Svante Gunnarsson is professor in Automatic Control at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden. His main research interests are modeling, system identification and control of industrial robots. He is also chairman of the Program Board for education programs in Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics at Linköping University, including the engineering program is Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, which is one of the four original collaborating programs of the CDIO Initiative.