Faculty of Engineering and Science

Welcome to Faculty of Engineering and Science. The Faculty has four departments – Department of Information and Communication Technology, Department of Engineering Sciences, Department of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Natural Sciences – and has 200 employees, including an administrative staff of 25, and approximately 1900 students. The departments of mathematical and natural sciences are located on Campus Kristiansand, and the departments of ICT and engineering sciences on Campus Grimstad.

Here you may find information and news stories from Faculty of Engineering and Science. More information and news stories are to be found on the web pages maintained by the departments, where many of the research groups, such as renewable energy and mechatronics, also publish information about their activities frequently.

As much of the information is given in Norwegian only, we kindly refer you to our Norwegian web pages also, and please do not hesitate to contact our programme coordinators or researchers directly.

Information in Norwegian

Nordic workshop on methods and methodology for research on mathematics textbooks

26/03/2012

Researchers from the Nordic and Baltic countries were gathered at UiA in Kristiansand for three days in February to discuss methods and methodology for research on mathematics textbooks. Professor Barbro Grevholm introduces the workshop below:

Gode jobbmuligheter for studenter som studerer fornybar energi ved Universitetet i Agder

Excellent employment opportunities for renewable energy engineers

27/09/2012

A survey conducted in February 2012 among 55 graduates from the two most recent bachelor classes of the renewable energy programme, gave a response rate of 100%. The submitted data illustrates that 96,4 % has acquired relevant work, or have started their master’s degree.

International seminar on textbook research at UiA

19/10/2011

The TIMSS-study concludes that Norwegian teachers are among the most dependent on use of mathematics textbooks. The teaching is said to be textbooks driven. But still research on textbooks is rare.

The First Sourcebook on Nordic Research in Mathematics Education!

08/12/2010

The First Sourcebook on Nordic Research in Mathematics Education Martin Carlsen, Anne Berit Fuglestad, Simon Goodchild (pictured above) and other members of the mathematics education research group at UiA have made a significant contribution to this recently published volume, which ’provides the first comprehensive and unified treatment of historical and contemporary research trends in mathematics education in the Nordic world’. Also in the picture is Professor Bharath Sriraman (University of Montana) who is general editor of the Sourcebook.