Summary Report 2

Mr. Hedley Butterfield did his second presentation on 30^th Dec 2012 at ADMC room T001 at 01:00 pm. He started his presentation by displaying a picture return to the famous civil engineer Mr. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, this outstanding character who was born in the 17^th century in 9^th April, 1806 and dead in 1859. Also he continued talking about the engineer Brunel history and he mentioned the poll that conducted by BBC in 2002 to select the "100 Greatest Britons", Brunel was in the second place, behind PM Winston Churchill.

Later on he went though the slides and talked about Eng. IK. Brunel achievements and his splendor design for example the Thames Tunnel, Clifton Suspension Bridge, Maidenhead Railway Bridge, and Great Western Railway and Great Britain which considered as a modern ship at that time. In addition he showed some images of what was constructed by engineer during his life and still stands. Moreover he said that he did this particular presentation before five or six time in front of many classes and they did not recognize who he was Eng. IK. Brunel.

The presentation was interesting because of the topic, Although Mr. Hedley presentation does not have a slide background, and the visual items that he used were enough to deliver the whole idea to the audience.

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Report about Environmental issue

Enviromental Issue: Global Warming

Executive Summary

Global warming is one of the environmental issues that are due to trapping of heat within the Earth’s atmosphere. The causes are from natural and manmade activities. The consequences are severe causing climate changes and natural disaster increase. There are possible solutions such as making use of solutions from wind, solar and transportation. The role players in solving global warming problem are local and national government, NGOs, corporations and individuals. The recommendation is to stop and ban such activities immediately. It is concluded that global warming issue and causes are known and there are solutions but there is no effective implementation to eliminate it happening.

1.      Introduction

Global warming is referred to increase in the temperatures of water and air, which is happening due to effect from greenhouse. Therefore, it is a natural incident that global warming is taking place due to human activities (Gary Braasch, 2009).

2.      Causes

Human activities are the major contributors to global warming. They are having excessive use of Non-Renewable Energy where it is producing global warming as per gases from greenhouse (Hussen, A., 2012). The two groups that are causing global warming are natural causes and manmade causes (Filho, W., 2011). In natural causes, it includes wetlands and artic tundra releasing of methane gas, greenhouse-trapping gases, heating the atmosphere of the Earth, and undergoing cycle of climate change. In manmade causes, it includes pollution, burning fossil fuels (oil and coal), overpopulation (Filho, W., 2011), amount of CO2 increase, factory production of plastics, and deforestation (Vasanthi, V., 2007).

The major reason for the Earth to heat up is because of Greenhouse Effect and this is not just about heating the surface of the Earth but also tremendous changes in the climate affecting the human life and well-being (McKinney, M., Dr Schoch, R., and Yonavjak, L., 2007). As shown in the figure, it provides an idea about the difference between trapped greenhouse effect in the Earth and Mars. Greenhouse gases in Mars do not absorb the outgoing radiation while it is on the Earth (Esters, K., and Nichols, R., 2003).

3.      Consequences

It is realized that the consequences are climate change that is influencing water, air and soil quality, which is due to global warming (Brose, I., Stappen, F., Castiaux, A., 2010).

The main consequences are eight and they are (Valls, J., and Sardá, R., 2009):

Some other consequences in general are increasing of sea levels, air temperatures, and water temperatures, changing animal migration, and ocean currents, increasing in the weather events and melting of glaciers (Miller, G., and Spoolman, S., 2008).

4.      Possible solutions

The possible solutions are making use of wind power, solar power, and transportation that is fuel-efficient (Eastwood, E., 2011).

5.      Problem-Solving Groups

             5.1.Local and national government

There is need for legislation for air, water and soil quality in every nation that is for global, regional, national cooperation to eliminate the consequences of global warming. Such solutions and problem solving should have targets yearly and monitoring activities by corporations, NGOs and individuals. This is possible by setting government department solving global warming problems caused by such activities with establishment of regulations, laws, procedures, and policies.

             5.2.Corporation

Corporations that are directly linked with producing or rendering services that is favoring global warming should be fined and shut down. The products already produced should be banned from the market immediately.

Corporations should be aware and should stop continuation of not taking seriously global warming. They should follow and abide with acts established to cool global environment. For example: All car manufacturers using fuels should be banned and stopped; All factories producing plastics should be stopped; etc.

            5.3.Organizations (NGOs)

NGOs in environmental issues of global warming should work towards course of action with political acceptability in the solutions and visions. They have research and studies conducted proving the actual causes of global warming (Mintzer, I., 1992). Such causes should be accompanied with actions to be taken immediately by all the nations.

