- Information about events in early 2021 – Updated 8.2.
- PT Info Channel on Telegram
- Apply to the Badge merit committee 2021
- PT’s Remote Event Survey 2021
- PT’s LinkedIn group
- Board meetings in 2021
- Koronavilkku-app
- Flower day
- Summer housing has started
- Wappu overall badges
- Questionnaire about reference management tools
- Information on the effects of coronavirus on activities at Aalto University
UPCOMING EVENTS
13.5. Flower day
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1. Information about events in early 2021 – Updated 8.2.
The board decided on 8.2. that PT will follow the guidelines of the Regional State Administrative Agency about corona. For now, the association will not organize events that require gathering. This decision will be reviewed if needed.
2. PT Info Channel on Telegram
PT now has a separate Telegram channel for official announcements and news about the association – PT Info Channel! All the most important announcements and news about the association will be posted in the channel from now on, for example about events and the summary of the weekly newsletter sent by email. The #PT-chat will remain as a chat for discussions between PT members. You can join the PT Info Channel here: https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAFAZzeI4birVAcfBZg.
3. Apply to the Badge merit committee 2021
Happy post-wappu time!
The application period for the Member of the Badge of Merit Committee has started and it last until 14th of May. The Badge of Merit Committee prepares a proposal on process engineering students that receive decorations at next Annual Ball of PT in September. According to the rules of PT, to serve a Member of the Badge of Merit Committee, you should have been a Member of PT at least 4 semesters.
You can apply via the registration machine.
If you would like to know more about working on the committee, please contact me.
Wishing you an excellent spring,
Werneri Huhtinen
Telegram: @aaltouniversity
Email: werneri.huhtinen@aalto.fi
4. PT’s Remote Event Survey 2021
AYY’s rental facilities are currently not in use. The association still wants to organise remote events and take the members’ wishes into account, so we encourage you to answer this survey and tell us your wishes! You can answer the survey at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeD-Mhn7NN2WyS7WGITfzIZpSJCHUNl_tjl64Sw5RzwB3KtIw/viewform.
5. PT’s LinkedIn group
Applications for summer jobs have begun so a quick reminder that PT has their own LinkedIn site and group! LinkedIn is a great way to get contacts and network with your student colleagues. Open summer jobs from our field will be informed about in the group as well!
Link to join the group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13559286/
Link to the PT LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prosessiteekkarit-ry/
6. Board meetings in 2021
The board meetings are on Mondays at 8:10 and you are all welcome to follow! You can check scheduled meetings in the association’s event calendar. The last meeting this spring is being held 22.5.
Board meetings are held in Zoom and meetings are held in Finnish. You can join meetings here.
7. Koronavilkku-app
The PT board recommends everyone to download the Finnish corona tracking application Koronavilkku!
You can download and install Koronavilkku here:
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8. Greetings from CHEM repco group
Representative council meeting 3/2021 of Aalto University Student Union (AYY) was held on Wednesday 21st of April again remotely via Zoom. There were 43 members of repco present and the main topics of the meeting were deciding on the student centre project as well as approving the financial statement for 2020 and granting freedom from liability to the AYY 2020 board. You can watch the meeting recording from Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZZuKWCz3tg and the meeting documents are available in AYY Inside: https://inside.ayy.fi/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=72908807
The next repco meeting is organised on 27th of May at 17.15, with topics including the decision on changes to student union rules and various rules of procedure. The links to meeting livestreams can always be found from the AYY website ayy.fi/live!
If you happen to have questions regarding representative council meetings or the work of the CHEM repco group in general, you can always send a message to the group chair Jani Anttila (@jampade) or vice chair Airi Antikainen (@airikatriina)!
