The Minister of Higher Education reviews a report on the management of technological waste
Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research reviewed
a report submitted by Dr. Sherine Abdel Qader Muharram, Acting President of the Electronics Research Institute, on the technological waste management file adopted by the Electronics Research Institute, which strives to spread the culture of electronic waste management, benefit from, and recycling, and educate the community about its importance, in addition to protecting the environment from harmful outputs of technology through the use of Scientific methods of electronic waste management.
Study program for e-waste management
The report indicated that in light of the efforts of the Delta Technology University headed by Dr. Hisham Abdel-Khaleq to open a study program for e-waste management. The institute trained a group of university students at the College of Industry and Energy Technology under the supervision of Dr. Mahmoud Salem, Dean of the College, as a beginning to achieve a distinguished technological education that combines theoretical and applied qualifications and field training; To graduate specialists in the field of technology sciences in line with the direction of the Egyptian state, and in line with the skills, competencies and jobs of the future.
The report indicated that this training represents a joint cooperation between the scientific research sector and the academic sector. To graduate qualified and trained cadres to assimilate modern technologies and their development to keep pace with the labor market, where students were trained in the maintenance and repair of computers, dismantling computers, reviewing some of the devices used in disassembly, testing parts and using components that work to assemble reusable devices, as well as identifying On the most important parts from which precious materials can be extracted, such as gold, silver, copper and plastic.
The training also included clarification of the concept of electronic waste recycling, an explanation of the harms of such waste and its impact on the human body, and methods of recycling it, with a narration of the generations of computers and the component parts of computers, focusing on components that can be recycled again, and presentation of the professional precautions used during dismantling electronic components, to Practical training on electronic board manufacturing by lecturers d. Ghada Abdel Aziz, Dr. Ahmed Mansour, Dr. Khaled Jaber, and engineer Ahmed Selim.
Saving the cost of importing new devices
The training aims to build the capabilities necessary to safely deal with expired electrical and electronic parts and reuse them again, which contributes to opening job opportunities for young people and saving the cost of importing new devices.
It is worth noting that the Electronics Research Institute owns a central research laboratory to test the components of electronic waste and conduct the necessary studies for their reuse, within the framework of activating the cooperation protocol concluded between the Electronics Research Institute and Delta Technology University in the technological and applied field, in addition to the protocol concluded between the Institute and the Ministry of Communications and Technology Information and Environment and Development Center for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE) in the field of electronic waste recycling management.
