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1978 ISP COMMISSION V INTER-CONGRESS SYMPOSIUM - STOCKHOLM SWEDEN 
  
Monday, August 14 - The Opening Session 2 
  
Rasmuson: Rector, The Royal Institute of Techhology 
On behalf of the Royal Institute of Technology, a warm welcome to this 
Institute and to Stockholm. 
Let me first make some introductory remarks about this Institute. It is 
one of the six Technical Faculties in Sweden. Two of them, one in Gothen- 
burg and one in Stockholm are separate Institutes of Technology. Most of 
the education is organized in four-year periods leading to engineering 
degrees. The Royal Institute here in Stockholm is comprised of nine schools, 
one of these being the School of Surveying. This is the only School of 
Surveying in Sweden. In this School, among other chairs, there is the only 
chair of photogrammetry in Sweden. This School is however, one of the 
smallest. We enroll, altogether, about one thousand new students each year, 
and have a total registration of about six thousand undergraduate students. 
There are about one thousand post graduate students enrolled. These are 
Students who are working for a Doctor's degree. 
The Institute was founded about one hundred and fifty years ago as a school 
for technicians, and started with some twenty-five students per year. And 
SO to-day we have enlarged many times. We were, at that time, the only 
Technical Institute in Sweden, and until the 1930's we were the only govern- 
mental institute with a technical faculty in Sweden. But to-day we have a 
total of six technical faculties taking up to about three thousand five 
hundred new students each year. 
I myself am a Chemical Engineer, and as such I have not very much connection 
with photogrammetry, but it is interesting for me not only to say "welcome 
to this symposium in Stockholm", but also to find out what you are doing at 
the symposium. I tried to read the program. i was somewhat rusty this 
morning, having just returned from summer holidays, and most of the titles 
I didn't understand, but what I did understand was interesting enough. I 
believed that photogrammetry was something to measure the earth and the 
distance to the moon, and so on. But I found out that it was used also in 
building techniques, automobile parts production, and very many other fields, 
and that was most interesting for me because, as the president said before, 
photogrammetry leans more and more toward non-topograchic measurement, and 
thus will give us better tools for production, for control, and so on. 
I understand from the program and from what the president has said, that 
you here will make some considerable effort to introduce new techniques 
into that field, and to find new fields of application of the old techniques. 
I wish you the best of luck in your work. I hope that some of these appli- 
cations will also be in the field of Chemical Engineering, so I might feel 
that I have some use of it too. I am quite convinced that you will have a 
very interesting program, and I end by once again warmly welcoming you to 
Stockholm, to Sweden, to this Institute and to this Symposium. 
Thank you very much.