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Changes to access control during 7.12. - check your access tokens and set a PIN code
Access for students and staff to the university’s special zones will change during Monday 7.12. Remember to go through your tokens and check your PIN code.
Aalto ENG Dean's strategy coffee presentations
The slides presented on the Dean's strategy coffee on 23 Nov 2020 can be downloaded here.
School of Engineering students break Dean's List recordÂ
Despite the coronavirus epidemic, a record number of students made the School of Engineering Dean's List in the academic year 2019–2020.Â
Working on campus at the School of Engineering? Remember to reserve your workspace
Aalto University wants to make the tracing of any possible coronavirus exposures in the workplace as effective as possible. To this end, the university is adopting a workspace reservation system, which everyone coming to work on campus must use to reserve their workspaces beforehand.
Building European cities with wood would sequester half of cement industry’s current carbon emissions
Model shows that slowly increasing the use of wood in European construction could increase the carbon storage of buildings by 420 million CO2 tons over the next 20 years
Meet the data agent: Dan Häggman
Dan Häggman wants to highlight that taking time for research data management now will save your time in the future. In this article series Aalto University data agents, researchers and experts experienced in research data management are introduced.
Turning wastewater nutrients into fertiliser
The NPHarvest process allows for the recovery of nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater.
Adam Yousfi wins the Millennium Youth Prize with his work on water pumps
In the competition, innovators under the age of 19 take on global sustainable development challenges.
Challenge – let’s make smart cities!
Smart City Centre of Excellence is announcing an international challenge to find great science intensive ideas.
Construction and real estate expert Pekka Metsi named Alumnus of the Year 2020
'In an expert field like ours, competence development continues over an entire career. Our field lacks doctoral graduates, an issue we have also tried to remedy through our joint efforts with Aalto University.'
New professors appointed to the School of Engineering
During the summer three professors have been appointed to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Built Environment.
The School of Engineering supports the start of studies by organising information events
School of Engineering holds several information events for students during orientation week and later in September. The aim of these events is to support studies as they begin or continue.
Fully virtual IWA Nutrient Recovery and Removal Conference brings together the experts of wastewater treatment
The conference is organized by Aalto University Water and Environmental Engineering research group and Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority HSY in collaboration with International Water Association.
Greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost area larger than earlier estimated
Plant roots in soil stimulate microbial decomposition, a mechanism called the priming effect. A recent study published in Nature Geoscience shows that the priming effect alone can cause emission of 40 billion tonnes carbon from permafrost by 2100.
A quarter of the world’s lowland population depends critically on mountain water resources
Global water consumption has increased almost fourfold in the past 100 years, and many regions can only meet their water demand thanks to essential contributions from mountain regions
New professors and strategy implementation presented at Dean's Remote Coffee
The first Dean's Remote Coffee event of the School of Engineering was attended by almost 100 participants.
Introducing the new access token for the Otaniemi campus
Over the summer, the campus will adopt new access tokens (access cards). The access token will open the entrance doors of buildings. Going forward, certain hallways, elevators and other spaces will only be accessible with the access token. Mechanical keys for offices will not be changed for the time being.
Foundation for Finnish Inventions names new board chair
Juhani Talvela, Lic. Sc. (Tech.), has been appointed as the new chair of the Foundation for Finnish Inventions board. His predecessor continues as a member of the board.
On the Way to a Digital Revolution in Construction
Trimble is one of the partners in the Aalto University-led research and development project DiCtion (Digitalizing Construction Workflows). Trimble’s Jukka Suomi shares his thoughts on how the project is contributing to the digital revolution in the industry and explains what the company is developing in DiCtion.
Cutting-edge technology, 3D models and pioneers of open science
The scientific achievements of the Centre of Excellence in Laser Scanning Research (CoE-LaSR) have produced plenty of benefits with far reaching impact both commercially and societally.
