Nordic Chapter

Enhancing a Nordic approach to product development in industry, education and research.

About this Chapter

About

Enhancing a Nordic approach to product development in industry, education and research. The Nordic Chapter shall seek to: enhance knowledge and understanding of next generation product development research, education and practice, contribute to fostering Nordic ecosystems for design research-based realization of innovations, contribute to the ability to drive change and renewal in higher education through collaboration between industry and academia and strengthen the ability in academia and industry to lead change and benefit from state-of-the-art technologies.

Core Aims & Objectives

The Nordic Chapter coordinates research across Nordic countries in the focus areas of:

Design of innovative concepts, systems and product solutions.
Design automation and digital engineering.
Sustainable life cycle design.
Engineering management.

How can members get involved?

Examples of Nordic Chapter activities are:

NordDesign Conference (biennial): NordDesign 2024
Common PhD courses. Some PhD courses open for Nordic Chapter PhD students can be found at: Nordic Chapter PhD Courses

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Our Team

Marina Candi

Reykjavik University
Iceland

Ola Isaksson

Chalmers University
Sweden

MSc (-93) and PhD (-99) from Luleå University of Technology Sweden. Career as a specialist (1994-2016) in engineering design and product development...

Tero Juuti

University of Tampere
Finland

Niels Henrik Mortensen

TU Denmark
Denmark

Josef Oehmen

Technical University of Denmark
Denmark

Anna Öhrwall Rönnbäck

Luleå University of Technology
Sweden

Research and teaching in the area of business, product and production development.

Since 2014 Chaired Professor Product Innovation, The Division...

Rögnvaldur Saemundsson

University of Iceland
Iceland

Ralf Martin Steinert

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Norway

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