Topic outline

  • Week 4: Water and wastewater engineering

    Water supply and sanitation week combines the weekly theme and method with the help of entrepreneurship and innovation thinking (which is one of our key contexts), done in cooperation with Aalto Ventures Programme AVP. 

    The week consists of the following submitted tasks:

      • Thematic task: User research and pitch (DL Friday 30.9. at 16:30)
      • Weekly exercise: Spatial analysis (DL Friday 7.10. at 23:59)

    General schedule for the week is shown in the figure below, while the detailed schedule can be found below the figure.


    • Detailed time schedule

      Most of the sessions will be held in lecture hall 286 in the Water building. Other locations will be informed separately.

      Monday 26.9. 

      09:00 - 11:00 Introduction to water supply and sanitation and Water and wastewater treatment by Professor Anna Mikola     

      11:00 - 12:00  Lunch break
      12:00 - 14:00 Introduction to rural water supply and sanitation by Dr. Harri Mattila, Häme University of Applied Sciences 

      14:00 - 16:00 Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship by Sonja Hilavuo, Aalto Ventures Program
      16:00 - 16:30 Hints and tips for an interview
         

      Tuesday 27.9. 

      9:00 - 12:00  GIS introduction (Teemu Kokkonen) Undergraduate center Y338

      12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
      13:00 - 16:30  Interviews of the potential client (during the break each group pretreats the results)

      Wednesday 28.9.

      09:00 - 12:00  GIS exercise; Väre R102
      12:00 - 13:00 Lunch                        
       13:00 - 16:00 Analysis of the interviews, creating business ideas

      16:00 - 17:00 Refining the ideas

      Thursday 29.9.

      9:00 - 12:00  GIS exercise (independent work with support); Undergraduate center U257

      12:00 - 13:00 Lunch                       

      13:00 – 14:00 Introduction to compelling customer presentations

      14:00 --> Independent work in groups to prepare the presentations


      Friday 30.9.

      09:00 - 10:00 Compelling communication clinics 

      10:00 - 12:00 Finetuning the presentations in groups
      13:00 - 16:00 Group  presentations and wrap-up 

    • Lecture material

    • Thematic task: User research and pitch Assignment
    • User research in a little over 1 hour Page

    • GIS: Weekly exercise

      All material below this is related to the GIS exercise.


    • GIS: Lecture slides File PPTX
    • Weekly exercise: GIS Quiz
    • GIS Assignment Instructions File PDF
    • QGIS Quick Guide File PDF

      Quick guide to basic functionalities of QGIS software. Slightly outdated, but hopefully helpful :-)

    • Submit you GIS exercise map here Assignment

      Submit you map depicting properties whose owners are potential customers (you can use the full buildings dataset of the municipality or the personal data set for one of the group members), separating potential customers in sensitive and in non-sensitive areas. Important: The maps should be easy to read, meaning that they should include e.g. title and/or legend, scale bar and north arrow. Also, symbology, labels and other text should be clear.

      Accepted formats are: pdf, MS Powerpoint, and MS Word.

      Your submission should include:

      • group number
      • list of names for all group members
      One submission is enough, i.e. only one group member needs to submit on behalf of the entire group.
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