Prototyping Future Service Environments
Future is here. Virtually. Ilkka Kelaranta and Olli Poutanen studied in their Creative Sustainability master鈥檚 theses how to utilize virtual experience prototyping in testing future service environments. Poutanen, a researcher of kinesthetic experience, and Kelaranta, an industrial designer with a gaming background, combined their expertise to create and test a novel tool for service design.
Exploring a new medium for storytelling
Otaniemi Walks is a Master鈥檚 thesis and an interactive 3D storytelling debut by Elisa Andretti. Andretti鈥檚 thesis was set to find out 鈥淲hich are the processes capable of turning Otaniemi into Finland鈥檚 leading sustainable campus by 2020?鈥 The end product was a facilitating tool in the form of a visual story for different players in the process to find a common ground.
Agent-based Modelling in Urban Planning
Jyrki Vanamo鈥檚 prototype demonstrates how agent-based modelling could help urban planners in their work. The prototype can be used to calculate a range of possible design solutions based on some initial data. Andreas Hall鈥檚 diagrams visualize the system architecture of the prototype making its operational logic accessible to the potential users. The prototype was created as part of PEKA research project funded by TEKES.
Application for Participatory Urban Planning
Plan-P is an easy-to-use application for building 3D city plans and visualizing their impacts. It resembles city building games, but focuses on real city planning principles instead of entertainment. The idea of the tool is to generate discussion and participation in the visioning phase and in the general planning phase of a city area. It is an easily approachable and visually interesting way for non-professionals to participate in the discussion and create alternative city visions.
Campus Development
One of the objectives of Aalto Built Environment Lab is to study and develop new approaches to the urban planning process. Presently, ABE is focusing on the development of the Otaniemi area as a case study. The area is currently going through many significant changes which makes it an ideal living lab.
The Story of ABE
In the spring of 2012 the Department of Real Estate, Planning and Geoinformatics and Department of Applied Mechanics started to plan for a facility that would offer state-of-the-art methods and tools for designing and studying built environment.
CHEMARTS 鈥 New dimensions for the forest
CHEMARTS arranges multidisciplinary study courses and a Summer School for degree students, thesis projects, and workshops for elementary and high school students. It also participates in externally funded research projects.
Study Projects
In study projects, students solve real-life cases together with companies and other organisations.
Metrology Research Institute Doctors' Club
MRI Doctors' club gathers together doctors, who have graduated from the laboratory during its existence.
Collaborate with us
Our work at the School of Engineering is inspired by the needs of society. We seek to contribute to the development of society by taking an active role in Finnish and international life 鈥 dialogue with a variety of stakeholders and cooperation agreements with the Capital Region municipalities and key partners support this aim.
Calibration services at Metrology Research Institute
The Metrology Research Institute is the Finnish National Standards Laboratory for optical quantities. We offer various radiometric, photometric and spectrophotometric calibrations.
Excellence in Research
The amount of competitive external funding and the inclusion of one research team from the School of Engineering into a Centre of Excellence of the Academy of Finland give some idea of research excellence at Aalto University.
Metrology Research Institute current-to-voltage converter (2015-2019)
Custom-built high gain transimpedance photodiode amplifier is used as a current-to-voltage converter in photocurrent measurements.
xDReflect (2014-2017)
Metrology Research Institute was involved in European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP) project xDReflect - "Multidimensional reflectometry for industry".
Thinergy (2014-2017)
Metrology Research Institute was involved in European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP) project Thinergy - "Traceable characterisation of thin-film materials for energy applications".
MetEOC2 (2014-2017)
Metrology Research Institute was involved in European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP) project MetEOC2 - "Metrology for Earth Observation and Climate".
SURFACE (2017-2020)
Metrology Research Institute was involved in European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR) project SURFACE - "Pavement surface characterisation for smart and efficient road lighting".
EMIRIM (2017-2020)
Metrology Research Institute was involved in European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR) project EMIRIM - "Improvement of emissivity measurements on reflective insulation materials".
