry yields results
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NOK 220 million in industrial funds to NTNU in 2004
180 new business ideas passed on for commercial use
9 new businesses originated at NTNU
14 subjects and study programmes in innovation and entrepreneurship
Innovation and industry
The cooperation is naturally related to Hydro’s major business areas: oil,energy, and light metals.
Close cooperation with a group like Hydrois essential to a research and educationalinstitution. To NTNU it means easieraccess to the problems within the indus-try, and improved opportunities to stayahead in research.
The petroleum sectorThrough the scholarship programmeNorsk Hydro-NTNU, the industrial giantsupports several large projects at theDepartment of Marine Technology andthe Department of PetroleumEngineering and Applied Geophysics. In2001, the same year as the cooperationbegan, Hydro established a Virtual RealityLab along with the latter.
During this programme period, Hydrohas supported a field excursion to thePyrenees, three PhD students and thepurchase of laboratory equipment, in addition to several travel grants forlecturers and doctoral candidates in connection with article presentations.
Light metalsThe cooperation in this field involves aluminium, particularly primary alumi-nium (the production of the metal), andsecondary aluminium (the production ofaluminium products).
The research environments focusing onprimary aluminium cooperate with Hydroon the projects CarboMat and
ThermoTech. The former deals withcarbon materials while ThermoTech con-cerns thermodynamics, incombustiblematerials, and mathematical models. «These projects promote continuity anddevelopment of NTNU’s fundamental andapplied research,» says Trygve Foosnæs,professor in light metal production andhigh-temperature chemistry.
When it comes to secondary aluminium,NTNU and Hydro also have commoninterests. Hydro is involved in material
physics, process metallurgy, physicalmetallurgy, mechanical metallurgy, andelectrochemistry. They also participate incertain projects, including casting andcongelation of semi-products, design,production and testing of car components(crashworthiness and fatigue), and thedevelopment of a HVAC system based on CO2 technology from NTNU andSINTEF. The system is patented inEurope, the USA and Asia. It has beencommercialized by Shecco Technology, a Hydro-based firm.
Hand in hand with HydroClose cooperation with industry means improved quality of research andeducation. NTNU cooperates with several of the most important participants, the largest being Hydro.
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Patented painAt the doctor’s:«Does this hurt?»«Ouch!»«Oh, sorry.»When we talk about pain, it hurts more.More than one study has shown that thisvery communication is the largest limitingfactor for good pain treatment. But howcan pain be proven without the patientsaying where it hurts?
The answer could be PAT-C, PalliativeAssessment Tool – Computerized. This isan international research project develo-
ping a computer-based diagnostic toolthat can be used on patients sufferingfrom pain. In the initial project phase, theresearchers will concentrate on patientswho receive palliative treatment. Profes-sor Stein Kaasa, Head of the Departmentof Cancer Research and MolecularMedicine at the Faculty of Medicine leadsthis project.
Photo: NTNU Info/Paul Sigve Amundsen.
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Sitting on a gold mineNTNU Technology Transfer AS (TTO) holds 250 ideas from the university environments in its hands.Some of these ideas are fresh, othersmore mature. The common denominatoris that they are based on research resultsfrom NTNU. The incoming ideas areindividually evaluated with regard to commercial potential. If they prove to havecommercial potential, an optimal strategyis planned. The goal is to turn the rese-arch into new businesses and new work-
places. TTO is a tool for students andresearchers with research-related ideas, and the portfolio currently holds 250 projects at various stages.
The company’s principal task is to look atNTNU's activities and knowledge with aview to commercial use and value creationin society. TTO is a wholly-owned subsidi-
ary of NTNU and assists with communica-tion, international networking, financing,and legal counsel in the commercializati-on process. NTNU Technology Transfer ASshares the focus of NTNU’s strategic areas.
TTO on the web: www.tto.ntnu.no
NTNU Technology Transfer Office AS – TTO. •Photo: NTNU Info/Arne Asphjell.
