Trond Andresen - Control Engineer, University Teacher, Public Debater
Trond Andresen has a Master's degree (1973) in control engineering from The Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim, Norway (in 1996 renamed The Norwegian University of Science and Technology [NUST]), and is a lecturer there since 1982 (tenure since 1984) covering the topics control engineering, discrete control, signals and systems theory, stochastic processes.
In the period 1973 - 1980, he held several occupations, among them research assistant at the university, and electrician in a shipbuilding plant.
He led a hybrid vehicle demonstration project 1990 - 1991 (funded by SINTEF, see below), where a Renault Espace was equipped with a parallel hybrid drive system, with compressed natural-gas as fuel for the combustion engine and battery power for the electric motor. He has written and lectured on the topic of electric vehicles on several occasions. Today he guides student projects involving the Norwegian-produced electric vehicle "Think".
He has also lectured and written on diverse topics like application of systems theory to society, national industrial policy, commercial vs public service media, modern means of traffic reduction in cities, long-term future scenarios, alternative trade and industrial policy. An important research interest for him is modeling of social, political and economic processes with tools from control and systems theory. He is especially interested in the dynamics of finance, money and debt.
He was in 1999 - 2001 an elected academic representative on the board of the NUST.
In 2006 he received the 'SINTEF' prize for excellence in teaching. (The prize is awarded anually to one of the approximately 1500 teachers at the NUST. SINTEF, with 2000 employeees, is Scandinavia's largest technological research establishment, and is co-located and cooperates with the NUST.)
Beside his academic occupation he is also a journalist. He was the founder, and also free-time editor/reporter from 1982 to 1996, of a non-commercial FM radio station in the city of Trondheim (approx. 150 000 inhabitants). He has also free-lanced in-between as a radio reporter for the NRK (the public service Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) in the areas news/current affairs, science, technology, economy, politics. Trond is fairly well versed in microphones, acoustics, recording and editing (technology), and gave courses on these topics during his radio period.
He has used most of his life (besides university work) for political activism and journalism, writing in and for (mostly Norwegian) journals and newspapers, doing radio programs or being interviewed, debating in different societies, and since 1992 also writing and debating on the Internet. He also runs some net forums.
Trond is married for the second time. He has two adult daughters from the first marriage, and two small boys from the second (born in 2002 and 2005).
He is enjoys bicycling, but on recumbent bicycles. He has two of those (of the German make HP Velotechnik).
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Trond Andresen is an assistant professor specializing in Control Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Trond pedaling his Velotechnik recumbent along the river Nid in Trondheim, Norway.
Trond with his two young sons.Trond recently arranged a successful video conference between interested parties at his University and SkyTran principals, Doug Malewicki & Chris Perkins. The interactive lecture used Skype with the Festoon Inc. plug-in,
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