Best regards,
CHEM representative group
Latest news from the student union office
At the start of the meeting board member Vehkomäki presented the latest news from the student union office. The board and office have held their holidays during the spring to prepare for workload in April. A new civil service worker will start at the office in June, with tasks including for example the upcoming elections to repco in the fall. The office is also recruiting a summer worker in service advising (open until 25.4.). The board decided in its meeting 14/2021 to accept four new associations to the first list of AYY associations and granted them the AYY start fund. AYY ja OUBS as well as Jäynä and Äpy will organise a Wappu studio in Dipoli (22.4.-31.4.), consisting of various streamed events. Tutor trainings have been held for over 1000 new tutors. Yet upcoming are additional Zoom sessions over summer, with topics including equality, remote grouping and intercultural communication. The community structure project is also progressing, and the project now has its own project worker.
The songbook report ordered by AYY has sparked some debate. The background of the report was discussed in the office news. Last year the technology students’ songbook was withdrawn due to racist content. A report regarding such aspects of the content was requested from Nyyti ry and SOCO ry, and was finally received at such short notice from Anna Lemström. The report addresses the problematic themes of the book, with the main emphasis on the content as a whole. Based on the report, development points have been discussed with Lutku and the Songbook Committee. A new agreement has been reached with Securitas, and starting from 6.4. door opening service will cost 30 euros to AYY tenants at all times. The general service door codes have also now been withdrawn, due to disturbances and burglary cases. As for real estate projects, an investigation is underway whether the student union can proceed with its part of the Miestentie II project before other partners. The new Otakaari housing projects are in the preliminary contract negotiation phase. In education policy the main emphasis has been in influencing Aalto strategy and its intermediate goals.
Management Report and Financial Statement
AYY financial director Monika Kivimäki presented the financial statements of 2020 and other associated documents. Repco approved the financial statements and annual management report. The 2020 surplus was left in the surplus and deficit account. Freedom of liability was granted to the 2020 board in the next meeting point.
Student Center
The largest share of meeting time was allocated to going through the student center project materials, presented by board member Otto Usvajärvi. A representative of ACRE was also present at the meeting to answer questions from repco. You can find the materials from AYY Inside if you want to have a detailed look: https://inside.ayy.fi/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=72908807
The representative council approved the student center project agreement without a separate vote, as no alternative proposals were presented as opposed to the board motion. In its decision, the repco authorizes the AYY board to negotiate in the project according to AYY interests and sign a project agreement for the student center. Conditions were set for the decision, such as the sale of the current central office to ACRE, reaching an agreement on spaces to be rented to ACRE, commitment to a total cost ceiling of 8 million euro and in general the absence of changes unfavorable to AYY in the project agreement.
9. Feedpack
We would like to remind you about the importance of study feedback! The issues will be reacted to when the feedback reaches us.
You can contact Sara @sarasiivola
(opintovastaava@prosessiteekkarit.fi) or use the anonymous feedback form in PT’s website if you have any bachelor level related study feedback.
If you have any masters or major studies related study feedback you can inform the guilds’ heads of study affairs:
KK: @Joakim9 or feedback form
PJK: @reettamaria or feedback form
VK: @olgapartanen or feedback form
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10. Flower day
The hustle and bustle of winter is already behind us and the arrival of Flora’s day reminds us of the arrival of spring ????????????
Spring also brings the Teekkari Village’s birthday with it. So arrive to celebrate the 69-year-old Teekkarikylä on the Flower Day by exploring its sights on a checkpoint tour! There will be food available for the first ones who complete the tour.
In the evening, you should open the OUBS stream, which shows films from the early days of Teekkarikylä.
Event’s facebook page is here.
11. Summer housing has started
Are you or your friend looking for a home for the summer? In the summer, AYY’s apartments can be rented with fixed-term contracts for the period 1 Apr–31 Aug. If there are not enough applicants among AYY members, housing can be offered to anyone, for example to your friend who comes to work in the metropolitan area for the summer. Only shared apartments, two-room and three-room apartments are available for the summer. There are no studios available, but it is possible to live alone in two-room or three-room apartments. All apartments are unfurnished.
Read more: https://www.ayy.fi/en/housing/summer-apartments
12. Wappu overall badges
Hi!
