Research activities
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The R&D mission of TUT is to further the state of knowledge in R&D areas important to Estonia and the world, and provide novel solutions as well as knowledge and technology transfer on an international level. As a technology and engineering University, TUT bears a responsibility for this field vis-à-vis the Estonian economy and society.
Tallinn University of Technology, the only university of technology in Estonia, is committed to high level research and development in the broad fields of engineering, technology, science and management. The University aims at enhancing its contribution to Estonia's science policy, based on key international trends and local industry needs and on the social and economic changes in the society. TUT promotes domestic and international scientific cooperation through strengthened contacts with business, business associations, other higher education and research institutions and public sector authorities.
Tallinn University of Technology - a university with entrepreneurial spirit
In the light of rapid development of world economy, the Tallinn University of Technology is facing a number of innovative challenges and requirements.
First, it is necessary to prepare itself for tough international competition and adapt to its requirements. The role of the university in this new situation is to ensure that there is sufficient number of well-trained competitive specialists and develop solutions for the Estonian economy.
Secondly, the development of new ides and knowledge has little value for the society if they are not properly implemented. To ensure that innovative solutions developed by university staff reach companies the university needs to become notably more effective in promoting its knowledge and its research potential.
Thirdly, in order to uphold socio-economic independence and identity the university more then ever needs to think of ways of how to earn money and use it for development in the most feasible way.
To ensure that not only the academic staff but the whole Estonian society is internationally competitive, to support economic independence and to ensure the supply of resources required for development, the Tallinn University of Technology is now managing change by having adopted a so-called model of entrepreneurial university.
TUT is an initiator in developing research-intensive enterprise environment and one of the founders of Tallinn Technology Park Development Foundation. Technology Park is planned to built in Tallinn in Mustamäe, next to the main complex of TUT, which already houses over 70 research-intensive companies.
In the long term TUT plans to set up an international-level technology centre in Tallinn- the so called Technopolis that would be based on TUT as an educational and Competence Centre, Technology Park and social infrastructure such as sports facilities, student campus, housing state for academic staff, etc.
Research and development activities
Research and development activities are arranged through departments, research centres and through five R&D institutions.
The University's strategic research areas include
Open to international cooperation TUT participates in several European Union programmes, is involved in international research and development agreements, and has acquired over a hundred individual research grants from different foundations and organizations.
Research activities by faculties:
Chemical and Materials Technology
Civil Engineering
Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration
Information Technology
Mechanical Engineering
Power Engineering
Science
Social Sciences
R&D by research institutes:
Institute of Cybernetics
Main research areas:
- Mathematics - approximation theory, inverse problems;
- Mechanics - non-linear dynamics, non-destructive stress analysis (photoelasticity);
- Computer Science - Mathematical logic, automated program synthesis, knowledge-based software- engineering, software systems (information systems and computer networks);
- Control Systems- conceptual analysis, control systems theory and speech technology
Institute of Geology
Main research areas: The structure of the Earth's crust, geodynamics and the evolution of landforms Palaeozoic and Cenozoic stratigraphy and the evolution of the organic world Palaeoclimatology and palaeogeography, environmental research, the formation, composition and properties of rocks and minerals
Institute of Marine Systems
The main goals of the Marine Systems Institute are:
- System study and modelling of physical and biogeochemical processes in the sea and water bodies;
- Investigation of functioning and stability of aquatic ecosystems, modelling and forecasting of their state;
- Quantification and modelling of interaction processes of coastal waters, land cover and human activity; and
- Development and application of operational oceanographic forecast methods and appropriate information systems.
Technomedicum
TM is a part of Centre for Integrated Electronic Systems and Biomedical Engineering – CEBE, which is Estonian centre of excellence in research, financed from the EU Structural Funds for the years 2008-2015.
Research directions of TM are as follows:
- Biological interaction of the EMF
- New laser diagnostic methods in medicine
- Impact of environmental factors to health
- Efficiency of rehabilitation treatment
- New methods for diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases
- Optical methods for clinical monitoring
- Oncology and hematology - diagnostics of cancer oncobiology and breast cancer pulmonology and allergology vascular and methabolic diseases
- eHealth
- development of non-invasive parameters to identify patients endangered by sudden cardiac death in the case of different heart diseases
- parameters characterizing time and spatial variability in the repolarization phase of heart ventricles, regarding to gender differences of women patients
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