Innovation and group dynamics in focus on the SIMS course

- The students work together as an engineering firm that receives an assignment from a company. Here it is about training collaboration skills and working with other professions to solve a need that a client has, says Magnus Eriksson, coordinating teacher who works together with several others to supervise the students during the course Student Innovation Mid Sweden.

Before each course, companies can report an innovation need and present it to the students, who then choose which challenge they want to work with. Together, they then develop a solution that can be a product, service or prototype that is presented at the end of the course.

- This is a course that the students really appreciate. You feel that what you do is useful. It often also leads to degree projects for students and even employment, says Magnus Eriksson.

Once the project work is completed and presented, companies can buy the innovation the students have developed and take it further in their business. One of the most famous results from a SIMS-project was a prototype for SOS-Alarm's app.

These days, it is time for the students to present their work in connection with the student association Mytec's annual event, Mytec Day.  

Read more about the Mytec Day and the program

The projects presented

• Bracke Forest: Multifunctional Joystick Control Grip
• Ski-bee Innovation: Shooting range 3.0 –  Biathlon score counter
• Knightec: Office Robot
• Knowit: Smart summary
• Bolagsverket: GPU ComputePWR as a shared resource
• The Swedish Digitalisation Agency: The trust model
• SSG: Standard AI support
• SSG: DEVANA –  A Deviations in Information Analysis Tool
• Pleasurable Learning: Gamification in school teaching
• Swedish Social Insurance Agency IT: AI based recruitment support