Professor emeritus Pentti Minkkinen, Lappeenranta University of Technology, has accepted a position as a collaborating member of ACABS from 2008.

He will work at AAU, campus Esbjerg for a period of two months every semester (March-April; October-November). Intense R&D on both theoretical and applied TOS is on the agenda. Professors Esbensen & Minkkinen are working on a joint textbook: Representative Sampling — in Science, Technology and Industry, planned for publication in 2010.