...PHILIPPINES COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Department of Industrial Engineering ENGINEERING VALUES AND ETHICS CASE STUDY: Love Canal Prepared by: MARASIGAN EDZEL C. Submitted to: Dr. Jerilyn Landicho-Pilar SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 BSIE V-2 A. Y. 2015 - 2016 ENGINEERING VALUES AND ETHICS CASE STUDY: Love Canal Prepared by: MARASIGAN EDZEL C. Submitted to: Dr. Jerilyn Landicho-Pilar SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 BSIE V-2 A. Y. 2015 - 2016 CE VISION The College of Engineering envisions itself to be center of excellence in engineering education. CE MISSION The College of Engineering is committed to produce competitive engineers who will serve as catalyst for sustainable growth and development in national and international levels. CE GOALS 1. Provide Quality education through instruction, advance research and extension services: 2 Produce world-class professionals as potential industry leaders and job providers 3. Develop and improve facilities through the use of adapted technology and indigenous materials and: 4. Maintain, upgrade and improve facilities through the adaptation of engineering techniques. OBJECTIVES 1. Strengthen the BSIE program consistent with global trends; 2. Develop faculty as competent mentors and quality researchers, through advanced studies, and other facets of continuing professional education; 3. Develop the critical thinking and communication skills of students, giving emphasis to research...
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...Angus Cartwright Case Study In September 2003, John DeRight and Judy DeRight, both cousins, decided that they both wanted to invest in real estate. The cousins felt that real estate would allow them the “benefits of diversification, protection from future inflation, and tax advantages.” John, a risk averse person, was a retired businessman and was willing to spend $9 million in this investment. John would rely on stock dividends and other income that totaled approximately $1 million. On the other hand, Judy was a risk tolerant businesswoman who owned her own chemical company and had $16 million of funds available for investment. Judy’s after-tax income came out to be approximately $1.1 million. The cousins contacted Angus Cartwright III, an investment advisor who showed John and Judy four different properties that had different circumstances. The properties consisted of residential and office buildings and there were properties that were both currently standing and under construction. Cartwright III, like his father, had plenty of experience with the DeRight family, and so he showed John and Judy the four properties. The first property was Alison Green, a 100-unit apartment in Maryland. It has the highest Net Present Value at $734 and has the lowest breakeven occupancy at 64%. It has the best debt coverage ratio at 2 and highest cash-on-cash at 12%. Based on calculations, 74% of total benefits will be derived from cash flow while 44% of total benefits will come via future...
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...robo-advisors in speed and accuracy in analyzing and processing big data; second, they are made by the world sharpest minds, using the best possible computer technology available. Now that might appear godlike, but it is nowhere near Megatron. Even though you do not have to smoke a pipe and write mathematical formulas on mirrors to join the team that makes robo-advisors, you need to have a Ph.D. in Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, or Economics. Developing a high quality robo-advisor requires team work from the best minds in the...
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... Instructor: Lester Hadsell Abstract The Coffee Crisis case study illustrates how the decline in coffee consumption and the rise of coffee production was addressed by the governments of coffee producing countries in 2004. The coffee market was identified, defined and explained in the context of both international nature and structure. The new entrants into the coffee market were identified and examined. A supply and demand analysis was conducted to address what the shift factors were and what were some of the changes in consumer behavior. It was concluded some of the remedies presented by the International Coffee Organization, Inter-American Development Bank and Oxfam were incorporated to help elevate some of the issues presented and analyzed. Facebook, Inc. is the world’s leading social networking company. It became a public traded company on May 18, 2012, filing a $5 billion initial public offering (IPO), “making it one of the biggest in tech history and the biggest in Internet history” (Tangel, Hamilton, 2012). Facebook is social networking service, established in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, that builds products to create utility for users, developers, and advertisers. Users (people) use Facebook to stay connected and share and express what matters to them with their friends, family, and community through their user profiles. Developers use the Facebook Platform (utility for developers designed by Facebook, Inc.) to build applications and websites...
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...Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975. Microsoft is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues. It is also one of the world's most valuable companies. Microsoft was established to develop and sell basic interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. The company's 1986 initial public offering, and subsequent rise in its share price, created an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions. In May 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in its largest acquisition to date. As of 2013, Microsoft is market dominant in both the PC operating system and office suite markets. The company also produces a wide range of other software for desktops and servers, and is active in areas including internet search, the video game industry, the digital services market, and mobile phones. In June 2012, Microsoft announced that it would be entering the PC vendor market for the first time, with the launch...
