EngTech (Engineering & Technology) is an interdisciplinary research section at the Department of Business Development and Technology (BTECH), Aarhus University, Herning.
The research of EngTech focuses on technology and engineering with a view to creating new business opportunities for private companies and public organisations.
The research revolves around technology as a starting point for change and technology in an application perspective, including the impact of technology. The section often works with technology in a life-cycle perspective from idea and design to production and operations. The main target sectors are the manufacturing and technological service industry.
The EngTech research section contains a number of specialised research groups and labs to address the specific research activities.
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Vision
The vision of the EngTech section is to create a vibrant research environment in which it facilitates collaborative research of the highest international standard, creates research-based teaching and ensures relevance for the surrounding ecosystem of companies, public institutions and other stakeholders.
Objectives
The main objectives of the EngTech research section are to:
- Contribute to the engineering study programmes at BTECH/AU with research-based teaching, in particular the MSc in Engineering study programme (cand.polyt.) and the MSc in Information Technology in IT, Communication and Organisation programme (cand.it.).
- Pursue and publish research within technology and engineering consisting of the integrated fabric of engineering design methodologies, engineering operations frameworks, prototypes, socio-technical systems, information systems, information technology and mathematical modelling.
- Create a vibrant research environment for the talent development of final-stage MSc students, PhD students, postdocs and assistant professors.
- Build bridges to private companies and public institutions with technology and socio-technological solutions.
Research focus
The scientific backbone of the EngTech research section is to pursue research within technological and engineering in order to:
- Combine data from laboratory and real-world experiments with (applied) science for understanding the processes in technological and engineering problems.
- Apply an open approach to technology in the context of changes and the ability to support diversity with combinations of existing and novel technologies into new opportunities.
- Examine engineering management processes with a particular focus on governance of technical development and operations processes in the view of support of complex and changing technologies in companies.
- Ensure the involvement of relevant organisational and economic aspects in concrete design, implementation and operation of technology solutions.