Category: research

Swedish Production Symposium 2011

The 4th Swedish Pro­duc­tion Sym­po­sium will be held in Lund on May 3 to 5 2011. Abstract sub­mis­sion is from August 1 to Sep­tem­ber 20 (Update: extended dead­line Sep­tem­ber 27), and the date for full paper sub­mis­sion is Jan­u­ary 15. I’ll try to be there, although I know already that I’ll be short on time to get […]

Monday June 21st, 2010 in research | No Comments »

Study environment reflects university work environment

I had an inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion today regard­ing why so many engi­neer­ing stu­dents fail to fin­ish their uni­ver­sity degrees. The dis­cus­sion boiled down to the insight that a fre­quent mis­take that we do in acad­e­mia is to put to much of the blame on the stu­dents them­selves. True, every uni­ver­sity stu­dent is and should be responsible […]

Tuesday June 15th, 2010 in Education, research | No Comments »

Fun with stereographic projections

Up until now I nei­ther took the time nor felt the need to really dig deep and under­stand stere­o­graphic pro­jec­tions. How­ever, I’m now enter­ing a research project where I must be rea­son­ably com­fort­able with inter­pret­ing stere­o­graphic pro­jec­tions of crys­tal­lo­graphic planes and direc­tions. Take a look at this beau­ti­ful stere­o­graphic pro­jec­tion of a 360x180 degree panoramic […]

Friday June 4th, 2010 in Photos, research | No Comments »