...Major: Environmental Engineering We humans have a long history of polluting our air, water, and soil. This contamination not only hurts nature, but is dangerous to people. Luckily, environmental engineers are on the job. They use math and science to clean up the messes we've made and prevent new ones from happening. For example, they might figure out how to clean up toxic material that has seeped into the ground at an old gas station or design an effective way to treat wastewater. If you choose this major, you’ll study a wide range of subjects. Besides learning the basics of engineering, you’ll also take courses in the life and social sciences so you can understand environmental problems in all their complexity. Students in environmental engineering learn to design, develop, and evaluate structures, equipment, and systems that protect the environment from the effects of human activity and that improve public health and well-being. “[Engineering] allows you to think and be creative … We get to solve problems and [tackle] projects that seem impossible at first, but when they are completed, it's so cool. ” Cindy, junior, civil and environmental engineering, UC Berkeley It Helps to Be...Passionate about the environment. You should enjoy science and math, like solving problems, and have an eye for detail. Someone who is comfortable working as part of a team and who has good speaking and writing skills should do well in this field. To round off your studies, you will mostly...
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...CONVERSION FACTORS FROM ENGLISH TO SI UNITS Length: 1 ft 1 ft 1 ft 1 in. 1 in. 1 in. 1 ft2 1 ft2 1 ft2 1 in.2 1 in.2 1 in.2 1 ft3 1 ft3 1 in.3 1 in.3 1 in. 1 in.3 1 ft/min 1 ft/min 1 ft/min 1 ft/sec 1 ft/sec 1 in./min 1 in./sec 1 in./sec 3 0.3048 m 30.48 cm 304.8 mm 0.0254 m 2.54 cm 25.4 mm 929.03 10 4 m2 929.03 cm2 929.03 102 mm2 6.452 10 4 m2 6.452 cm2 645.16 mm2 28.317 10 3 m3 28.317 103 cm3 16.387 10 6 m3 16.387 cm3 0.16387 0.16387 10 mm 10 4 m3 5 3 Coefficient of consolidation: Force: 1 in.2/sec 1 in.2/sec 1 ft2/sec 1 lb 1 lb 1 lb 1 kip 1 U.S. ton 1 lb 1 lb/ft 1 lb/ft2 1 lb/ft2 1 U.S. ton/ft2 1 kip/ft2 1 lb/in.2 1 lb/ft3 1 lb/in.3 1 lb-ft 1 lb-in. 1 ft-lb 1 in.4 1 in.4 6.452 cm2/sec 20.346 103 m2/yr 929.03 cm2/sec 4.448 N 4.448 10 3 kN 0.4536 kgf 4.448 kN 8.896 kN 0.4536 10 3 metric ton 14.593 N/m 47.88 N/m2 0.04788 kN/m2 95.76 kN/m2 47.88 kN/m2 6.895 kN/m2 0.1572 kN/m3 271.43 kN/m3 1.3558 N · m 0.11298 N · m 1.3558 J 0.4162 0.4162 106 mm4 10 6 m4 Area: Stress: Volume: Unit weight: Moment: Energy: Moment of inertia: Section modulus: Hydraulic conductivity: 0.3048 m/min 30.48 cm/min 304.8 mm/min 0.3048 m/sec 304.8 mm/sec 0.0254 m/min 2.54 cm/sec 25.4 mm/sec CONVERSION FACTORS FROM SI TO ENGLISH UNITS Length: 1m 1 cm 1 mm 1m 1 cm 1 mm 1m 1 cm2 1 mm2 1 m2 1 cm2 1 mm2 1m 1 cm3 1 m3 1 cm3 1N 1 kN 1 kgf 1 kN 1 kN 1 metric ton 1 N/m 3 2 3.281 ft 3.281 10 3.281 10 39.37 in. 0.3937 in. 0.03937 in. 2 Stress: 2 3 ft ft 1 N/m2 1 kN/m2...
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...ENTRY STRATEGY INTO VIETNAMESE ENVIRONMENTAL MARKET A CASE STUDY OF ALTECH ENVIRONMENT PTE LTD by Dang Tran Bao Hanh A research study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Business Administration Examination Committee Dr. Do Ba Khang (Chairman) Dr. Fredric W. Swierczek Dr. Lalit M Johri Nationality Vietnamese Previous degree Graduate Diploma in Business Administration SAV Program Scholarship Donor Government of Switzerland/ Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SAV program) Asian Institute of Technology School of Management Bangkok, Thailand April, 2000 Acknowledgment It is a rare pleasure for me to express my profound gratitude and thanks to Dr. Do Ba Khang, advisor to this research, for his valuable guidance, explicit direction, and encouragement throughout this research. I also want to give my sincere thanks to Dr. Fred and Dr. Johri for serving as members of the examination committee together with their constructive and useful advice. My acknowledgements are due to Swiss - AIT - Vietnam Management Development Program and Swiss Government who gave me a great chance to participate in MBA study by providing financial support. My special thanks also go to the management of Altech Pte Ltd Company, especially Mr. Goh Boh Chung, for providing me helpful information and giving...
