TUT

Department of Mathematics

Seppo PohjolainenHead of Dept.

Tampere, Finland

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Faculty of natural sciences at TUT

• Departments: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry• Service teaching (mathematics, physics, chemistry)• BSc and MSc -studies• Teacher training: Matematics, Physics, Chemistry,

Information technology• Yearly intake 50 students• Degree program is one of the best at TUT

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Department of MathematicsTeaching

• Engineering mathematics (27 cu.) for all students (700/year)

• Bachelor’s level– Major and minor in mathematics (Finnish)

• Master’s level– Major and minor in mathematics (English/Finnish)– Major and minor in theoretical computer science

(English)– Major in hypermedia (Finnish)

• Teacher training

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Major in mathematics• Analysis with applications• Discrete mathematics with applications• Mathematical and semantical modelling• Teacher's major

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Careers in mathematics• Researcher (academia)• Research Engineer (industry)• Teacher (school)

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Staff• 7 professors• 7 lecturers• 3 senior researchers• 3 researchers• 20 (about) project assistants, (paid) graduate students• 10 (about) part-time teachers• Administrative staff: 5.

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Areas of R&D • Discrete mathematics with applications

– Theory of algorithms and computability– Algebra and logic

• Mathematical analysis with applications– Clifford analysis– Inverse problems– Mathematical systems theory

• Mathematical and semantic modeling• Technology enhanced learning

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Technology enhanced learning• Support for first year students

– Basic skill’s test– Remedial instruction

• Mathematical modelling network• Learning analytics

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Support for 1st year students

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Basic skill’s testRemedial instructionMathematic’ clinics

Students work on remedial instruction (MathBridge)

Student’s progress and work during remedial instruction in time

Mathematical modelling network

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Seven universities

• Video lectures

• Students project work andcollaboration over the internet

TUT team

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• Looking forward to a successful project

• Thanks !