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“In our automation labs, engineering students can test their simulations of a convoy of driverless vehicles, while the industry can test what automation can do for them,” says Niclas Björsell, reader in electronics at University of Gävle.
While many other higher education institutions are moving more and more towards mere simulations, University of Gävle has chosen a different path. Here, engineering programmes contain many laboratory elements. This is a conscious choice made partly because the University is strong in measurement technology and partly because there is a demand for testing simulations against reality.
“We are keeping our labs and we are almost the only ones in Sweden doing that. Our labs are fantastic resources both when it comes to education and to demonstrate industrial applications,” Niclas Björsell says.
Increased global co-operation makes it vital to understand the processes of managing intercultural relations.
First book on intercultural politeness takes a theoretical and practical approach to exploring how people build and maintain good relationships across boundaries
Real-life examples illustrate how people evaluate and make judgements of others, and what strategies are deployed for managing relations, especially after an offence or disagreement.
In communicating we draw on our own personal expectations and behavioural patterns which, if they differ significantly from those of others, can lead to misunderstandings or disappointments.
In a new book launched this week, Professor Helen Spencer-Oatey of the University of Warwick Department of Applied Linguistics and her co-author Professor Dániel Z. Kádár of the Hungarian Research Institute for Linguistics (NYTI) explore how people relate across cultural boundaries, a topic which is increasingly important in our interconnected