Ammattikorkeakoulut ja yrityselämä

Yritysten on menestyäkseen ja kilpailussa pärjätäkseen kehityttävä jatkuvasti. Yritykset tarvitsevat kehitystyössään innovaatiovalmiuksia ja sparraavaa tukea. Oulun seudulla on luotu yhteistyöfoorumeita ja kehitetty valmiuksia vastata yritysten tunnistamiin kehittämistarpeisiin. Ammattikorkeakoulujen palvelutarjonta yrityksille on nykyisellään laajaa. Palvelut voivat olla muun muassa koulutus- ja kehittämispalveluja, testaus-, mallinnus- ja tuotekehityspalveluja, yrittäjyyteen liittyviä hautomopalveluja ja tutkimuspalveluja. Ammattikorkeakoulussa eri alojen opiskelijoiden yhteen saattaminen jo opiskeluaikana mahdollistaa innovaatioiden kehittymisen ja laaja-alaisen asioiden tarkastelemisen hallinnolliset raja-aidat ylittäen. Myös kansainvälistymisen lisäämiseen tarvitaan sekä pk- että ammattikorkeakoulusektoreilla lisää innovatiivisia avauksia. Yrityksen voivat myös hyödyntää kansainvälistymisessä ammattikorkeakouluilla jo valmiiksi olevia kansainvälisiä verkostoja. Tuntevatko pk-yritykset riittävästi ammattikorkeakoulujen yrityksille tarjoamia mahdollisuuksia esimerkiksi kehittämistoiminnan kautta? Onko palvelujen käyttämisen kynnys riittävän matala ja ovatko palvelut mahdollisimman helposti saatavilla

Minor additions of Sn suppress the omega phase formation in beta titanium alloys

A critical characteristic of β-Ti alloys is the inevitable formation of ω-precipitates during certain heat treatments which leads to embrittlement, or even to a complete loss of ductility. Therefore, alloy design with the goal to inhibit the elementary ω-formation process is of utmost importance. Here, we propose a design strategy for prototypical β-type Ti–Cr–(Mo) alloys to alleviate this problem using only minor additions of Sn. Upon addition of Sn, we observed an extensive deceleration or even suppression of the ω-formation kinetics during isothermal ageing. Furthermore, the internal friction response of the elementary formation process indicated a decisive reduction of potential ω-nucleation sites, while the activation energy of the process remained almost unchanged. The results show, that the addition of Sn can significantly increase the width of the time–temperature process window and the long-time ageing resistance of β-Ti alloys, opening up huge opportunities for advanced alloy design and manufacturing routes.</p

Path Loss Prediction Model for a Sloped Area in Microcell Based on Scale Model and Real Environment Measurements

The forests in Japan occupy 70% of the country, and there are many mountains and hills in Japan. As cities and residential areas have expanded the living space for people has spread to such hilly or sloped areas. Mobile communication systems are already a vital infrastructure to daily life, so covering these sloped areas is important in terms of service provisioning. It is necessary to predict propagation losses over the sloped areas for radio link design.The 1st IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile 2014 (APWiMob 2014), Aug. 28-30, 2014, Grand Inna Kuta Hotel, Bali, Indonesi

Generic Skills Assessment Through Implementation of Group Based Learning to Understand SDGs

In this competitive world, it is important for students to acquire generic skills and its assessment in higher education is scarce. This study is an attempt to address the effect of group based learning on generic skills development and and also an approach to spread the knowledge of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Like generic skills, educating young students about SDGs has become crucial. A workshop was conducted for 3 days and a total of 12 students filled in the questionnaire for group and self assessment of generic skills for 10 selected generic skills after every workshop. The overall results indicated that the group based learning have positive impact on the development of generic skills. We found that all generic skills were more developed in group assessment than individual assessment. When the inter-relationship among the skills were assessed for individual ratings using network analysis, the results revealed that the effective team work was strongly associated with co-operativity (r2 =0.7529 p &lt;0.001), communication (r2 =0.7146, p &lt;0.001) and information sharing (r2 =0.7529 p &lt;0.001). The significant finding of this study is the use of shared educational materials which helped the students to overcome the language barrier and be more interactive to achieve the given goal. Further, this study has explored the application of group based learning as an effective educational approach to introduce any designed studies (in this case, SDGs) for fostering the innovative human resources belonging to different educational backgrounds. Moreover, this study also emphasizes on the importance of teaching SDGs to the engineering students for their capacity building, so that they not only understand but also act to ensure that the goals are met for better future. Keywords: Engineering students, Generic skills, Group based learning, Self assessment, Group Assessment Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Influence of Oxygen on the Kinetics of Omega and Alpha Phase Formation in Beta Ti–V

A detailed understanding of the kinetics of phase formation in β-stabilised titanium is of decisive importance for the applicability of these materials. However, the complex nature and long timescales of the various transformations, calls for specialized measurement techniques. In this work high-stability isothermal laser dilatometry is used to study the temporal volume changes associated with the various phase formation processes. Distinctly different behaviours between samples of Ti–21 at. pct V with different solute oxygen content could be detected and quantified. Temperature regimes for both diffusionless and diffusion-assisted isothermal ω-formation as well as for ω-to-α-transformation were determined. Low oxygen contents promote the diffusionless ω-formation mechanism, but retard the diffusion-assisted one as well as the ω-to-α-transformation process. The results confirm recent findings of a clear distinction between the diffusionless and diffusion-assisted isothermal ω formation modes. Modelling of the ω-phase formation applying Austin–Rickett kinetics revealed the temperature-dependent formation rates, on the basis of which the isothermal TTT-diagrams were developed which reflect the strong influence of the oxygen content.</p

Implementation of design based learning for the development of SDGs educational games

Education on sustainable education (ESD) is gaining momentum to ensure that SDGs are met by 2030. The educational institutions have significant role in fostering ESD. However, there is lack of educational resources to be used for ESD. Particularly, teaching the concept of SDGs needs an attention grabbing and engaging approach and Design Based Learning (DBL) holds much potential. The main objective of this investigation was to describe the development of SDGs education resources i.e., SDGs educational games using DBL approach. Besides, the generic skills of the students during DBL were assessed during game development phase. The outputs of DBL were Bingo Mat game, Carrom board game and Sugoroku game. These games were validated for their effectiveness as resource for teaching and learning SDGs. The results revealed the positive impact on the generic skills of students through DBL during game development phase. Moreover, the response results of the players highlighted that carrom board game offered them the gaming experience while Bingo and Sugoroku offered them learning experience. Another important finding of this study is the need to teach SDGs from the younger age as the level of education had significantly impacted on their knowledge about SDGs. The results of this study will contribute to the domain of ESD by articulating an alternative pedagogy of integrating DBL with SDGs as invigorating educational resources and faculty development methodPeer Reviewe