...Is genetic engineering the answer to ending global hunger? Jennifer E. Law SCI 207 Haleh Keshtkar February 27, 2012 The controversial statement that genetic engineered food may be the solution to hunger in the world is gaining more and more interest by the media in today’s society. On the one hand, supporters of biotechnology believe that genetic engineered food ensures and sustains food security around the world as the population increases, but on the other hand, there are many concerns involved with genetically modified food. In fact, a lot of food that we eat on a daily basis contains genetically modified ingredients and usually without our knowledge. Yet, is genetic engineered food safe? Moreover, do we really need genetic modified food? Many researchers do not consider biotechnology the solution to hunger but they believe that poverty is the cause of famine in numerous countries. As a result, biotechnology raises various questions among citizens and farmers since there is the assumption that genetic engineered food is the key to eliminating global starvation (Genetically, 2010). Before weighing the pros and cons of genetic engineered food, it is essential to understand what is genetic engineered food? “Genetic engineering is a laboratory technique used by scientists to change the DNA of living organisms” (What is genetically, 2010). Scientists have learned that there are ways of changing the structure of DNA in living organisms and build customized DNA. Genetic...
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...Homework 4 The Global Impact of Safety Jonathan Shuty, Spenser Tripp, Caitlyn Hagarty, Yuliia Kapeliushna Part 1: In the modern Western style industrial setting, the culture has shifted from blind efficiency in production to putting major emphasis on safety and welfare of workers. The Industrial Revolution has long since passed. Manufacturing facilities have had plenty of time to stabilize their processes so that changing them to consider the safety of the worker would not cause an unacceptable drop in profits. Social pressure from the working class also contributed to this shift, as unsafe working conditions were no longer a necessary reality of the industry. Unfortunately, this emphasis on safe work practices is not a worldwide standard. Countries that have more recently started to become industrialized are trying to catch up, and this puts emphasis on production above all else. As a result, this can often lead to work environments that would be utterly unacceptable in the west. A good example of this lack of concern for worker safety is the Kader Toy Factory fire in May 1993. The Kader Toy Factory, located outside Bangkok, Thailand, manufactured toys and dolls, mostly made from plastic (ILO, 2011). Before the tragedy in 1993, the company experienced multiple, usually small fires. One fire, in 1989, completely demolished the facility. It didn’t reopen until 1990. The company was still repairing a building from fire damage when the May 1993 fire took 188 workers’ lives...
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...to these strategies. One can then compare the competitor’s value chain analysis with its own to discover opportunities for acquisition or where improvements within the value chain can be completed. Finally, both methods were used within an intelligence project to analyze RIM and provide recommendations to Alpha. Add real value Dedication, determination and attention to detail are hallmarks of RIM Global Manufacturing. It is comprised of a number of teams, ultimately responsible for the effective and timely manufacture, assembly, repair and delivery of the company’s products, supporting our customers around the world. Using cutting-edge technology and equipment, our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility is located in Waterloo, Canada, and is fully carpeted and air-conditioned, features a cafeteria and uses natural lighting. The key teams supporting Global Manufacturing are: * Manufacturing Production * Manufacturing Engineering Support * Global Supply Chain * New Product Introduction * Global Repair Services * Manufacturing and Supplier Quality Engineering Here are some of the positions that you will find within the...
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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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...school grade one to 6th 1983 t0 1987 E.C and OdaNebe Dukem Junior School grade 7th and 8th 1988 t0 1989 E.C with certificate award. High School: Debreziet Comprehensive High school Grade 9th to 12th from 1990 E.C to 1993 E.C and with award of certificate. University: Bahirdar University Engineering Faculty in Industrial Engineering from 1994 E.C to 1998 E.C and degree awarded BSC in 1998 E.C Graduate School: Addis Ababa University, Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering department specialization in Industrial engineering from September 2000 E.C to September 2002 E.C and MSC degree awarded. 3rd Degree: As of today I am a PHD candidate in Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT). Training Software’s: Application software {Ms word, Ms power point, Ms Access, Excel, Logo software, pneumatic software, Logo PLC software, pneumatic software, Hydraulic software, AUTO CAD, Ms Project, Math lab program ). Other training: training on Entrepreneurship (TOT), training on fund raising proposal project writing, training on pedagogy, training on balanced score card (BSC) implementation, training on business processing re-engineering (BPR) implementation, training on advanced Engineering system, training on scientific...
