Environmental Design Group As A Engineer

Sustainability is the foundation upon which resilient and adaptive design was built. It “is based on a simple and long-recognized factual premise: Everything that humans require for their survival and well-being depends, directly or indirectly, on the natural environment” (Sustainability and the US EPA). Concern for the environment grew in the 1960’s, and after the creation of the EPA in 1970 the term sustainability came into use. “Sustainable development emerged as a result of significant concerns about the unintended social, environmental, and economic consequences of rapid population growth, economic growth, and consumption of natural resources.” (Sustainability and the US EPA). In the U.S., the history of sustainability is rooted in American

For the second interview paper I chose to interview Mr. Cole Fite, a Project Engineer from the Special Project Division at Lease Crutcher Lewis. Cole studied at Oklahoma State where he double majored in Construction Management in Civil and Construction Management in Commercial construction. Before working at Lewis, Cole interned with a civil contractor for load and bridge construction for one and half years. Now, Cole has one and a half years working at Lewis, where he entered directly in the Special Projects Division.

DFE aims to reduce the environmental impacts associated with products. In theory, this encompasses all the processes which occur during the lifetime of the product, starting with the extraction of raw materials needed for parts of the product and ending with the final disposal in landfills or through incineration. In between, a huge number of processes take place even with the simplest of products, from refining the materials to production of parts, assembly, packaging, distribution, use by the customer, possibly recycling, etc.

For this assignment we chose the Patton-Fuller Community Hospital for our virtual organization. This facility is a non-for-profit social insurance association that has supplied an extremely wide cluster of preferred value aids and offices to the town of Kelsey and the encompassing groups since 1975. The healing center supplies centered utilities for example emergency restorative consideration, surgery, work and committal, private medicine and radiology for developed persons and youthful kids. "As one of the first facilities in Kelsey, they are besides dedicated to supplying a sort of projects that will underpin the health and welfare of their neighborhood inhabitant numbers" (Apollo Group, 2006).

    During this semester I traveled with the North Carolina State University’s Environmental Technology and Management program ET 201 class, under the direction of Dr. Teresa Litzenberger, to Little Rock Creek in Raleigh North Carolina. Little Rock Creek is a small stream located in southeast raleigh near the Walnut Creek Wetland Center. Located in a watershed of approximately 705.879 acres, the creek looks like an upside down uppercase “L” from a map perspective. The creek floor is sandy with a few small rocks (cobblestone) in areas. The stream has plenty of tree cover to provide shade. However, the lack of large trees encourages the curves in the creek to widen which allows the water to slow down and create pools throughout the creek. According to Title 15A of the North Carolina Administrative Code, Rule .0302 contains the classifications for waters located within the Neuse River Basin (15A NCAC 02L .0312). Little Rock Creek, however, is not classified and therefore follows Rule .0301 which simply states that it should carry the classification of the stream to which it is a tributary (.

Henry Larsen, director of engineering at Scientific Engineering Corporation (SEC) is the sponsor of a new project to provide qualification and production of Shuttle Launch Booster components, dubbed “Orion Shield.” Henry, as the project sponsor, has chosen to appoint Gary Allison, a mechanical engineer, with the position of project manager, despite Gary’s inexperience in the field of project management. This appointment was supposedly due to Gary’s technical knowledge, for which Henry proposed he would rely upon, and touted by Henry as being a great step in Gary’s career. Due to Gary’s inattention of Henry’s comments during the initial meeting regarding Gary’s appointment as the project manager, Gary failed to realize that

Sustainability, which is the definition of “the process of using, conserving and enhancing a community’s resources”, plays a significant part in large engineering projects such as EastLink. EastLink’s long-term goal is to provide a fast, lasting alternative for drivers to commute between eastern suburbs. For a project that had a final total cost of $2.5B, sustainability, that is ensuring that its relevance and usefulness to the society today and for the foreseeable future is a pivotal part of EastLink. Permanent projects that demand large commitment and resources are the ones that need to heed the concept of sustainability the most, as often there is no going back once construction of such a project has begun. Just like it is with

I am starting my 15th year in the technology field on an official level, but my interest and unofficial membership spans back an additional ten years. In many ways I have prepared myself well technologically over the past 11 years by taking jobs that I not only enjoy, but taught me the hands on skills required to advance in my career. At the same time though, I am not keeping current on my certifications. With my most recent certification over five years ago, it looks as if I am not keeping abreast of cutting edge technologies. Keeping current in technology is a large part, of what I do, and will continue to be relevant in the near future. I am choosing to move into an area of technology that requires more interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills.

There are many environmental issues that are affecting our planet which include air and water pollution, devastation of oceans and forests, population growth, weakening of the ozone layer, and global climate change. These environmental problems are becoming more and more of a concern to political scientists and it will take cooperation from all states to resolve the issues. There are different perspectives regarding environmental issues and how to address them; liberal, constructivist, and realist.

From the perspective of General Instrumentation's top management, the company can produce the TCH–320 by using the high-density panel. Therefore, it is more beneficial to the company to produce the TCH-320 by using the HDP from internal transfer rather than purchase the control pack currently imported from Asia. Since The company has a limited supply of skilled labor available, the division must constrain its production to 40,000 hours of skilled labor each year. Therefore, the skilled labor hours available to the company should be used in the best possible manner in order to maximize net operating profit.

In an attempt to mitigate environmental degradation within their jurisdiction environmental managers work to preserve the ecological integrity of ecosystems by implementing various conservation strategies and practices. Notably, ecosystems are dynamic and complex; therefore, ecosystem management is inherently dynamic and complex. In addition, ecosystem management entails working with individuals and institutions in order to enact standards, practices, and at times policy. The most daunting challenge within environmental management is appeasing all the stakeholders involved in the management process because society and policy are both influenced by the current paradigm of thought and scientific knowledge, which shift more slowly the dynamic ecosystems at stake. Scientific knowledge and the uncertainty of science divide individuals and policy makers alike into four groups: those who accept issues aroused by science and want to take action, those who accept issues aroused by science and do not want to take action, those who deny issues aroused by science, but want to take action just in case, and those who deny issues aroused by science and do not want to take action.

You may find companies that still draw plans for new buildings with pencil and paper, this shows that CAD isn’t necessarily the best way forward and drafting techniques are still in the game.

In the year 1800 the human population on earth reached 1 billion. In 200 years, the population soared to 6 billion (Berg & Hager, Chapter 1, 2009). With industrialization and technologies developed in those 200 years, humans have been depleting the earth’s natural resources at an alarming rate. Environmental science is the branch of science concerned with the physical, chemical, and biological conditions of the environment and their effect on organisms ("Dictionary.com", 2013). Knowing and understanding the environment and what can be done to sustain it will help humans survive on this planet

This case study is in regards to a leading environmental services company that provides collection, processing, recycling and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous materials for industrial and automotive customers. The company has branches all over the United States. The service representatives in these branches carry out services for geographically dispersed customers in their respective territories.

Colney and Pitts is a pharmaceutical company that is located in California. Colney and Pitts are planning to set up a manufacturing plant near the Aberdares mountain range in the eastern highlands of Kenya. Their main purpose is to use this facility to manufacture medications for prostate cancer. Located in the Aberdares Mountain is a native tribe called The Kikuyu. After much research and extensive surveying of the area, it was determined that a type of evergreen tree known as “pygeum” or prunus Africana, is used by the tribes people to cure what they refer to as “old men’s disease”. We would commonly know this as prostatitis and genitourinary disorders. “The species has