An Example of Globalisation

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An Example of Globalisation Collaboration
between Luleå University of Technology in Sweden
and Monash University The International
University in Australia, Malaysia, South Africa

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Sir John Monash (1865 - 1931) "Adopt as your
fundamental creed that you will equip yourself
for life, not solely for your own benefit but
for the benefit of the whole community." - Sir
John Monash The Universitys motto Ancora
Imparo Italian for "I am still learning",
is a fitting description
of this great Australian.
(www.monash.edu.au)
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Project overview
1997-98 A teacher exchange programme one
academic from LTU two academics from Monash (The
Swedish Council for Undergraduate Education (
Grundutbildningsrådet) financed this
exchange) (Sven Molin,LTU. Ed Cherry, Kim Ng,
Monash) 1998 Short and extended staff visits
(Sven Molin, Jerker Delsing and Kalevi Hyyppä
from LTU. Greg Egan and Roger Hadgraft from
Monash)
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Project overview (cont.)
1999 More exchange of teachers. Grant from
STINT(www.stint.se) to develop collaboration in
research and teaching for four years
1999-2003 (Stewart Jenvey, Sven Molin, Ingegerd
Palmér, Gerd Brandell, Lennart Andersson,
Andrew Paplinski, John Sheridan...)
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Project overview (cont.)

• 2000 More exchange in teaching. Start of
• research collaboration in EMC, Neural
• Networks, Distributed Systems, Distance Health
• Science.
• (Åke Wisten, Stewart Jenvey, Christer Åhlund,
  CristinaVarsavsky,
• Ray Jarvis, Greg Egan, Lennart Gustafsson, Kåre
  Synnes .)
• 2001 Broadening the collaboration into areas
• outside of engineering. (Nursing, Business,
• Education, Gallery ...)
• (Kerstin Öhrling, Anita Westerström, Lynn
  Gustafsson...)

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Project overview (cont.)

• 2002 More exchange in teaching and research in
  Distributed Systems. Start of research
  collaboration in Science Education.
• Introductory contacts in the library area.
  (Cecilia Falck, Eva Nyman,Britta Carlsson, Angela
  Lundberg, Kåre Synnes .)
• Common subjects are given between Monash and
  Luleå EMC and Antennas II
• Two new subjects are given at LTU by Monash
  lectures (Richard Nelson, Stewart Jenvey, Ainslie
  Ellis)

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Project overview (cont.)
2002 Exchange in teaching in Electronics (Sven
Molin from LTU at Department ECSE during the
First Semester.Kim Ng from Monash at Department
Sytemteknik during the Second Semester) Continuat
ion of research collaboration in neural networks
(Lennart Gustafsson LTU and Andrew Paplinski,
Monash) Monash PhD students working at LTU in the
areas of Science Education, Rock Mechanics,
Signal Processing
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Project overview (cont.)

• 2003
• More exchange in teaching and research in
  Computer Communication, Music and Music
  Education....
• Five of the Deans from LTU visiting Monash in
  February
• Renewal of the 1998 LTU-Monash agreement. Now the
  agreement will cover student exchange, academic
  and teaching collaboration, collaboration between
  study programs and deeper collaboration in
  graduate education
• Tony Pollock from Monash International visits LTU
  in May

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Four important ingredients

• Personal connection between staff of the two
• universities - Now we have a nice NETWORK
• at both ends
• Seed funding from two Swedish funding bodies
• (The Swedish Council for Undergraduate
  Education and STINT)
• (LTU - pays some administration during 2001,
  2002 and (?) 2003)
• Development of complementary teaching areas
• Development of joint research strength

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Staff exchange in teaching

Eigth Swedish academics for a full Semester-
each in five Departments (Electrical, Computer
Science, Mathematics, Business, Music) Eight
Monash academics for 1-3 months (Electrical,
Computer Science, Mechanical, Mathematics,
Business)
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Staff exchange in teaching (cont.)
Both parties have learnt to know the culture and
the study programs at the other university
Both parties have succeded in creating
networks very important Each university pays
its staffs salary !
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Formal agreement

• A formal agremeent was established in early 1998.
  
