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Featuring
Dr. Ab Stevels
Philips
Consumer Electronics, Environmental Competence Center
Professor of Design for Sustainability at Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands
Two Workshops in
Sequence
May
9 - Presentation: Design for
End-of-Life Management, full day
May 10 - Laboratory work, half day
Dr. Ab Stevels,
a world authority on environmental design, will be the instructor for both
workshops. Dr. Stevels is a
principal in the environmental design program at Philips Electronics and
he teaches “Eco Design for Competitive Advantage” at Delft University
of Technology in The Netherlands. He
also teaches environmental design at Stanford and Georgia Tech.
These workshops
will focus on specific electronic product end-of-life design strategies
and trade-offs, and hands-on methods of product analysis including
disassembly of two television sets. The
workshop will address detail-level questions.
Reading materials will be provided in advance so that all
participants have a common basis in end-of-life management in the U.S. and
Europe.
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PARTIAL
LIST OF SPECIFIC TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED |
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May 9
Presentation
Session:
Design for End-of-Life Management
- Take-back requirements worldwide
- Environmental & financial
aspects of take-back
- Technicalities of end-of-life
management
- Disassembly processes and
material stream management
- Developing product-specific
end-of-life strategies
- Design rules for end-of-life
performance
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May 10
Morning Lab
Session:
Disassembly & Environmental Analysis
- Product disassembly analysis
- Performing benchmarking
- Generating improvement options
Afternoon
Session:
Lecture (1 hour - free)
- Environmental design for
competitive advantage
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In addition, participants will have the
opportunity to learn about the Dutch electronics take-back program from
the perspective of a manufacturer that is deeply involved.
Workshop
Date and Time:
May
9, 2002 8:00 a.m. - 5:00
p.m. and
May 10, 2002 8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location:
Capital Center, Room
1025
18640
NW Walker Road, Suite 1010
Beaverton, OR 97006
For
directions, see http://www.ocate.edu/location.htm
Cost:
May 9 in-class training
only: $ 95.00, postmarked
after April 22: $115.00
May 9 and 10 in-class and hands-on training: $ 190.00, postmarked after
April 22: $210.00
Day 1 is a
prerequisite for day 2.
Registration:
•
Click here for Registration Form
html or pdf
• On-line registration: http://www.pware.com/index.cfm?clientid=1343&subeventdisp=202&event=BF209
• For telephone registration. call
Martha at 1-800-547-8887 ext. 4618
• For registration questions, call PSU
PSU Extended Studies 800-547-8887, ext 4618 or 503-725-4618 or
email questions to: onlinereg@ses.pdx.edu
Additional
Information:
For
additional information, contact the Zero Waste Alliance at 503-279-9383 or
by email at info@zerowaste.org
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