Morten Dam Rasmussen began his career as a child on his grandparents’ farm. Today, he can look back on years of work researching milking techniques and the health of dairy cattle - work that has had a huge impact on the development of modern milking technology.

The curve is only heading in one direction for engineering at Aarhus University. In just two years, total revenue has more than doubled, external grants have increased by 17 per cent, and the number of engineering students has grown to more than 4000.

Engineers are in demand like never before. Anyone attending the internship days P-day at Katrinebjerg and Praktik Match at Navitas will know. The events attract more than 130 companies hoping to recruit engineers from Aarhus University. According to the companies, engineers are the bread and butter of their growth.

A new research and development project will bring together the entire value chain in the Danish construction sector to explore the huge, unreleased potential of reusing in new buildings old, prefabricated concrete elements from existing buildings that are to be demolished.

Exceptionally promising. This is how an Arctic top researcher describes a probe that three engineer students have developed during a bachelor's project in collaboration with the Department of Mechanics and Production and the Department of Biology at Aarhus University. In autumn 2021, the probe passed the ultimate test under extreme Arctic conditions.

Aarhus University would like to congratulate all the newly graduated MSc and BSc in engineering students.

Students and employees at Aarhus University will have the opportunity to invest in solar cells fitted on the rooftops of the university’s buildings. The project is part of an EU-funded project to enable citizens to take an active part in the green transition.

A new research project will use renewable energy from local, privately owned wind turbines to improve the efficiency of Danish biogas production at large scale. The target is a 100 per cent green gas grid.

For the first time, we can now tell the difference between a wide range of plastic types and thereby separate plastics according to their chemical composition. This is absolutely ground-breaking and it will increase the rate of recycling of plastics immensely. The technology has already been tested at pilot scale and it will be implemented at an industrial scale in spring 2022.

A new research project aims to develop a photocatalytic process that can transform the hard-to-degrade and harmful environmental toxins PFAS into harmless substances. This, however, is only the first step for the research group behind the new tech in a journey towards a world without environmental toxins.