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...Price defines the entry threshold: who your buyers are and their sensitivities, which competitors you will encounter, who you will be negotiating with and what the customers’ expectations will be. Good pricing will remove the price issue from being an obstacle to a sale. Pricing is also used as a weapon to fight the competition as well as gray markets. Pricing is unique from other marketing decisions for several reasons: • Price is the only marketing element that produces revenue. All other marketing decisions produce costs. • Pricing is the most flexible marketing decision. • Pricing reflects a product's strengths and weaknesses. It implies value as well as positioning. • Pricing has the most immediate impact on the bottom line. In the high tech industry, a 1% increase in prices can lead to a 10% (or more) increase in profit. This is twice the effect that the same change in volume, fixed or variable costs have on profits. Pricing Software Industry Products When it comes to Pricing Software, “Economics 101” is not applicable. There are many reasons for this: 1. Supply and Demand curves are based on the assumption that the marginal cost for manufacturing additional products is non-zero and that it decreases with quantity. In the software industry, the marginal cost for an additional copy of software is zero. 2. Estimating price elasticity for a specific product is practically impossible. Hence, pricing decisions cannot be based on supply and demand curves. 3. Estimating...
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...Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Economic Affairs Public Private Partnership Projects in India Compendium of Case Studies c Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Economic Affairs Public Private Partnership Projects in India Compendium of Case Studies December 2010 Public Private Partnership projects in India Compendium of Case Studies © Department of Economic Affairs All rights reserved Published by: PPP Cell, Department of Economic Affairs Ministry of Finance, Government of India New Delhi-110 001, India www.pppinindia.com Disclaimer This Compendium of Case Studies has been prepared as a part of a PPP capacity building programme that is being developed by the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India (DEA) with funding support from the World Bank, AusAID South Asia Region Infrastructure for Growth Initiative and the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF). A consulting consortium, consisting of Economic Consulting Associates Limited (ECA) and CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions Limited (CRIS), commissioned by the World Bank, has prepared this compendium based on extensive external consultations. ECA and CRIS have taken due care and caution in preparing the contents of this compendium. The accuracy, adequacy or completeness of any information contained in this toolkit is not guaranteed and DEA,World Bank, AusAID, PPIAF, ECA or CRIS are not responsible...
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...The Business and Politics of Environmental Regulation and Activism 3028IBA – Energy and Environmental Security Dr Tapan Sarker Department of International Business and Asian Studies 3028IBA - 2013 Topics Covered in this Lecture • The business/corporate sector and the environment (essentially business and the climate change issue); and • Emissions trading schemes (the key strategy, considered the most cost-effective strategy, by which economic activity is to be guided towards meeting certain GHG emission reduction targets) 3028IBA - 2013 The Business/Corporate Sector and the Environment 3028IBA - 2013 Some of the questions today’s lecture and tutorial topic considers • In the context of governments attempting to achieve climate security, what have been the key concerns of the business sector? • • How has the business sector attempted to influence decision making on climate change policies? How have businesses responded to the greenhouse gas reduction challenge and policies, and what has motivated their responses? 3028IBA - 2013 The Traditional Behaviour of the Business Sector in Relation to the Environment • Opposition to national and international policies that they believe would impose significant new costs on them or otherwise reduce expected profits When faced with existing strong domestic regulations on an activity with a global environmental dimension, corporations are likely to support international agreements that would impose similar...
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...asset categories, which class has the greatest aggregate market value? d. Nongovernment real estate 6. Storm water drainage systems are best described as: b. Improvements to the land 7. What is the single largest asset category, in terms of value, in the portfolio of the typical U.S. household? a. Housing 8. Real estate markets differ from other asset classes by having all of the following characteristics except: d. Homogeneous product 9. Which of the following is not important to the location of commercial properties? c. Access to schools 10. Which of the following attributes of a home are the most difficult to observe and value? c. location attributes ------------------------------------------------- Study Questions 1. The term real estate can be used in three fundamental ways. List these three alternative uses or definitions. Solution: Real estate is most commonly defined as land and any improvements made to or on the land, including fixed structures and infrastructure components. The term is also used to describe the “bundle of rights” associated with the ownership and use of the physical characteristics of space and location. Finally, real estate may be described as the...
