TalTech alumnus and DeltaE Inseneribüroo owner Marti Arak has turned energy efficiency into a successful business. He says that technical solutions alone are not enough to achieve energy savings: skilled engineers, practical experience and the ability to see the bigger picture are also essential.
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August Komendant, from the Estonian village of Nurmsi, became one of the twentieth century’s most influential structural engineers and architect Louis Kahn’s closest collaborator. His work extended from the grandstand at Kadriorg Stadium to Philadelphia and Fort Worth, where he helped create some of Kahn’s best-known buildings.
Liisi Särglep did not dream of becoming an engineer as a child. Her first plan was to study medicine, but when she was not admitted to the University of Tartu on her first attempt, her next choice took her to Tallinn University of Technology to study product development and production engineering.
This year’s Young Engineer Award of the President of the Republic’s Cultural Foundation has been bestowed upon Karolina Kudelina-Zhang, an energy researcher at TalTech’s Virumaa College, and Annika Kaalep, Senior Biomedical Engineer and Head of Department at the North Estonia Medical Centre.
When Anna Dementjeva looks back on her childhood, she doesn’t remember a single moment that pushed her toward engineering – she remembers many. She was the child who constantly asked why, who found comfort in logic, and who treated geometry problems as small creative puzzles waiting to be solved.
Priit Raid, a TalTech alumnus and the founder and CEO of Hoob OÜ, a company providing automation solutions, believes that automation and robotics do not leave people without jobs but rather allow them to focus on more valuable tasks. He established his company specifically to help the industry stay competitive through the automation of production processes.
Young people don’t choose a career in a vacuum – they are influenced by teachers, role models, and societal attitudes. To inspire more of them, especially girls, to pursue engineering and ICT, these fields need to be visible and familiar well before the moment of decision.
The Estonian startup KindelAI, co-founded by TalTech alumnus Andrei Aksjonov, believes the era of mechanics fumbling in the dark under the hood is coming to an end. KindelAI is developing a car diagnostics solution where decisions are no longer based on gut feeling but on data-driven artificial intelligence.
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.
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.