Professional activities at HiVe

Professional activities at HiVe have been developed with a focus on the design, manufacture, construction, characterisation and testing of microsystems. The university college uses the European Commission’s definition of a microsystem, i.e. an “intelligent” miniaturised system that includes sensors, electronic signal processing and/or actuator functions. In a microsystem, two or more electrical, mechanical, optical, chemical, biological, magnetic functions or other properties are combined in a miniaturised module. Activities are more focused on the sensor, actuator and energy section of a microsystem than the intelligent part, in the form of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), as microelectronics/nanoelectronics feature heavily in offers at NTNU, IFI and, UiO.

In recent years the concepts of micro and nano have come much closer to each other, and the university college also uses nanotechnology to a greater extent in its activities. HiVe is the only university college in the country that is included in the Research Council of Norway’s new “National Strategy for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” plan.