Elina Kähkönen

Cross Cutting Areas Officer
Manager
U924 Innovation Ecosystem Services

Dr.Sci.(Tech) Elina Kähkönen made her first career in an international chemical industry company. Her field is chemical engineering with the major in applied microbiology. Her Doctoral research (2007-2011) focused on the interaction between sustainability guidance and product development in the chemical industry. Since 2013 she has been a head of the Aaltonaut minor program. The Aaltonaut program has been the forerunner of interdisciplinary education in Aalto at Bachelor’s level. Since Aug 2021 she has lead a strategy implementation project which stives to integrate the cross-cutting themes of Aalto University; Solutions for Sustainability, Entrepreneurial Mindset, and Radical Creativity in education.

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Publikationer

Integroitu yrittäjyysopetus : Yrittäjyystaitoja opiskelijoille, joille Slush tarkoittaa vain loskaa

Kalle Airo, Håkan Mitts, Elina Kähkönen 2023 Yrittäjyyden edistäminen korkeakouluissa – esimerkkejä ja käytänteitä

Multidisciplinary education through faculty members’ conceptualisations of and experiences in engineering education

Xiaoqi Feng, Salu Ylirisku, Elina Kähkönen, Hannele Niemi, Katja Hölttä-Otto 2023 European Journal of Engineering Education

Towards Circular Design and Manufacturing - Lessons Learned from University-Based Makerspaces

Tanja Honkala, Katja Hölttä-Otto, Elina Kähkönen 2023 Procedia CIRP

Shaping A Sustainable Future Through Integrating Sustainability, Creativity And Entrepreneurship In Engineering Education At Aalto University

Paulo Roberto Nicoletti Dziobczenski, Elina Kähkönen, Håkan Mitts 2023 SEFI 2023 - 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education

From crossing chromosomes to crossing curricula–a biomimetic analogy for cross-disciplinary engineering curriculum planning

Elina Kähkönen, Katja Hölttä-Otto 2021 European Journal of Engineering Education

Collaborative teaching as a tool in university development

E. Kähkönen, K. Airo 2020 SEFI 47th Annual Conference

Is It Safe to Paint Your Wall White? A Case Study on Titanium Dioxide Classification

E. Elina Kahkonen 2019 Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Entrepreneurship education ecosystems in engineering and technology (E4T)

M. Varano, E. Kähkönen, H. Aarnio, M. Clavert, M. Kaulio, K. Thorén, C. Haenen, W. Van Petegem, A. Colombelli, G. Sansone, E. Raguseo, E. Paolucci, E. Scharnagl, R. Mendes, L. Caldas De Oliveira, S. Fergus, R. Brennan 2019 Proceedings of the 46th SEFI Annual Conference 2018

LabLife3D Virtual laboratory excercises in decarboxylation, vacuum distillation, Molecular biology

Tuomas Kangasniemi, Sebastian Olkinuora, Pekka Joensuu, Olli Natri, Pekka Qvist, Matti Ketola, Marko Närhi, Reija Jokela, Eero Palomäki, Hannu Tiitu, Elina Kähkönen, Katrina Nordström 2013

Does Decreased Chemical Risk Lead to Increased Microbiological Risk? Toxicology in Vitro. SSCT 2011 special issue

E Kähkönen, A Passinen, K. Nordström 2011 SSCT FinCopa 28th SSCT FinCopa, Towards toxicity assessment without animals, Tampere, Finland, 21.-23.9,2011