           5.4.Private individuals  

Everyone should help and they will be able to help by avoiding energy wasting and using renewable sources. People should reduce usage of electricity at home by turning off unwanted devices or machines, using low energy consuming products, reducing the heating, recycling and reusing, and eating organic foods. They should also use public transportation, walk or cycle. Their homes should be built using renewable energies and clean power. There is also need for increasing in the number of plants at each household (Dauncey, G., 2009)

6.      Recommendation

Recommendation	Reasoning
Clean Air Act	Making sure air is clean and fining huge penalties and jails for violators.
Clean Water Act	Making sure water is clean and fining huge penalties and jails for violators.
Clean Land Act	Making sure land is clean and fining huge penalties and jails for violators.
Trade Plan	Manufacturers banned and stopped from producing products that is not favoring global cooling (suggestions are there so produce those).
Green building and living	Maintenance and new construction that is only with renewable sources of energy and selling or organic foods and items.
Oil and gas business	They should pay huge tax and fees for making business because they are bankrupting other nations while they are being rich. Also, finding alternatives and eliminating use of oil and gas.
Awareness	NGOs and government should be creating awareness for every household about global warming with clear examples and practical solutions.

7.      Conclusion

Global warming is serious threat that is affecting the Earth, humans, animals and plants. There is need to learn on conserving use of harmful activities and minimizing production of CO2. Natural and manmade causes are harming and increasing the consequences of global warming. There are possible solutions available but they are not into effect yet where limited number of nations and individuals are participating. Slowing down the effects is not effective but cooling the plant is the most effective.

8.      References

-          Brose, I., Stappen, F., Castiaux, A., (2010). Articulation of environmental and socio-economic externalities from bioenergy, Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Vol. 21 Iss: 6, pp.812 – 829. Retrieved 10 December 2012 from http://www.emeraldinsight.com/content_images/fig/0830210606005.png

-          Dauncey, G. (2009). Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming (pp. 145). New York: New Society Publishers. Retrieved 10 December 2012 from http://books.google.ae/books?id=R1YKuQyW2T8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s

-          Eastwood, E. (2011). Global Warming: What Else Can You Do About It? (pp. 32). New York: iUniverse. Retrieved 10 December 2012 from http://books.google.ae/books?id=11tSarACi8oC&source=gbs_navlinks_s

-          Esters, K., and Nichols, R. (2003). Global Warming: Fact or Fiction? Retrieved 25 November 2012 from http://macro.lsu.edu/STSC/Downloads/globalwarming.ppt

-          Filho, W. (2011). The Economic (pp. 208). New York: Springer. Retrieved 10 December 2012 from http://books.google.ae/books?id=lvHWM1GwW8AC&source=gbs_navlinks_s

-          Gary Braasch. (2009). Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World (pp. 7). New York: University of California Press. Retrieved 10 December 2012 from http://books.google.ae/books?id=imH5_M6-3M4C&source=gbs_navlinks_s

-          Hussen, A. (2012). Principles of Environmental Economics and Sustainability: An Integrated Economic and Ecological Approach (pp. 346). New York: Routledge. Retrieved 10 December 2012 from http://books.google.ae/books?id=nuCV_tJK1V4C&source=gbs_navlinks_s

-          McKinney, M., Dr Schoch, R., and Yonavjak, L. (2007). Environmental Science: Systems And Solutions (pp. 482). New York: Jones & Bartlett Learning. Retrieved 10 December 2012 from http://books.google.ae/books?id=xBGffKNfsq8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s

-          Miller, G., and Spoolman, S. (2008). Sustaining the Earth: An Integrated Approach (pp. 273-274). New York: Cengage Learning. Retrieved 10 December 2012 from http://books.google.ae/books?id=kiq_xp1Ym8YC&source=gbs_navlinks_s

-          Mintzer, I. (1992). Confronting Climate Change: Risks, Implications and Responses (pp. 266). New York: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 10 December 2012 from http://books.google.ae/books?id=BfjuQupHmQ4C&dq=global+warming,+role+of+NGOs&source=gbs_navlinks_s

-          Valls, J., and Sardá, R., (2009). Tourism expert perceptions for evaluating climate change impacts on the Euro-Mediterranean tourism industry, Tourism Review, Vol. 64 Iss: 2, pp.41 – 51. Retrieved 10 December 2012 from http://www.emeraldinsight.com/content_images/fig/3690640204004.png

