 The institute was also plagued by conflicts between the faculty and the founder and head of the institute, Gustaf Magnus Schwartz, who was responsible for the artisanal focus of the institute.A government committee was appointed in 1844 to solve the issues, which led to removing Schwartz in 1845.Instead, Joachim Åkerman, the head of the School of Mining in Falun and a former professor of chemistry at KTH, took over.