Collaboration in education

These forms of collaboration work with students in first- and second-cycle education. Our Director of Studies for first- and second-cycle education, Björn Olofsson, organises and coordinates many of these activities.

Master's thesis / Degree project

Hosting a master's thesis project (or degree project as it is formally called) is the most common form of collaboration between LTH and industry within education. A master's thesis project is an independent project for students (often working in pairs) to develop specialised knowledge within a subject, and it corresponds to 20 weeks of full-time studies. In the project, the student should integrate knowledge from many different courses and acquire new knowledge. The results should be of interest both to the client and to a wider audience. For Master's Theses at the Department of Automatic Control (on Canvas), the project should be related to systems and control engineering in the broad sense, and can include, for instance, modeling and simulation, machine learning, design and optimization, as well as real-time implementation.

Project work within a course

Several of our courses contain projects, including Project in Automatic Control, Applied Robotics, Mathematical Modeling, Real-Time Systems, and Project in Systems, Control and Learning. The aim is to let the students apply their knowledge and skills on realistic problems, working in project form. A course project in industry could serve as a preliminary investigation, which could later be extended into a master's thesis project. If you believe that you have suitable industrial projects or case studies, please contact us.

Guest lectures and Company visits

Guest lectures from industry and organisations and company visits are always a welcome addition to our courses for engineering students. We have frequently had industrial guest lectures in some of our courses, including Real-Time Systems and Systems Engineering / Process Control, Applied Robotics and Applied Robotics for Architects, our students would appreciate to have even more. Please contact us if your company is interested in contributing to our educational activities.