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Master's Degree Programme in Robotics: Part-time studies

Code: YTP2025SS

Degree:
Master of Engineering

Degree title:
Master of Engineering

Credits:
60 ects

Duration:
2 years (60 cr)

Start semester:
Autumn 2025

Teaching language:
English

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Code Name Credits (cr) 2025-2026 2026-2027 Autumn 2025 Spring 2026 Autumn 2026 Spring 2027 1. / 2025 2. / 2026 3. / 2026 1. / 2026 2. / 2027 3. / 2027
YTP2025SS-1001
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

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25
YZ00CK87 Research-based Development 5 5 5 5
YT00CA12 Modern Management of IT 5 5 5 5
YT00CD09 Robotics Applications 5 5 5 5
YT00CD08 Machine Learning in Robotics 5 5 5 5
YT00CD10 Safety in Automation 5 5 5 5
YTP2025SS-1002
MASTER'S THESIS

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30
YZ00BL94 Master's Thesis, Planning 7 2 5 2 5 2 5
YZ00BL98 Master's Thesis, Research Writing 3 3 3 3
YZ00BL95 Master's Thesis, Implementation 10 10 5 5 5 5
YZ00BL96 Master's Thesis, Reporting 10 10 10 10
YZ00BB05 Maturity Test, Master's Degree 0
YTP2025SS-1003
ELECTIVE STUDIES

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5
YTFWV100 New and Emerging Technologies 5
YI00CH04 Cyber Security Implementation in Practice 5
YTIP2200 Data Analytics 5
YTP2025SS-1004
INTEGRATION TO FINLAND

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0 - 10
ZZ00CK40 Finland Works 2
ZZ00CK41 Future of Work 2
ZZ00CK42 Design a Meaningful Career 2
ZZ00CD04 Finnish 1 4
BI00BB21 Finnish 2 5
YHTYRI
Shared Entrepreneurship Studies (For Bachelor's and Master's Student)

(Choose 23)

0 - 23
ZZ00BC02 Idea to Business 5
ZZ00BC03 Business Coaching 8
ZYVZ0200 The Dreams+Inspiration! 3
ZZ00CQ16 Narratives of entrepreneurship 2
ZZ00CQ17 Valmiina yrittämään 3
ZZ00CQ18 JA Company Program 1 - 5
ZZ00CQ62 Yritystoimintaa kehittävät opinnot 1 - 5
YTP2025SS-1005
CROSS-INSTITUTIONAL STUDIES

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0 - 5
YTP2025SS-1006
EUDRES

(Choose 0)

0
Total 60 25 30 10 15 15 15 10 15 0 15 15 0

Due to the timing of optional and elective courses, credit accumulation per semester / academic year may vary.

Master’s degree: The shared competences 2023-2027

Ethics

The graduating student assesses and promotes the realisation of ethical principles and values of their field of profession, taking equality and non-discrimination into account.
- Is able to promote ethically sustainable activities and the realisation of ethical reflection in their different operating environments.
- Promotes the realisation of the ethical principles and values of their field.
- Makes decisions taking individual, communal and societal perspectives into account.
- Promotes the realisation of diversity and accessibility.
- Implements the principles of responsible conduct of research and promotes their application in their work community.
- Is able to manage societally influential activities based on ethical values.

Research-based Development
Machine Learning in Robotics
Safety in Automation
Master's Thesis, Planning
Master's Thesis, Research Writing
Master's Thesis, Implementation
Master's Thesis, Reporting
Maturity Test, Master's Degree
Proactive development

The graduating student is able to manage the development of new solutions that anticipate the future and produces new information using different research and development methods.
− Produces new information and reforms operating methods, combining competence in different fields.
- Is able to implement research, development and innovation projects and apply different research and development methods.
- Is able to develop new customer-oriented, sustainable and economically viable solutions, anticipating the future.
- Is able to analyse the current situation and anticipate the future of their field and changes in the operating environment.

