{"id":1297,"date":"2024-12-11T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T09:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2024-12-11T16:39:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:39:22","slug":"teamwork-drives-quality-and-hope-toward-a-balanced-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/2024\/12\/teamwork-drives-quality-and-hope-toward-a-balanced-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Teamwork drives quality and hope toward a balanced economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

In English further down.<\/p>\n

Teamwork ger kvalitet och hopp om en ekonomi i balans<\/h2>\n

K\u00e4ra kollegor,<\/p>\n

2024 kommer g\u00e5 till historien som ett \u00e5r fyllt av f\u00f6r\u00e4ndringar. I b\u00f6rjan av \u00e5ret inf\u00f6rde vi exempelvis Fakultetsn\u00e4mnd ITM<\/a>, som best\u00e5r av representanter fr\u00e5n fakulteten, studenter, externa organisationer och facket. Denna grupp har under ett \u00e5r arbetat med fokus p\u00e5 hur kvaliteten inom forskning och undervisning kan f\u00f6rb\u00e4ttras. Till en b\u00f6rjan hade vi lite sv\u00e5rt att f\u00e5 till en struktur f\u00f6r v\u00e5ra m\u00f6ten, men under \u00e5ret har vi tillsammans f\u00f6rb\u00e4ttrat kvaliteten p\u00e5 m\u00f6tena f\u00f6r att ge utrymme f\u00f6r beslut, information och diskussioner. Totalt har vi haft \u00e5tta m\u00f6ten p\u00e5 KTH och ett p\u00e5 Scania (d\u00e4r vi fick provk\u00f6ra lastbilar och bussar).<\/p>\n

Tre utskott till fakultetsn\u00e4mnden<\/h3>\n

Vi har bildat tre utskott som tr\u00e4ffas mellan de schemalagda officiella m\u00f6tena. En grupp fokuserade p\u00e5 kvalitet i utbildningen och bestod f\u00f6rutom av l\u00e4rarrepresentanter, en studentrepresentant, utbildningsansvarig och administrativa experter. De har haft \u00f6verl\u00e4gset flest arbetsuppgifter under det f\u00f6rsta \u00e5ret, fr\u00e4mst med att godk\u00e4nna nya kurser och l\u00e4gga ned andra. En andra grupp har fokuserat p\u00e5 forskarutbildningen. D\u00e4r har vi haft l\u00e4rarrepresentanter, en doktorandrepresentant, ansvarig f\u00f6r forskarutbildningen samt administrativa experter. H\u00e4r har fokus legat p\u00e5 kurser och studieplaner.
\nDen tredje gruppen fokuserade p\u00e5 att organisera m\u00f6ten med fakulteten. Nyligen h\u00f6lls ett m\u00f6te f\u00f6r att diskutera KTH:s f\u00f6rslag om att erbjuda alternativa karri\u00e4rv\u00e4gar ut\u00f6ver de som finns i “tenure track”-systemet. Som ordf\u00f6rande f\u00f6r ITM:s fakultetsn\u00e4mnd har jag sett hur aktiviteterna i dessa undergrupper har hj\u00e4lpt oss att ta fram mycket bra material f\u00f6r fakultetsn\u00e4mndens m\u00f6ten, s\u00e5 att vi har kunnat f\u00f6rb\u00e4ttra m\u00f6tena och hantera fler uppgifter. Jag vill d\u00e4rf\u00f6r rikta ett s\u00e4rskilt tack till ledam\u00f6terna i fakultetsn\u00e4mnden med dess undergrupper f\u00f6r insatserna under 2024!<\/p>\n

Ljus i tunneln f\u00f6r en ekonomi i balans<\/h3>\n

En stor utmaning f\u00f6r ITM-skolan har varit att f\u00e5 en ekonomi i balans, vilket jag och andra har bloggat om under \u00e5ret. V\u00e5ra institutioner har haft olika utmaningar vilka kr\u00e4vt olika strategier. Detta har verkligen varit ett lagarbete d\u00e4r institutionernas olika team best\u00e5tt av prefekter och verksamhetscontrollers, med ett starkt st\u00f6d fr\u00e5n Christina Carlsson och hennes medarbetare samt Mats Magnusson. Resultatet \u00e4r att vi ser ett “ljus i tunneln” f\u00f6r 2025. Det finns en verklig chans att n\u00e5 en balanserad ekonomi, vilket \u00e4r en f\u00f6ruts\u00e4ttning f\u00f6r att kunna styra v\u00e5r framtida utveckling.N\u00e4r vi nu g\u00e5r in i 2025 m\u00e5ste fokus ligga p\u00e5 den framtida utvecklingen av grundutbildning, forskarutbildning och forskning. En utmaning \u00e4r att samarbeta f\u00f6r att skapa m\u00f6jligheter f\u00f6r studenter att till\u00e4gna sig experimentella och ber\u00e4kningsm\u00e4ssiga f\u00e4rdigheter, ut\u00f6ver den teoretiska kunskap vi erbjuder i utbildningen. Naturligtvis m\u00e5ste vi ocks\u00e5 vara beredda p\u00e5 att hantera AI p\u00e5 ett pedagogiskt s\u00e4tt i utbildningen. H\u00e4r har vi tur som har Arnold Pears och hans medarbetare p\u00e5 institutionen f\u00f6r l\u00e4rande, eftersom de \u00e4r experter p\u00e5 detta omr\u00e5de.<\/p>\n

