Umeå Institute of Technology

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Umeå Institute of Technology Tekniska högskolan i Umeå


Established	1997
Type	Public University
Rector	Staffan Uvell
Faculty	1000
Students	5500
Doctoral students	350
Location	Umeå, Sweden
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	EUA,CDIO
Website	http://www.teknat.umu.se/

The Umeå Institute of Technology or Tekniska högskolan i Umeå is part of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Umeå University. The Institute offers a wide range of study programmes, some of them not to be found in any other part of Sweden. Research in engineering is gradually being expanded. The faculty's traditionally strong position in natural sciences form a base on which new technology research is built.

Umeå Institute of Technology three main areas in reasearch are Information and Interaction Technologies, Life Sciences, and Sustainable Society.

1 History
2 Education
3 Departments
4 Research Centres
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

The 1964/65 academic year saw the beginning of what was to become the current Faculty of Sciences and Technology with the creation of a Faculty of Philosophy, which was later divided into a Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science and a Faculty of Social Science in 1968/69.

There was already talk in 1964 of establishing a technical college in Umeå. Nothing definite came out of these discussions until 1 July 1997 when the Umeå Institute of Technology was established.

Engineering programmes were gradually developed at the university during the 1980s in the form of two engineering programmes. The first master's programmes at Umeå University were in engineering physics in 1988. Central to the development of Master's programmes in engineering has always been strong, i.e. chemistry, physics, biology and computing science.

[edit] Education

Master's programmes in Computing Science and Engineering, Engineering Chemistry and Engineering Biology were introduced during the nineties. At the end of the eighties and beginning of the nineties a series of two-year engineering programmes were started. These later developed into three-year university engineering programmes. The newest of the engineering programmes is the Master's Programme in Energy Engineering.

The 1990s have seen the establishment of a number of centres for research. The goal has been to create centres where researchers from different fields are able to collaborate on common issues.

[edit] Departments

Applied Physics and Electronics
Chemistry
Computing Science
Ecology and Environmental Science
Institute of Design
Space Science
Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
Molecular Biology
Physics
Plant Physiology

[edit] Research Centres

Umeå University Campus. Photo by Yogesh Bhole http://byoge.tripod.com

The Faculty of Science and Technology at Umeå University has over 5,500 students and more than 350 research students. The research and education is gathered under ten different departments. Several centres have also been established to ensure even more effective research.

The Faculty of Medicine and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) are two of the Faculty of Science and Technology’s most important partners. Collaboration also takes place with a number of universities in Sweden. Interfaces naturally extend beyond Sweden’s borders, there are for instance established collaborations with INRA, the National Institute for Agricultural Research in France, and Oxford University.

Research Centers: