Bjørn Sortland

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology

The alarming rates of climate change and of biodiversity loss call for a more targeted approach in higher education to deal with these issues. An important part of this complex puzzle is equipping students with competencies—knowledge, skills, and values—that will engage and empower them to contribute to sustainable development. This chapter uses a...

The Teamwork Indicator (TWI) inventory for students monitors group development and can serve as a feedback tool in project work, active learning, and teams to improve the educational outcome. TWI consists of 20 items, it is simple and easy to use, and the inventory gauges changes over time in four central group dimensions: management, social collab...

Eksperter i team (EiT) er et obligatorisk emne på 7,5 SP for alle studenter på høyere grad ved NTNU. Om lag 2000 studenter tar EiT hvert år. Emnets mål er å lære studentene å samarbeide i tverrfaglige team. EiT er erfaringsbasert, og refleksjon over de samarbeidssituasjoner som oppstår underveis er sentralt i emnet, se: www.ntnu.no/eit EiT bidrar t...

Author Posting. © Oceanography Society, 2007. This article is posted here by permission of Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 20, 4 (2007): 140-149. In deep water, below the photic zone, still and video imaging of the seabed requires artificial lighting. Light absorpti...

Experts in team (EiT) is a multidisciplinary course which has been run each year since 2001. At the time of writing (2005) there are 1200 students taking the course. The pedagogical framework, which has been designed, implemented and it is run by a multi disciplinary team of teachers and assistants can be understood by help of some fundamental theo...

The Trondheim Fjord is characterized by a high degree of stratification, considerable density variations and freshwater fronts important to the vertical mixing of freshwater and nourishments, and thus significant to the fjord system. These conditions are modelled in a numerical model. Two AUV surveys were conducted in the Trondheim Fjord, Norway in...

Experts-in-Team (EiT) is a new scheme of teaching students engineering. The objective of the scheme is to train students for a future participation in interdisciplinary teams. This is accomplished by project work in teams of four students of which each member has a background in a distinct discipline and where the professor has a role of facilitato...

This paper describes the background, idea, objectives and preliminary outcome of a programme aimed at coordinating the efforts of established research institutions working within marine engineering, marine mathematical modelling and marine biological science at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway. The programme, MODTEQ (MOdel based Development and Testing of...

Experts-in-Team (EiT) is a new scheme of teaching students engineering. The objective of the scheme is to train students for a future participation in interdisciplinary teams. This is accomplished by project work in teams of four students of which each member has a background in a distinct discipline and where the professor has a role of facilitato...

At the Oceans'95 conference the authors presented a paper entitled “Applications of remotely controlled equipment in Norwegian marine archaeology”. That paper discussed the use of remotely controlled equipment in Norwegian marine archaeology, and more specifically a project that studies the wreck of a Russian navy ship which sank in 1760 off the co...

Since early 1993 the Department of Marine Systems Design and the Department of Archaeology at the University of Trondheim, Norway has worked together on a joint project examining the use of modern technology in marine (underwater) archaeological research. The project seeks to exploit the use of remotely operated vehicles, computer technology and sp...

This paper presents a comparison between a numerical method and experiments for the forces on smooth circular cylinders in planar oscillatory flow of small amplitude. The numerical method is based on the vortex-in-cell method where the vorticity in the flow is represented by a large number of discrete vortices. Calculated time series of both in-lin...

This paper discusses how to obtain eddymaking damping coefficients for slow drift oscillations of a moored ship in irregular waves. By deriving a simple expression for the standard deviations of the motions it is shown that it is not necessary to have great accuracy in predicting the damping coefficients. A single vortex method has been derived and...

A submerged two-dimensional rectangle in calm water with infinite depth is studied. A linear theory is developed to provide a relatively simple explanation of the occurrence of negative added mass for submerged bodies. The vertical hydrodynamic force is associated only with the flow in the shallow region, and the resulting pressure which acts on th...

Multidisciplinary project work is implemented as a new concept of teaching with the objective to prepare University students for work life. This is accomplished by project work in teams of five students of which each member has a background in a distinct discipline. The learning experience of each individual student is based on the collaboration in...