Category: Engineering

Research Theme (Photography)

February 21, 2021 Leave a comment Engineering, Undergraduate

Every Digital Media major is required to have a research theme. This is an area of endeavor within Digital Media (print, web, photography). You should choose a theme that interests you…something
that you want to be an expert in by the time you graduate. (I chose photography)

Research on the theme, in this case Photography. Then, you are to write your findings in a short (three page, double-spaced) paper that meets the APA manuscript requirements.

Here are the points you will cover:
1. What do other credible people or institutions have to say about your question?
2. Write about their research.
3. Do not provide your own opinion.
4. Cite at least 10 sources using correct APA style.
*Wikis are not credible sources.
*Must have printed book/journal sources as well as internet sources.

This isn’t a personal journal, but is intended as a scholarly exercise. You must use APA style, citing sources in text or a References list at the end.

To earn an ‘A’, you must also provide supporting documentation (bibliography, photographs, links, samples, cost analysis, and so forth).

Building Structural Systems- Geographical Factors

February 21, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Engineering

The given blog post (link is given below) discusses the impact geographical factors have on development.  Similarly, building technology, materials and construction will vary based on location.  Discuss the impact geographic location may have on construction. Share EXAMPLE of LOCATION outside the United States.

https://makewealthhistory.org/2007/07/01/geographical-factors-that-affect-development/

Please provide 4-5 pictures of the WHICH LOCATION YOU’VE CHOSEN TO GIVE AS AN EXAMPLE LOCATION as well.

please use credible internet websites as references if needed, instead of purchase needed online books.

American Revolution through the Civil War/Reconstruction that needs some updating. What does it tell us about the history it serves to represent

February 20, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Engineering

Short essay 1: half a page
Find a site that commemorates or serves as a memorial for a historical event from the American Revolution through the Civil War/Reconstruction that needs some updating. What does it tell us about the history it serves to represent? What specific changes would you make to enhance its interpretation (or representation) using content from this semester?

Scalability of Safety Management Systems

February 15, 2021 Leave a comment Engineering, Undergraduate

Not an an essay, just answer the following questions:

1) How might a Part 141 pilot school be different than a large Part 121 air carrier in regard to scalability?
   
2) Describe the primary factors that exist between a large, medium, and small organizations SMS.
   
3) Compare similar organizations to your own and identify how their scale would vary.
   
4) What strategy will you use to get buy-in from management to provide resources for developing and maintaining of SMS?
   
5) What are the key ways your organization obtains data and how is it used to make fact-based decisions?
   
6) What about your organization make it complex? How will knowing this help you establish a safety management system?

Government Regulations and Public Health Paper

February 15, 2021 Leave a comment Engineering, Undergraduate

The purpose of this assignment is for you to learn how to summarize and critically evaluate a scientific paper on risk assessment. Read the article from this unit’s studies, “New Risk or Old Risk, High Risk or No Risk? How Scientists’ Standpoints Shape their Nanotechnology Risk Frames.”

Once you have read the article, write and submit a 12 page summary of the article. Address the following:

Highlight the main points presented in the article. What message is the author trying to convey?
How do these differing views affect environmental health?
What do other sources of information say about these concepts?
Are there discrepancies between the information in the article and information in the unit presentation or the text?
Include a reference to the information presented in the unit presentation and in the text.

Open Source Development Product

February 14, 2021 Leave a comment APA (edition "APA 6"), Engineering

The aim of this thesis is to expose the potentiality of open source product development through an overview of the history, sustainability advantages, licencing and legal aspects, economics, related project (OSE), etc. As a mean to provide the tools to tackle the challenges of food shortage, the ongoing climate crisis and the centralization of power.
I am not quite sure on what to put as the hypothesis because the subject is a little vague. So I would basically describe important concept and keep it theoretical, or do you think we should do a business proposition? what I would put is the differences between the traditional enterprise vs and an open source enterprise. In the legal, economics, and social aspects of it. Also as my career is environmental and resource management oriented, there should be focus on how does this technologies are based on permaculture principles and a better resource distribution worldwide. It should have the environmental impacts and what are open source development products companies trying to achieve (the problems they want to tackle). It would be great if we could up a case study on Open Source Ecology and use it as a business opportunity, as how can it be easily scalable and replicable. Maybe at the end some financial flows or charts? I really want to make sense of it, It would be great if we could work together on the structure of the thesis. I will bring some ideas on how to do it. Please let me know what are you thinking on writing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware

I will send you some references. The one called introduction to open source product development is a bachelor thesis in which I would like it to be based on. I believe it is a good way to structure it.

