{"id":59,"date":"2015-12-21T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T08:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/?p=59"},"modified":"2015-12-21T09:59:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T08:59:11","slug":"working-hard-tom-make-the-dead-line-for-the-last-faculty-council-meeting-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/itm-management\/2015\/12\/working-hard-tom-make-the-dead-line-for-the-last-faculty-council-meeting-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Working hard tom make the dead line for the last Faculty Council meeting of the year!"},"content":{"rendered":"

An intensive work was carried out at Dean\u2019s office and the departments now at the end of this year to reach the last possibility to submit our positions to the KTH Faculty Council, at their last meeting for the year which was held on December 8. Some of these recruitments were part of the normal strategic faculty plans that are made at each department. In these plans we consider both how many faculty members that will retire within the coming years, the needs in research and education at the departments as well as the general needs in the industry and society. It should be mention that the role of The Faculty Council is to judge if the new position is part of the future strategic plan of the department to meet the demands in research and education. However, they also judge whether the financial body of the department is large enough to host another faculty position.<\/p>\n

On December 8, four \u201cnormal\u201d strategic faculty positions were put forward to the Faculty Council. Professor Pontus Braunerhjelm<\/a> and his co-workers at the Department of Industrial Economy and Management submitted two positions: an Assistant Professorship in Industrial Economy with Focus on Entrepreneurship and an Associate Professor in Industrial Economy with a Focus on Supply Chains. Also, Professor Bj\u00f6rn Palm<\/a> and his co-workers at the Department of Energy submitted an Associate Professor position focusing on Energy and Sustainable Development and Professor Mauro Onori <\/a>and his co-workers at the Department of Industrial Production submitted an Assistant Professor position in Cloud Based Manufacturing and Robot Technology. The first three positions passed the scrutiny of the Faculty Board and were sent to the next control mechanism at KTH, namely the Employment Council. Their job is to go through the employment profile in detail to make that it is clearly written.<\/p>\n

We got some minor complaints regarding the title of the fourth position. It seems like Professor Onori has to modify his visionary \u201ccloud\u201d formulation to something that is more \u201cearthy\u201d (jordn\u00e4ra), so that \u201cthe rest of us\u201d can follow his ideas! By the way, this is not the first time this department seems to come up with new ideas before anyone else does. As an example they did lots of research in 3D printing\/additive manufacturing many years ago but it was stopped due to lack of interest from society and industry at that time. However, as many of you know they are back in business in this area again, now when the industry and society has caught up with their visions.<\/p>\n

On December 8 a historical event<\/u> also took place, namely that we started the process to build the research at the Department of Applied Mechanical Engineering. This is currently a department that is totally focused on education, but in the strategic plans they will grow in research up to a size of a typical ITM department. This is a huge transformation that will take place the coming years. Here, I would like to stress that Associate Professor Kristina Palm<\/a> and her co-workers have worked hard for a long time to carefully study the needs of future research at this new research department. As I mentioned before, they have planned seven new faculty positions. Thus on December 8 the following first four positions were put forward to the Faculty Council (note, that at this stage the English names are not finalized):<\/p>\n