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...Description * Engineering Consultation Industry Outlook and Trends The engineering profession is the largest professional services sector generating over $1 trillion USD in global revenue annually compared to $360 billion USD for accounting and $500 billion USD for law. The top publicly traded firms have been experiencing positive growth, both organically and by merger & acquisitions. The following table lists the top 10 global engineering firms based on consulting and design (C&D) revenue: Table 1: 2010 revenue of top 10 firms providing consulting engineering (C&D) and design Rank | Firm | C&D Revenue US$m | Total Revenue US$m | C&D Revenue as % of Total | 1 | AECOM | 5,920 | 6,546 | 90.4% | 2 | URS | 5,039 | 9,177 | 54.9% | 3 | Jacobs | 4,748 | 9,916 | 47.9% | 4 | WorleyParsons | 3,651 | 5,048 | 72.3% | 5 | CH2M HILL | 3,603 | 6,300 | 57.2% | 6 | AMEC | 3,399 | 4,565 | 74.5% | 7 | Fluor | 3,128 | 20,849 | 15.0% | 8 | Fugro | 3,001 | 3,022 | 99.3% | 9 | SNC-Lavalin | 2,849 | 6,001 | 47.5% | 10 | ARCADIS | 2,653 | 2,655 | 99.9% | Source: Beaton Capital Where are consulting engineers heading? May 21, 2012 During the last ten years, there has been a strong trend for large American and International firms to acquire Canadian engineering consulting firms at a high rate. According to a KPMG spokesman, 40 merger and acquisitions (M&A) deals were expected to be concluded in the building/construction/engineering sector, worth an...
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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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...is a huge dearth of good quality colleges for higher education in India especially in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. Our research shows that the engineering education has been quiet neglected in this part of the country primarily due to the lack of any quality education provider in this sector. After a considerable analysis of the various available options three partners/ friends and members of The National Trust, Mr. Mahesh Sharma, Mr. Nagarjuna Shetty and Mr. Patrick D’Souza have zeroed down on starting an Educational institute i.e. an engineering college. The college will be located at Jamshedpur, a tier 2 Industrial city in the state if Jharkhand in eastern India. As per the business plan, the team envisions a high quality education infrastructure, to cater to the needs of the students from the states of Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal as well as other nearby states. Mr Pattrick D’souza with his immense experience as an educator and an administrator will be the director of the Buddha Institute of Technology for the first five years after its Inception. The institute will be starting off with three branches of engineering at first viz. Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering. Buddha Institute of Technology aims to expand in coming years into more branches of engineering at first, followed by expansion into other fields of education like medical sciences and Management studies. The administrative body of the Institute was formed...
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...SULAV BHATTARAI ELEG 4202 ENGINEERING DESIGN JANUARY 20th 2014 Realistic Constraints: Constraints are conditions that we need to happen or would like to happen with a design. A realistic constraint is a reaction on the degree of freedom you have in providing a solution. Constraints are effectively global requirements, such as limited development resources, decisions that restricts the way you develop a system. Economic Constraints: Determing whether a project should be carried out from a financial perspective. Environmental Constraints: Giving consideration to the ways the product might impact the environment, from its manufacture to use its disposal. Social Constraints: Developing projects that are designed to meet human needs and/or to address social issues. Political Constraints: One needs to understand how engineering and political activities interact, and how to work effectively in this environment. Ethical Constraints: Engineers need to be aware of codes of conduct that provide standards of proper behaviour in our interactions with others, both inside and outside of the profession. Health and Safety Constraints: Products should be designed such that their everyday use does not cause harm. Also, engineers must acknowledge that all products have lifetimes, and therefore modes of failure, associated with them. Manufacturabiity: Concerned with designing,a product in such a way that it can be manufactured efficiently, reliably and within...
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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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...more than 50% of the world population, achieving gender parity is an issue of global concern. It has now been demonstrated conclusively that social as well as economic development of a country is closely linked to the educational level of its female population. Several factors influence the fact that girls are participating less and show less motivation to take parting science education. Some of the reasons are related to differences in ways boys, girls learn, and the content of science education reflected in gender-biased curricula, textbooks, which are not related to women’s and girls’ concerns and interests. Many of these factors are bound up with cultural and societal influences. Being a woman in engineering industry is different from being a man in engineering industry. Not better, not worse, but different. Gone are the days when female engineers were masculine, grim women who were constantly exhausting themselves to be considered equal to men. The nouveau woman engineer is ambitious, comfortable in her own skin, strong, intelligent and feminine. This paper contains the path, women entered in to engineering field and the initial phase of difficulties they faced. The facts and reasons, which were dragged them in to Engineering field, are explained. The main difficulties and hurdles are discussed once they entered in to the field. The different field of study shows that women choose engineering mainly because they enjoy the underlying mathematics and science. Working professionals...
