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Towards the end of high school, Johanna dreamed of becoming a journalist. Unfortunately, Johanna was not accepted to journalism studies at that time. During the gap year, Johanna took sociology courses at a folk high school. This sparked the interest,…

Iida-Maria’s journey with FITech studies began in 2021 when she was looking for activities and flexible studies during her maternity leave. Her first encounter with FITech was through a one-credit course Jatkuvan oppimisen johtaminen. The flexibility of self-paced online studies…

When the Microservice architectures and serverless computing course on software architecture started at Aalto University, the first question the teacher asked the students was: “Why did you come to this course when this information is openly available online?” One might…

When Sini Syvänen was a university student in electrical engineering a decade ago, energy transition wasn’t a topic that got a lot of mentions in her studies. The whole concept was still new and the development of renewable energy sources…

Learning new things can be considered a way of life. Marika Leed is a living proof of this and could also be called a ‘life-long student’. She holds not only university degrees but also lots of other expertise gathered on…

“I am Marko Väätänen, an entrepreneur from Jyväskylä. I graduated as a Master of Science in Energy Technology in 1999 from Lappeenranta University of Technology. Since my graduation, instead of energy technology I have worked in the information technology services…

About a year ago, Heini Ailio found data analytics and since then it has been clear to her that her future dream job is Data Scientist. The topic had come up during her previous studies but now it felt more…

Even though Anne Rahkonen has completed a lot of studies during her life, she still has a passion to learn new things. Rahkonen, whose background is in neurobiology, decided to update her knowledge on a minor called Commercialization of medical…

The topic and contents of the Service design course are interesting and what I imagined they would be. The different modules build up the expertise and you can put everything you learned to practice in the group work.

The course Machine Learning with Python gave me a good overall picture of machine learning. I enjoyed that I got to do things myself on the course. Because of that, I now have a better understanding what machine learning is…

I graduated as a naval construction engineer and completed my master’s studies in marine technology at Aalto University. FITech improves study opportunities in Turku and works really well for students like myself.