A special thank you to all external companies which submitted BSc and MSc Mechatronics thesis proposals at UiA for the spring semester 2017. The SFI Partners submitted in total 15 project proposals distributed as follows: ABB (6), MacGregor (4), Teknova (3), NOV (1) and MHWirth (1). The projects will be assigned students and supervisors by November 14 and after that they can start. Submission of final reports will be in May 2017.