Photo: SINTEF Health Research.
Most modern in Europe
The building of the hospital is currently inStage 1, and Septemer 2006 will witnessthe opening of the Women-Children Centre,the Neuro Centre and the LaboratoryCentre – the main building for research andteaching. A new Patient Hotel has alreadybeen inaugurated.
The new St. Olav’s University Hospital willbe a giant of some 200,000 square metres,
with multiple buildings and similar activiti-es located on the same floor: Polyclinics onthe ground floor, surgeries on the first floorand wards on the upper floors. The new St.Olav's University Hospital is also Norway’smost complex ICT project. In this projectNTNU has a central role.
The University Hospital on the web:http://www.helsebygg.no/
Once the integrated St. Olav’s University Hospital in Trondheim iscompleted, there will be nothing to compare to it.
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Start NTNU is a shortcut for inventive NTNU students.
The firm ShipScan won the Venture Cup 2004. •Photo: NTNU Info/Arne Asphjell.
Many people have good ideas. Butthere is a lack of people who darerealize them. ‘Start NTNU’ is a stu-dent organisation that attempts toshorten the path from idea to action.The challenge is to prompt studentsand employees at NTNU to start theirown businesses. In addition to infor-mative homepages and numerousevents and meetings, they run severalprojects, including:
• Venture Cup: A competitionwhere the winners receive prize-money and the opportunity to develop
their ideas in cooperation with experi-enced entrepreneurs, businessmanagers and professional investors.
• IdéAthlon: An arena for innovati-on where experts, students, andindustry get together to generateideas for student projects and master’s theses.
• The project Girls and Innovation:Events for girls with ideas and the willto create something.
Start NTNU on the web: www.startntnu.no
Atmospheric freeze-dryingOn the Hungarian plains, a factory for drying food «the NTNU way» is being built.The factory, called AgroAroma Nagyátad, has beenestablished by NTNU’s spin-off Dtech, working withFelleskjøpet and a Hungariancanning company.
«The factory is located moreor less in the middle of acornfield. That means extre-mely low transportation costsand a full overview of the rawmaterials,» says ProfessorIngvald Strømmen, who hasspent 25 years of his workinglife dehydrating food.Professor Strømmen isbehind the technology and isone of the founders of thecompany Dtech.
Dtech holds several patentsfor the so-called atmospheric
freeze-drying method.Researchers at NTNU andSINTEF have spent yearstrying to «compose» thismethod. Compared withcompeting methods, itprovides high product qualityand is cost-effective as wellas being both energy andenvironmentally friendly.Atmospheric freeze-drying isalso very flexible in relation tochanges in quality and costs.
The process, in short, is thatthe foodstuff is sent into sub-zero regeneration airwhich gradually reaches 20ºCelsius. Drying food industri-ally reduces the humidity,condenses the water vapour,and preserves the heat.
Photo: NTNU Info/Rune Petter Ness.
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Their business idea is to develop productsbased on modern standards for tele-com-munication. The tool is a new internatio-nal standard for digital transfer of soundand images: MPEG-21.
When Norway starts using 3rd generationmobile telephony, UMTS, the need forsoftware for transferring live images willarise. The challenges are to transfer ima-ges, video, and sound quickly and smoothly
to a wide range of terminals. This isn’teasy as the terminal equipment can varywidely.
MPEG-21 is a so-called open frameworkfor this kind of transfer. In practice, itmeans that the transfer unit maps thereceiver equipment before starting thetransfer. One of the major advantages isthat the content supplier may disregardany difference in equipment since the pro-
cess happens automatically.
«MPEG-21 is the first standard that dealswith correct handling of digital mediaresources,» says Peder Drege, managerof Adactus. His master’s thesis laid thefoundation of the company. Peder Drege is working in cooperation with AssociateProfessor Andrew Perkins and thecommunity around Midgard MediaLab.
The company Adactus may place Trøndelag on the mobile technology map.
