About the School of Engineering

The School of Engineering is one of six departments at the University of Borås. Borås is situated close to Göteborg, Sweden's second largest city. The School of Engineering was founded in 1990 and offers today several study programmes at Diploma, BSc, MSc level in engineering. The school also offers PhD courses in Resource Recovery.

The language of instruction of the Bachelor Degree Programmes is Swedish, except from one program, the BSc in Industrial Engineering - International Business Engineering that is taught in English. All the Master Degree Programmes are taught in English.

Research

The research is focused on Resource Recovery (Recovery of Energy and Material Resources for a sustainable society) which is a unique research field, Quality driven logistics and on biomedical engineering. The study programmes are strongly connected to the research fields.

The School of Engineering is cooperating with the SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden (conveniently placed in Borås). Among other cooperation projects are the construction of a laboratory for research on logistics in 2005 and the foundation of a competence centre, Waste Refinery, where the University of Borås, cities in the region Västra Götaland and companies  cooperate. Waste refinery works mainly for a more effective resource recovery, sustainable development and other cross academic issues within the energy and environmental fields.

The School of Engineering co-operates with branch companies when developing study programmes to secure that they lead to demanded knowledge on the job market. At the same time the study programmes open up for further deepening studies at master's level, and from there, further on to research.

Facts 2010

• Number of students:  2311 (1125 full time students)
• Number of study programmes: 19 (among which 5 MSc programmes and 1 BSc programme taught in English)
• Number of professors: 11
• PhD students: 27
• Number of employees: Appr. 70
• Scientific publications: 132