Cooperation

Sju frågor till Arcadas nya bibliotekschef

20.11.2019

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 , , ,

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 , ,

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 , ,

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 , ,

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 , ,

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 ,

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.

Strategy Workshop – Paul D. Savage

23.04.2019 , , ,

Paul D. Savage was our guest speaker for strategy workshop that took place here in Arcada building in our very own eye tracking room. Although young in age, Paul had been in many countries, done great many things and experienced a lot in his life. This also came out in his presentation as Paul was sharing his insights to things like entrepreneurial mindset, self-motivation, 5 levels of recognition, personal plan…

Customer Experience Management – EkoTekNord

11.04.2019 , ,

We are seven Arcada students who participated on a course in customer experience management in Håverud, Sweden from the 31st of March until the 6th of April. The ambition was to familiarize and learn more about customer experience management and to meet students from other Scandinavian and Baltic countries. There were participants from Finland, Åland Islands, Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. Thanks to our very own Arcada exchange students…

Intressanta och lärorika dagar om konditionstestning

04.04.2019 , ,

Vi idrottsinstruktörer på Arcada fick möjligheten att arbeta med LTS (Liikuntatieteellinen Seura) projekt ”Kuntotestauspäivät” 21–24.3.2019. Projektet var en del av kursen Sports management. Våra uppgifter innehöll bland annat kommunikation och marknadsföring inom Arcadas kanaler, organisering av förhandsanmälningar för studeranden och personal samt hjälpa till under evenemanget. Kuntotestauspäivät är ett årligt evenemang som ordnas för alla inom idrottsbranschen. Temat för evenemanget varierar från år till år. Temat för det här året…