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...METRO HAZ WASTE LIBRARY SEATILE, WA. 11lllll1 lllllIIIllll l1 lI1 l 3202625 Monographs on Refinery Environmental ControlManagement of Water Discharges Design and Operation of Oil-Water Separators API PUBLICATION 421 FIRST EDITION, FEBRUARY 1990 - METRO LIBRARY SEAnLE, W A 98109-1658 HAZARDOUS WASTE MGMT. PROGRAM 130 NICKERSON ST., SUITE 100 AUG 2 1 1995 ME7hb u i r . , 45 WASTE LIBRARY American Petroleum Institute 1220 L Street, Northwest Washington, D.C. 20005 TD 427 .P4 41’ M8 1990 Monographs on Refinery Environmental ControlManagement of Water Discharges Design and Operation of Oil-Water Separators Refining Department API PUBLICATION 421 FIRST EDITION, FEBRUARY 1990 METRO LIBRARY HAZARDOUS WASTE MGMT, PROGRAM 130 NICKERSON ST., SUITE 100 SEATTLE, WA 98109-1658 American Petroleum Institute SPECfAL NOTES 1. API PUBLICATIONS NECESSARILY ADDRESS PROBLEMS OF A GENERAL NATURE. WITH RESPECT TO PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES, LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS SHOULD BE REVIEWED. 2. API IS NOT UNDERTAKING TO MEET THE DUTIES OF EMPLOYERS, MANUFACTURERS, OR SUPPLIERS TO WARN AND PROPERLY TRAIN AND EQUIP THEIR EMPLOYEES, AND OTHERS EXPOSED, CONCERNING HEALTH AND SAFETY RISKS AND PRECAUTIONS, NOR UNDERTAKING THEIR OBLIGATIONS UNDER LOCAL, STATE, OR FEDERAL LAWS. 3. INFORMATION CONCERNING SAFETY AND HEALTH RISKS AND PROPER PRECAUTIONS WITH RESPECT TO PARTICULAR MATERIALS AND CONDITIONS SHOULD BE OBTAINED FROM THE EMPLOYER...
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...Theory Chemical oxygen demand (COD) is the measure of wastewater and water quality. This test is focused on the fact that a strong oxidizing agent, under acidic conditions can fully oxidize almost any organic compound to carbon dioxide. COD is equal to the equivalent amount of oxygen required to chemically oxidize substrate materials in water. The COD is often measured using a strong oxidant (e.g. potassium dichromate, potassium iodate, potassium permanganate) under acidic conditions. A known excess amount of the oxidant is added to the sample. Once oxidation is complete, the concentration of organics in the sample is calculated by measuring the amount of oxidant remaining in the solution. COD is expressed in mg/L, which indicates the mass of oxygen consumed per liter of solution. Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) is a measure of the oxygen used by microorganisms to decompose organic matter under aerobic conditions. Microorganisms such as bacteria are responsible for decomposing organic waste. When organic matter such as dead plants, leaves, grass clippings, manure, sewage, or even food waste is present in a water supply, the bacteria will begin the process of breaking down this waste. When this happens, much of the available dissolved oxygen is consumed by aerobic bacteria, robbing other aquatic organisms of the oxygen they need to live. BOD also includes oxygen used to oxidize inorganic material such as sulfides and ferrous iron. Coliform bacteria are found in the intestines...
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...MANUFACTURING PROCESSES WITHIN A TRUSS MANUFACTURING COMPANY THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, AND OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES by ROSMARDY FLORES NARANJO ABSTRACT In spite of remarkable improvements in recent decades, the construction industry and areas related continue to be one of the industries with the poorest safety records. Low statistics in environmental improvements can be also noticed. Organizations that have implemented improvements have integrated big efforts of owners, contractors, subcontractors, and designers. The truss industry is not an exception to this problematic. This industry, which is related directly to the home building industry and has boomed in recent decades, seems to have a lack of controls and regulations. Many of these problems may be linked, for example, to the lack of interest from management to improve and regulate such important areas as occupational safety and environmental hygiene. While past studies on occupational safety, environmental control, and quality control have been conducted in different areas of the construction industry, the truss industry and the owner’s impact on construction safety have not been previously investigated. This paper presents the results of a study within a truss manufacturing company, which was evaluated and studied in the areas of occupational safety, environmental control, and quality control. Data were obtained by conducting interviews, surveys, and...