• 2 full year students was included in the
  agreement.The
• agreement was renewed in May 2003. It covers
  student
• exchange, academic and teaching collaboration,
  collaboration
• between study programs and deeper collaboration
  in
• graduate education. The amount of exchange
  students in
• Undergraduate education will be increased step by
  step to
• 5 full year students
• In Luleå many subjects are given in English.
  There are
• about 150 exchange students a year studying at
  Luleå
• The Swedish students have NO problems following
  
• courses in English at Monash

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Collaboration in research
To be successful, any collaborative activity has
to be built on mutual interests and personal
relationships The initial teaching exchange
program created good opportunities to identify
potential common research projects
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Examples of common research projects
Electromagnetic Compatibility and
Antenna Technology
Example of the complementation of strength at the
two institutions - common research projects
- exchange of PhD-students (Urban Lundgren, 6
months at Monash first half of 2001) -
courses offered via Distance Education (across
half the Globe!) (Stewart Jenvey, Åke
Wisten, Urban Lundgren, Dag Björklöf)
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Common research projects (cont.)
Intelligent Robotics Both groups have
international reputation. - A new telerobotic
project - Exchange of PhD-students (Geoff
Taylor, 2 months at Luleå September-October
2001) (Ray Jarvis, Lindsay Kleeman, Geoff
Taylor, Åke Wernersson, Kalevi Hyyppä, Sven
Rönnbäck)
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Common research projects (cont.)
Neural Network Theory
A project with one academic from the Luleå
Engineering Faculty and one from the Monash IT
Faculty. A joint Paper was presented at the
Xth European Conference on Developmental
Psychology in Uppsala, Sweden, August 22-26
2001. ( Andrew Paplinski, Lennart Gustafsson)
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Common research projects (cont.)

• Distributed Systems
• A project Mobile City with one
• academic from the Monash IT Faculty and
• a group at the Skellefteå Campus 150 km
• south the Luleå Campus.
• Some joint Papers have been presented
• (Arkady Zavslavsky, Christer Åhlund)
• (Arkady is now adjunct Professer, 10 at the
  Skellefteå Department)

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Collaboration in education

• Collaboration in education must
• extend beyond the exchange of teaching staff
  and
• students
• take advantage of new education and
  communication
• technology to deliver teaching at the host
  University
• There are some interesting projects in Distance
  Education
• and Problem Based Learning

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The course Antenna II given from Monash to
students at Luleå and Monash in real time.
First Semester 2001. Stewart Jenvey lectures.
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The EMC course was given from Luleå to Monash via
net-based teaching in real time August-October
2001
Åke Wisten is lecturing from Luleå in Sweden to
Monash students in Australia
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Collaboration in education (cont.)
The subject Mobile Systems and Networks was
given to a group of Luleå students, Quarter 3,
2002. Lecturer Stewart Jenvey and Richard
Nelson, both from the ECSE Department, Monash
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Collaboration in education (cont.)

• The subject Human Interaction across the
  Internet was given to a group of Luleå
  students, Quarter 4, 2002. They did some work
  together with the Monash Class as well.
• Lecturer Ainslie Ellis, Faculty of IT, Monash

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Collaboration in education (cont.)
We need to improve the technical equipment as
well as the pedagogy used in the Global Distance
Education between LTU and Monash. Kåre Synnes
spent two and a half months at Monash March-May
2002 and worked within this area. Anders
Söderlund will work with the pedagogy evaluation
of the Antenna subject lectured to both Monash
and Luleå students during March-May 2003.
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The Art Gallery
Lynn Gustafsson has been working together with
Malcom Baywater in November-December 2001- at the
Faculty of Art and Design in order to learn from
Monash experience of developing their Art
Galleries.
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Mathematics
There have been collabaration in teaching between
the two Departments of Mathematics at LTU -
Monash. This Collaboration is ongoing. Involved
staff are Håkan Ekblom, Henry Kallioniemi at
Luleå and Cristina Varsavsky, Kais Hamza and Eric
Chu at Monash. Cristina Varsavsky lectured at LTU
during the Second Semester 2000 Håkan visited
Monash in late April 2002 for one week. Kais
Hamza is lecturing at LTU in November-December
2002. Eric Chu visits LTU during 2 weeks in early
November 2002 exploring possible collaboration in
research. Henry Kallioniemi from LTU is lecturing
at Monash in March 2003
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Master Thesis Work

• During the year 2000 six Luleå
• Students made there Master Thesis at Monash
• University.
• The areas
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Chemical Engineering

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One Example of Master Thesis Work
A Robot Scorpion Using Ground Vibrations for
Navigation

• An example of research
• collaboration in the field of
• Robotics.
• A Luleå student spend half a year at Monash
  doing his Master Thesis. The superviser is a
  Monash academic whilst the examinar is from Luleå
• A joint paper is published

Wallander, A., Russel, A. And Hyyppä, K
Australian Conference on Robotics and
Automation 2000
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Master Thesis Work (cont.)

