Administration

Administative roles

Degree Program Head	Prof. Janne Heikkilä
Student Counsellor	study.itee(at)oulu.fi Tutor Teaschers (Riku Hietaniemi), Education Designer Suvi Jutila, International Students Coordinator Arja Keskinarkaus
Representative in Education Committee of the Faculty of ITEE	Prof. Janne Heikkilä
Members of doctoral training committee for Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at UniOGS	Chair Prof. Tapio Seppänen
Members of doctoral training committee for Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at UniOGS	Member Prof. Timo Ojala
Members of doctoral training committee for Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at UniOGS	Vice Member Prof. Juha Röning
Doctoral Degree Programme Director	Computer Science and Engineering: Prof. Timo Ojala
Doctoral Degree Programme Director	Information Processing Science: Prof. Mika Mäntylä
Representative of other staff in Faculty Board	Dr. Heli Koskimäki
Workshop	Anssi Rimpiläinen Antti Nevatalo Jari Pakarinen Vesa Kaltio
IT Administration	Ilkka Virtanen Lasse Salmijärvi Timo Mäkinen

Degree Program Committee

The Degree Program Head and the Degree Program Committee are responsible for undergraduate and graduate studies, for teaching and its development. Committee meetings are arranged once a month. The members are:

• Prof. Janne Heikkilä (chair)
• Prof. Tapio Seppänen
• Doctoral Researcher Satu Tamminen
• Doctoral Candidate Mika Oja
• University Teacher Riku Hietaniemi
• Vappu Schroderus (student member), Topi Kurtelius (student vice member)
• Suvi Jutila (secretary)

Together with the Committee Head, the committee handles all applications related to theses, accepts master's theses and recommends bachelor’s, master’s and licentiate's degrees to the Faculty of Technology. Moreover, the committee maintains and develops the degree program: develops the curriculum, prepares documentation of the curriculum, organizes events, and so on.  The Degree Programme Head:

• accepts the curriculum related to individual study modules
• accepts personal curriculums (HOPS)
• credits the studies performed outside the University of Oulu
• nominates the supervisors of the master's and licentiate's theses
• recommends the bachelor's and master's degrees to Dean of Education
• grants the permissions for postgraduate studies for leading to licentiate's degree (if the student has graduated from the department)

The Degree Programme Committee:

• grades the master's theses based on supervisors' statement
• accepts the licentiate's theses based on supervisors' statement

Composition of the doctoral training committee

Doctoral training committee:

• Leads the doctoral programme training
• Accepts degree requirements proposed by the degree programmes
• Is responsible for doctoral student selections –Numbers, criteria for admission, evaluation of applications
• Approves changes of supervisors and appoints additional supervisors
• Appoints follow-up group members and accepts Doctoral Training Plans (approved by Follow-up group)
• Grants permissions for pre-examination and appoints the pre-examiners of doctoral theses
• Grants permissions to defend the doctoral theses and appoints the pre-examiners, opponent and Custos
• Approves and grades the doctoral theses

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Doctoral Degree Programme Directors

• Information Processing Science: Prof. Mika Mäntylä
• Computer Science and Engineering: Prof. Timo Ojala

Study Affairs Office

The study affairs office provides services for all students from Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Electrical and Communications Engineering (ETT) and Communications Engineering (DCE). It is located in Tietotalo 1, 1st floor. The opening hours are 10:00 - 14:00.The law, statute, and rules governing our department can be found at http://www.ttk.oulu.fi/opinnot/.