Department of Business Development and Technology (or BTECH for short) is a university department centre for research and higher education under

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, located in

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, Denmark. BTECH's focus is on education excellence and offers six

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and two graduate study programmes as well as a number of part-time studies all within the fields of engineering, business economics, management and communication and multimedia. The department has seen some heavy administrational re-organisations in the last decade or so.

Organisation, research and study programmes

Department of Business Development and Technology is a department under Aarhus BSS, itself one of four academic departments of Aarhus University. Since 2012, BTECH has also been affiliated with

AU Engineering AU Engineering (Danish: Ingeniørområdet ved Aarhus Universitet) is an umbrella organisation of engineering under Aarhus University. It was established in 2011 and AU Engineering is anchored in four departments: Department of Civil and Architectura ...

, an organisation at Aarhus University focussing on engineering. Apart from the educational activities, BTECH is home to a number of externally funded knowledge and research centres, including one Nordic Centre of Excellence. Research is anchored with four professorships and includes innovation and business development, entrepreneurship, energy technologies, IT development,

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and the wind energy industry. BTECH has about 1,800 students (about sixty percent are full-time students and the rest are part-time students). Approximately 15% come from other countries than Denmark. Around 125 full-time employees, including technical and administrative personnel. Additionally, BTECH employs 100 part-time teachers. BTECH’s study programmes are based on interaction across

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as well as close interaction with students and the surrounding business community. However, BTECH is also developing distance- and

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to provide educational opportunities in evolving markets. Furthermore, all study programmes have an innovative and international perspective. For example, approximately 40% of the students spend at least six months of their studies at a foreign engineering college, university or company.

Degree courses at BTECH

The following

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and

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courses are offered in 2014: * Bachelor of Science in Economics and Business Administration (HA int.)- taught in Danish * Bachelor of Science in Economics and Business Administration (HA) - taught in English * Bachelor of Engineering in Business Development - taught in Danish * Bachelor of Engineering in Global Management and Manufacturing (GMM) - taught in English * Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering (EDE) - taught in Danish * Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Energy Technology - taught in Danish * Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering - taught in Danish * Bachelor of Science in Business Development Engineering (BDE)- taught in Danish * Master of Science in Marketing and Business Innovation (cand.merc) - taught in English * Master of Science in Engineering in Technology Based Business Development (cand.polyt) - taught in English

History

BTECH was founded in 1995 as a merger between Engineering School Vestjysk Teknikum and the Business School Midtjysk Handelshøjskolecenter under the name Handels- og IngeniørHøjskolen (HIH), in English - Herning Institute of Business Administration and Technology (HIBAT). A new residence, designed by famous Danish architect

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, was erected at Birk Centerpark 15 in Herning. When, by January 1, 2006, HIBAT merged with Aarhus University, the name was changed to Aarhus Universitet, Handels- og IngeniørHøjskolen (AU-HIH) (in English: Aarhus University, Institute of Business and Technology (AU-IBT)). June 1, 2011, AU-IBT was changed - this time to AU Herning - a centre of the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences (Aarhus BSS) at Aarhus University. In January 2012 the engineering organisation of

at Aarhus University also became involved with the engineering educations in Herning and AU Herning changed name to Department of Business Development and Technology (BTECH).

References

External links

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Aarhus University website

Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences website

AU Engineering
Aarhus University AU Engineering Herning