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. Between 2002 and 2014 he was chairman of the Program Board for education programs in Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics at Linköping University, including the engineering program in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, which was one of the four original collaborating programs of the CDIO Initiative. Since 2015 he acts part time as CDIO coordinator within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Linköping University. In 2006 he was chairman of the organizing committee for the 2nd International CDIO Conference, which was arranged at Linköping University.