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Department of Electrical Engineering, IT and Cybernetics

The Department of Electrical Engineering, IT and Cybernetics is located on the Porsgrunn campus. The campus is surrounded by a wide variety of businesses, providing exciting career opportunities in an international environment.

Are you interested in:

  • automation?
  • electrical power engineering?
  • digitalisation?
  • welfare technology?
  • renewable energy?
  • autonomy in the process industry?

Then you should get in touch with us.

Study programme

The “A-veg” is a study programme for applicants with Higher Education Entrance Qualification + R1/R2 mathematics and physics, or a preliminary course or tertiary vocational education. The “Y-veg” is a study programme for applicants with relevant craft certificates as a background.  

Bachelor of Engineering

Master’s Studies

Research

We have major research activity and aim for our research to be relevant and applied regionally, nationally and internationally.

Students can take part in several research projects, and results from the research are used actively in teaching.

The Department has several research groups:

Here is a list of employees’ publications in Cristin.

Joint projects

  • Consortium participant in FME, HydroCen, 2016-2023
  • Sub-project 2 in Autostrip, FORREGION, 2018-2023
  • Sensors and models for improved kick/loss detection in drilling, Semi-kidd, Statoil ASA
  • High Efficiency Fertilizer TechnologY, HEFTY, Yara
  • Entrepreneurship for NAV-Telemark