• Then during year 2001 six Luleå students made
  there Master Thesis at Monash
• The areas
• Chemical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Mechanical Engineering

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Master Thesis Work (cont.)

• During year 2002, six Luleå students did there
  Master Thesis at Monash
• The areas
• Computer Science (Faculty of IT) (Andrew
  Paplinski supervisor)
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems
  (Richard Nelson supervisor)
• Distributed Systems (Arkady Zaslavsky supervisor)

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Master Thesis Work (cont.)

• During this year 2003, 4 Luleå students will do
  there Master Thesis at Monash
• The areas
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems
  (Terry Cornall supervisor)
• Electrical Engineering and Computer System (Brian
  Lithgow supervisor)
• Mechanical Engineering (Bijan Shirinzadeh
  supervisor)

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Exchange of PhD-students

• During the year 2001 there has been an ex-
• change of two PhD-students
• The areas
• EMC- Urban Lundgren
• Robotics - Geoff Taylor
• There are plans of more exchange in other
• areas

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Exchange of PhD-students (cont)

• During the year 2002 three Monash PhD-
• Students has been working at LTU
• Science Education Amanda Berry
• Roch Mechanics Jerry Scymakowski
• Signal Processing Michael Orr
• Currently, 1 Semester 2003, a LTU PhD student,
  Cecilia Ferm, studies at Monash in the area of
  Music Education

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New Areas

• Business
• Anita Westerström has been working at the
• Department of Mangement at the Monash Faculty of
• Business during mid September- mid December 2001.
• Currently, October 2002, Kaya Prpic from the
  FLITE
• Centre, Faculty of IT is working at LTU in
  together with
• Anita.

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New Areas (cont)

• Nursing
• Kerstin Öhrling visited Monash in March
• 2001 and John Gullifer visited Luleå in May-June
• 2001. There is a good possible potential in a
  growing
• collaboration in these areas.
• Lisa Skär visited Monash in March 2002
• as a member of the Women Research School

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New Areas (cont)

• Science Education
• Kjell Johansson visited Monash i April 2000
• Britta Carlsson did research work in Science
  Education at
• the Monash Faculty of Education mid February to
  mid
• April 2002. She worked together with Professor
  Dick
• Gunstone and Amanda Berry. Amanda then worked at
• the Luleå School of Teacher Education during 7
  weeks in
• September-October 2002.

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New Areas (cont)

• Library and Distance Education
• Cecilia Falck and Eva Nyman visited
• Monash during three weeks in February 2002.
• They intend to develop collaboration in the
• area of Libraries and Distance Education.

