ENGR 100W: Guided reading Ms.

Clare Cordero

Darius Dadfar – Week 9 Guided Reading

1. What are three key points you found interesting from Mr. Dunckel’s GreenTalk?
Explain in four or five sentences.
As engineers, we need to identify a solution to any needs and opportunities we see. This
must be done in an efficient and responsible manner with results that are well-predicted,
well-tested, and confirmed. The products and solutions that we design and finalize also
need to have their negative byproducts minimized (i.e., their Carbon footprint and how
using an alternative energy source can be a significant factor). He also talked about the
total environmental footprint from the source to the end-user/decommission stage, and
how designs need to take emissions at all stages into consideration (which relates to his
discussion on the 1st law of Thermodynamics).

Use library databases (e.g., Engineering Village, Web of Science, or Science Direct) to
find three articles that are relevant to the GreenTalk by Mr. Dunckel. You can search the
databases using keywords based on some of the points you identified in Q. 1.

2. My list of three references in APA format is:

A. Safaei, F. Freire, & C. H. Antunes. (2012). A life-cycle cost optimization model with
environmental impact assessment for energy management of service buildings. 2012
IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST), 1-
6. doi:10.1109/ISSST.2012.6227981

Beccali, M., Cellura, M., Fontana, M., Longo, S., & Mistretta, M. (2013). Energy retrofit
of a single-family house: Life cycle net energy saving and environmental
benefits. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 27, 283-293.
doi:10.1016/j.rser.2013.05.040

Z. P. Zhou, M. Cai, D. G. Yang, & W. B. Chen. (2012). Optimization of electronic

packaging structure taking into account of its life cycle energy consumption and
environmental pollution. 2012 13th International Conference on Electronic
Packaging Technology & High Density Packaging, 834-836. doi:10.1109/ICEPT-
HDP.2012.6474739

3. Explain some of the differences between the scientific method and the
engineering design process
In the scientific method, if the analyzed data does not align with the hypothesis, the data
becomes background research for new hypotheses. This step is different in the engineer’s
method, because if a solution (analyzed data) does not align with the required needs
(hypothesis), the process is taken back to the design table with the prototypes.
However, in both methods the results are published at the end, regardless of the outcome.

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ENGR 100W: Guided reading Ms. Clare Cordero

2(a): The German company Porsche has won the J. D. Power new-model satisfaction
award more than any other carmaker, and is expected to win next year as well.

3(b): Now you can burn your digital music library to DVDs. Burning to DVDs gives you
a significant increase in storage space (4.7 Gb for a standard DVD v. 700 Mb for a CD).

4(b): The football program and the basketball programs are the highest grossing of the
seventeen sports at the university. These two programs posted revenues of $1.9 million
last year.

7(a): Samples from the survey are subject to sampling and non-sampling errors.

15(a): This problem, that has been traced to manufacturing delays, has resulted in us
losing four major contracts.

16(b): Information provided by this program is displayed on the information board at the
close of the business day.

18(b): If the University of Arizona is unable to find a location for its low-level
radioactive waste, the U.S. could put a hold on the university’s research grants.