As a secondary school graduate, choosing the next step in your education may feel like a scary leap. Nothing to worry about: Pulsed Empower is here to support you. This inspiring, challenging program enables secondary school graduates to uncover their uniqueness and put it to satisfying use. Empower focuses on your wants, needs and abilities and helps you find the direction that fits you like a glove.
Empower is all about the strength of creating. The emphasis is on learning through experiencing, doing, sometimes failing, and starting all over to finally succeeding. That is why books are optional, not mandatory. Empower turns every day into an innovative field trip filled with technology, entrepreneurship, and creativity. At the same time, you stay socially connected with other students and lecturers.
For years recycling has been at the forefront of waste management. And with electronic production sales ever increasing it should only be logical that recycling increases as well, however recycling electronics is hard and not as straightforward. The process often requires many steps to separate materials so that they can be recycled, often some of these steps require manual disassembly by people. And therefore it is quite easy to see why we are falling behind in recycling while production is rapidly being sped through automation, artificial intelligence and advanced robotics.
Due to this it is important to attack the problem from a different angle. And reduction through design is that new perspective. In 2019, 53.6 million metric tons of electronic waste was produced globally, only 20% of that was recycled.
There are many ways to combat e-waste and recycling is only one of them. So if electronics would be designed to more easily be recycled, last longer, or be upgraded instead of replaced, then we would reduce a lot of e-waste.
At Fontys | Pulsed I am creating my own version of a think-tank for the technically adept, an event to realise the need to think of e-waste earlier on in the process of creation. I believe that people are inherently good, and information is powerful, so I want to equip the engineers of today and tomorrow through my event, on how to reduce our electronic footprint. The event, which I am calling the E-waste Think Tank will give more information about the problem at hand, as well as a forum where engineers can collectively come up with new policy for their organisations.
By creating the solutions themselves the created policy will be something the engineers really believe in, a powerful motivator to make real change. The event is not about presenting dramatic new never seen before information. The goal is to change people’s perspective. From this I hope to put recyclability at the forethought in the design and development process.
This is what I believe is the future, and this is what I believe needs to change.
Additional information:
The facts and figures in the second paragraph come from The Global E-waste Monitor 2020: http://ewastemonitor.info/
All images are from unsplashed.
Smashing the status quo, breaking the mould, shaping a new one … just to break it again. Our fast-paced, ever-changing world demands equally evolving education. That is why Fontys Pulsed Academy puts its daring spin on it, based on better, broader, exciting design-based learning. Our curriculum is never finished, our thirst for knowledge and skills is never quenched, and our ambition is never fully achieved.
Fontys Pulsed Academy offers student-centred, talented-based teaching approaches captured in five act-provoking programs. These are primarily aimed at a challenging cocktail of technology & craftmanship, entrepreneurship & business, and design & creativity. Additionally, we offer expeditions for educators to take ownership and (re)design the education of their institute.
As a secondary school graduate, choosing the next step in your education may feel like a scary leap. Nothing to worry about: Pulsed Empower is here to support you. This inspiring, challenging program enables secondary school graduates to uncover their uniqueness and put it to satisfying use. Empower focuses on your wants, needs and abilities and helps you find the direction that fits you like a glove.
Empower is all about the strength of creating. The emphasis is on learning through experiencing, doing, sometimes failing, and starting all over to finally succeeding. That is why books are optional, not mandatory. Empower turns every day into an innovative field trip filled with technology, entrepreneurship, and creativity. At the same time, you stay socially connected with other students and lecturers.
Smashing the status quo, breaking the mould, shaping a new one … just to break it again. Our fast-paced, ever-changing world demands equally evolving education. That is why Fontys Pulsed Academy puts its daring spin on it, based on better, broader, exciting design-based learning. Our curriculum is never finished, our thirst for knowledge and skills is never quenched, and our ambition is never fully achieved.
Fontys Pulsed Academy offers student-centred, talented-based teaching approaches captured in five act-provoking programs. These are primarily aimed at a challenging cocktail of technology & craftmanship, entrepreneurship & business, and design & creativity. Additionally, we offer expeditions for educators to take ownership and (re)design the education of their institute.
