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Part 2 – Conclusions of the review
Processes which may promote development
towards the goals of the Strategic Plan
45. These include:
• More professional fund raising systems.
• Focused recruitments of international scientists, which will
establish centres of excellence.
• Creation of better environments for translational research.
• Bringing together the several research areas into ageing and
elderly care.
• A clearer and more transparent structure for post-doctoral
research.
• Supporting the development of female researchers.
E5. ENGINEERING
(Panels 15 Product Development, 16 Systems Science, 17 Building)
Introduction
46. The College of Engineering, as would be expected in a world class
University, covers a broad range of areas that are divided in several
departments with a wide spectrum of disciplines.
Research Quality
47. On a global basis the quality of research at LTH (College of
Engineering) as a whole falls in the good to very good range.
Within the college, organizations and reorganizations have led to a
few departments that have the needed strength and size, while there
are several that are still operating as fragmented clusters, and a few
that have been broken down to less than critical mass and which
are therefore are not efficient or fully productive. For such a large
engineering college, we feel that the Material Research area does
not have the expected international visibility, in part because of
fragmentation, and that the Computer Science area is quite fragmented
and does not have the needed critical mass.
Areas of Excellence
48. Traditionally, areas such as Control Science, Energy Science,
Information Theory, Aerosol Sciences have been operating at the
highest international standards. Some such as Control Science will
clearly continue in spite of recent retirements, but there are concerns
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