Tor John Rødsås

• Qualification of a welding procedure specification on stainless steel using a collaborative robot (COBOT)
• Qualification of welding procedure specification using a robot
• Detection of large car body repairs using advanced non-destructive examination (NDE)
• Welding equipment and robot/COBOT integration

Course responsible lecturer:

- BYG407 Welding processes and equipment

- BYG408 Materials' behaviour during welding

- BYG409 Construction and design

- BYG410 Fabrication and applications engineering

- BYG411 IWE Project assignment

- MAS135 Basic Materials Science

Contributing lecturer:

- PED996 Recent research in the construction industry

- BYG503 Construction materials

- MAS235 Machine elements

- ENE237 Materials and corrosion

2012-2014 Equinor, Quality and Risk Manager Lead, Pipeline and Marine Operations

2006-2012 National Oilwell Varco, Technical Project Manager

2000-2006 Advanced Production and Loading, Senior Engineer, Subcontracting and Fabrication

Earlier: Aker Maritime, Norwegian Maritime Authority, Kværner Engineering, Norwegian Contractors, Aker Stord, Det norske Veritas

• Fabrication friendly design og construction
• Welding troubleshooting
• Damage/accident investigations
• Fracture mechanics, fatigue and corrosion

• Use of welding robot/COBOT in the welding engineer courses 

Past projects:

• Transfer of exercises for the International Welding Engineer courses (IWE) to an online platform
• Updating of UiA textbooks for the IWE-course with the purpose of publishing a second edition