Teekkari Section sells the overall badges for Ota Mikki, Sitsi Competition and Tour de Walpuri on kide.app. There is also a Wappu 2021 badge designed by the Party Committee. If you want to, you can share this information with your members so that they can buy the badges they want 🙂
Link to the sale: bit.ly/TJWappu21
13. Questionnaire about reference management tools
A questionnaire is now open on a topic that touches all students (and staff!) in some ways, to provide views on reference management tools. (What are reference management tools? Typically one encounters them when writing a thesis, a scientific article, a project application… and uses them to create the list of references cited, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_management_software.)
A student hinted that it could be good to ask guilds to share information about the questionnaire, and hinted me of the list: https://www.ayy.fi/en/list-of-associations/special-status-associations. After a moment of thinking, I decided to spread the message and email the organizational addresses on the list.
Here are links to the survey, published in into and aalto.fi. Feel free to share with your student members, if you like (or not to share – it that case, sorry for bothering).
- https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/share-your-opinion-about-reference-management-tools
- https://www.aalto.fi/fi/uutiset/kerro-mielipiteesi-viitteidenhallintaohjelmista
- https://into.aalto.fi/display/enuutiset/Kerro+mielipiteesi+viitteidenhallintaohjelmista+%7C+Share+your+opinion+about+reference+management+tools
DL for answering is 14.5. The survey is anonymous and takes a few min to answer. In my view, the more answers we get, the better. (By the way: I am a mere side person in this story/survey. I am just in general interested and in favor of asking the students, and also author of a new Scientific Article Exercise (SAE) at Aalto CHEM that touches on the topic—more info of the SAE for the interested here.)
14. Information on the effects of coronavirus on activities at Aalto University
You can find information on the effects of the coronavirus on the activities of the university at https://www.aalto.fi/en/aalto-university/information-on-coronavirus.
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15. Looking for summer worker to work on sulfied Mo-based catalysts
Dear Aalto CHEM students,
The Catalysis group led by Prof. Puurunen (http://aalto.fi/cmet/catalysis) is looking for a *summer worker* to work on sulfided Mo-based catalysts for hydrodenitrogenation. The work will be done in the HDN catalysis (HDN Cat) project funded by Neste in the period May-August 2021.
To get an overall idea of the project and of the research being made, you can have a look at an earlier job description: https://blogs.aalto.fi/catprofopen/2019/08/19/we-are-hiring-looking-for-two-doctoral-candidates-on-the-area-of-catalyst-development-and-testing/. Skills mentioned in the earlier job description are taken as an advantage, but what we value the most is curiosity and willingness to learn. The job involves operating a laboratory scale batch reactor, performing associated analytics, preparation of new catalysts – and more. Our staff will make sure you are properly trained to do the required tasks. The chosen person will receive valuable experience in experimental research and working in a joint project with a large Finnish company.
This position is now open to Aalto students (MSc level and BSc level are both possible). To apply, please use the following link https://rekry.saima.fi/aaltohome/application_edit_welcome.html?job_id=3289&jc=6&lang=en&did=5900 and provide us your motivation letter, CV and transcript of records. You can also provide names and contact information of reference persons, and optionally other documents. Please provide the files as pdf and name them as: HDNcat2021_FamilynamesGivennames_<description-of-the-file>.pdf (example: HDNcat2021_PuurunenRiikka_MotivationLetter.pdf).
This Aalto-internal call will be open until May 12, after which we start reviewing the applications. Our wish is that the applicant could start working during May 2021, but early June is also possible. The specific starting date will be agreed on with the applicant.
16. Secretary’s Regards
My first work week is over and now I have a few days off.
Animal video of the week: relaxing summer
News from the board
The board started looking to reserve spaces for summer and fall and the planning towards the autumn continues. A feedback survey about the events of the spring is coming.
Pyry Vartia
Spokesperson-secretary 2021 | Prosessiteekkarit ry
+358445953800 | tiedottajasihteeri@prosessiteekkarit.fi
School of Chemical Engineering | Aalto University
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