-          Vasanthi, V. (2007). Eureka (pp. 79). New Delhi: Pearson Education India. Retrieved 10 December 2012 from http://books.google.ae/books?id=bgfkuG4Rs-kC&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Global Warming

Italy

Summary Report 1

Mr. Hedley Butterfield did his presentation on 23^rd Dec 2012 at ADMC room T001 at 3:00 pm. He introduced his presentation in a very attractive way using pictures instead of text and talked about his experience about his and Mrs. Butterfield's vacation last year in Istanbul. Also he mentioned the history of the Turkish Empire. He did not use slide background because he used pictures and he used eye contact technique toward his audience to drag their attention. Moreover he used body language to deliver the meaning and the idea so it was a useful method and it's an advantage for him; also he did not stand in front of the screen blocking and preventing the audience from seeing his presentation contents. Therefore his movement wasn't a distraction. Mr. Hedley was very organized and seems very confident about his performance during the presentation period. In addition he kept smiling and gave a comments and his voice was loud and clear and very interesting. He did not use any note cards except the notes that come under the slides.

Mr. Hedley's presentation does not have a slide background as I mentioned above so there wasn't any text. But the visual items that he used were fair enough to deliver the point that he wanted to deliver to the audience. For example; map of old Turkish Empire and how it was a few hundred years ago and how it became today. Also he pointed on another map to the sites and locations that they visited in Turkey.

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Meeting Report

The meeting was about students' attendance issues especially for afternoon classes in ADMC and the implications that we face because of it. Also, to find solutions to solve this primary issue that ADMC has been facing in the past few years. I led the meeting and shared my points of view in this meeting and revealed the impact of this dilemma.

From my perspective the meeting was successful and worth holding because it covered all aspects of students' attendance issues. On the other hand I was glad to be part of this important meeting. I've gained a lot of valuable information by sitting with gentlemen who have the expertise, knowledge and reputation. I did my role in the meeting as well as it should be to be a more useful and active member toward our organization, to push it up and compete with other academic institutions.

Before the meeting we gathered all the information and statistics that we might use during the meeting to prove and support our point of view, ideas and suggestions that we will provide.

Meeting Minutes

ADMC Student Absence - Meeting Report

Customer Name                    ADMC College

Basic Information

Date of Meeting                     18th Dec 2012
1630-1700

Description/Purpose         Discuss the solutions that been provided by both students and academic services with regards to decreasing the rate of absence of students in the ADMC college in future. Also preparing all the documents and information to present to the higher management and to give them all proposed solutions from academic services perspective along with students' points of view to take an action which will prevent this problem.

Chairman                               Abdulla Abdulrahman

Academic Services                    
Representative (secretary)     Asaad Awad

Students Representative       Farah Abdulrahman

Location                                 ADMC Premises – Abu Dhabi

T003

Summary of Meeting: minutes

Points Discussed/Highlighted

The Chairman called the meeting to order at 1630

Attendees’ issues – many of the students studying in the evening classes work during the morning hours. After doing a survey of a fair number of students in our college, many students complained that the main reason that many students arrive late to class during the afternoon/evening shift is due to their morning work shift. This is because many students are not given the approval to leave their work premises on time as most of them are not as lucky as the rest of their fellow colleagues. The rest of the students complained that the other obstacle is our  student parking lot as its has been designed specifically to give the students a hard time in traveling between lanes, not forgetting students violating the parking rules by parking their cars in the wrong parking areas which adds to the misery to our law-abiding students. Other students mentioned that due to their work in oil fields or chemical industries, they need to get back home and take a shower before coming to college which usually delays their arriving by 45 minutes.

Student/Academic Service Recommendations 

1. We got various interesting ideas about recommendations varying from changing the timings of afternoon/evening classes by adding 30 to 45 minutes on the 1^st class starting at 3.00 rather than the 2:20 which has been the system in this college for the past 9 years.

2. Automated finger-mapping machines which take the exact attendees’ time of arrival to each class by placing their fingers in the machine rather than the teacher taking the attendance himself, therefore the student will know that this is an automated monitored system and there won’t be any manipulation.

3. Entertainment for students by building squash, tennis, badminton courts in order to make the students enjoy their time if they have any long breaks between classes rather than leaving the college premises and coming back which might get them late due to traffic or finding parking in college.

4. To provide the Academic Services and higher management with the budget required with regards to the automated machines and recreational facilities and a study on how this solution will effectively decrease the absence of students in the future. 

The Chairman thanked the meeting and closed proceedings at 1700.