Arvid Andersen
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J. Arvid Andersen earned his BSc in mechanical engineering in 1961 from Odense Technical Institute in Denmark. In 1996 he received a research degree i.e. MPhil/PhD in Turbomachinery and Engineering Mechanics from Cranfield University in the UK. In 2003 he was bestowed an honorary academic award by Technical University in Lodz, Poland for his work and assistance to International Faculty of Engineering.

He has worked for 17 years in industries in Switzerland, USA and Denmark. In Switzerland from 1962-1963 he worked as a design engineer for +GF+ in machine design. During two years 1964 and 1965 in the US he designed vibration isolators and test fixtures and participated in vibration testing at CAL/VAL Research and Development Corporation in Los Angeles. He also worked with designing and testing of vibration isolators and test fixtures at Vibration Isolation Products in Burbank, California. For a short period he was employed at Western Gear Corporation in Lynwood California doing vibration analysis on gearboxes and on landing gears.

Back in Denmark from 1966-1978, he worked for H+H Industry, SKAKO and KVM designing and developing industrial vibration machinery such as electromagnetic and mechanical vibration generators, vibrating screens, feeders and vibration conveyors. Further designing complete processing plants for crushing and screening of aggregates in quarries and gravel pits furthered his experience.

Arvid has 26 years of experience (1978-2004) developing and presenting training courses. He has been associate professor of mechanical engineering at engineering colleges and universities in Denmark, lecturing in machine elements, in strength analysis and in systematic innovation and engineering product design, mechanical vibration theory and applications. He has written three books: 1. Introduktion til mekaniske svingninger (1987) 2. Dimensionering af vibrations og stødisolering (1992) and 3. Konstruktion af maskiner til transport og vibration (1992).

From 1997 – 2005 he directed the European Project Semester (EPS) at Copenhagen University College of Engineering. He had invented and implemented the EPS semester in 1995. This semester course is concerned with interdisciplinary and cross-cultural teamwork. EPS has since developed to become a trademark and has spread to several universities throughout Europe. He has published papers in many magazines and he has participated in and contributed papers to both national and international symposiums and conferences under SEFI, ASEE and EPS seminars.

His substantial application expertise and experience has been useful in many instances to public authorities, private companies and to universities in Europe and in the United States. Partially retired, he stays involved in a number of international university based projects. He serves as an active member of the SEFI Socrates Erasmus Thematic Network project group SIG B3. This project is called TREE (Teaching and Research in Engineering Education in Europe). His technical societies include

SEFI: European Society for Engineering Education
ASEE: American Society for Engineering Education
EPS: European Project Semester at Copenhagen University College of Engineering.