BTH ME310 Global Engineering Innovation

26/02/2026

Site visit at the local quarry.

18/12/2025

And we’re off! Today, we launched this year’s global innovation engineering project. This year, we will work on Construction Equipment innovation together with Volvo CE and the University of São Paulo. 🇧🇷🇸🇪🚜

31/10/2025

🎯 Hackathon Invitation – Volvo CE Global Innovation Challenge
📅 Date: November 6
🕓 Time: 16:00
📍 Location: BTH Campus Gräsvik
👉 Sign up now and be part of the future: https://forms.office.com/e/KfyPrU35n3

Are you ready to shape the future of construction? 🌍 Join us for an exciting hackathon where you’ll dive into a global innovation project with Volvo Construction Equipment and the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

🔍 Challenge:
How might we leverage emerging technologies to envision and simulate future construction practices to enable informed decision-making?

🚀 Who we’re looking for:
Master’s students in:
* Mechanical Engineering
* Marine Engineering
* Industrial Management Engineering
* Software Engineering
*Computer Science
*AI/Machine Learning
*Signal Processing

💡 Project Focus:
Explore how technologies like AI, sensor networks, and external data streams can help simulate future industrial scenarios. You’ll challenge assumptions, investigate possibilities, and co-create tools for strategic innovation in complex environments.
Don’t miss this chance to collaborate, innovate, and make an impact! 🌟

02/07/2025

Wrapping Up with Impact: SUGAR Student Team Presents “Volvo Jack” in San Francisco
As the academic year draws to a close, we are proud to wrap up another successful run of the SUGAR Global Engineering Innovation Project, this year in close collaboration with the University of São Paulo (USP) and Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE).
https://www.productdevelopment.se/wrapping-up-with-impact-sugar-student-team-presents-volvo-jack-in-san-francisco/

Volvo Construction Equipment BTH - Blekinge Tekniska Högskola

17/03/2025

[In Swedish] About our now 13-year-and-running collaboration with Volvo CE and Stanford/USP in the Global Engineering Innovation initiative:
https://www.bth.se/artiklar/utbildningsomraden/ingenjorsutbildningar/mer-an-ett-decennium-av-innovation-bth-och-volvo-formar-framtidens-teknik/

I 13 år har utbildningarna inom maskinteknik på BTH samarbetat med bland annat Volvo, Stanford University och University of São Paulo. Samarbetena har formen av projekt, där studenter tar sig an några av industrins största utmaningar. Genom verkliga case från Volvo Group har BTH:s ingenjörss...

14/03/2025

13/03/2025

Today were visiting our liaison Volvo CE in Curitiba for presentations and construction equipment experience.

12/03/2025

We have arrived in São Paulo together with the team from TCD. Looking forward to exciting collaboration and meetings over the next 10 days.

28/02/2025

Bridging Continents: The Volvo CE Sugar Project Team Meets in Karlskrona

In January, the PDRL at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) had the pleasure of welcoming our colleagues from the University of São Paulo (USP) for the first colocated meeting of this year’s Sugar project. This initiative brings together students worldwide to collaborate on real-world design challenges, and this year’s team is already off to an exciting start!

https://www.productdevelopment.se/bridging-continents-the-volvo-ce-sugar-project-team-meets-in-karlskrona/

05/02/2025

🚀 Exciting times at BTH! Last week, we hosted our friends from USP for the first colocated meeting of this year’s Sugar project! 🎉

A full week of planning, site visits, prototyping, and team building set the stage for an exciting journey of innovation and collaboration that will now continue in a distributed setting until we visit Brazil later in the year.

Looking forward to pushing boundaries and creating impact together! 💡✨

Stay tuned for more updates!

18/12/2024

The first BTH Sugar student project was finalized. The project was conducted in collaboration with the University of Saõ Paulo (USP) and Volvo Construction Equipment.

Innovative Student Collaboration Develops Solution for Volvo Construction Equipment Post by: Christian Johansson 10th June 2024 No Comment Seven students from the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) in Sweden and the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have developed a solution for Volvo Con...