Meet our new scholarship holders

Field research on energy systems in Ghana
In our project, we will look at Ghana's energy and water sector to identify the current situation and potential areas that can be improved. By assessing the interlinkages between the energy, water and agricultural sector, we will better understand how these are related to each other, and how to find potential synergies.
Amber Ahmed, Jindan Gong, Hanna Hammarsten, Jenny Fu
Industrial Engineering and Management

EWB: Water supply system in Uganda

We intend to build a rainwater-harvesting tank to serve a rural health center in northwestern Uganda. We are also researching the possibility to involve an additional water purification system. Right now the staff at the health center collect water from a public borehole located about 700 m from the facility. This facility is located between a trading center and a primary school. There is also a nearby refugee camp and part of that refugee population together with the natives gets treatment from this health facility. This health center has been in need of clean water for a long time. Therefore, we decided to build a water tank to support them in the best way possible.

Aynur Toygur, second year in Constructional engineering and Design

Mobile Off-grid Photovoltaic System
Developing countries lack the financial support and the infrastructure to ensure the needs of their people for electricity. The solution lies within the sun and the possibility to harness its power through photovoltaic cells, especially in remote rural areas. Our project aims to build a sustainable, low-cost and easy-to-use mobile solar system fulfilling the basic needs of villagers in Rwanda.
Cong-Toan Pham, Alfonso De La Cruz, Philipe Gunawan, Fernando Garcia, Hanna Ma, Shaida Faiqi
School of Electrical Engineering

Off-grid mentorspace
The project aims to assist with establishing a mentorspace in a school in Cameroon to create a workshop where students can access tools to work with their ideas and projects for both educational and extracurricular pursuits. The space will focus on re-using resources available locally such as recycling plastics and waste electronics and be powered independently via solar power.
Daniela Mewes, Jude Bahanag Nunga
Sustainable Energy Engineering
Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Formula Student
We collaborate with the industry to be able to build a car and compete with it. During the project we become team players with great communication and collaboration skills. We learn about people, culture and how it is to work as a real business. We are ready to face any challenges that our upcoming careers serve us after our Formula Student contributions.
KTH Formula students with 50 students
Computer Science and Communication
Electrical Engineering
Information and Communication Technology
Industrial Engineering and management
Engineering Sciences

CAPS Research project
I will be using computer simulation to study the behaviour of thermoacoustic systems at the CAPS laboratory of ETH. In particular, I will be investigating how precisely such systems can be classified with basic output measurements given their highly variable nature. This has industrial applications regarding the design of better diagnostic and control processes.
Michael Pau
Engineering Mechanics

Non-Euclidean Transformed Lenses
A Luneburg lens is a graded index lens that transforms an electromagnetic point source to a plane wave. It has been shown that it is possible to emulate a varying refractive index by utilizing surface curvature. We will use this technique to design a homogeneous Luneburg lens composed of a dielectric filled curved metallic waveguide.
Qingbi Liao
Electrical Engineering

AESIR: Rocket launch
ÆSIR is an association for students with interest in amateur rocketry. This is our first project (as we were founded in September 2016) and consists of building and launching a small (hybrid engine) rocket. During the project we will go through the entire engineering process with design, simulations, manufacturing and testing.
Sara Tovatt, Agne Paskeviciute, David Eugenio Cantu Gomez, Erik Weilow, Niels Bernving
Engineering Sciences
Industrial Engineering and Management
Aerospace Engineering

Connected bicycle
The ultimate goal for this project is to be able to warn bicyclists about dangerous areas or traffic situations and improve bicycle safety with the help of sensors. The idea is to annotate dangerous areas on a map. This map can then be used to warn bicyclist in real-time when they enter a dangerous zone. Another use of this map would be for city infrastructure designers and traffic analyst, to give them an idea about which areas need improvement.
Syafiq Alatiiq, Jaisal Ashraf, Martin Yrjölä
Network Services and Systems

Sounds and vibrations in brake systems
My name is Viktor and I have gotten the incredible opportunity to do my master thesis at the R&D department at KTM in Austria. This means that I get to work with my main passion, motorcycles! My thesis consists of an in depth study of the noise that can arise in certain brake systems, and how to avoid them in the future.
Alexander Wiese
Engineering Sciences

Local BEST Group Stockholm
Our aim is to organize a local round of the largest student engineering contest in Europe for KTH students. The BEST Engineering Competition will be combined with an event on education where students and professors will be able to discuss educational matters in the form of round table conversations.
Zoltán Udvardy, Ádám Miguel Acosta, Chloe Brosseau, Quentin Chometon, Baptiste Le Maire, Csaba Jéger
Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology
Industrial Engineering and Management
Medical Engineering
Energy and Environment
Aerospace Engineering