Research-based Development
Machine Learning in Robotics
Safety in Automation
Master's Thesis, Implementation
Maturity Test, Master's Degree
Internationality and multiculturalism

The graduating student is able to develop and manage multicultural and international operating environments and networks.
- Is able to develop operating methods that take multiculturalism into account in their work community.
- Is able to anticipate the impacts and opportunities of global development and phenomena.
- Is able to interact, communicate and develop activities internationally in their own field.

Master's Thesis, Implementation
Master's Thesis, Reporting
Sustainable development

The graduating student develops and manages sustainable and responsible operating methods in their work and promotes sustainable change in their work community and society.
- Is able to apply the knowledge and future visions of sustainable development comprehensively as a basis for sustainable solutions.
- Is able to analyse and assess systemic dependencies of complex multidisciplinary problems and the different dimensions of solutions.
- Is able to manage the search, implementation and establishment of sustainable solutions and operating models in their work communit.

Robotics Applications
Master's Thesis, Implementation
Learning to learn

The graduating student promotes their own and their community's continuous learning and competence development, drawing on knowledge from different fields and the opportunities of digitalisation.
- Is able to assess and develop their expertise diversely and in a goal-oriented manner at different stages of their career and life.
- Is able to acquire, critically assess and produce information while taking into account the perspectives of different fields.
- Is able to develop and manage goal-oriented, continuous learning in their community.

Research-based Development
Modern Management of IT
Robotics Applications
Machine Learning in Robotics
Safety in Automation
Master's Thesis, Planning
Master's Thesis, Research Writing
Master's Thesis, Implementation
Master's Thesis, Reporting
Maturity Test, Master's Degree
New and Emerging Technologies
Operating in a workplace

The graduating student is able to develop and manage their work community and reforms working life.
- Is able to develop and manage multidisciplinary teams and work communities.
- Is able to develop the communication and interaction culture of work communities.
- Is able to develop and manage the comprehensive well-being of a work community.
- Utilises the opportunities of technology and digitalisation in development and management.
- Promotes the resilience of a work community.

Research-based Development
Robotics Applications
Safety in Automation
Master's Thesis, Implementation
Not grouped
Cyber Security Implementation in Practice
Data Analytics
Finland Works
Future of Work
Design a Meaningful Career
Finnish 1
Finnish 2

Master's Degree: EUR-ACE competences in Technology 2024-2027

Engineering Analysis

- Ability to analyse new and complex engineering products, processes and systems within broader or multidisciplinary contexts; to select and apply the most appropriate and relevant methods from established analytical, computational and experimental methods or new and innovative methods; to critically interpret the outcomes of such analyses;
- Ability to conceptualise engineering products, processes and systems;
- Ability to identify, formulate and solve unfamiliar complex engineering problems that are incompletely defined, have competing specifications, may involve considerations from outside their field of study and non-technical – societal, health and safety, environmental, economic and industrial – constraints; to select and apply the most appropriate and elevant methods from established analytical, computational and experimental methods or new and innovative methods in problem solving;
- Ability to identify, formulate and solve complex problems in new and emerging areas of their specialisation.

Robotics Applications
Master's Thesis, Planning
Master's Thesis, Reporting
Engineering Design

- Ability to develop, to design new and complex products (devices, artefacts, etc.), processes and systems, with specifications incompletely defined and/or competing, that require integration of knowledge from different fields and non-technical - societal, health and safety, environmental, economic and industrial commercial – constraints; to select and apply the most appropriate and relevant design methodologies or to use creativity to develop new and original design methodologies;
- Ability to design using knowledge and understanding at the forefront of their engineering specialisation.

Robotics Applications
Machine Learning in Robotics
Master's Thesis, Planning
Master's Thesis, Implementation
Engineering Practice

- Comprehensive understanding of applicable techniques and methods of analysis, design and investigation and of their limitations;
- Practical skills, including the use of computer tools, for solving complex problems, realising complex engineering design, designing and conducting complex investigations;
- Comprehensive understanding of applicable materials, equipment and tools, engineering technologies and processes, and of their limitations;
- Ability to apply norms of engineering practice;
- Knowledge and understanding of the non-technical – societal, health and safety, environmental, economic and industrial - implications of engineering practice;
- Critical awareness of economic, organisational and managerial issues (such as project management, risk and change management).

