Professor Petri Suomala is the Vice President for Education at Aalto University as of September 2018. Before Aalto, he held the same position at Tampere University of Technology, where he steered the development of educational offerings within the merger process of three universities in Tampere region. Dr. Tech. Petri Suomala has worked at Tampere University of Technology also as Professor of Profitability Management and Management Accounting since 2009. He was appointed Head of Department of Industrial Management in 2011, Dean of Faculty of Business and Built Environment in 2014 and Vice President for Education in 2016. Professor Suomala headed also the Tampere University of Technology Cost Management Center (CMC) Research team, and worked as Adjunct Professor at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Industrial Engineering and Management, focusing especially in business economics.

Petri Suomala教授自2018年9月起担任芬兰阿尔托大学副校长，主管教学工作。在此之前他在芬兰坦佩雷工业大学担任副校长，在职期间，推动了坦佩雷地区三所大学合并过程中的教育项目发展。Petri Suomala教授自2009年起，担任坦芬兰佩雷工业大学盈利能力管理及管理会计学的教授。2011年，他被工业管理部门任命为主任。2014年，他担任商业和城市环境系系主任，2016年开始担任教学副校长。Petri Suomala教授同时也带领了坦佩雷工业大学成本管理中心研究团队，并在芬兰拉普兰塔理工大学工业设计管理系担任兼职教授，主要研究商业经济。

Title and Synopsis of the presentation
报告主题及摘要

Keyshot Title:  Towards transdisciplinarity in higher education: Best of technology, design and business for the benefit of student and society
报告题目：高等教育中的跨学科趋势：为了学生和社会的利益，融合最优的技术、设计和商业服务

Complex challenges that we face both as nations and as a global community call for professionals capable of efficiently and effectively working together and leveraging individual competencies in a systemic way.Aalto University has a ten-year history in combining technology, design and business education for the benefit of both students and society at large. Two main strategies have been used: 1) students have been provided with flexible study paths and collaboration platforms, which enable inclusion of elements outside one’s main study field, and 2) the university has created structures for encouraging collaboration – co-creation of education – between teachers in a cross-disciplinary fashion. Investment in online teaching and learning, working-life connections as well as in student well-being have set the foundation for this endeavor.In the presentation, some of the key ingredients and achievements of this decennial development will be addressed – including the concept of cross-cutting programmes, university wide studies, Design Factory and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

对于各个国家和全球共同体来说，我们目前面临的复杂挑战需要高效率、善合作的专业人士，并需要系统地方式提升个体能力。芬兰阿尔托大学在融合科技、设计、商业教育上已有10年经验，为学生和社会都创造了福祉。主要采取了2个策略：1）为学生提供灵活的平台和多种完成学业的选课路线，允许学生在专业之外选择其他的课程；2）在学校中创立鼓励合作的结构，鼓励不同学科的老师共同创造教学内容。我们还在网络教学、工作生活连接和学生福利上加大投资，这些举措都为这两个策略的实施奠定了基础。在这次的演讲中，Petri Suomala教授将讨论这10年教育改革中的重要部分和成就，包括交叉教学的理念、大学校园内的广泛学习、设计工厂和创业生态系统