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Business in cultureThe Faculty of Arts is acti-vely involved with NTNU'sinnovation and businessdevelopment work.The innovation projects at the facultyconsist of two parts:Internal competence building for studentsand employees, and the implementation ofselected pilot projects which are closelyfollowed. The ongoing pilot projects are:
The translator assistantToday, we have robust, statistically basedtranslation systems for English andcertain other languages. Systemsmemorizing identical texts, preferablytranslations, are also used, but withoutany emphasis on Norwegian. A combinati-on of these technologies stands out asparticularly interesting to enterprises thatneed to translate documents fromNorwegian to English, or vice versa.This is a cooperative project between theDepartment of Language and Com-munication Studies and the companyLingIT AS. A demonstration tool, showingthe method’s technical and linguisticpotential is under development.
Jazz as an export articleThe business idea is to organize theexport conditions for highly qualifiedNorwegian jazz musicians. The targetgroup is anyone demanding live jazzmusic.
There is a great need for jazz musicians,but the limitations lie with the tightbudgets of the individual arrangements.The Norwegian market is small andtransparent, but booking abroad requirescompetence within sales, culture, andlanguage as well as a network. Productand music competence is also necessary.
NTNU develops talents through the JazzCourse. The project deals with productdevelopment following this talent develop-ment – for NTNU students as well as forothers.
Symbolic methodsIn the project SIMAS, humanistic theorieswill shed new light on the interpretation oftools programming languages.
The project is an interdisciplinary coope-ration between the Department ofLanguage and Communication Studies atNTNU and the Faculty of Informatics and
e-Learning at Sør-Trøndelag UniversityCollege.
Humanistic theories on language andcommunication are used to shed new lighton how the symbolic tools in program-ming languages shape the way humansinterpret problems and solutions. Theemphasis is both on the possibilities andthe limitations of existing programminglanguages. Based on this insight, newprogramming methods and tools providingnew possibilities and solutions to existinglimitations will be developed.
The project LADDE develops a computer-based diagnosis tool for classification ofcerebral palsy (CP) in new-borns that are ill.
The tool is efficient in a number of ways:When the child is three months old, anindication of CP will be clear. LADDE alsocontributes to the reduction of expenses inthe public health service.
NTNU Technology Transfer (TTO) is behindthe commercialization of LADDE, which has
been developed by Lars Adde, an expert in paediatric physiotherapy at the Faculty of Medicine.
LADDE has already been put to use: At the paediatric intensive care unit at St.Olav’s Hospital, Trondheim, a laboratory for registration and analysis of children’sspontaneous movements has been built. So far, 100 children have been examined at the laboratory.
Using traditional methods, parents have to wait up to two yearsbefore they know whether or not their child has cerebral palsy. With LADDE, it will take three months.
Shortening the wait
Photo: NTNU SA/Kim Ramberghaug.
Photo: NTNU SA/Cathrine Dillner Hagen.
Among NTNU’s most important responsibiliti-es is the crafting of a more positive image oftechnology and the natural sciences, as wellas student recruitment.
As part of this effort, the university arrangesdiscussions, seminars, exhibitions, and publiclectures outside the university’s walls. Theuniversity’s own publications, such as theresearch journal Gemini, Spor (Footprints),and the web newspaper Universitetsavisa.noare also vital information channels thatprovide research news to the outside world.Research results are also presented on theweb page www.forskning.no, where NTNU isboth a contributor and a co-owner.
The university plays a vital role in its dissemination of knowledge
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7,000 articles in (the written) Norwegian media
400 articles in the national media
400 popular science and feature articles
600 popular science lectures
80 mentions and features in the TV shows Newton and Schrødingers Katt
34,000 visitors to the exhibitions at the Museum of Natural History and Archaeology
10,000 visitors to the research market in the centre of Trondheim during the 2004 Research Days
70 pieces included in the programme «Byen, bygdene og kunnskapen» (The Town, Rural Areas and Knowledge).
