Collaboration with Schneider Electric Eesti AS is elevating the education at TalTech’s Tartu College to a new, more hands-on and real-world level.
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The hydrodynamics laboratory at Kuressaare College Marine Technology competence centre houses the only specialised model testing basin in the Baltic region, with impressive dimensions: 60 metres long, five metres wide, and three metres deep.
Estonia needs a new leap in development in the age of artificial intelligence – and the key figures in this are AI engineers who know how to develop and steer future technologies.
TalTech professor Alar Konis warns that the speed of the green transition must not come at the expense of system reliability and the competitiveness of the economy.
There are thousands of apartment buildings in Estonia that are in urgent need of renovation, yet the daunting nature of the process often prevents people from taking the first step. This is precisely the problem Renokratt aims to solve – a smart tool designed to make renovation planning easier.
A woman can be a better engineer than a man, but women could use more confidence, says Katriin Kristmann, a doctoral student and junior researcher at TalTech.
The engineering shortage weighing on Estonia’s economy could be eased with three simple changes in school education that would cost virtually nothing, yet open the path to high incomes for thousands of young people and their families every year, suggests Veljo Konnimois, Chairman of the Council of the Estonian Mechanical Engineering Industry Association.