Machine Learning in Robotics
Master's Thesis, Planning
Master's Thesis, Reporting
Investigations

- Ability to identify, locate and obtain required data;
- Ability to conduct searches of literature, to consult and critically use databases and other sources of information, to carry out simulation in order to pursue detailed investigations and research of complex technical issues;
- Ability to consult and apply codes of practice and safety regulations;
- Advanced laboratory/workshop skills and ability to design and conduct experimental investigations, critically evaluate data and draw conclusions;
- Ability to investigate in a creative way the application of new and emerging technologies at the forefront of their engineering specialisation.

Research-based Development
Robotics Applications
Machine Learning in Robotics
Safety in Automation
Master's Thesis, Implementation
Master's Thesis, Reporting
New and Emerging Technologies
Knowledge and Understanding

- In-depth knowledge and understanding of mathematics, computing and sciences underlying their engineering specialisation, at a level necessary to achieve the other programme outcomes;
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of engineering disciplines underlying their specialisation, at a level necessary to achieve the other programme outcomes;
- Critical awareness of the forefront of their specialisation;
- Critical awareness of the wider multidisciplinary context of engineering and of knowledge issues at the interface between different fields.

Research-based Development
Modern Management of IT
Master's Thesis, Implementation
Master's Thesis, Reporting
New and Emerging Technologies
Lifelong Learning

- Ability to engage in independent life-long learning;
- Ability to undertake further study autonomously.

Modern Management of IT
Master's Thesis, Reporting
New and Emerging Technologies
Making Judgements, Communication and Team-working

- Ability to integrate knowledge and handle complexity, to formulate judgements with incomplete or limited information, that include reflecting on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgement to deliver sustainable solutions for society, the economy and environment;
- Ability to manage complex technical or professional activities or projects that can require new strategic approaches, taking responsibility for decision making.

Research-based Development
Modern Management of IT
Master's Thesis, Planning
Master's Thesis, Research Writing
Master's Thesis, Reporting
Maturity Test, Master's Degree
Not grouped
Cyber Security Implementation in Practice
Data Analytics
Finland Works
Future of Work
Design a Meaningful Career
Finnish 1
Finnish 2

Code Name Credits (cr)
YTP2025SS-1001
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

(Choose all)

25
YZ00CK87 Research-based Development 5
YT00CA12 Modern Management of IT 5
YT00CD09 Robotics Applications 5
YT00CD08 Machine Learning in Robotics 5
YT00CD10 Safety in Automation 5
YTP2025SS-1002
MASTER'S THESIS

(Choose all)

30
YZ00BL94 Master's Thesis, Planning 7
YZ00BL98 Master's Thesis, Research Writing 3
YZ00BL95 Master's Thesis, Implementation 10
YZ00BL96 Master's Thesis, Reporting 10
YZ00BB05 Maturity Test, Master's Degree 0
YTP2025SS-1003
ELECTIVE STUDIES

(Choose 5)

5
YTFWV100 New and Emerging Technologies 5
YI00CH04 Cyber Security Implementation in Practice 5
YTIP2200 Data Analytics 5
YTP2025SS-1004
INTEGRATION TO FINLAND

(Choose 10)

0 - 10
ZZ00CK40 Finland Works 2
ZZ00CK41 Future of Work 2
ZZ00CK42 Design a Meaningful Career 2
ZZ00CD04 Finnish 1 4
BI00BB21 Finnish 2 5
YHTYRI
Shared Entrepreneurship Studies (For Bachelor's and Master's Student)
0 - 23
ZZ00BC02 Idea to Business 5
ZZ00BC03 Business Coaching 8
ZYVZ0200 The Dreams+Inspiration! 3
ZZ00CQ16 Narratives of entrepreneurship 2
ZZ00CQ17 Valmiina yrittämään 3
ZZ00CQ18 JA Company Program 1 - 5
ZZ00CQ62 Yritystoimintaa kehittävät opinnot 1 - 5
YTP2025SS-1005
CROSS-INSTITUTIONAL STUDIES

(Choose 5)

0 - 5
YTP2025SS-1006
EUDRES

(Choose 0)

0