Urban studies

February 11, 2021 Leave a comment Engineering, The format is in midterm document, plz check it

SHORT ANSWERS (4 @ 10 points = 40%) Pick four out of ten questions listed below. For each question be sure to include reference to at least two required readings in USP2. See instructions at the end of this study guide spelling out how we want you to handle references in the body of your short answers and as a bibliographic entry at the tail end of your short answer. Your reference to the reading should say something about this author’s or organizations contribution to the subject matter posed in question (i.e., weave it into your brief narrative). Each short answer should be approximately 350-500 words, not including the bibliography.

1.No matter what political perspective colors one’s analysis, planetary urbanization taking place in the 21st century can be viewed as having five fundamental features (as spelled out in USP2 lectures). Briefly list each one with an example noting how it impacts cities in some way that you find particularly hopeful or disturbing.

2.List and describe one of the global megatrends that is driving urban-ecological localization (e.g., local greening of the economy, local sourcing of food-energy water systems, greening of infrastructure thru restorative closed-loop development). In your description of the global megatrend be sure to give a sense of its magnitude and ways in which it has begun to drive localization.

3.As discussed in USP2 lectures and readings, what point does the shift [From D–>E, to E–>D] mean?  How has this shift in the way we think about development and the environment influenced urban and regional planning? Give an example.

4.On average over the past decade, cities in the less developed regions have been at higher risk of exposure to natural disasters and more vulnerable to disaster-related economic losses and mortality than those in the more developed regions. Briefly explain why this is the case with an example.

5.David Wallace-Wells’s article, The Uninhabitable Earth, describes several ways in which climate change threatens humanity. Describe one of them and suggest, based on readings in USP 2 what we might be able to do to reduce this existential threat.

6.Considering what youve learned about informal settlements on the outskirts of Mexico City, explain how these informal settlements blur the urban-rural distinction. Is there something about informal settlement processes in developing countries that may be useful in more developed countries?

7.Suggest ways in which we can improve community-university relationships, especially with respect to democratizing science and technology, for instance how S&T priorities are set, how S&T gets developed, used and/or evaluated.

8.Globally, urban spread (the urban footprint) on the face of the planet is increasing faster than population. Why does this matter and what can be done about it?

9.In Pezzoli, K. and A. Leiter Robert (2016). “Creating healthy and just bioregions. The authors spell out an Integrated Planning Framework to deal with the arguments made by Sennett et al (2018) calling for planning and design to operate at both metropolitan and neighborhood scale (section 2.4). How so, explain the Integrated Planning Framework, including the idea of green regionalism.

10.Consider what you have learned about the Colonia Ecolgica Productiva of Ajusco in Mexico City. Describe the Colonia Ecolgica Productiva  using at least three key terms from the course. What lessons can be drawn from this experience in terms of the challenges and possibilities for a new kind of urban development?

Solar-energy Systems – SEO Webarticle

February 4, 2021 Leave a comment Engineering, Undergraduate

We are a young start-up. What we require is some creative article for our website’s blog. It is accessible on: emallorca.es. Show us what can you do and we might form a beneficial cooperation. Try writing something similar that is on our web page. We just want to bring the topic of solar-energy to the customer as interesting as possible and get the correct website traffic.

https://emallorca.es/

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

January 29, 2021 Leave a comment Engineering, Undergraduate

The purpose of this project is to enable students in Cities of the World to develop a critical understanding of the challenges and prospects for one city or an urban region in the world based upon an assessment of its origins, current conditions and plans for the future.  The assessment should explore what is distinct about the city/region, its origins, population size and composition, governmental structure, economic and environmental assets and institutions, as well as its built environment.  What are the current issues that shape its planning and politics? Consider its livability and what makes it a good or not-so-good place to reside, and for which groups. 

These are just some of the questions you can consider in your assessment, but you can definitely go beyond these issues based upon your interests as well as the uniqueness of the place you are examining.  You should try to get current information about conditions and these are accessible from multiple sources, such as journals, web info, books, YouTube sources, etc.  Over the semester, I will have you ask for a brief update on your research to check on progress.