Engineering

Why is it important to understand the three primary distinctions between verbal and nonverbal messages, especially considering the impacts of such messages in organizational communication?

it is a priority that students are provided with strong education programs and courses that allow them to be servant-leaders in their disciplines and communities, linking research with practice and knowledge with ethical decision-making. This assignment is a written assignment where students will demonstrate how this course research has connected and put into practice within their own careers. Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double-spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories, and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study.  

This week covered how privacy and security align with IG. I want you to research articles from any company from 2015 until now on how they implemented their Privacy and Security Policy for their organization.  Identify the  areas you feel were beneficial to the organization and identify areas they could have improved on.  Make sure you identify how IG was incorporated into the article. 

NIMBY  is a concept that describes the negative attitudes against a project that benefits the greater community. This mentality is one in which even though people are generally supportive of a project that will benefit the greater community, they don’t want to suffer the burden of bearing the cost(s) of the project. In terms of power generation, one of  the biggest reasons against power plants, especially wind farms, is  “visual intrusion.” Opponents of projects like these don’t want an eyesore as well as any noise, negative impacts on wildlife and displaced agricultural land. Something else to consider is whether or not the project will have an effect on property values which can serve to bolster NIMBY sentiment. Having this mindset affects power delivery in that residents are forgoing access to more reliable power in favour of maintaining aesthetics or reasons like those listed above.  This attitude halts progress and can ultimately waste money if proposed projects in an area where they have to jump through hoops to get local approval. Look at the  Cape Wind Project for example, which was initially proposed in 2001 but died by litigation 16 years and 100 million dollars later. Boyle, K. J., Boatwright, J., Brahma, S., & Xu, W. (2019). NIMBY, not, in siting community wind farms. Resource and Energy Economics, 57, 85–100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2019.04.004

Write a professional project report presenting all details and results for their design. The report must include the Cover page (project title and complete names of all team members). A “Frame of Reference” section covering: Introduction, Design motivation, How the product works, Discussion of the design (strengths, weaknesses, manufacturing considerations, estimated cost, potential customers, potential competitors), Conclusions, Summary of results achieved, Concluding remarks, Lessons learned, Areas of improvement, References, Books, journal papers or other work cited, Appendices: Analysis results (limiting positions, velocities, accelerations, forces) presented clearly on plots or tables, CAD drawings showing all dimensions and tolerances of all geometric features of each component, Material used for each component and reasoning for material selection, Views of the 3D model, Screenshots of the animation at various points in the range of motion, Other appendices as needed. The project is to design, model, and analyze a mechanism using synthesis and analysis tools. Another objective is for students to use 3D CAD mechanism software to perform modeling and analysis of their mechanism of choice. Project requirements are listed below. All project requirements must be met in order to consider the project a success and obtain a passing grade: The subject of the project must be a machine or a mechanism that performs a specific task or function in a real-world application. It must include a six-bar (or higher) linkage. Cams, gears, and belts are desirable. It must be powered by a crank (motor) or a dyad crank. It must have an industrial application.

Throughout the semester we have mentioned the many different governing ASTM standards associated with material testing. One such test that we performed in the lab was related to ASTM C143 “Standard Test Method for Slump of Hydraulic-Cement Concrete.” Quite often the testing procedure from the ASTM standard has been simplified and included as the procedure in the textbook (Somayaji, Civil Engineering Materials). For this problem, review the actual ASTM standard and compare it to the simplified procedure covered on page 208 of the materials textbook (CON-1: Slump Test of Portland Cement). What are the similarities and difference between the actual ASTM C143 standard and the procedure outlined in CON-1? Are there any items removed in the simplified procedure that is discussed in the actual standard? Be sure to give specifics. 

 In a 1,400-word paper, describe a situation in which you have witnessed a leader addressing a team or group. You can go to YouTube and look for speeches as well, but the context needs to be that the speaker has some sort of “power” over those being addressed. Include the following: The situation in context (time, place, and group), An analysis and description of the leadership style demonstrated (as outlined in the textbook). How was this style reflected in words and actions? What “powers” does the leader lean on in the speech? How does the group receive the speech? How do they demonstrate through verbal/non-verbal behaviours whether they are positively or negatively influenced? On reflection, what changes to the address/approach would you recommend to the leader?

Let’s assume your organization has both a fully functioning IT department and now starting an ad hoc Information Governance department. Which department would be responsible for managing the Data Modeling Integration process? Which group would manage all the changes? Which IT Governance Framework would be applicable to both departments when managing and executing this process?  Explain your reasoning. Provide real-life examples from your current organization to support your content

Chapter 9 1.  Define and explain all the following terms below: a. Path: b. Activity. c. Early Start. d. Early Finish. e. Late Start. f.  Late Finish. g. Forward Pass. h. Backward Pass. i.  Node. j.  AON. k. Float. l. Critical Path. m. PERT. 2.  “The shortest total length of a project is determined by the longest path through the network.”  Explain the concept behind this statement.  Why does the longest path determine the shortest project length? 3. What is the time estimate of an activity in which the optimistic estimate is 2 days, pessimistic is 12 days, and most likely is 4 days?  Show your complete work with formulas and equations ( calculations). 4. Check the attachment below named Q 4 and answer 9.7 questions in the attachment completely with the table reference provided (Consider the following project tasks and their identified best, likely, and worst-case estimates of task duration.  Assume the organization you work for computes TE based on the standard formula.  Calculate the TE for each of the following tasks (round to the nearest integer) 5. Check the attachment below named Q 5 and answer 9.5 questions in the attachment completely with the table reference provided (Construct a network activity diagram based on the following information:) Chapter 10 1. The advantage of Gantt charts lies in their linkage to the project schedule baseline.  Explain this concept. 2. What are the advantages of the use of Gantt charts over PERT diagrams?  In what ways might PERT diagrams be advantageous? 3.  What are some of the advantages of the use of AOA notation as opposed to AON?  Under what circumstances does it seem better to apply AON methodology in network development? 4. Check the Attachment below-named Chapter 10 Q 4 and answer 10.4 questions in the attachment completely with the table reference provided in the question (Consider a project with the following information. Construct the project activity network using the AOA methodology and label each node and arrow appropriately. Identify all dummy activities required to complete the network) All the answers and problems with working solutions should be APA 6th edition with 4 minimum references and in-text citations any plagiarism is considered zero. 

Need to explain the renewable energy with comparison and updated numbers, and to show the importance of the Renewable Energy for the Sustainable Development.