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...I do not support the EPA allowing DC Water to use Green Infrastructure (GI) to help meet its responsibilities for water quality improvements. Although implementing GI has tremendous environmental, social and economic benefits, DC Water’s proposal to use GI doesn’t adequately render GI as a viable option for the following reasons. The first reason the implementation of GI is unacceptable is because DC Water has failed to show that GI works. The Long Term Control Plan (LTCP) consent decree was signed in 2005. In 2014, DC Water proposed to amend LTCP to include green infrastructure. In this nine year period, DC water failed to demonstrate and provide site specific performance information on the Potomac and Rock Creek illustrating that GI can achieve equal or greater reductions of combined sewer overflows (“CSOs”) compared to building tunnels. Therefore utilizing $30 million dollars of the rate‐payers money to reduce the size of the Potomac’s tunnel and replace it with GI is a poor choice since DC Water has not proved its proposed GI would fulfil the same requirement as a large tunnel would. DC Water’s General Manager, George Hawkins’ power point presentation indicates DC Water has invested 10 million in GI projects such as tree plantings, rain gardens, green roofs, bioretention, etc., but the presentation lacks providing any significant data or measuring tool on how successful the projects have been while implementing GI. The second reason DC water should not use...
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...Water and Environment Technology Modern Issues INTRODUCTION This paper is to give you idea on the formatting of a manuscript for Journal of Water and Environment Technology (JWET). MATERIALS AND METHODS Preparation of electronic versions Articles should be provided in electronic form through the online submission site < http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jwet >. This will help us to publish your article rapidly with fewer errors, and enable your article's inclusion in electronic archives. A sample paper is available from JSWE website. Authors should follow the format of the sample paper. We can accept most of the popular word-processing packages in PC or Macintosh formats; however, MS Word is recommended. Authors should not add their own macros. Please only supply the final version of your file (with no hidden text) so as to avoid any risk of old versions of the text being used in error. Uploaded files are converted to a single PDF file at the submission website. You must confirm the PDF proof to complete your submission. The upper limit of manuscript length is 16 pages in the format of the sample paper provided on JSWE website. Table 1 - Conservation and Creation of Clean Water Environment. SHAPE \* MERGEFORMAT Nomenclature and Units Please take care that all terminology and notation used will be widely understood. Abbreviations and acronyms should be spelled out in full at their first occurrence in the text. SI units are strongly recommended...
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...Position Paper for Beyond SCADA: Networked Embedded Control for Cyber Physical Systems workshop SCADA and GIS for drinking water distribution system monitoring and response: critical gaps Shannon L. Isovitsch1 and Jeanne M. VanBriesen2 SCADA is frequently used to manage and control drinking water treatment systems. In this application, SCADA systems perform remote monitoring and operations control along with data management and storage. SCADA systems often serve the joint purposes of operational information and regulatory compliance data management, The most important challenge in the advancement of SCADA systems in the drinking water industry is the need for monitoring and control throughout the distribution system, rather than only at the treatment plant and water sources. This will require integrating existing SCADA systems with numerical distribution system models to enable better model calibration and demand estimation, simulation of past events for analysis, and simulation of emergency situations for response training. We anticipate this integration will highlight the need for spatial as well as temporal data storage and analysis through GIS, and the need for the expansion of SCADA systems to track water quality as well as quantity. SCADA systems at a water utility are currently used to monitor flows and pressures at the treatment plant and associated water sources. Water quality monitoring is often performed by grab sampling to meet regulatory requirements. While grab...
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...SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Student Name: Student Number: Instructor: Class: Date: The concept of Sustainable development has in the recent past, raised concerns in all aspects of day to day living. Consequently, over the years a number of definitions and connotations have been associated with this concept, so as to apply it in different professional settings. Particularly, different professions have adopted various codes of ethical; conduct centered on sustainable development. Accordingly individuals working in various sectors constantly seek to adhere to these codes of conduct within their mandates. The engineering sector is one such area where the concept of sustainable development is regarded as a key tenet guiding ethical conduct among engineers. This paper traces the history of the concept of sustainable development and how it is practically incorporated into the engineering profession. Further, this paper examines the current Engineers’ Code of Ethics and how it addresses the issue of sustainable development. There have been various definitions regarding the concept of sustainable development. However, all these definitions revolve around the concept of need and limitation. The all time famous definition was one brought forward by the world Commission on Environment and Development in 1987 that termed sustainable development as, ”development that satisfies present needs without undermining the ability of future generations to satisfy their own needs.”. This definition was...