Slutligen vill jag tacka alla er p\u00e5 ITM f\u00f6r era insatser under 2024! Jag hoppas att ni f\u00e5r en avkopplande semester med v\u00e4nner och familj!<\/p>\n

\/P\u00e4r J\u00f6nsson, Skolchef f\u00f6r ITM-skolan<\/p>\n

Teamwork drives quality and hope toward a balanced economy<\/h2>\n

Dear colleagues,<\/p>\n

We will remember 2024 as a year full of changes. For example, at the beginning of the year we introduced the ITM Faculty Board<\/a> consisting of representants from the faculty, students, external organisations and unions. Now, this board has worked during one year focusing on how the quality in research and teaching can be improved. Initially, we struggled a little bit to set up a structure for our meetings. However, during the year we have systematically worked together to improve the qualities of the meetings to offer room for decisions, information and discussions. Overall, we had eight meetings at KTH and one at Scania (we got to test drive trucks and buses).<\/p>\n

Three committees in the Faculty Board<\/h3>\n

We have formed three committees that meet between the scheduled official meetings. One committee focused on quality in education and included besides teacher representants, a student representative, the Head of Education and administrative experts. They have by far had most tasks this first year including mainly the approval of newt courses and closure of courses. A second committee has focused on the doctoral education and included besides teacher representants, a doctoral student representant, the Head of Third Cycle Education and administrative experts. Here, the focus has been on courses and study plans. The third group focused on organising meetings with the faculty. Recently, a meeting was held to discuss the KTH suggestion to offer alternative career paths besides those available in the tenure track system.<\/p>\n

As the chair person for the ITM Faculty Board I have seen how the activities in these committees have helped us to provide very good materials for the faculty board meetings, so that we have been able to increase the quality of the meetings and to handle more tasks.
\nTherefore, I wish to especially thank the members of the faculty board and the committees for their efforts during 2024!<\/p>\n

Light in the tunnel for a balanced economy<\/h3>\n

A large challenge for the ITM School has been to obtain a balanced economy, as me and others have blogged about throughout the year. Our six departments have had different challenges requiring different strategies. This has truly been a team effort at each department lead by a team consisting of the Department Head and the Operations Controller, but with a strong support from Christina Carlsson and her co-workers and Mats Magnusson. Overall, the result of these efforts is that we see a \u201clight in the tunnel<\/i>\u201d for the coming 2025. There is a true chance to reach a balanced economy. This is crucial, since a sound financial control is a prerequisite for being able to control our future development. As we enter 2025, the focus must be on the future development of the education, doctoral education and research. A challenge is to work together to create possibilities for students to acquire experimental and computational learning skills, besides the theoretical knowledge we provide in the education. Of course, we also need to be prepared to handle the use of AI in a pedagogic manner in the education. Here, we are lucky to have Arnold Pears and his co-workers at the Department of Learning in Engineering Sciences, since they are experts in this area.<\/p>\n

Finally, I wish to thank all of you at ITM for your efforts during 2024! I hope that you will have a relaxing holiday with friends and family!<\/p>\n

\/P\u00e4r J\u00f6nsson, Head of the ITM School<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In English further down. Teamwork ger kvalitet och hopp om en ekonomi i balans K\u00e4ra kollegor, 2024 kommer g\u00e5 till historien som ett \u00e5r fyllt av f\u00f6r\u00e4ndringar. I b\u00f6rjan av \u00e5ret inf\u00f6rde vi exempelvis Fakultetsn\u00e4mnd ITM, som best\u00e5r av representanter fr\u00e5n fakulteten, studenter, externa organisationer och facket. Denna grupp har under ett \u00e5r arbetat med […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dean-of-school","category-par-jonsson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6P3xp-kV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}