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...for an alternative design? What would be your second choice?. Answer: If I am on the Dynacorp task force, my first choice for an alternative design would be front /back structure of strategic design. This structure divides the organization into two parts such that the back end products which include engineering, manufacturing and the logistics and the front end is faced by the marketing and sales division. As Dynacorp is spread across the US and as well as the world, this front/back structure will also support the various divisions spread across the globe. Each country where Dynacorp wants to expand itself can have its marketing and sales division and the manufacturing division can be located in a country where the production costs would be as lower as possible. This would be an advantage by lowering the production costs and increasing the profit of Dynacorp. The marketing division, which becomes the back end of the structure, can address the various issues faced by the Dynacorp, with one major issue of handling the change from dealing with the direct customers to the consulting firms with special practices in ITC. This can be coordinated with the engineering and the production divisions, which in turn spread across the globe. With the advancement in the information exchange systems, the communication between the divisions can be increased and the adaption to the change can be made easier. Dynacorp can introduce a division which deals with the projects and programs...
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...Home: (+98) (21)88466239 Cellphone: (+98) (913)3987938 fateme_askarzadeh@yahoo.com Fatemeh Askarzadeh Education: MS/MBA in management (Major in Financial Management) Graduate School of Management and Economics (GSME) Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, GPA: 4/4 2010-2012 B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Major in Control) Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 2005-2009 High school Diploma/Pre-University Certificate Dr. Hesabi Talented Students High School, Kerman, Iran 2001-2005 Related Courses: Related Courses: Investment Management (Top Market) Financial Management (Top Market) Managerial Accounting (Full Mark) Seminar on Finance (Top Market) Topics in Finance Microeconomics (Distinction) Management Decision Models (Distinction) Behavioral Finance “Training Course” Engineering Economics Mathematical Courses: General Mathematics I General Mathematics II Engineering Mathematics Differential Equation Engineering Probability and Statics Numerical Computation Linear Algebra Research and Projects: "QE Policy impact on the Gold Market", Donyaye Eqtesad Newspaper "Currency Bourse impact on the Futures Market",Donyaye Eqtesad Newspaper "Global Disappointment and Local Market", Donyaye Eqtesad Newspaper “Feasible Study of Option Market in Iran”, Spring 2011 “Combination Strategies of Financial Instruments”, Fall 2011 “Investigation of Cognitive Biases in Iran Audio& Video Industry”, Summer 2010 “Analysis of Financial Ratios Trend of “Toolipers”...
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...Engineering: An Introduction for High School Annapurna Ganesh Chell Roberts Dale Baker Darryl Morrell Janel White-Taylor Stephen Krause Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh Say Thanks to the Authors Click http://www.ck12.org/saythanks (No sign in required) www.ck12.org iii To access a customizable version of this book, as well as other interactive content, visit www.ck12.org CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the FlexBook®, CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high-quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning, powered through the FlexBook Platform®. Copyright © 2011 CK-12 Foundation, www.ck12.org The names “CK-12” and “CK12” and associated logos and the terms “FlexBook®”, and “FlexBook Platform®”, (collectively “CK-12 Marks”) are trademarks and service marks of CK-12 Foundation and are protected by federal, state and international laws. Any form of reproduction of this book in any format or medium, in whole or in sections must include the referral attribution link http://www.ck12.org/saythanks (placed in a visible location) in addition to the following terms. Except as otherwise noted, all CK-12 Content (including CK-12 Curriculum Material) is made available to Users in accordance with the Creative Commons...
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... Groups of people composed of all types of majors are being implemented into groups to practice and develop their skills to help people in developing countries with accommodations they might not have the means to produce themselves. Engineers Without Boarders is one of the big organizations that is participating in the global impact form of engineering teams. The teams that they produce are very diverse; including business, biology, engineers and political science majors alike to accomplish the tasks they have been presented. These groups are given multiple tests to determine what their strengths are and weaknesses to more properly form them into the individual’s teams they will cooperate with. The teams are then on a 5 month voyage in which they are responsible for thinking outside the box to design, prototype, and build their idea to satisfy a problem definition. One of these teams are the ones responsible for creating the Tripod Pump Frame which holds an irrigation pump but for much cheaper than the previous model. This product, according to the school, became the biggest selling pump in Myanmar. Theses tripods can be used to help solve a global problem of access to clean drinking water particularly in underdeveloped areas where water is scarce and you have to sometimes walk several miles to a water source. If the students wish to further their studies and development with the teams they are able to continue into the summer. In some cases many schools offer grants...
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