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...to 2011, we examine whether foreign institutional investors with more than 5% of a company's shares can exert a significant impact on dividends. In addition, we investigate if more shares that foreign institutional investors have over major shareholders and the more shares that foreign institutional investors have over the previous year, the stronger the impact of foreign institutional investors have on corporate dividend policy. This study empirically shows the impact of foreign institutional investors from the viewpoint of corporate governance in India, where local institutional investors play inadequate roles as Stakeholders. FII STRONGHOLD A look at the BSE-500 ownership pattern suggests that FIIs held as much as 15 per cent of the full-market capitalisation of the BSE-500 and a whopping 35 per cent of the freefloat market cap as of March 2011, thus providing them considerable influence over stock markets. Domestic institutions (mutual funds and insurance companies), on the other hand, held a more modest 21 per cent of the free-float market cap. It is for this reason that FII trends cannot be ignored in the Indian context. SECTOR TRENDS Let’s first look at the long-term FII trends (in sectors within the BSE-500) to know sectors that have moved off the FII radar and those that are gaining ground. If we were to take...
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... • The expression of a person’s intention to others to have a legally binding agreement. • The maker of the offer is called the offeror. The recipient is called the offeree. Important rules about offers: - (a) Certainty of the offer A contract must contain the basic terms of the relevant transaction. Normally, the following 2 items are needed to form an agreement: - i. Price (e.g. how much is the house that I am going to sell to you?) ii. Property (the seller has to show the buyer the goods or to describe them briefly: Hillas & Co Ltd v Arcos Ltd [1932] All ER Rep 494). * Under the Sale of Goods Ordinance (cap.26 of the Laws of Hong Kong), the buyer is required to pay a reasonable price for his purchased goods if there has not been a specified price in the agreement. Under the Supply of Services Ordinance (cap.457 of the Laws of Hong Kong, the party contracting with the supplier has to pay a reasonable price for the relevant service if there has not been a specified price in the agreement. Contracts not involving sale of goods or supply of services include those involving sale of land, sale of shares, sale of copyright and hire of goods. The courts would not provide for a reasonable price for these agreements. * Note that the price or property may not have to be stated in the...
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...government's general guide to a community's growth and development based on the community's goals and objectives. Concurrency is the requirement that public facilities and services, including roads, sewers and schools be available at the same time new development is completed Condemnation is the legal procedure involved with eminent domain, the right of government to acquire private property, without the owner's consent, for public use in exchange for just compensation. Dedicated (property) is the conveyance of property form a private owner to government for public use. Common examples are the dedication of streets, parks, or other areas to local government in the course of subdivision development. Economic and Environmental Impact Statements studies the effect that a new development will have on the economy or the environment of the region. Effective Tax Rate (property tax) is the tax liability divided by the properties market value or sales price. Eminent domain is the power of the government to take private property for public use...
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...Understanding Green Building Construction in Singapore Abstract: Given the pressing environmental issues that is plaguing the world in the 21st century coupled with the global changing of the climate each day, Green Building Construction is starting to be more recognized among counties. Most countries around the world are looking more towards sustainable development in the long term. Such is the case of Singapore as it established various schemes and initiatives to address the environmental degradation problems that it is facing at the moment. In this paper, I will be elaborating the approach that has been undertaken by the Singapore Government in its efforts to developing Green and sustainable buildings in Singapore. From up to date, the initiatives were quite successful but there are still certain limitations which will be addressed at the later part. No doubt that Singapore has enjoyed some success in the area of Green Construction, it will still be imperative for Singapore to continuously improve itself and maintain its success should it want to keep its competitive advantage internationally in the long run. Key words: Green Building Construction, Climate change, sustainable development, environmental degradation, continuous improve Contents Page | | Abstract | 2 | 1.0 | Introduction | 4 | 2.0 | Research Methodology | 6 | 3.0 | Benefits of Green Construction | 6 | 4.0 | Singapore’s Commitment to Green Construction | 8 | 4.1 | Green Mark Scheme 2005...
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...BUSN 204 – Case Problems in Business Strategic Profile and Case Analysis Purpose (page 12-1) Zuckerberg and his top management team knew that they needed to consider how to adjust the firm's strategies to compete as a public company, partly in response to the belief among some users and analysts that Facebook was losing its ability to satisfy customers and shareholders simultaneously. In this regard, what should the firm do strategically to ensure its long-term and profitable growth? While Facebook's advertiser base is constantly looking to the firm for additional innovative means to target users, its investors are questioning its ability to monetize its user base. Relatedly, in a highly dynamic and competitive industry, how will Facebook out-innovate its rivals and retain customer “mind-share”? Along with his top management team, Zuckerberg concluded that the firm should focus on both worldwide and domestic market growth. With many recent product innovations and strategic changes, 2013 and the few years beyond were expected to defining ones for the young, public social networking firm. Situational Analysis (pages 12-3--12-4) One of the most innovative creations in the twenty-first century is social networks. Connecting the world through schools, families, businesses, photos, and just about every other piece of information, social networks thrive on people sharing their life stories. In the last ten years, the most important networks have been Facebook, Myspace, Twitter...
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