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Tora Bardal, a bioengineer at the Department of Biology,usually photographs thin sections of tiny organisms forresearch purposes. The motifsare caught using lightmicroscopes and amagnifying glass. In her spare time,she takes a moreartistic look ather research.The picturesare treatedwith colours toemphasizestructures andshapes in thenatural patternsin tissues andskeleton.
Research dissemination could be so manythings. It is often about showing what hasnever been seen before – and in a totallydifferent way.
All photos: Tora Bardal.
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Head of Department Eivind Røskaft (right). •Photo: NTNU Info/Synnøve Ressem.
Research out to the worldLast year, researchers at NTNU produced a total of 8,000 articles and lectures.Some of them really distinguishthemselves: Researchers at theFaculty of Medicine and theDepartment of Biology publish asnever before. One of the reasonscould be their arrangements thataward and credit those who publishtheir work in international refereedjournals (see: The publicity-cravingfaculty). «That prompts people to
make the extra effort,» says EivindRøskaft, Head of the Department ofBiology, in an interview for the new-spaper Universitetsavisa.
The publication figures are takenfrom the research database Frida,which records all professional, sci-entific and popular science workproduced at NTNU.
The project itself is finished, but DMF hasno plans of stopping here. It is currentlyworking on casting an even strongerfoundation in a growing disseminationculture. The latest news is that DMF ishiring its own Information Consultant.
To many researchers, dissemination ofresearch to the general public is the mostdifficult part of their job. Researchers arenot supposed to «push themselves for-ward», and in addition, the disseminationelement is often given a lower priority,
for the sake of teaching and research.
In 1999, the management at DMF decidedto take researchers’ obstacles seriously,and headed by Faculty Dean GunnarBovim, they initiated the disseminationproject. Today, six years later, they haveachieved impressive results, including adoubling of the number of media features.
The project itself involved work in severalareas, and some long-term measureswere implemented: An internal group
identified about one hundred researchprojects; a class auditor arrangement forexternal journalists was established; thefaculty initiated its own disseminationprize; and an adjunct professor in disse-mination was hired.
The faculty has also started rewardingdissemination to the public in connectionwith budget allocations for the depart-ments: The more that is disseminated to the public, the more money in theaccount.
The publicity-craving facultyA unique dissemination project has made the Faculty of Medicine (DMF) top of the class in dissemination to the general public at NTNU.
A popular museumThe Museum of Natural History and Archaeology in Trondheim has had a verybusy year with a lot of activity and a large number of visitors. It has also beenthrough a rebuilding process – which provided headroom for dinosaurs!
Beautiful columns and carvingsemerged as the museum wasrenovated. This ‘new’ interiorcreated the perfect frame for theexhibition «From deadly dinosaursto the oil age», which included a 13 metre long and 5 metre tallTyrannosaurus Rex.
As a supplement to the touringexhibition, the concept «From early geological periods to the oil age» was introduced. This production was the result of coope-ration between NTNU, SINTEF, NGU and Statoil, and offered thegeneral public lectures as well as exhibitions of drill bits and geo-logical findings.
The Museum on the web:http://www.ntnu.no/vmuseet/
Photo: NTNU Info/Beate Horg
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Active research daysIn the warm autumn sun, NTNU occupied the centre of Trondheim with its fascinating research, displays, and activities for the townspeople.NTNU’s informative «occupation» of thetown centre has become an annual tradi-tion, and this year the Research Marketlasted for two days instead of the previousone. The extra day – a Saturday – turnedout to be a major success – more than
10,000 people stopped by.
Nearly 30 stands were put up and thepublic could test their skills in a ski-jumpsimulator, make slime, be their ownpower station, and work in a laboratory
where chemistry, physics, and biotechno-logy were the main ingredients. Theycould also become closer acquainted withtheir own hearts, and participate in aresearch project on text messaging andmobile phone habits.
