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Background
The Raahe functional Unit
of the University of Oulu, for the education part, consists of the
education unit, which is
administratively under the administration of the University of
Oulu but functionally at the moment, the common Unit of technical
and scientific faculties. The Unit manages the DI-conversion
education of the electrical engineering for a technical
faculty and conversion education
in the information technology for a scientific faculty. The
research activities have been organised as part of a wider umbrella
type regional cooperation consortium, the Pehr Brahe Software
Laboratory to which VTT Electronics and Oulu Polytechnic belong in
addition to the University of Oulu.
The business idea of the Raahe
functional Unit is the development of the economic life
by training experts especially to the needs of information and
metal industry. The task of Raahe
functional Unit is to develop and to carry out
cooperation practices which produce the multidisciplinary study,
education and development of the international level in chosen
focus areas.
DI-education
The Raahe functional Unit of the University of Oulu started the
DI-education in 1990
by educating the engineers of information technology to Diploma
engineers of information technology. In
the beginning of the operation the studying, was all-day
changing later to conversion
education type diverse studying. The annual admissions
have varied between 15 - 75. More than 90 Diploma engineers and
two Technical licentiates have been graduated from Raahe.
Master's programmes
The education in the computer sciences begun in Raahe in 2001
with the Master programme of digital
media and in 2002 with the Masters
programme of
software production and in 2005 Information Security
Master programme. The Master programmes are a part of
the Master programmes of the department of Information Processing
Science of the University of Oulu (TOL). There have been about 50-100
applicants per a programme for the above mentioned programmes. Altogether
75 students have been admitted to these programmes . Studying in
the Master programmes is based on an exact advance
planning and every starting student makes a personal
curriculum before the beginning of studies. The curriculum will
aim for the completing of the degree in 3 - 5 years from the
beginning of studies . The first Master from the Digital Media
Master programme graduated in the year 2004 and from the
Software Production Master programme in the year 2005.
Post-graduate education
As post-graduate education
the Raahe
functional Unit of the University of Oulu has arranged
altogether 19 postgraduate seminars
for the teachers and the persons
of information technology companies. So far two Licentiates
of Science in Technology and one Doctor
of Science in Technology have graduated from Raahe. The
intention is to develop education which aims at the doctor's
degrees in cooperation with Pehr Brahe software laboratory (PBOL)
that has research projects of which the researchers have good
opportunities for doing a doctoral thesis
type academic study.
The research directors and
recearch
professors of the laboratory together with the guidance
offered by the University of Oulu form a favourable guiding
frame for postgraduate students.
Character of the operation
The cooperation of the University of Oulu, at
first with Raahe institute of information
technology and later with the Raahe
Institute of Technology and Business, has functioned
fluently
and has brought significant advantages to the region of Raahe. The
education in the Master programmes of digital media and
software production has expanded postgraduate study possibilities for
people with institute and polytechnic
degrees and essentially increased, among others,
women
to seek out to this field of study.
Information and communication technology has already
been long utilised in a distributed manner to carry out
different educational services. For example video teaching has been
used in Raahe since 1991 and for remote
video teaching (remote
video lessons) Raahe Unit
has three high-quality videoconferencing classrooms.
The Information network
based learning environments are the second generally
used form of activity in the decentralised realisation of the
education. For example in Optima network
learning enviroment there is, among
others, interaction between the pupils, performing different learning tasks and dividing studying materials.
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