Chalmers' new and advanced learning environment, named Fuse, is now officially open. It is a unique meeting place for learning and collaborations across borders with a modern machine park to test and realize ideas.
The environment is part of the Tracks education model, which is Chalmers' biggest investment in the education of all time. With the help of funds from the Chalmers foundation, this unique investment in modern learning and learning environments will meet both the needs of society and the wishes of the students. Today's engineers do not only need deep knowledge in their respective subjects. They must also be able to work in cross-disciplinary teams and understand ethics, communication, and entrepreneurship.
Tracks is therefore based on challenge-driven courses or projects where students from different educations work together with teachers, researchers, social actors, and industry to understand and solve complex societal challenges or develop, build, test, and realize new processes, products, and systems. Everything to gain cross-border and attractive skills and in close cooperation with the surrounding society.
Thus, the learning environment Chalmers Fuse becomes partly the physical location for the Track courses, but also a meeting place for all students at Chalmers, where they can meet and collaborate.
A unique investment
Chalmers Fuse can be compared to an advanced makerspace – a large high-tech workshop – which consists of various smaller workshops and labs with a focus on textiles, physiology, rapid prototyping, and metalworking, as well as studios for sound, film, and VR. At Fuse, there are also many study places and group rooms that students can book. The focus is on a meeting place where education, research, industry, and society complement each other.
“The future is created through curiosity and a desire to discover. It is by thinking new, trying, adjusting, and improving that we can solve the great challenges that our world is facing. Fuse is exactly the creative hub for collaborations, learning, and knowledge transfer between people and disciplines that Chalmers and the engineers of the future need”, says Stefan Bengtsson, President at Chalmers.
The afternoon's moderator was Associate Professor Cecilia Berlin, and during the ceremony Chalmers Foundation CEO Martin Nilsson Jacobi spoke, as did President Stefan Bengtsson, Vice President Anna Karlsson-Bengtsson, and Student Union President Isac Stark. Tracks leader Mikael Enelund talked about the journey of Tracks and The Music Engineering track course demonstrated their instruments. After the ceremony, cake and bubbly were served and those who wanted could also join a guided tour through Fuse to take a closer look at the state-of-the-art workshops.
Chalmers Fuse is located in the SB3 building and the main entrance is reached via Sven Hultins gata 8.