School's four departments and the special units widely cover the fields of electronics, communications and automation.

Actual technical vocational training began in Helsinki after a legislative reform in 1858.

In 1877 the Polytechnic School moved to its own premises when the building next to Hietalahti Market was completed.

The Polytechnic Institute was made a university-level school in 1908 and renamed the Technological University of Finland.

Move to Otaniemi After the Second World War the city blocks available began to be much too small.

Next year, the State bought the lands of Otaniemi Manor in the eastern part of the rural municipality of Espoo to serve as the new campus.

Its first residents were not students, however, but athletes taking part in 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics.

1887 Gottfried Strömberg started electrical engineering laboratory practises at the Polytechnic Institute.