Dean Eskild Holm Nielsen wishes all staff and students at Tech a wonderful summer, and takes stock of his first six months as dean, which have been strongly influenced by corona, working at a distance and the proposed new organisation of the engineering area. An exciting and eventful autumn lies ahead after the holiday, and strategy work will be a dominant area.

Finn Borchsenius has been the vice-dean for education of both the new faculties since 1 January, and he has decided to continue as the vice-dean for education at the Faculty of Technical Sciences from 2021.

The departments in Administration Centre Nat-Tech will be closed for summer holiday or have limited staffing for most of the month of July.

The consultation proposal for the proposed new organisation of the engineering area has now been sent out. The consultation process runs until 1 September, after which the consultation responses will be included in the basis for the final decision. There will be a parallel process involving the employees in the engineering area.

The dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences is proposing a new organisation, with four new departments, to consolidate and strengthen the engineering area at AU around core disciplines and to raise engineering to the highest international level. The consultation process for the new organisation will commence before the summer holidays.

As a result of the faculty division, the faculty of Technical Sciences now has its own graduate school, the Graduate School of Technical Sciences (GSTS), and the new graduate school has launched a new website.

Many employees are now returning to labs and offices at Tech. However, there are new precautions and guidelines to follow so that we avoid corona infection.