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...Admissions Procedures Requirements At MIT, a regular graduate student is one who is registered for a program of advanced study and research leading to a post-baccalaureate degree. A regular graduate student may concurrently hold an appointment as a research assistant, teaching assistant, or instructor. To be admitted as a regular graduate student, an applicant must have earned a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent from a college, university, or technical school of acceptable standing. Students in their final year of undergraduate study may be admitted on the condition that their bachelor’s degrees are awarded before they enroll at MIT. Applicants are evaluated by the individual department in which they intend to register on the basis of their prior performance and professional promise, as evidenced by their academic records, letters of evaluation from individuals familiar with their capabilities, and any other pertinent data they submit. While high academic achievement does not guarantee admission, MIT expects such achievement or other persuasive evidence of professional promise. Specific admission requirements vary by department; please consult the catalogue and department or program website for the requirements of individual departments. In general, most departments require significant work in mathematics and the physical sciences in addition to preparation in a specific field of interest, but some admit students with as little as one year each of college-level mathematics...
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...MKT 5000 MARKETING MANAGEMENT Assignment 1 Semester 1 July 2011 MARKETING AUDIT FOR BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING PTY LTD. Prepared by: KEDAR CHAVAN Student number: U0061023717 Date submitted: 26Th August 2011 Executive Summary Biosystems Engineering Pty Ltd was incepted in year 1999 under the proprietorship of Richard Sulman and further registered in year 2008. It was developed to significantly improve the way today’s working of environmental projects and issues. With the ever increasing concern for environmental problems their product and services offered tremendous advantages to local environment. Biosystems Engineering Pty Ltd will be positioned as high-end disseminators in engineering knowledge to solve systems problems in agriculture, food, forestry, natural resources and the environment. There is currently no other company that produces and serves this type of management features they developed. The potential market for the product and services is very promising. Biosystems Engineering Pty Ltd has executed over 36 major projects and currently working on the world’s first Short rotation woody crop (SRC) harvester. The Management Team members have strong backgrounds in project management, manufacturing, research, analysis, designs and software development. The Australian market continues to have an increasing number of eco-friendly firms looking to enter the market. It must be aware of competition on all levels and maintain its operational performance...
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...Worcester, MA 01601 508 450-5555 name@wpi.edu Permanent Address: 74 Heineken Cr. Chicago, IL 01609 508 867-5309 e-mail address Objective: To obtain an entry-level position in Civil Engineering with a focus on environmental/structural … etc engineering. Primary areas of interest include ….. Education: Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, (date) Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts Project Experience: • Interactive Qualifying Project: “title of iqp” (one or two sentence description or a.pdf file reference that is available on-line) • Major Qualifying Project: “title of mqp" (same) Background Courses Include: (add/remove) |Analytical Mechanics I |Surveying |Environmental Engineering | |Analytical Mechanics II |AutoCAD |Water Treatment | |Highway Engineering & Planning |Materials of Construction |Wastewater Treatment | |Construction Project Management |Thermodynamics |Hydraulics | |Architectural Engineering Systems |Intro to Analysis and Design |Fluid Mechanics...
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... | |Thursday |EN010 102 |Common for all branches | | | |07.05.2015 |Engineering Physics | | | | |Monday |EN010 103 Engineering Chemistry & |Common for all branches | | | |11.05.2015 |Environmental | | | | | |Studies | | | | |Wednesday |EN010 101 |Common for all branches | | | |13.05.2015 |Engineering Mathematics-I | | | | |Friday |EN010 106 Basic Civil Engineering |Common for all branches | | | |15.05.2015 | | | | | |Tuesday |EN010 107 Basic Mechanical Engineering |Common for all branches | | | |19.05.2015 |...
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...46th Engineers’ Day Celebrations Institution of Engineers (INDIA) HOW FRUGAL ENGINEERING LEADS TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT? Er. Darapu Srikanth Satish Kumar, M.Tech., AMIE MISTE, MIGS, MIAENG, MIAHS, MEWRS Asst. Professor, GITAM Institute of Technology, GITAM University Visakhapatnam, A.P., INDIA ABSTRACT Unless sustainability aspects are mandatorily incorporated at all levels of development across varied fields and regions, with specific attention to rapid temporal changes and with legal sanctity, we cannot think of happy future generations, for which we, the humans are to be blamed undoubtedly and mother Earth shall not forgive us. The innumerable effects of unsustainable development, as we are already experiencing, are quite adverse and mostly irreversible like Climate Change, Global Warming, La Niña, El Niño, Ecological Imbalance, Water Scarcity, increased levels of Atmospheric Pollution, Soil Contamination etc. Even though these detrimental effects cannot be mitigated completely, they can be contained using frugal engineering which in turn helps in achieving sustainable development. The various aspects of how frugal engineering leads to sustainability are explained in this paper. KEY WORDS Frugal Engineering, Sustainable Development, Mitigation Measures, Ecological Balance, PROLOGUE As I was reading the theme for this write up, one thing that hinted me is a very fancy mobile which is bought anew for around 50,000 by one of my friends, and which has got lot of features...
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