Cooperation

PlastExpo Nordic 2020 at Messukeskus, Helsinki

11.03.2020 Cooperation, Events, Projects

Despite all the worries and uncertainties with epidemics/pandemics the leading industrial events in Northern Europe at Messukeskus Expo and Convention Center Helsinki 11–12 March 2020 took place. The trade events for the packaging, food and drink, and plastics industries – PacTec, FoodTec and PlastExpo Nordic – brought together industry professionals at Messukeskus in Helsinki. Arcada UAS organised booth at PlastExpo Nordic fair area hosted by 4 students from engineering study…

Learning from Scratch

17.01.2020 Cooperation, Education, Projects

Owen Kelly (D. Phil), Principal lecturer in Online Media, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS In November 2019 I reported about a project that Irma Sippola and I started and which we call Snowcastle Valley. As part of this I have committed myself to teach eleven teenage girls and women, and five teenage boys, all school dropouts living below the poverty line, to code using the Scratch programming…

Sju frågor till Arcadas nya bibliotekschef

20.11.2019 Cooperation

Arcadas långvariga bibliotekschef Maria von Hertzen gick i pension i höst. I denna intervju berättar hennes efterträdare Heini Oikkonen-Kerman om sig själv och sin vision för biblioteket. (Heini är klädd i helsvart på bilden) Vem är du? Jag är en 36 år gammal tvåbarnsmamma, och har nyligen börjat jobba som bibliotekschef vid Arcada. Det är fint och spännande med full rulle i både arbets- och familjeliv! Vad gjorde du innan du började på Arcada? Mitt intresse för…

The NURED Final Seminar – WELCOME!

30.09.2019 Cooperation, Education, Events, Projects

Dear readers! We are pleased to, finally, be able to announce that our project final seminar is drawing near! Held at Arcada UAS (Helsinki Finland) 14.11.2019 from 10.00-16.00 local time, there is an option of attending in person OR globally online. So, wherever you may be reading this, you have the possibility to join us! We have chosen to call our seminar “The home-care jigsaw: bridgning the pieces together in…

Students get hands on experience spraying polyurea

13.05.2019 Cooperation, Education, Events

As the final lab exercise on the Surface Properties course, our materials engineering students last week visited Teknos’ industrial testing facility in Helsinki. Chemist Sami Kivi instructed us on the science and engineering behind paints and coatings, then took us to their spraying building where everyone had the opportunity to spray polyurea coating. It is a waterproof polymer coating that cures rapidly, and due to its toughness and elasticity is…

Largest waste water treatment plant in the Nordic countries

13.05.2019 Cooperation, Education, Events

Our materials processing students on the Sustainable Engineering course were on the move again today to Viikinmäki waste water treatment plant in Helsinki. We went underground through the largest treatment plant in the Nordic countries, which processes the wastewaters of around 800,000 residents as well as the wastewaters of the region’s industry. We learned about the different treatment stages of screening, sedimentation, aeration and biological filtration, and about the current…

Where is Helsinki’s electricity and heating generated?

09.05.2019 Cooperation, Education, Events

This was a real eye-opening excursion for our engineering students, many of whom had lived in Helsinki for years unaware of the huge energy infrastructure under our feet! We visited Helen’s Salmisaari power plant in the Ruoholahti area of Helsinki. It is a combined heat and power (CHP) plant, where the share of renewable energy is increased by burning wood pellets together with coal. We learned about the challenge of…

Biowaste treatment and landfill site excursion

09.05.2019 Cooperation, Education, Events

The sun was shining again over Espoo when we went on an interesting (and occaisionally smelly!) tour around HSY’s modern, circular economy-themed waste treatement centre at Ämmässuo. There our engineering students learned about the treatment of biowaste. Two of our thesis students collected biowaste-compost samples for their research projects on the macro- and microplastics in biowaste and how they pass through to the final compost product. We also explored the…

Educational collaboration with Premix Group

02.05.2019 Cooperation, Education

Thanks to educational collaboration between Premix Group and Arcada UAS, our materials engineering students get hands-on experience with advanced polymers. Following a guest lecture by marketing director Eira Kärjä of Premix Group, they provided us with samples of their PRE-ELEC dissipative and conductive polymers. Our students were very enthusiastic to investigate these important materials that have markedly different electrical properties compared to conventional polymers.