Role of Engineers
Role of Engineers
Engineering in Environmental and Technological Contexts
• Engineers are designers who use scientific principles to optimize their design. • Engineers can use systematic, objective engineering analysis and design techniques. • Engineers are innovators. • Engineer have the much potential to impact global sustainability through the product and processes designed. • Engineers are charged to be “dedicated to the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare.”
Ajith de Alwis Department of Chemical and Process Engineering www.cpe.mrt.ac.lk 1. Environmental impacts of engineering decisions The job of the engineer is the world making it habitable, enabling it to support human life. Engineering is concerned with the built environment around us, at the present time and in the future; where it will continue to evolve, with new technologies and innovation being discovered.
Be ready for Changes ….
• Different demands on the next generation of engineers
– Loss of ecosystem services – Environmental – Different energy scenario – Energy – Water availability problems – Water resources – Globalisation – Different Economics
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In some countries, where there are still some green zones crossed by rivers, In some countries, where there are still some green zones crossed by rivers, these are guarded by heavy armed soldiers. these are guarded by heavy armed soldiers.
Spaceship Earth
“Design Science is the effective application of the principles of science to the conscious design of our total environment in order to help make the Earth's finite resources meet the needs of all humanity without disrupting the ecological processes of the planet“
Year 2050 ?!
Water became a very coveted Water became a very coveted treasure, more precious treasure, more precious than gold and diamonds. than gold and diamonds.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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“Rising earth greets Apollo astronauts - December 1968” 1968”
‘Spaceship Earth’
Design for the
Engineering in Environmental and Technological Contexts
• Engineers are designers who use scientific principles to optimize their design. • Engineers can use systematic, objective engineering analysis and design techniques. • Engineers are innovators. • Engineer have the much potential to impact global sustainability through the product and processes designed. • Engineers are charged to be “dedicated to the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare.”
Ajith de Alwis Department of Chemical and Process Engineering www.cpe.mrt.ac.lk 1. Environmental impacts of engineering decisions The job of the engineer is the world making it habitable, enabling it to support human life. Engineering is concerned with the built environment around us, at the present time and in the future; where it will continue to evolve, with new technologies and innovation being discovered.
Be ready for Changes ….
• Different demands on the next generation of engineers
– Loss of ecosystem services – Environmental – Different energy scenario – Energy – Water availability problems – Water resources – Globalisation – Different Economics
1
In some countries, where there are still some green zones crossed by rivers, In some countries, where there are still some green zones crossed by rivers, these are guarded by heavy armed soldiers. these are guarded by heavy armed soldiers.
Spaceship Earth
“Design Science is the effective application of the principles of science to the conscious design of our total environment in order to help make the Earth's finite resources meet the needs of all humanity without disrupting the ecological processes of the planet“
Year 2050 ?!
Water became a very coveted Water became a very coveted treasure, more precious treasure, more precious than gold and diamonds. than gold and diamonds.
R. Buckminster Fuller
•
“Rising earth greets Apollo astronauts - December 1968” 1968”
‘Spaceship Earth’
Design for the