• Welcome to Abacus

    Abacus is a material bank for STEM education based at Aalto University, Finland. We seek to produce, share and host high-quality educational material between collaborators. Our goal is to provide maintained and ready-to use material for lecturing and exercises. We specially focus on material utilizing the automatic assessment system STACK, but we are open to material making use of other formats and platforms as well.

    The project was founded in early 2015 by the seven Finnish universities providing MSc education in engineering. Abacus was part of a pilot project concerning mathematical education, but has since grown in range of topics as well as partners. Interest towards the project has increased worldwide, and we look forward to including more collaborators.

    Questions about the Abacus project or discussion about granting your institution membership should be directed at Prof. Antti Rasila (Guangdong Technion), the coordinator of the project (email: antti.rasila [at] gtiit.edu.cn and antti.rasila [at] iki.fi).

    The contact person and the site administrator for German language Abacus materials is Dr. Michael Kallweit (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

    Current partners:

    • Aalto University, Finland Coordinator
    • Åbo Akademi University, Finland Initial partner
    • Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Finland
    • Atlantic Technological University (ATU), Ireland
    • Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
    • Central Queensland University, Australia
    • Durham University, United Kingdom
    • EPF Graduate School of Engineering, France
    • Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, China/Israel
    • Häme University of Applied Sciences, Finland
    • Hannover University of Applied Sciences, Germany
    • Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
    • Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, Ukraine
    • JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland
    • Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany
    • LAB University of Applied Sciences, Finland
    • Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Initial partner
    • Loughborough University, United Kingdom
    • Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
    • Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Norway
    • Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH) Amberg-Weiden, Germany
    • Oulu University of Applied Sciences OAMK, Finland
    • Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
    • Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany
    • Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Slovakia
    • South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences XAMK, Finland
    • Tallinn University, Estonia
    • Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
    • Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Finland
    • Tampere University of Technology, Finland Initial partner
    • Technicum Vienna, Austria
    • TTK University of Applied Sciences, Estonia
    • University of Agder, Norway
    • University of Alberta, Canada
    • University of Bern, Switzerland
    • University of Eastern Finland, Finland
    • University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    • University of Helsinki, Finland
    • University of Jyväskylä, Finland
    • University of Oulu, Finland Initial partner
    • University of Stavanger, Norway
    • University of Tampere, Finland
    • University of Tartu, Estonia
    • University of Turku, Finland Initial partner
    • University of Vaasa, Finland Initial partner
    • University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
    • Vaasa University of Applied Sciences, Finland