Industrial Management In Turku Finland

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    1. Industrial management engineering
      • Finland is a nation with 5 million people between Sweden and Russia
      • South western Finland
        • Strong machine building industry and tradition
        • Export 70 % of the total production
        • The relative role of the manufacturing metal and electronic products highest in Finland
      • In Finland the universities are divided to scientific and applying universities
        • We are Turku University of applied sciences
        • Our main task is to educate good engineers for the industry
        • We have a 150 years tradition to do it
        • The most important companies participate in developing the education
      • What our partners ask for is
        • Good guys who get the things to roll
    2. Pressure of change
      • Most of the work is done in projects
        • Increasing need for team work skills
        • Need for entrepreneur attitude
      • International working environment
        • Bad English is the language of business
        • Traditionally Finnish engineers are poor in writing
        • And don't speak
      • Sales and purchasing are mainly done by engineers with poor business skills
    3. Most of the studies is also done in projects
      • Most studies are done and tutored in groups of five students
      • The groups are formed during the first week of the studies
      • Team work and interaction skills are studies are started with a two day and night intensive exercise during the second week of studies
      • The groups are kept unchanged during the first year and the basic team work skills are learned in the safe own group
      • The work tasks are given to the teams which are responsible for the scheduling and reporting of all the works
    4. International working environment
      • 100% of the students will spend at least a semester abroad
      • Foreign teachers are used when possible
      • All courses end to writing a report and giving a presentation. One third of all reports and presentations are done in English
      • International references are used in all reports
      • One third of the courses are using only English material
      • Even more important than the language is learning to understand and respect the strange features of the foreign cultures
      • Eliminating the shyness and utilizing the students whole language potential gives good results
    5. Student team model
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      • Excellent results in team work skills and project management
      • Good team spirit and working climate
      • The total amount of working hours done by the students is clearly higher
      • Student responsibility has got a new dimension
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      • Division to two levels of students, the active ones and the drop outs
      • Part of the elder staff members are fond of lectures instead of putting the students work
      • The teams are extracting those members who are not committed
      • Demanding for the staff up to date skills
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