ENGR 202 Midterm: ENGR 202 Midterm 2016 Winter
Document Summary
Engineers are primarily involved in problems related to technology development and deployment. Simultaneously, engineers design and build all the manufacturing processes, industrial technology, and transportation infrastructure needed to extract, transport, and refine raw materials; fabricate products and distribute the goods and services. Engineers are involved in the study of how pollutants are transported and transformed in the environment. Engineers are concerned and responsible for a wide range of activities that directly or indirectly contribute to environmental change. Particulate matter (pm: the combustion of coal and oil/ metal smelting and other industrial processes generates . Smoke: gases from burning of carbons matter, organic matter, wood, coal. 100 kg per person per day: explain in your own words, one successful story which shows that as global community we did what was necessary to address an environmental problem or concern. Historically, an environmental catastrophe that occurred in 1978 attracted the public attention and political support.