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New Areas (cont)
Women Research School In March
2002 a large group from the Women Research School
visited Monash as a result of a formal invitation
from Mike Brisk, the Dean of the Monash Faculty
of Engineering. The participants gave a couple of
seminars an also met Monash staff from their
respective areas. One direct outcome of the visit
is that Cecila Ferm from LTUs School of Music
got an invitation to spend the First Semester
2003 at the Monash School of Music.
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New Areas (cont)
Energy Engineering In early 2001
two Luleå students finished their Master Thesis
at the Monash Mechanical Engineering
Department. Their supervisor was Mir-Akbar
Hessami. During 6 weeks in October-November 2002
Akbar worked at Luleå together with Professor
Jinye Yan and Roger Hermansson.at the LTU
Division of Energy Engineering.
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New Areas (cont)
Space Engineering There have
been discussions about collaboration in the areas
of Space- and Aerospace Engineering during the
last year Professor Sverker Fredriksson,
responsible for the Luleå Space Engineering
Programme visited the Monash Department of
Mechanical Engineering in March 2002 in order to
develop such a collaboaration. John Sheridan,
Daimon Honnery and Stewart Jenvey are involved.
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New Areas (cont)
Göran Westerström visited Monash during one week
in December 2001. Now there are plans to start
collaboration in Traffic Engineering between
Görans Depart- ment and the Department of Civil
Enginee- ring at Monash.
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New Areas (cont)
Thomas Gustafsson have been working, main- ly
with research in the area of Control, at the
ECSE Department from September 2001. Thomas
will go back to Luleå in late February. Most of
the time Thomas has been working together with
Francesco Crusca at the Monash ECSE Department.
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New Areas (cont)
James Le Blanc visited Monash during two weeks in
August 2001. He helped two Master Thesis Student
with the start of their work. As a result
collaboration in Signal Processing will start
between the ECSE Department and Systemteknik.
The Monash PhD student Michael Orr will do
research work together at Luleå with the LTU PhD
student Sara Sandberg and James LeBlanc from
earlyNovember 2002 to late January 2003.
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New Areas (cont)
Jerry Szymakowski from the Department of Rock
Mechanics at Monash Faculty of Engineering
currently is visting the LTU Department of Rock
Mechanics. Jerry works together with Professor
Erling Nordlund and the PhD student Catrin
Eriksson. The plans are to continue this
collaboration.
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Problem Based Learning projects
Monash staff have given workshops in Problem
Based Learning in Luleå in November
2000 Another planned project is workshops given
via Distance EducationTools from Monash to
Luleå (Roger Hadgraft, Angela Lundberg, Kaya
Prpic) Angela visited Roger Hadgraft in March
2002. As a result of that visit Angela and Roger
put in a proposal for a grant from the Swedish
Council. They were succesful !
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What has happened 2002 ?
Thomas Gustafsson, CONTROL, At Monash Sept. 2001-
Feb. 2002, Fac of Engineering Stewart Jenvey and
Richard Nelson, At Luleå Jan-Feb 2002, Fac. of
Engineering Cecilia Falck and Eva Nyman, At
Monash Feb 2002, Library, Distance Education Sven
Molin, At Monash Feb -June 2002, Fac. of
Engineering Britta Carlsson, At Monash Feb-April
2002, Fac. of Education Kåre Synnes, At Monash
March-May 2002, Fac. of Engineering Angela
Lundberg, At Monash March 2002, Fac. of
Engineering Ainslie Ellis, At Luleå March-April
2002, Fac. of IT
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What has happened 2002 ? (cont.)
Sverker Fredriksson, At Monash March 2002, Fac.
of Engineering and Fac of Science Women Research
School, At Monash March 2002, Many
Faculties Håkan Ekblom, At Monash Late April
2002, Fac of Science Andrew Paplinski, At Luleå
June 2002, Fac of IT Arkady Zavslavsky, At
Shellefteå/Luleå June 2002, Fac of IT Mir-Akbar
Hessami, A Luleå October 2002, Fac. of
Engineering Kim Ng, A Luleå August - December
2002, Fac. of Engineering Amanda Berry,
September-half October 2002, Fac. of Education
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What happens 2002 ? (cont.)
Jerry Szymakowski, At Luleå September-October
2002, Fac. of Engineering Arthur De Bono, At
Luleå September 2002, Fac. Art and Design David
Morgan, At Luleå September-October 2002, Fac. of
Engineering Michael Orr, At Luleå November
2002-January 2003, Fac. of Engineering Kais Hamza
and Eric Chew, At Luleå November 2002, Fac. of
Science Karel Reus from Monash International,
visits Luleå mid November 2002. Lynn Gustafsson,
At Monash Nov-Dec 2002, Art Gallery Lennart
Gustafsson, At Monash Nov-Dec 2002, Fac. of IT
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What happens 2002 ? (cont.)
Dennis Pettersson, Jan Lundberg, Anders Ågren,
Stig Karlsson at Monash late November 2002, Fac.
of Art and Design and Fac. of IT Sven Molin
visits Monash during two weeks November-December
2002.
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Conclusions
Building personal connection between the staff
of the two universities At Monash Kim Ng, Roger
Hadgraft, Stewart Jenvey, Ainslie Ellis, Kaya
Prpic, Lindsay Kleeman, Cristina Varsavski, Anne
Cambrell At Luleå Sven Molin, Åke Wisten,
Lennart and Lynn Gustafsson, Anne Cambrell,
Urban Lundgren, Anita Westerström, Håkan Ekblom,
James Le Blanc ...
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Conclusions (cont.)

• Looking for opportunities to complement each
• others teaching
• Examples
• The EMC Course
• The Antenna Course
• The two subjects given by Monash staff now, in
• Quarter 3 and 4 year 2002 at Luleå

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Conclusions (cont.)
Building joint research programs
Looking for partnerships across the whole
university
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Conclusions (cont.)

• Seeking financial support. This may come from
• governments or industry
• After July 2003 ???
• STINT - exchange in teaching, Visiting
• Scientist, Post Doc.
• Specific Research Projects applies for their
• own financing with Swedish-Australian
• fundings
• EU fundings LTU and Monash shoul go into
• into the European Framework 6
• A new Proposal EC/Australia Pilote Project is
• will be sent in with LTU/Monash as leading
• universities

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Conclusions (cont.)
Seeking financial support. This may come
from governments or industry
STINT New description for Institutional
Grants Look at www.stint.se
FP6 www.cordis.lu/fp6/calls www.cordis.lu.ist