The Research Market 17 September, 2004. •Photo: NTNU Info/Rune Petter Ness.
How can we make young people interestedin research? Mobile telephony, love,shopping, and music technology are some of the themes discussed by researchers in Gemini UNG – the first ever special youthedition of Gemini. The journal presentsresearch unceremoniously and in a straight-forward way, not least by taking youthinterests seriously.
The target group is 15 to 17 years old. A total of 85,000 copies of the journal weredistributed to junior and senior high schoolsall over the country.
Gemini UNG on the web:http://www.ntnu.no/gemini/ung
Gemini UNG: Research dissemination on youth terms.
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Photo: NTNU Info/Kim Nygård.
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Cover of recruitment brochure (detail). •Photo: Arild Juul.
Award Winning research disseminationThe research journal Gemini was elected Business Journal of the Year 2004.«Research dissemination at its best.» Thatwas the jury’s verdict on Gemini. Thejournalists were also highly praised fortheir ability to make the articles interes-ting and relevant because they are placedin human contexts. The prize was presen-ted at the autumn seminar for theNorwegian Communication Association.
In 2003, Gemini underwent a face-lift. Thechanges included a new layout and morepages. The result was a modern and topi-cal journal that evidently makes animpression. Gemini is a joint venture bet-ween NTNU and SINTEF.
Each year six Norwegian issues and one
English issue are published. The 60,000copies are distributed all over the country.
Gemini on the web: www.ntnu.no/gemini
A university of innovationand creativityThis brochure has been created on the basis of NTNU’snew communication platform.The purpose of the communicationplatform is to provide NTNU with a cle-arer and more uniform image, and toboost the general knowledge of andabout NTNU. Five promises and a slo-gan – «NTNU – Innovation andCreativity» – are at the heart of thecommunication platform and describeNTNU’s identity.
The concept includes guidelines forvisual and linguistic expressions. One
of the measures is to promote NTNUby actively publicising the best storiesand results of the university.
The communication platform will be a tool in all promotion of NTNU. The platform was developed by theInformation Division in close cooper-ation with an interdisciplinary processgroup and the advertising agencyBennett.
Between town and university
The knowledge park Faros is a new communicationarena between town anduniversity. The idea is tomake a tool for researchdissemination in differentshapes and for variouschannels – all in the name ofinterdisciplinarity. NTNU'sfloorage at Kalvskinnet is therendezvous for NTNUemployees who wish toshare their research resultswith colleagues and the restof the town.
The first concrete result ofFaros is the exhibition«TECHNE – technology andmodern Norway 1905—2005», one of four exhibiti-ons marking the anniversaryof the termination of theunion between Norway andSweden. TECHNE displaystechnology history in a new
and untraditional way, bypresenting the interactionbetween culture and techno-logy through six stories: TheJourney, Industrial Nature,The Factory, The Family, OneCure for Everything, andFear and Control. Faros willopen the TECHNE exhibitionat the Museum of NaturalHistory and Archaeology,Trondheim on 27 May 2005.
More projects are underdevelopment: «Signals»,part of the cross-disciplinaryproject «Aesthetic values» at the Faculty of Arts whichopens in the spring, and«European knowledge inTrondheim», a larger projectfor 2010 still at the planningstage.
Faros on the web:http://www.ntnu.no/faros
A lot of exciting things take place at NTNU’s laboratories. But what exactly happens in a dissemination laboratory?
Photo: Sverre A. Børretzen/Scanpix.
