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Newsmail #4, 2021-09-27

Dear all,

We met with the entire department on June 23 this year. I informed then about a number of ongoing and upcoming activities. Most of these are now running full speed. I will try to keep you informed continuously, and here is a quick status update on a number of activities.

  1. Office spaces

The office space project aims at investigating our future needs, post-pandemic, and to handle the changes to our organization resulting from the closure of the internal combustion unit and lab, future integration of ITRL etc. This Wednesday, the management group will get a presentation from the interior design consultants with their findings so far. Mid-October we expect to have a final report from the consultants, with suggestions on how to proceed. We will then make sure that we analyze and discuss these suggestions thoroughly at entire MMK before committing to any changes.

  1. Lab spaces

The internal combustion lab will be closed end of this year and the facilities will be immediately changed into a space for our prototyping center. The existing prototyping center spaces will be transferred into HK-rooms, due to our leaving of the HK-corridor on Dec 31. A lot of equipment from the ICE lab has already been shipped away, with more to come.

  1. Internal combustion unit

The unit closes end of October this year. Most staff will transfer to the Mechatronics unit. Two staff members leaves us now end of September (this week): Anders Christiansen Erlandssen and Christer Löfgren. Both Anders and Christer leaves for new positions elsewhere. I want to take the opportunity to thank them now and wish both of them luck in their future careers. We intend to have a proper thank-you ceremony in December, more info to come. The staff that stays will transfer physically as well to the 4th floor of the MMK building during this fall.

  1. Workshop and prototyping center

As Staffan Q left us last week, I want to emphasize that all workshop activities should be coordinated by our new manager: Anton Boström. Anton is still very busy with the closing of the ICE lab and we will need to expect that the workshop is not staffed as it has been previously.

I will continue in my next newsmail with updates from other areas.

Best,

Martin