Timo Vasankari
Head of Corporate Collaboration
timo.vasankari@utu.fi Vesilinnantie 5 Turku Työhuone: 450D ORCID-tunniste: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5334-7751 |
Project-based learning; Capstone projects; Project planning; Project Management; Innovation management; Engineering working life skills; CDIO, Continuous learning, University-Industry collaboration, University collaboration in engineering education
Timo Vasankari coordinates industry collaboration in the Faculty of Technology.
He joined Department of Computing (former Department of IT) in 2014 to implement project-based learning in the curriculum for postgraduate IT programs.
In his earlier career Vasankari worked 25 years in various roles of software and product develoment - from software developer to Chief Technology Officer of an international technology company. In this early career, he developed or managed development of turnkey software solutions for marine industy, military and municipalities and later joined a team to build new technology products that digitilized language teaching and learning.
- Capstone project course - a postgraduate implementation of Project-based learning (2 annual runs, since 2014)
- Technology Leadership - a postgraduate course in Innovation Management (annually, since 2015)
- Encourage students to apply their knowledge and think “out of the box” while collaborating with local industry - Case Study Industrial Seminar (2021)
- Conference proceedings : Frontiers in Education Conference
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa) - Lessons learned from FITech Turku, a 18 million euros university collaboration project to complement the regional demand for Master degree engineers (2021)
- Conference proceedings : Frontiers in Education Conference
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa) - Filling an engineering specialist void: FITech University Network - a cooperative education initiative to support the growth of Southwestern Finland (2019)
- Conference proceedings : Frontiers in Education Conference
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa) - Practical Software Engineering Capstone Course – Framework for Large, Open-Ended Projects to Graduate Student Teams (2019)
- Communications in Computer and Information Science
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa) - Reflections on Teaching Software Engineering Capstone course (2018) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education Anne-Maarit Majanoja, Timo Vasankari
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa) - Platform-driven ecosystem prefacing for emerging markets in developing countries (2017)
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa)