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Assistant University Director Peter Lykke
Organisation DirectorTrond Singsaas
Director of StudiesHilde Skeie
Information DirectorAnne Katharine [email protected]
Technical DirectorKjell Næsje
Financial DirectorFrank Arntsen
Project DirectorInge Fottland
Museum DirectorAxel Christophersen
Library DirectorIngar Lomheim
Rector Eivind Hiis [email protected]
Pro-Rector Julie [email protected]
University Director Per Ivar [email protected]
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Faculty of Architecture andFine Art, ABwww.ab.ntnu.no/Faculty Dean Anne Grete [email protected] DirectorGunnar [email protected]
Faculty of Arts, HFwww.hf.ntnu.no/Faculty Dean Petter [email protected] Director Ivar Ø[email protected]
Faculty of InformationTechnology, Mathematics andElectrical Engineering, IMEwww.ime.ntnu.no/Faculty Dean Arne Sø[email protected] DirectorAnne-Ma [email protected]
Faculty of Medicinewww.medisin.ntnu.no/Faculty Dean Gunnar [email protected] DirectorAnna Katarina [email protected]
Faculty of Natural Sciencesand Technology, NTwww.nt.ntnu.no/Faculty Dean David G. [email protected] Director Geir Walsø[email protected]
Faculty of Engineering Scienceand Technology, IVTwww.ivt.ntnu.no/Faculty Dean Torbjørn [email protected] Director Erik [email protected]
Faculty of Social Sciences andTechnology Management, SVTwww.svt.ntnu.no/Faculty Dean Jan Morten [email protected] Director Bjørn Arne [email protected]
Income statement: Balance sheet:
Funding from UFD and other ministries: 2527.455 Total assets: 1382.772
Funding from the Research Council of Norway: 508.995Total equity: 84.856
Income from externally financed activities: 383.041 Appropriation on obligations: 504.712
Sales of property, equipment, etc: 0 Total liabilities: 793.204
Other income: 83.160 Total liabilities and equity: 1382.772
Total revenue: 3502.651
Wage costs: -1995.185
Investments and maintenance: -188.759
Other operational expenses: -1167.897
Total operational expenses: -3351.841
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The Faculty of Architecture and Fine Artis responsible for education, dissemination and research, as well as architectural andartistic activities in the various creative designdisciplines. This requires focus on individualcommitment, creativity and ethics. It alsodemands a broad interdisciplinary approach tothe subject and to problem solving.
Project work and problem-based learning are atthe heart of our educational approach. Bothartistic and scientific reflection are important inmoving beyond traditional working methods andestablished solutions. This work and cooperationwith other faculties has enabled the Faculty ofArchitecture and Fine Art to make substantialcontributions to a number of study programmes,dissemination activities and research work.
The main priorities of the faculty are: The use ofWood as a Material; Resources and theEnvironment; Architecture; Management andFinancial Matters; Settlement and CulturalUnderstanding; Protection, Refurbishment andRenewal; Architectural Theory and AestheticCommunication; Tools, The Medium and theStudy of Form.
The Faculty of Engineering Science and Technologyprovides education within 30 competenceprofiles, mainly MSc degrees, in the followingprogrammes: Civil Engineering andEnvironmental Technology; Energy andEnvironmental Technology; Geosciences andPetroleum Technology; Marine Technology;Industrial Design; Product Development andProduction, and Engineering Science and ICT.The faculty offers 7 international Master'sprogrammes, and emphasizes the importance ofgood working conditions for its students.
In 2004, an international evaluation under thedirection of the Research Council of Norway,evaluated 14 out of 26 research groups at thefaculty as Excellent or Very Good at scientificquality and productivity. The faculty hosts aCentre of Excellence called the Centre for Shipand Ocean Structures and participates in theInternational Centres for Geohazards. In additionto a significant contribution to NTNU’s establis-hed thematic priority areas, research initiativeson Profitable Production in Norway and Sustain-able Infrastructures are under development.
The Faculty of InformationTechnology, Mathematics andElectrical Engineeringis responsible for research, education and disse-mination in the academic fields of computertechnology, electronics, technology of electrical
energy, energy planning and environment,information science, mathematics and statistics,telecommunication, telematics, technical cyber-netics, as well as the industrial mathematicsstudy programme in the Physics andMathematics department.
