
WHAT IS PDP?
Product Development Project (PdP) course is open to all Aalto students from any discipline and is intended for first-year Master’s students or those with equivalent skills and experience in their field.
You can sign up for the course on Sisu.
INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
WORK ON REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES FROM THE INDUSTRY
The course follows a passion-based learning (PBL) methodology. The challenges are given and sponsored by industry partners, who are searching for innovative cooperation with the next generation of product developers.
You can check the project topics on MyCourses.
GLOBAL TEAMS
LEARN IN INTERDISCIPLINARY GLOBAL TEAMS
At the start, a lot of attention is directed to the forming of highly motivated interdisciplinary teams. A project typically includes phases of understanding the challenge, planning, research, concepts generation, prototyping and testing.
PRODUCT INNOVATION
BUILD THE PRODUCTS OF THE FUTURE
The project concludes with the Product Design Gala where the teams present their final functional prototypes of a tangible product or service solution for their industry challenge.
FINAL GALA
PRODUCT DESIGN GALA
For almost 30 years PdP has brought students of business, design, and technology together to tackle industry challenges and develop state of the art solutions to real problems. At the Product Design Gala, the interdisciplinary teams show the result of their hard work to the visitors, engage with the visitors, explain the project and answer their questions, and mostly be proud of their work!
The visitors will have a chance to hear about the teams’ accomplishments and processes, as well as to get familiar with the people themselves together with their amazing prototypes.
COURSE STAFF
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Senni Kirjavainen Coordinating Teacher
+358 50 521 5964 senni.kirjavainen@aalto.fi
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Tua Björklund Course Professor
+358 50 511 3182 tua.bjorklund@aalto.fi
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Joonas Vesterinen Course Coordinator
+358 50 431 6152 joonas.vesterinen@aalto.fi
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Eerika Hietaniemi Course Assistant
+358 50 320 8850 eerika.hietaniemi@aalto.fi
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Markku Koskela Teacher
+358 50 408 1760 markku.koskela@aalto.fi
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Aaro Packalén PDP Coach
+358 50 407 4114 aaro.packalen@aalto.fi
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Kalevi “Eetu” Ekman PDP Founding Father
+358 50 555 3566 kalevi.ekman@aalto.fi