Introductions

Aki Koponen

Hello! I’m Aki Koponen and 23 years old. I moved from Hanko to Turku to study Chemical Engineering in Turku University of Applied Sciences. My subjects of the interest are wellness, sport activities and spending time with my family and friends. My strengths are group working and creativity. I really like to be social with all kind of people. One of my weakness is presentation, I don’t mean that I’m bad at that, but I need most practice on this skill. My hobbies are gym training, running and relaxing at home.
Something about my work experience. I have worked as a salesperson in S-Market and Lidl summer periods and after army I was working about 1 year in Lidl. Now in Turku I worked my first summer after first year school in Nestlé as a line operator and I continued that during studies. Last summer I worked as a project worker at technical maintenance in Nestlé and now I’m doing part working during studies.

- Hard work pays off.

Gemb Nushi

I´m Gemb Nushi, born in Croatia and raised in Finland. I have done my schooling in Vaasa until University level. I study in Turku University of Applied Science, 3rd year student in chemical engineering.
My strengths are in social skills and management. Also my technical skills knowledge is above average level. I like to take responsibilities and not afraid to lead a group. My calm personality gives me advantage in various difficult situations. I consider myself as team player and my strengths is shown in group work. I believe in myself and my hard work and I want perfection in everything.
My hobbies are floorball, basketball and football. I watch sports everyday so that is my relaxation point. Weekends I work in nightclub, which I consider as a hobby because I don’t do it for money.
Currently I´m working in Nestlé as project trainee, I do all my apprenticeship required from university. I think that I am hard working and eager to learn more every day. My short term goal is to get placed in a reputed company like Nestlé which will give me an opportunity to enhance my skills and knowledge.

My ethics is “what you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”

Kristian Kosunen

I`m Kristian Kosunen and I’m 26 years old. I am from Joutseno, which is today part of the Lappeenranta. I moved to Turku in the fall of 2014, but I started my studies at Turku University of Applied Sciences in the fall of 2015. I study at Turku University of Applied Sciences in chemical engineering degree programme, I am a third-year student. I have worked in the food industry since 2011. When I lived in Lappeenranta I worked Vaasa Oy's bakery and when I move to Turku I started working at Turku The Nestle factory in March 2015 and I´m still working there as a production worker.
I'm interested in the food industry but in my free time I follow a lot of sports, I follow almost any kind of sports, but my favorite sports are ice hockey and football/soccer. I have been playing the ice hockey ever since I was a four years old, competitive sport, I stopped in at the age of 18, but continued to play ice hockey as a hobby. Because of my long experience in team sports, I consider one of my strengths, my team skills and the fact that I get along well with different people. My skills, that in my opinion need improvement is courage to bring my own ideas on the table and the language skills. From this course, I look forward to great challenges and to learn more about what is it to work in this industry and what it is like to do the real project.

Mathilde Semin

Hi, my name is Mathilde Semin and I’m 21. I’m studying near Paris in a Biotechnology school since 2015. Previously, I have done one year in medical school. Through my biotechnology studies, I had the chance to work at the Biomedical Research Institute of Armed Forces in order to find a vaccine against Zika Virus. As a part of my studies and with a student group, we started to create a material device capable of calculate the quantity of gluten in the composition of each aliments. This creation leads us at the 2nd place of a competition of innovation projects sponsored by enterprises. I’m studying nanotechnology in Turku University of Applied Science during one semester.
Beside my studies and work experiences, my principles strengths is my adaptability to work in a new environment, I’m also willing to learn some new things, I’m curious, positive thinker. I also have some weakness, as this project is my first project directly linked to an enterprise, maybe I won’t be confident enough in my task at beginning. But I’m not afraid of being a part of this project.
My hobbies are hiking in the nature, sports (horse riding, ice skating, gym training), but also go to the cinema and stay at home with my friends and family.
If I had to choose a slogan, I will take one from Mahatma Gandhi “The future depends on what we do in the present.”