The faculty offers 5-year integrated programmesof study at the Master’s level in technology(advanced engineering): Computer Technology;Energy and Environment; CommunicationsTechnology, and Technical Cybernetics. Thefaculty also offers a 5-year Master’s degree inteaching in the natural sciences as well as studyprogrammes at the Bachelor’s and Master’slevels in biomathematics, informatics, mathema-tics and statistics. More than 60% of Norway’sMaster’s students in ICT study at this faculty.
The faculty has a comprehensive doctoral pro-gramme with currently more than 300 PhD stu-dents from Norway and abroad. Great emphasisis placed on developing interdisciplinary effortsthat allow the academic fields of the faculty tomake contributions with their generic technolo-gies and methods, for example within the healthsector. The faculty collaborates closely withseveral universities and research institutes, aswell as national and international businesses.
The Faculty of Artsprovides education, research and disseminationof knowledge in the humanities – history andsubjects related to art, culture, literature andlanguages. The faculty works to preserve thetraditions within the humanities and humanisticissues in the context of a university of scienceand technology. It subsequently offers a widerange of subjects where the emphasis is both on the specific discipline and interdisciplinaryresearch and education.
This is reflected in a new curriculum whereinterdisciplinary courses – including EuropeanStudies with Foreign Languages, Management ofCultural Heritages, Music Technology, LanguageTechnology and Medieval Studies. The facultyalso participates in other interdisciplinary studyprogrammes such as the integrated Master’sdegree in teaching in languages. In March 2004,Globalization was adopted as NTNU's sixth stra-tegic area, hosted by the Faculty of Arts. This pri-ority area is highly interdisciplinary and coversthe humanities, social sciences, and technology.Projects within philosophy, language, literature,media science, religion, history, the fine arts, andculture are central in this research effort.
The Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technologyis responsible for research, education and disse-mination in biology, biotechnology, physics, che-mistry, chemical process engineering and mate-rials technology. The faculty is becoming esta-
blished as a national centre for research in thenatural sciences, the environment, processingand materials sciences, as well as the interplaybetween these areas.The faculty offers studyprogrammes in the natural sciences such aschemistry, physics, biology and biotechnology atboth the Bachelor’s and Master’s level, and hasMaster’s and PhD degrees in physics andmathematics, chemistry and biotechnology, aswell as materials technology.
New fields of research correspond to the natio-nal efforts within functional genome research,nanotechnology and new materials. The facultyhas numerous cooperative partners in nationaland international industry and the public sector.
The Faculty of Medicine (DMF)conducts research, education and disseminationin medicine and the health sciences. The goal ofthe faculty is to educate skilled medical person-nel and promote medical research in line withthe NTNU profile. For those studying medicine,there is particular emphasis on pedagogicalmethods such as problem-based learning (PBL),communication training and scientific reflection.The faculty cooperates with other NTNU facultiesin a number of study programmes, one of whichis a Master’s in Health Science.
The research priorities are Medical Technology,the Health Study in Nord-Trøndelag (HUNT) andtranslation research. The faculty enjoys closecooperation with St. Olav’s University Hospital,Helse Midt-Norge and other NTNU faculties inmany aspects of research and education. SINTEFHealth Research is also an important cooperati-ve partner in research activities. An importanttask for DMF is looking after NTNU’s interests inthe construction of the new university hospital atØya, Trondheim.
The Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Managementorganizes its education and research through thedepartments of Geography, Industrial Economicsand Technology Management, Economics, SocialWork and Health Science, Sociology and PoliticalScience, Education, Psychology, Sport Sciences,and Social Anthropology.
In addition, the faculty includes the Programmefor Kinetic Science, the Programme for TeacherEducation, and the Norwegian Centre for ChildResearch (NOSEB). Courses are also offered ininterdisciplinary studies such as media science,IT and finance, and African studies. The facultyhas been awarded a Centre of Excellence, theCentre of the Biology of Memory, and participa-tes in another such centre with the InternationalPeace Research Institute, Oslo – the Centre forthe Study of Civil War.
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