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    4th Part: Environment and Society

    Societies adapt and transform the environments they inhabit. They depend upon the
    use of resources and reduction of hazards for their survival and material well-being.
    They also assign meanings to the environment that vary over place and time, but that
    help define their identity and values within the world.

    Engineers have begun to evolve from those who characterize, manage, and remediate
    existing environmental problems to those who develop new knowledge, design
    innovative technologies and strategies, and implement solutions that prevent
    environmental problems.

    What are the contemporary issues regarding environment and


    society?

    • Waste Production
    • Population Growth
    • Water Pollution
    • Deforestation
    • Urban Sprawl
    • Acid Rain
    • Air Pollution
    • Soil Degradation
    • Global Warming
    • Natural Resource Depletion

    What among these contemporary issues can we solve as an


    engineer?

    Waste production – Waste production can be lessened if we recycle wastes and use
    them as a material. Best example is steel, copper and aluminum since these are widely
    used and reused.

    Water pollution – Engineers can help to ensure freshwater by developing various


    solutions such as large-scale desalination, efficient agricultural technologies and
    efficient wastewater treatment technologies or just by expanding the knowledge of the
    people by making a system. For example: automatic variable filtration (AVF) this
    involves a simple process where upward flow of influent is cleaned by downward flow of
    filter and it delivers water with a quality equal to a micro-filtration technology.
    Air pollution - Environmental engineers can help control air pollution is through
    modeling and critical analysis. For proposed developments of places like chemical
    factories, they can analyze its life cycle to identify what emissions will be like throughout
    the production processes.

    Deforestation – Engineers contribute to solving deforestation by developing fertilizers


    and studying all sorts of soil properties to develop new knowledge and strategies.

    Urban sprawl - Engineers and policymakers react to problems as they arise. Engineers
    solve the problems of traffic jams and urban sprawl with new and improved highways,
    packed with the latest technology to monitor traffic conditions, but not reduce backups

    Acid rain - A great way to reduce acid rain is to produce energy without using fossil
    fuels. Instead, people can use renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind
    power. Renewable energy sources help reduce acid rain because they produce much
    less pollution.

    Global warming - Engineers develop new technologies that reduce our environmental
    footprint such as solar panels and hydrogen fuel cells or that are involved in the efficient
    manufacturing of these technologies.

    Natural resource depletion - Engineers use their knowledge and skills to improve or
    maintain the sustainability of natural resource use through the creative design and wise
    application of technology.

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