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Dual-use technologies
Is the dual-use of civilian products for defense purposes good or bad? Who can become a supplier to the defense industry? Is research funding available from the defense sector? Welcome to the studia generalia seminar series led by Research Director Tatu Koljonen, which is open anyone interested in the topic via FITech. Read more about…
Energy storage for sustainable buildings and districts
Sustainable energy transition requires integration of major technological changes in renewable energy production, energy storage for resilience and demand-side energy savings. The buildings sector is responsible for about one-third of global energy use and energy-related CO2 emissions. With the rising deployment of renewables, energy storage plays a critical role for shedding and shifting building loads…
Wood products and processes
Max amount of FITech students: 200 Persons without a valid study right at a Finnish university or university of applied sciences have preference to this course. The course presents the most relevant wood-based products, their production processes, properties and typical applications. Course contents This course presents the production processes and structures of widely used engineered…
Forests, wood and carbon
Max amount of FITech students: 200 Persons without a valid study right at a Finnish university or university of applied sciences have preference to this course. The course presents the role of wood and forests in the carbon cycle. Basic properties of wood material are covered, as well as processing from forest to different applications.…
Applied mechanics of wood materials
Max amount of FITech students: 200 Persons without a valid study right at a Finnish university or university of applied sciences have preference to this course. Course contents This course covers the basic principles of wood mechanics and the use of wood and wood-based products from the perspective of mechanical behavior. A fundamental overview of…
Wood material science
Max amount of FITech students: 200 Persons without a valid study right at a Finnish university or university of applied sciences have preference to this course. The course dives into the material science of wood, covering topics such as structure and anatomy, wood formation and wood and water interactions. Students will learn how the macroscopic…
Software engineering with large language models
Familiarise yourself with the principles for training and fine-tuning large language models for software engineering tasks. Utilise large language models to assist in program development. Build applications that interact with large language models. Course contents Producing code with large language models, software engineering and software development life cycle, constructing programs with large language models, quality…
Introduction to large language models
This is an introductory course to large language models and after completing the course the student will understand the key principles underlying the large language models and can also engineer prompts to improve output quality. No prior knowledge is needed to complete the course. Course contents Language models, large language models, prompting and prompt engineering,…
Data and decision making
Max amount of FITech students: 10 adult learners The course gives an overview of data-based decision making in an organisational and network driven context, addressing key organisational functions, stakeholders, resources and transactions. An overview of the key smart city processes and support systems is given, from the viewpoint of data-driven planning, execution and improvement for…
Signal processing and time-series analysis
Max amount of FITech students: 20 Persons without a valid study right at a Finnish university or university of applied sciences have preference to this course. Course contents The course covers both traditional signal processing and modern machine learning-based time series analysis. Learning outcomes After the course the students The course also introduces the application…