Tomi Saarinen

I´m Tomi Saarinen and 24 years old. Originally I am from Punkalaidun, but now I live in Turku. I´m 3rd year student of chemical engineering in Turku University of Applied Sciences. I´m interested in the food industry and processes which are related to it and therefore I´m studying chemical engineering. My other interests are ice hockey which I follow nearly daily and Finnish design which is my collectible.
In my opinion my strengths are responsibility, punctuality and good sense of humour. I think that one of my strengths is also group working, because I get along with people. I would like to improve my presentation skills and language skills.
I had two and a half year work experience from food industry before I started my studies. I was working in Lihajaloste Korpela Oy which is a meat refinery company. After my first year of school I began to work in Nestlé as a line operator. I have worked there my summer holidays as well as part-time during school.

Mikko Uutela

My name is Mikko Uutela, I’m 21 and I am studying to become IT engineer and my specialization is embedded software. My strength are my logical thinking and eagerness to learn. My only weakness that I can think of is that I can sometimes get a little frustrated with programming if there is an error that I can’t fix but I feel like that is just a part of programming. I don’t have much work experience except last summer when I was working in PC maintenance in a store in Forssa. My slogan is “work smarter not harder”.

Adrien Augé

My name is Adrien Augé and I am 20. I study in France Biotechnology in engineering school and I’m in Finland for the autumn semester in Turku University of Applied Sciences for study Nanotechnology, Food Engineering, and Biomaterials.
I’m interested in this course because we need to lead a project directly in correlation with an enterprise. My best quality is to be curious, worker and have a good communication but my weakness is to have never work in a project linked to an enterprise, but I have already work on many other projects in France.
My hobbies are cinema, visit countries and discover new cultures. If I had to tell a slogan, it will be “Be yourself”. Concerning my work experience, I worked in a bacteriological laboratory at the end of my second year of engineering school. I also participated in an innovative project competition in France where a specific enterprise selected us and our group won the first place in this competition.

Tommi Aarinen

Age 25
I study Information and communications technology and specialize in heath technology
My interests include computers, cars, technology and meeting new people.
Expectations for the course are that I get a better knowledge about project work and how to work as a team member.
My strengths include teamwork abilities, project management skills and organizing.
Weaknesses include stressing about things and trying to control things
I don’t really have a slogan
I have worked in various things including warehouses, tire shops and other similar places.

Joni Kuisma

I’m 23-year-old student at Turku University of Applied Sciences. This is my third year in chemical engineering and I have planned to finish my studies in time (four years). I have been waiting for this capstone project, because it sounds like this is something where we could accomplish something good and meaningful. Show our skills and knowledge, learn something new, improve our project management and work with professionals and with real companies.
I consider myself a hard worker and an asset for a team, by bringing opinions and rational solutions with my good and diverse general knowledge. I like when a team can work well and efficiently together towards the goal, and I appreciate punctuality. I hate doing work which isn’t productive in any way, and if project leader can’t manage the team, I will try to support, bring ideas, and direct the team towards the goal. In some sense, I have good team managing skills and if necessary I can take the lead, so that we can reach the goal.
Currently I’m working at Wallac Oy as a part-time worker, making antibody-coated microtitration plates. Wallac Oy produces instruments and reagents for pre- and neonatal screening and various resource purposes. In addition to my work and studies, I go to gym at my free time and play various sports with my friends, I like to be active. Weekends I relax.

Erik Youmans

Hello! My name is Erik Youmans and I am a third-year international business student at TUAS. I grew up in a small rural town in Northern Michigan. When I was in high school I spent a year in Finland as an exchange student and I decided to move back as soon as I had the chance.  In addition to my studies, I work part time at Hesburger, I am a marketing intern at Puf Design Market, and I am a district coordinator for Rotary's youth exchange program – meaning I organize events and orientations for high school exchange students living in Southwest Finland. Traveling is my passion and I enjoy working with people from diverse backgrounds. I also am passionate about linguistics and anthropology. In my free time I like to stay active by running and going to the gym. I am excited about this project with Nestlé because environmental protection and renewable energies are critical topics that affect us all.