Slavko Rakic

TalTech: Innovating Through Design Thinking and Challenge-Based Learning

Semester: Winter

Offered: 2025/26

The goal of the course is to master the knowledge and skills necessary for applying design thinking and challenge-based learning methodologies to solve complex, real-world problems. The course examines the relationship between creativity, user-centered design, and structured problem-solving frameworks, highlighting their importance for the development of innovative, sustainable, and practical solutions aligned with user and societal needs.

IM1103: Services Engineering

Semester: Winter

Offered: 2024/25

The goal of the course is to master the knowledge and skills necessary for the design of services and service processes, including any specific properties of service products. The course studies the relationship between the service concept, service process, and service systems and their importance for the effective and efficient production of services matched to user requirements.

IM1039: Fundamentals of Operations Management

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2024/25

Introduce to students to basic skills of planning, designing, implementing, and managing operations within production systems and service delivery systems, is the main objective of this subject. Processes of procurement, storage, processing, assembly, sales, and delivery comprise several operations whose proper management can achieve the desired business effect. The course also studies the efficient capacity development of the owners of these processes who as a result provide final products or services in compliance with the users` demands. The course is directed towards acquiring the knowledge that enables qualitative decision-making on the production program alternations, technological development and introduction of new technologies, ecology, and sustainable development.

Digital Services in Manufacturing

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2024/25

The Application of Digital Services in Manufacturing course provides advanced knowledge on transforming traditional manufacturing into modern enterprises using digital services. It covers the design and implementation of service applications, the impact of digital technologies on performance, and the role of innovation and technology intensity. Students will also explore business models, overcoming barriers to digital service adoption, and how these services enhance customer loyalty and satisfaction in today’s industrial landscape.

IM1034: Professional practices

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2024/25

Gaining direct knowledge about the functioning and organization of companies and institutions dealing with matters within the profession for which the student qualifies and possibilities of applying previously acquired knowledge into practice.

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