Timo
Vasankari
Director, Faculty of Technology
Head of Corporate Collaboration
Areas of expertise
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
Biography
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.
Teaching
- 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)
Publications
Encourage students to apply their knowledge and think “out of the box” while collaborating with local industry - Case Study Industrial Seminar (2021)
Frontiers in Education Conference, Frontiers in Education Conference
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))
Lessons learned from FITech Turku, a 18 million euros university collaboration project to complement the regional demand for Master degree engineers (2021)
Frontiers in Education Conference, Frontiers in Education Conference
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))
Practical Software Engineering Capstone Course – Framework for Large, Open-Ended Projects to Graduate Student Teams (2019)
International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Communications in Computer and Information Science
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))
Filling an engineering specialist void: FITech University Network - a cooperative education initiative to support the growth of Southwestern Finland (2019)
Frontiers In Education Conference, Frontiers in Education Conference
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))
Reflections on Teaching Software Engineering Capstone course (2018)
International Conference on Computer Supported Education
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))
Platform-driven ecosystem prefacing for emerging markets in developing countries (2017)
International Workshop on Software Ecosystems, CEUR Workshop Proceedings
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))