Study university: Aalto-yliopisto
Online writing skills for engineers
This course introduces written communication and readability principles applicable to professional and academic purposes. During this online-based course, students independently view instructional videos, read course materials and complete online exercises. Course contents General principles of communication: audience, purpose and form The given-new principle The light-before-heavy principle Style and word choice Use of active verbs Use…
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 for anyone interested in the topic via FITech. Read more…
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,…
Control of electric drives and power converters
This course deals with control methods for electric machine drives and grid-connected converters. Some key applications are introduced. Selected control concepts are introduced using an induction motor, interior permanent-magnet motor, and synchronous reluctance motor as example machines. Using analogies to machine drives, control of grid-following and grid-forming converters are also covered. Course contents Learning outcomes…
5G technologies and services for business and entrepreneurs
Max amount of FITech students: 35 adult learners Come to learn basic concepts and terms used for analysis of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance and identify new entrepreneurial business ideas enabled by 5G technologies. Course contents The content of this course is divided into four different units, whose contents are expanded as follows: • Unit 1:…